Document:

exv10w10

 

Exhibit 10.10

November 14, 2005

Mr. Kent R. Stephenson

V. P. & General Counsel

Pioneer Americas LLC

700 Louisiana St. Suite 4300

Houston, Texas 77002

Dear Kent,

This Notice Letter confirms the terms of your termination of employment with Pioneer Americas LLC.
As we have agreed, your resignation will be effective on January 31, 2006, unless you choose to
select an earlier effective date. You will continue to serve in your current role of Vice
President and General Counsel until the applicable effective date or, if earlier, on the date a
replacement General Counsel is named.

Upon the completion of your active employment, you have agreed to make yourself available as a
consultant to the Company for a six-month period. You will continue to be paid at your current
salary level as compensation for your consulting services. Following the earlier of the end of
such six-month period and the date upon which you are no longer available to provide consulting
services to the Company, you will receive one year of severance pay at your current salary.

Payment for consulting services and severance pay will be paid in our normal payroll cycle. During
the period during which you serve as a consultant and during your severance period, you will be
eligible to participate in all Pioneer employee benefits except Long Term Disability, 401(k)
Program, and the Defined Contribution Pension Plan. Participation in the Pioneer medical benefit
plan during your both such periods will count toward your 36 months of eligible COBRA coverage.
Other than as set forth herein, all other rights and benefits under Pioneer’s employee benefit
plans and policies will apply as established by such plans and policies.

Since you will not be an active employee when the 2005 Shared Earnings Plan is scheduled to be
paid, you will not be eligible for a bonus payment under that Plan. In lieu of your eligibility
for a 2005 Shared Earnings Plan payment, you will be paid a lump sum Enhanced Severance Payment in
April 2006. If you continue your employment until January 31, 2006, this payment will be in the
amount of the Shared Earnings Plan payment you would have received if you had been an active
employee when the 2005 payment is made. If your resignation is effective prior to January 31,
2006, the Enhanced Severance Payment will be the above-described amount multiplied by the fraction
of the number of weeks of your active employment during 2005 over 52.

 

 

Mr. Kent R. Stephenson

November 14, 2005

Page 2

Between now and the effective date of your resignation, you may actively seek other employment and
will be given reasonable time away from work for this activity.

In consideration of the above payments and benefits, you agree to continue your work for Pioneer in
a professional and conscientious manner. You will continue the confidentiality required in your
work as General Counsel and prior to the termination of your active employment you will assist in
the transition to your successor. You will not divulge any proprietary Pioneer information to
non-Pioneer employees and you will respond to reasonable requests from Pioneer for assistance or
information. Failure to comply with this paragraph will void this Notice Letter.

In consideration of your agreements in this Notice Letter, Pioneer hereby releases and forever
discharges you from any and all damages, losses, causes of action, expenses, demands, liabilities
and claims with respect to all matters relating to or arising from your employment or from your
services as a consultant to Pioneer, including, without limitation, any and all of your actions or
inactions done while employed by the Company or its predecessors, subsidiaries, or affiliates or
when such consulting services are provided; provided, however, such release and discharge shall not
apply to any willful conduct which results in a fraud upon the Company, misappropriation of funds
or other property of the Company, or criminal conduct which was demonstrably injurious to the
property or business of the Company. If at any time after the effective date of your resignation,
you are made a party to, or are threatened to be made a party in, any civil, criminal or
administrative action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that you are or were a director,
officer, employee or agent of the Company, or of any other corporation or any partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise for which you served as such at the request of the Company, then
you shall be indemnified by the Company, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law,
against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by you or imposed on you in connection with, or
resulting from, any appeal therein if you acted in good faith and in a manner you reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the Company, and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe your conduct was unlawful, except
with respect to matters as to which it is adjudged that you are liable to the Company or to such
other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise for gross negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of your duties. As used herein, the term “expenses” shall
include all obligations actually and reasonably incurred by you for the payment of money,
including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, judgments, awards, fines, penalties and amounts
paid in satisfaction of a judgment or in settlement of any such action, suit or proceeding, except
amounts paid to the Company or such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise by you. The foregoing indemnification provisions shall be in addition to any other
rights to indemnification to which you may be entitled.

 

 

Mr. Kent R. Stephenson

November 14, 2005

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	 	Sincerely,

 	 
	 	/s/ Jerry Bradley
 	 
	 	Jerry Bradley 	 
	 	Vice President Human Resources 	 
	 

Agreed to,

	 	 	 
	/s/ Kent R. Stephenson
	 
	Kent R. Stephenson
	Date:exv10w12

 

Exhibit 10.12

ASSIGNMENT AND FIRST AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT OF PURCHASE AND

SALE AND JOINT ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS

This ASSIGNMENT AND FIRST AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT OF PURCHASE AND SALE AND JOINT ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS
(this “Agreement”) is entered into by Marnell Properties, LLC a Nevada limited liability company
(“Assignor”), Century Steel, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Assignee”), and Pioneer Americas LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company as successor to Pioneer Chlor Alkali Company Inc. (“Seller”),
effective October 31, 2005 (“Effective Date”).

