Maverick Gaming will close two cardrooms in Tukwila, Washington, on November 1 — Great American Casino and Riverside Casino. The operator will cut 238 positions: dealers, cashiers, bartenders, cooks and managers. Riverside accounts for 142 jobs, Great American for 96.
Both properties sit on Interurban Avenue S., south of Seattle. The closures are part of a Chapter 11 restructuring the Kirkland-based operator has been running since July 2025. Maverick filed for bankruptcy in Texas, listing assets and liabilities between $100m and $500m. On August 31, the bankruptcy court for the Southern District of Texas granted the company a fourth extension to submit a reorganisation plan.
Since June 2026, Maverick has closed or announced the closure of five cardrooms, affecting more than 400 workers. Silver Dollar SeaTac shut on June 30 (65 layoffs), Crazy Moose Mountlake and Silver Dollar Mill Creek on July 31 (another 123). Three summer waves totalled 188 positions. Around the bankruptcy filing date, Dragon Tiger, Palace (Lakewood), Silver Dollar (Renton) and Roman (Seattle) were closed.
The company attributes pressure on its Washington business to regulatory conditions. On its website, Maverick said the Gaming Commission rejected a petition for centralised video surveillance that was meant to support the cardrooms. The regulator compared local establishments (15 tables) to mega-casinos, which hurt competitiveness.
Maverick expanded fast after PASPA was repealed in 2018: it bought 24 cardrooms, 19 of them in 2019, becoming the state's largest non-tribal operator. The bet was on sports betting legalisation, but in 2020 Washington allowed wagering only for tribes, restricting mobile betting to reservation land. Maverick now operates in Washington, Nevada and Colorado — 27 properties, 1,800 slots, 350 tables, 1,020 rooms and 30 restaurants.
