Southwest Casino Corporation Announces Opening of Card Room at Running Aces Harness Park

The Running Aces card room offers 50 tables of poker and non-banked casino card games. The card room is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Running Aces' 25 poker tables deal games including Texas Hold-'em, Omaha and 7-card stud. Players can choose from a variety of games at the 25 casino card game tables including blackjack, Fortune Pai Gow Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold 'em, 3-card poker and 4-card poker. Running Aces also offers weekly tournaments, events for women-only, and a learner's table where experts will teach novice card players how to play the games.

Running Aces Harness Park also offers live harness racing with pari-mutuel betting on a 5/8-mile track. Running Aces opened on April 11, 2008 and will host 53 days of professional harness racing from April 11 to July 6, 2008. In addition to live races, Running Aces offers year-round simulcast wagering on all breeds of horse races and a full service restaurant and bar. Minnesota law required Running Aces to host 50 days of live harness racing before it could open the card room.

Jim Druck, CEO of Southwest Casino Corporation, said, "we are thrilled to begin playing cards at Running Aces Harness Park and see so many card players having fun in this great facility. With the card room open and all-breed simulcasting year round, Running Aces is now fully operational and the energy level in the building is contagious. The increased activity in this state-of-the-art building should also increase our food and beverage business. I am especially looking forward to this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when we will have live harness racing with the card room open and, for the first time ever, experience all the excitement that Running Aces Harness Park can generate."

About Southwest Casino Corporation

Southwest Casino Corporation develops, owns, operates, manages and provides consulting services to casinos, gaming facilities and related amenities. Southwest owns and operates the Gold Rush Hotel and Casino and Gold Digger's Casino in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Southwest owns a 50 percent membership interest in North Metro Harness Initiative, LLC, which operates Running Aces Harness Park in Columbus, Minnesota on the north side of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Southwest's corporate offices are located at 2001 Killebrew Drive, Suite 350, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425.

This Press Release does not constitute an offer of to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.

This Press Release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Southwest's beliefs about its ongoing business. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the statements to be incorrect or cause actual results to differ materially. Those risks include all risks associated with Southwest's ownership of North Metro Harness Initiative, LLC described in the Risk Factors section of Southwest's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed March 31, 2008. Other risks applicable to these forward-looking statements are described elsewhere in the Annual Report as well as the company's other periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Southwest does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements it makes; but may choose from time to time to update them and, if it does, will disseminate the updates to the investing public.

SOURCE: Southwest Casino Corporation

Southwest Casino Corporation Thomas E. Fox, 952-853-9990 President or Investor Relations: Strategic Growth International Stan Altschuler, 212-838-1444 saltschuler@sgi-ir.com