RECITALS

     A. Assignor and Seller have executed an Agreement of Purchase And Sale And Joint Escrow
Instructions (“Purchase and Sale Agreement”) effective as of June 3, 2005 (Assignor’s entire right,
title and interest under the Purchase and Sale Agreement is referred to as the “Purchase
Interest”);

     B. Assignor wishes to transfer and assign the Purchase Interest to Assignee;

     C. Assignee and Seller wish to amend the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

     NOW, THEREFORE, Assignor and Assignee agree as follows:

     1. Assignment. Assignor assigns to Assignee the Purchase Interest. The Purchase
Interest includes, without limitation, (i) Assignor’s interest in any payments it made in
accordance with the Purchase and Sale Agreement and (ii) Assignor’s interest in the escrow opened
in accordance with the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

     2. Assumption. Assignee accepts the assignment of the Purchase Interest from
Assignor. Assignee shall perform the obligations that the “Buyer” under the Purchase and Sale
Agreement is required to perform after the Effective Date.

     3. Seller’s Consent. Seller consents to the assignment of the Purchase Interest
described herein. This consent does not release Assignor from any liability or responsibility
under the Purchase and Sale Agreement and Assignor shall be liable to Seller for any default or
breach of the Purchase and Sale Agreement on the part of Assignee. This consent does not extend to
future assignments or other transfers of the Purchase Interest.

     4. Amendment of the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

     a. The last sentence of Section 9(b) of the Purchase and Sale Agreement is amended to read as
follows:

The closing of escrow shall be extended to the earlier of March 31,
2006, or that business day which first occurs seven days following
the date upon which the Amended Parcel Map is approved by all
governmental agencies with jurisdiction and is accepted for
recording.

1

 

Exhibit 10.12

     b. Section 16 of the Purchase Agreement is amended by adding a reference to Assignee, whose
mailing address is:

Century Steel, Inc

3613 Procyon Ave

Las Vegas, NV 89103

     c. Save and except as amended by this Agreement, the Purchase and Sale Agreement remains
unmodified and in full force and effect.

     5. Counterparts. The parties may sign this Agreement in counterparts. The signature
pages from the counterparts may be attached to one counterpart to form a single document.

	 	 	 	 	 
	ASSIGNOR
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Marnell Properties, LLC a Nevada limited liability company
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ James A. Barrett, Jr.	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Its:

	 	President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ASSIGNEE
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Century Steel, Inc., a Nevada corporation
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Lynn M. Leany 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Its:

	 	CEO	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	SELLER
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Pioneer Americas LLC, a Delaware limited liability company as successor to Pioneer Chlor Alkali Company Inc.
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Michael Y. McGovern 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Its:

	 	President & CEO	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

2exv4w2

 

EXHIBIT 4.2

[CONFORMED COPY]

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

among

AMERISTAR CASINOS, INC.,

VARIOUS LENDERS,

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,

as SYNDICATION AGENT,

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,

as JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS,

CALYON NEW YORK BRANCH,

US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.

and BANK OF SCOTLAND

as DOCUMENTATION AGENTS,

COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK AND GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES,

HSH NORDBANK AG, SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, UNITED

OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY and SOCIETE GENERALE

as MANAGING AGENTS

and

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

as ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

 

Dated as of November 10, 2005

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Page
	SECTION 1.	 	Amount and Terms of Credit
	 	 	1	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	1.01	 	 	The Commitments
	 	 	1	 
	 	1.02	 	 	Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing
	 	 	4	 
	 	1.03	 	 	Notice of Borrowing
	 	 	4	 
	 	1.04	 	 	Disbursement of Funds
	 	 	5	 
	 	1.05	 	 	Notes
	 	 	5	 
	 	1.06	 	 	Conversions
	 	 	7	 
	 	1.07	 	 	Pro Rata Borrowings
	 	 	8	 
	 	1.08	 	 	Interest
	 	 	8	 
	 	1.09	 	 	Interest Periods
	 	 	9	 
	 	1.10	 	 	Increased Costs, Illegality, etc.
	 	 	10	 
	 	1.11	 	 	Compensation
	 	 	12	 
	 	1.12	 	 	Change of Lending Office
	 	 	12	 
	 	1.13	 	 	Replacement of Lenders
	 	 	12	 
	 	1.14	 	 	Incremental Loan Commitments
	 	 	13	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.	 	Letters of Credit
	 	 	17	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	2.01	 	 	Letters of Credit
	 	 	17	 
	 	2.02	 	 	Letter of Credit Requests
	 	 	18	 
	 	2.03	 	 	Letter of Credit Participations
	 	 	19	 
	 	2.04	 	 	Agreement to Repay Letter of Credit Drawings
	 	 	20	 
	 	2.05	 	 	Increased Costs
	 	 	21	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 3.	 	Commitment Commission; Fees; Reductions of Commitment
	 	 	22	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	3.01	 	 	Fees
	 	 	22	 
	 	3.02	 	 	Voluntary Termination and Reduction of Commitments
	 	 	23	 
	 	3.03	 	 	Mandatory Reduction of Commitments
	 	 	24	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.	 	Prepayments; Payments; Taxes
	 	 	24	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	4.01	 	 	Voluntary Prepayments
	 	 	24	 
	 	4.02	 	 	Mandatory Repayments and Commitment Reductions
	 	 	26	 
	 	4.03	 	 	Method and Place of Payment
	 	 	32	 
	 	4.04	 	 	Net Payments
	 	 	32	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 5.	 	Conditions Precedent to Credit Events on the Initial Borrowing Date
	 	 	35	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	5.01	 	 	Execution of Agreement; Notes
	 	 	35	 
	 	5.02	 	 	Fees, etc.
	 	 	35	 
	 	5.03	 	 	Opinions of Counsel
	 	 	35	 
	 	5.04	 	 	Corporate Documents; Proceedings; etc.
	 	 	35	 

