UNITED STATES 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
  

FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 19, 2017
 
FULL HOUSE RESORTS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware
 
001-32583
 
13-3391527
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 
(Commission
File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
One Summerlin
1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 680
Las Vegas, Nevada
 
89135
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (702) 221-7800
 
N/A
 
 
(Former name or former address,
if changed since last report)
 
 
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Item 1.01    Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 19, 2017, Full House Resorts, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Gaming Entertainment (Indiana) LLC (the "Company"), entered into the Second Amendment to Hotel Lease/Purchase Agreement (the "Second Amendment") with Rising Sun/Ohio County First, Inc., an Indiana non-profit corporation ("Landlord"), amending terms of the Hotel Lease/Purchase Agreement dated August 15, 2013, as amended on March 16, 2016 (the "Lease"), in order to facilitate certain capital improvements by the Company at the Rising Star Casino Resort (the "Resort"). The Second Amendment allows the Company to use, operate and modify the area surrounding the hotel at the Resort for vehicular and pedestrian ingress and egress, walkways, parking, utilities, landscaping, and other site improvements as necessary or desirable in the Company's reasonable discretion to accommodate amenities and services for the adjacent Resort, including the Company's recreational vehicle park.

Except as described above, all other material terms of the Lease remain unchanged. The foregoing description of the Second Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.


Item 9.01         Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)
Exhibits
 
 
 
 
 
10.1
Second Amendment to Hotel Lease/Purchase Agreement dated September 19, 2017, by and between Rising Sun/Ohio County First, Inc. and Gaming Entertainment (Indiana) LLC






SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
Full House Resorts, Inc.
 
 
 
Date: September 21, 2017
 
/s/ Lewis A. Fanger 
 
 
Lewis A. Fanger, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
 
 





EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.
 
Description
10.1