(i)

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Page
	 	5.05	 	 	Shareholders’ Agreements; Management Agreements; Tax Sharing Agreements;
Employee Benefit Plans; Employment Agreements; Collective Bargaining Agreements;
Debt Agreements; Material Contracts; Non-Compete Agreements; Affiliate Contracts
	 	 	36	 
	 	5.06	 	 	Refinancing; Indebtedness
	 	 	36	 
	 	5.07	 	 	Pledge Agreement
	 	 	37	 
	 	5.08	 	 	Security Agreement
	 	 	37	 
	 	5.09	 	 	Mortgages; Title Insurance; etc.
	 	 	38	 
	 	5.10	 	 	Subsidiary Guaranty
	 	 	39	 
	 	5.11	 	 	Ship Mortgages
	 	 	39	 
	 	5.12	 	 	Adverse Change, etc.
	 	 	39	 
	 	5.13	 	 	Solvency Certificate; Insurance
	 	 	39	 
	 	5.14	 	 	Financial Statements; Projections; Management Letters
	 	 	40	 
	 	5.15	 	 	Litigation
	 	 	40	 
	 	5.16	 	 	Approvals, etc.
	 	 	40	 
	 	5.17	 	 	No Conflict with Agreements
	 	 	41	 
	 	5.18	 	 	Credit Facility Rating
	 	 	41	 
	 	5.19	 	 	Margin Regulations
	 	 	41	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 6.	 	Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events
	 	 	41	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	6.01	 	 	No Default; Representations and Warranties
	 	 	41	 
	 	6.02	 	 	Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request
	 	 	41	 
	 	6.03	 	 	Compliance with Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture
	 	 	42	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 7.	 	Representations and Warranties
	 	 	42	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	7.01	 	 	Corporate Status
	 	 	42	 
	 	7.02	 	 	Corporate Power and Authority
	 	 	43	 
	 	7.03	 	 	No Violation
	 	 	43	 
	 	7.04	 	 	Governmental Approvals
	 	 	43	 
	 	7.05	 	 	Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Undisclosed Liabilities;
Projections; etc.
	 	 	43	 
	 	7.06	 	 	Litigation
	 	 	44	 
	 	7.07	 	 	True and Complete Disclosure
	 	 	44	 
	 	7.08	 	 	Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations
	 	 	45	 
	 	7.09	 	 	Tax Returns and Payments
	 	 	45	 
	 	7.10	 	 	Compliance with ERISA
	 	 	45	 
	 	7.11	 	 	The Security Documents
	 	 	46	 
	 	7.12	 	 	Properties
	 	 	47	 
	 	7.13	 	 	Subsidiaries
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.14	 	 	Compliance with Statutes, etc.
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.15	 	 	Investment Company Act
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.16	 	 	Public Utility Holding Company Act
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.17	 	 	Labor Relations
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.18	 	 	Patents, Licenses, Franchises and Formulas
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.19	 	 	Indebtedness
	 	 	48	 
	 	7.20	 	 	Environmental Matters
	 	 	49	 

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	 	 	 	 	 	 	Page
	 	7.21	 	 	Senior Debt
	 	 	49	 
	 	7.22	 	 	Legal Names; Type of Organization (and Whether a Registered
Organization); Jurisdiction of Organization; etc.
	 	 	49	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 8.	 	Affirmative Covenants
	 	 	50	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	8.01	 	 	Information Covenants
	 	 	50	 
	 	8.02	 	 	Books, Records and Inspections
	 	 	53	 
	 	8.03	 	 	Maintenance of Property; Insurance
	 	 	53	 
	 	8.04	 	 	Corporate Franchises
	 	 	54	 
	 	8.05	 	 	Compliance with Statutes, etc.
	 	 	54	 
	 	8.06	 	 	ERISA
	 	 	54	 
	 	8.07	 	 	End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters
	 	 	55	 
	 	8.08	 	 	Performance of Obligations
	 	 	55	 
	 	8.09	 	 	Payment of Taxes
	 	 	55	 
	 	8.10	 	 	Intellectual Property Rights
	 	 	56	 
	 	8.11	 	 	Additional Security; Further Assurances
	 	 	56	 
	 	8.12	 	 	Foreign Subsidiaries Security; etc.
	 	 	58	 
	 	8.13	 	 	Permitted Acquisitions
	 	 	59	 
	 	8.14	 	 	Compliance with Environmental Laws
	 	 	60	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 9.	 	Negative Covenants
	 	 	61	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	9.01	 	 	Liens
	 	 	61	 
	 	9.02	 	 	Consolidation, Merger, Purchase or Sale of Assets, etc.
	 	 	63	 
	 	9.03	 	 	Dividends
	 	 	65	 
	 	9.04	 	 	Indebtedness
	 	 	65	 
	 	9.05	 	 	Advances, Investments and Loans
	 	 	66	 
	 	9.06	 	 	Transactions with Affiliates
	 	 	68	 
	 	9.07	 	 	Maximum Capital Expenditures
	 	 	68	 
	 	9.08	 	 	Leverage Ratio
	 	 	68	 
	 	9.09	 	 	Senior Leverage Ratio
	 	 	70	 
	 	9.10	 	 	Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
	 	 	72	 
	 	9.11	 	 	Limitation on Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and
Certain Other Agreements; Limitations of Prepayments and Modifications of
Indebtedness; etc.
	 	 	73	 
	 	9.12	 	 	Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries
	 	 	73	 
	 	9.13	 	 	Limitation on Issuance of Capital Stock
	 	 	74	 
	 	9.14	 	 	Business
	 	 	74	 
	 	9.15	 	 	Limitations on Creation/Sale of Subsidiaries
	 	 	74	 
	 	9.16	 	 	No Other Designated Senior Indebtedness
	 	 	75	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 10.	 	Events of Default
	 	 	75	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	10.01	 	 	Payments
	 	 	75	 
	 	10.02	 	 	Representations, etc.
	 	 	75	 
	 	10.03	 	 	Covenants
	 	 	75	 
	 	10.04	 	 	Default Under Other Agreements
	 	 	76	 
	 	10.05	 	 	Bankruptcy, etc.
	 	 	76	 

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	 	 	 	 	 	 	Page
	 	10.06	 	 	ERISA
	 	 	76	 
	 	10.07	 	 	Security Documents
	 	 	77	 
	 	10.08	 	 	Guaranty
	 	 	77	 
	 	10.09	 	 	Judgments
	 	 	77	 
	 	10.10	 	 	Gaming Authority
	 	 	78	 
	 	10.11	 	 	Change of Control
	 	 	78	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 11.	 	Definitions and Accounting Terms
	 	 	78	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	11.01	 	 	Defined Terms
	 	 	78	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 12.	 	The Administrative Agent
	 	 	105	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	12.01	 	 	Appointment
	 	 	105	 
	 	12.02	 	 	Nature of Duties
	 	 	106	 
	 	12.03	 	 	Lack of Reliance on the Administrative Agent
	 	 	106	 
	 	12.04	 	 	Certain Rights of the Administrative Agent
	 	 	107	 
	 	12.05	 	 	Reliance
	 	 	107	 
	 	12.06	 	 	Indemnification
	 	 	107	 
	 	12.07	 	 	The Administrative Agent in Its Individual Capacity
	 	 	107	 
	 	12.08	 	 	Holders
	 	 	108	 
	 	12.09	 	 	Resignation by the Administrative Agent
	 	 	108	 
	 	12.10	 	 	Amendments to Security Documents
	 	 	109	 
	 	12.11	 	 	Other Agents
	 	 	109	 
	 	12.12	 	 	Delivery of Information
	 	 	110	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 13.	 	Miscellaneous
	 	 	110	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	13.01	 	 	Payment of Expenses, etc.
	 	 	110	 
	 	13.02	 	 	Right of Setoff; Collateral Matters
	 	 	111	 
	 	13.03	 	 	Notices
	 	 	111	 
	 	13.04	 	 	Benefit of Agreement
	 	 	112	 
	 	13.05	 	 	No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative
	 	 	115	 
	 	13.06	 	 	Payments Pro Rata
	 	 	115	 
	 	13.07	 	 	Calculations; Computations
	 	 	116	 
	 	13.08	 	 	GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	 	 	117	 
	 	13.09	 	 	Counterparts
	 	 	117	 
	 	13.10	 	 	Effectiveness
	 	 	118	 
	 	13.11	 	 	Headings Descriptive
	 	 	118	 
	 	13.12	 	 	Amendment or Waiver; etc.
	 	 	118	 
	 	13.13	 	 	Survival
	 	 	120	 
	 	13.14	 	 	Domicile of Loans
	 	 	120	 
	 	13.15	 	 	Confidentiality
	 	 	120	 
	 	13.16	 	 	Registry
	 	 	121	 
	 	13.17	 	 	Application of Gaming Regulations
	 	 	121	 
	 	13.18	 	 	USA PATRIOT Act Notice
	 	 	122	 
	 	13.19	 	 	Post-Closing Actions
	 	 	122	 

(iv)

 

	 	 	 
	SCHEDULE I

	 	Commitments
	SCHEDULE II

	 	Bank Addresses
	SCHEDULE III

	 	Real Property
	SCHEDULE IV

	 	Insurance
	SCHEDULE V

	 	Existing Liens
	SCHEDULE VI

	 	Existing Indebtedness
	SCHEDULE VII

	 	Tax Matters
	SCHEDULE VIII

	 	Subsidiaries
	SCHEDULE IX

	 	Ship Properties
	SCHEDULE X

	 	Environmental Matters
	SCHEDULE XI

	 	Legal Names; Type of Organization
(and Whether a Registered Organization); Jurisdiction of Organization, etc.
	SCHEDULE XII

	 	Existing Letters of Credit
	 
	 	 
	EXHIBIT A

	 	Form of Notice of Borrowing
	EXHIBIT B-1

	 	Form of Initial Term Note
	EXHIBIT B-2

	 	Form of Revolving Note
	EXHIBIT B-3

	 	Form of Swingline Note
	EXHIBIT B-4

	 	Form of Incremental Term Note
	EXHIBIT C

	 	Form of Letter of Credit Request
	EXHIBIT D

	 	Form of Section 4.04(b)(ii) Certificate
	EXHIBIT E

	 	Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,
Special Counsel to the Credit Parties
	EXHIBIT F

	 	Form of Officers’ Certificate
	EXHIBIT G

	 	Form of Pledge Agreement
	EXHIBIT H

	 	Form of Security Agreement
	EXHIBIT I

	 	Form of Mortgage
	EXHIBIT J

	 	Form of Subsidiary Guaranty
	EXHIBIT K

	 	Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement
	EXHIBIT L

	 	Form of Solvency Certificate
	EXHIBIT M

	 	Form of Ship Mortgage
	EXHIBIT N

	 	Form of Intercompany Note
	EXHIBIT O

	 	Form of Incremental Commitment Agreement

(v)

 

          CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of November 10, 2005, among AMERISTAR CASINOS, INC., a Nevada
corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party hereto from time to time, WELLS FARGO BANK,
N.A., as Syndication Agent, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as Joint Lead
Arrangers, CALYON NEW YORK BRANCH, US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, WACHOVIA BANK, N.A. and BANK OF
SCOTLAND, as Documentation Agents, COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK AND GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES, HSH NORDBANK
AG, SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY and SOCIETE
GENERALE, as Managing Agents and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Administrative Agent (all
capitalized terms used herein and defined in Section 11 are used herein as therein defined).

WITNESSETH:

          WHEREAS, subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Lenders are
willing to make available to the Borrower the respective credit facilities provided for herein;

          NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED:

          SECTION 1. Amount and Terms of Credit.

          1.01 The Commitments. (a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth
herein, each Lender with an Initial Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to make, on the Initial
Borrowing Date, a term loan to the Borrower, which Initial Term Loans (i) shall be made and
initially maintained as Base Rate Loans (subject to the option to convert such Initial Term Loans
pursuant to Section 1.06) and (ii) shall be made by each Lender in that aggregate principal amount
as is equal to the Initial Term Loan Commitment of such Lender on such date. Once repaid, Initial
Term Loans borrowed hereunder may not be reborrowed.

          (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender with a
Revolving Loan Commitment severally agrees, at any time and from time to time after the Initial
Borrowing Date and prior to the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, to make a revolving loan or revolving
loans (each, a “Revolving Loan” and collectively, the “Revolving Loans”) to the
Borrower, which Revolving Loans (i) shall, at the option of the Borrower, be Base Rate Loans or, if
incurred on or after the Eurodollar Loan Availability Date, Eurodollar Loans, provided,
that except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 1.10(b), and subject to the option to
convert such Loans pursuant to Section 1.06, all Revolving Loans comprising the same Borrowing
shall at all times be of the same Type, (ii) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the
provisions hereof, (iii) shall not exceed for any Lender at any time outstanding that aggregate
principal amount which when added to the product of (x) such Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage and
(y) the sum of (I) the aggregate amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings (exclusive of Unpaid
Drawings which are repaid with the proceeds of, and simultaneously with
the incurrence of, the respective incurrence of Revolving Loans) at such time and (II) the
aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans (exclusive of Swingline Loans which are repaid
with the proceeds of, and simultaneously with the incurrence of, Revolving Loans) then outstanding,
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not exceed for all
Lenders at any time outstanding the sum of (I) the aggregate principal amount which, when added to
the amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings (exclusive of Unpaid Drawings which are repaid with
the proceeds of, and simultaneously with the incurrence of, Revolving Loans) at such time and (II)
the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans (exclusive of Swingline Loans which are
repaid with the proceeds of, and simultaneously with the incurrence of, the respective incurrence
of Revolving Loans) then outstanding, equals the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.

          (c) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees
to make at any time and from time to time after the Initial Borrowing Date and prior to the
Swingline Expiry Date, a loan or loans (each a “Swingline Loan”, and collectively, the
“Swingline Loans”) to the Borrower, which Swingline Loans:

     (i) shall be made and maintained as Base Rate Loans;

     (ii) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof;

     (iii) unless otherwise agreed by the Swingline Lender, shall be repaid no later than
the date which is five Business Days following the date of incurrence thereof,
provided that if any Defaulting Lender fails to fund a Revolving Loan requested to
refinance such Swingline Loan, the portion of the Swingline Loan expected to be refinanced
by such Defaulting Lender shall be repaid on or before the tenth Business Day following the
date of the incurrence thereof;

     (iv) shall not exceed in aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding, when
combined with (x) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans then outstanding and
(y) the amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time, an amount equal to the
Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time (after giving effect to any reductions to the
Total Revolving Loan Commitment on such date); and

     (vi) shall not exceed in aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding the Maximum
Swingline Amount.

The Swingline Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swingline Loans at a time when a Lender
Default exists unless the Swingline Lender has entered into arrangements satisfactory to it to
eliminate the Swingline Lender’s risk with respect to the Lender which is subject of such Lender
Default, including by cash collateralizing such Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage of the
outstanding Swingline Loans. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section
1.01(c), the Swingline Lender shall not make any Swingline Loan after receiving a written notice
from the Borrower or the Required Lenders stating that a Default or an Event of Default exists and
is continuing until such time as the Swingline Lender shall have received written notice (i) of
rescission of such notice from the party or parties originally delivering such notice, (ii) of the
waiver of such Default or Event of Default or (iii) from the Administrative
Agent that the Administrative Agent in good faith believes that such Default or Event of Default
has ceased to exist.

          (d) On any Business Day, the Swingline Lender may, in its sole discretion, give notice to the
Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments that its outstanding Swingline Loans

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shall be funded with a
Borrowing of Revolving Loans (provided that such notice shall be deemed to have been automatically
given upon the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 10.05 or upon the
exercise of any of the remedies provided in the last paragraph of Section 10), in which case a
Borrowing of Revolving Loans constituting Base Rate Loans (each such Borrowing, a “Mandatory
Borrowing”) shall be made on the immediately succeeding Business Day from all Lenders with a
Revolving Loan Commitment (without giving effect to any termination and/or reductions thereto
pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 10) pro rata on the basis of their respective Revolving
Loan Percentages (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Revolving Loan
Commitments pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 10) and the proceeds thereof shall be applied
directly to the Swingline Lender to repay the Swingline Lender for such outstanding Swingline
Loans. Each such Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make Revolving Loans upon one Business Day’s
notice pursuant to each Mandatory Borrowing in the amount and in the manner specified in the
preceding sentence and on the date specified in writing by the Swingline Lender (i) notwithstanding
that the amount of the Mandatory Borrowing may not comply with the minimum amount for Borrowings
otherwise required hereunder, (ii) whether any conditions specified in Section 5 or 6 are then
satisfied, (iii) whether a Default or an Event of Default then exists, (iv) notwithstanding the
date of such Mandatory Borrowing and (v) notwithstanding the amount of the Total Revolving Loan
Commitment at such time. In the event that any Mandatory Borrowing cannot for any reason be made
on the date otherwise required above (including, without limitation, as a result of the
commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the Borrower), then each
such Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment hereby agrees that it shall forthwith purchase (as of
the date the Mandatory Borrowing would otherwise have occurred, but adjusted for any payments
received from the Borrower on or after such date and prior to such purchase) from the Swingline
Lender such participations in the outstanding Swingline Loans as shall be necessary to cause such
Lenders to share in such Swingline Loans ratably based upon their respective Revolving Loan
Percentages (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments
pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 10); provided, that (x) all interest payable on the
Swingline Loans shall be for the account of the Swingline Lender until the date as of which the
respective participation is required to be purchased and, to the extent attributable to the
purchased participation shall be payable to the participant from and after such date and (y) at the
time any purchase of participations pursuant to this sentence is actually made, the purchasing
Lender shall be required to pay the Swingline Lender interest on the principal amount of
participation purchased for each day from and including the day upon which the Mandatory Borrowing
would otherwise have occurred to but excluding the date of payment for such participation, at the
rate otherwise applicable to Revolving Loans maintained as Base Rate Loans hereunder for each day
thereafter.

          (e) Subject to Section 1.14 and the other terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender
with an Incremental Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to make a term loan or term loans (each,
an “Incremental Term Loan” and, collectively, the “Incremental Term Loans”) to the
Borrower, which Incremental Term Loans: (a) only may be incurred pursuant to a
single drawing on the respective Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date (which date, in any
event, shall be the date set forth in the applicable Incremental Commitment Agreement pursuant to
which such Incremental Term Loans are to be made and shall not be later than the Incremental
Commitment Termination Date); (b) shall be Term Loans under the Tranche specified in the applicable
Incremental Commitment Agreement; (c) except as hereafter provided, shall, at the

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option of the
Borrower, be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into, Base Rate Loans or, if incurred
after the Eurodollar Loan Availability Date, Eurodollar Loans, provided that (x) all
Incremental Term Loans made as part of the same Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically
provided herein, consist of Incremental Term Loans of the same Type; and (d) shall be made by each
such Lender in that aggregate principal amount which does not exceed the Incremental Term Loan
Commitment of such Lender under the relevant Tranche on any such Incremental Term Loan Borrowing
Date (before giving effect to the termination thereof on such date pursuant to Section 3.03(e)).
Once repaid, Incremental Term Loans incurred hereunder may not be reborrowed.

          1.02 Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing. The aggregate principal amount of each
Borrowing of Loans shall not be less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto;
provided that Mandatory Borrowings shall be in the amounts required by Section 1.01(d).
More than one Borrowing may occur on the same date, but at no time shall there be outstanding more
than (x) ten Borrowings of Eurodollar Loans under any one Tranche in the case of Revolving Loans
and (y) four Borrowings of Eurodollar Loans under any one Tranche in the case of Term Loans.

          1.03 Notice of Borrowing. (a) Whenever the Borrower desires to make a Borrowing
hereunder (excluding Borrowings of Swingline Loans and Mandatory Borrowings), it shall give the
Administrative Agent at its Notice Office at least one Business Day’s prior written (or telephonic
promptly confirmed in writing) notice of each Base Rate Loan and at least three Business Days’
prior written (or telephonic promptly confirmed in writing) notice of each Eurodollar Loan to be
made hereunder, provided that any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on a
certain day only if given before 12:00 Noon (New York time) on such day. Each such written notice
or written confirmation of telephonic notice (each a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be given
by the Borrower in the form of Exhibit A, appropriately completed to specify the aggregate
principal amount of the Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing, the date of such Borrowing
(which shall be a Business Day), the Tranche of the Loans being made pursuant to such Borrowing and
whether the Loans being made pursuant to such Borrowing are to be initially maintained as Base Rate
Loans or Eurodollar Loans and, if Eurodollar Loans, the initial Interest Period to be applicable
thereto. The Administrative Agent shall promptly give each Lender which is required to make Loans
of the Tranche specified in the respective Notice of Borrowing, notice of such proposed Borrowing,
of such Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters required by the immediately
preceding sentence to be specified in the Notice of Borrowing.

          (b) (i) Whenever the Borrower desires to make a Borrowing of Swingline Loans hereunder, it
shall give the Swingline Lender, not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date that a
Swingline Loan is to be made, written notice (or telephonic notice confirmed in
writing) of each Swingline Loan to be made hereunder. Each such notice shall specify in each
case (a) the date of Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and (b) the aggregate principal
amount of Swingline Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing.

          (ii) Mandatory Borrowings shall be made upon the notice specified in Section 1.01(d), with
the Borrower irrevocably agreeing, by its incurrence of any Swingline Loan, to the making of the
Mandatory Borrowings as set forth in Section 1.01(d).

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          (c) Without in any way limiting the obligation of the Borrower to confirm in writing any
telephonic notice of any Borrowing of Loans, the Administrative Agent or the Swingline Lender, as
the case may be, may act without liability upon the basis of telephonic notice of such Borrowing,
believed by the Administrative Agent or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, in good faith to
be from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower prior to receipt of written confirmation. In each
such case, absent manifest error, the Borrower hereby waives the right to dispute the
Administrative Agent’s and the Swingline Lender’s record of the terms of such telephonic notice of
such Borrowing of Loans.

          1.04 Disbursement of Funds. Except as otherwise specifically provided in the second
succeeding sentence, no later than 12:00 Noon (New York time) on the date specified in each Notice
of Borrowing (or (x) in the case of Swingline Loans, no later than the close of business on the
date specified pursuant to Section 1.03(b)(i) or (y) in case of Mandatory Borrowings, not later
than 12:00 Noon (New York time) on the date specified in Section 1.01(d)), each Lender with a
Commitment of the respective Tranche will make available its pro rata portion of
each such Borrowing requested to be made on such date (or in the case of Swingline Loans, the
Swingline Lender shall make available the full amount thereof). All such amounts shall be made
available in Dollars and in immediately available funds at the Payment Office of the Administrative
Agent, and the Administrative Agent will make available to the Borrower at the Payment Office the
aggregate of the amounts so made available by the Lenders (prior to 1:00 P.M. on such day, to the
extent of funds actually received by the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00 Noon on such day).
Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date of
Borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Administrative Agent such
Lender’s portion of any Borrowing to be made on such date, the Administrative Agent may assume that
such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on such date of Borrowing
and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower
a corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to the
Administrative Agent by such Lender, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such
corresponding amount on demand from such Lender. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding
amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify the Borrower and the Borrower shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to
the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover on demand
from such Lender or the Borrower, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in
respect of each day from the date such corresponding amount was made available by the
Administrative Agent to the Borrower until the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the
Administrative Agent, at a rate per annum equal to (i) if recovered from such Lender, (x) at the
overnight Federal Funds Rate for the first three days
following the date the relevant amount was made available by the Administrative Agent and (y)
the Base Rate for each day thereafter, and (ii) if recovered from the Borrower, the rate of
interest applicable to the respective Borrowing, as determined pursuant to Section 1.08. Nothing
in this Section 1.04 shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to make Loans
hereunder or to prejudice any rights which the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of
any failure by such Lender to make Loans hereunder.

          1.05 Notes. (a) The Borrower’s obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on,
the Loans made by each Lender shall, if requested by such Lender, be evidenced (i) if Initial

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Term
Loans, by a promissory note duly executed and delivered by the Borrower substantially in the form
of Exhibit B-1 with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith (each, an “Initial
Term Note” and collectively, the “Initial Term Notes”), (ii) if Revolving Loans, by a
promissory note duly executed and delivered by the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit
B-2, with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith (each, a “Revolving Note”
and collectively, the “Revolving Notes”) and (iii) if Swingline Loans, by a promissory note
duly executed and delivered by the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3, with blanks
appropriately completed in conformity herewith (each, a “Swingline Note” and collectively,
the “Swingline Notes”).

          (b) The Initial Term Note issued to each Lender shall (i) be executed by the Borrower, (ii) be
payable to the order of such Lender and be dated the Initial Borrowing Date (or, in the case of
Initial Term Notes issued after the Initial Borrowing Date, be dated the date of issuance thereof),
(iii) be in a stated principal amount equal to the respective Initial Term Loan made by such Lender
on the Initial Borrowing Date (or, in the case of any Initial Term Note issued after the Initial
Borrowing Date, be in a stated principal amount equal to the outstanding principal amount of the
Initial Term Loans of such Lender on the date of the issuance thereof) and be payable in the
principal amount of Initial Term Loans evidenced thereby, (iv) mature on the Initial Term Maturity
Date, (v) bear interest as provided in the appropriate clause of Section 1.08 in respect of the
Base Rate Loans and Eurodollar Loans, as the case may be, evidenced thereby, (vi) be subject to
mandatory repayment as provided in Section 4.02 and (vii) be entitled to the benefits of this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents.

          (c) The Revolving Note issued to each Lender shall (i) be executed by the Borrower, (ii) be
payable to the order of such Lender and be dated the Initial Borrowing Date (or, in the case of
Revolving Notes issued after the Initial Borrowing Date, be dated the date of issuance thereof),
(iii) be in a stated principal amount equal to the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender and be
payable in the principal amount of the Revolving Loans evidenced thereby, (iv) mature on the
Revolving Loan Maturity Date, (v) bear interest as provided in the appropriate clause of Section
1.08 in respect of the Base Rate Loans and Eurodollar Loans, as the case may be, evidenced thereby,
(vi) be subject to mandatory repayment as provided in Section 4.02 and (vii) be entitled to the
benefits of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.

          (d) The Swingline Note issued to the Swingline Lender shall (i) be executed by the Borrower,
(ii) be payable to the order of the Swingline Lender and be dated the Initial Borrowing Date (or,
in the case of any Swingline Note issued after the Initial Borrowing Date, be
dated the date of issuance thereof), (iii) be in a stated principal amount equal to the
Maximum Swingline Amount and be payable in the principal amount of the outstanding Swingline Loans
evidenced thereby, (iv) mature on the Swingline Expiry Date, (v) bear interest as provided in the
appropriate clause of Section 1.08 in respect of the Base Rate Loans evidenced thereby, (vi) be
subject to mandatory repayment as provided in Section 4.02 and (vii) be entitled to the benefits of
this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.

          (e) Each Lender will note on its internal records the amount of each Loan made by it and each
payment in respect thereof and will prior to any transfer of any of its Notes (if applicable)
endorse on the reverse side thereof the outstanding principal amount of Loans

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evidenced thereby.
Failure to make any such notation or any error in any such notation or endorsement shall not affect
the Borrower’s obligations in respect of such Loans.

          (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above or elsewhere in this Agreement,
Notes shall only be delivered to Lenders which at any time specifically request the delivery of
such Notes. No failure of any Lender to request or obtain a Note evidencing its Loans to the
Borrower shall affect or in any manner impair the obligations of the Borrower to pay the Loans (and
all related Obligations) which would otherwise be evidenced thereby in accordance with the
requirements of this Agreement, and shall not in any way affect the security or guaranties therefor
provided pursuant to the various Credit Documents. Any Lender which does not have a Note
evidencing its outstanding Loans shall in no event be required to make the notations otherwise
described in preceding clause (e). At any time when any Lender requests the delivery of a Note to
evidence any of its Loans, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to the respective Lender
the requested Note or Notes in the appropriate amount or amounts to evidence such Loans.

          (g) In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower’s obligations to pay the principal of, and
interest on, the Incremental Term Loans of a New Tranche made by each Lender shall, if requested by
such Lender, be evidenced by a promissory note duly executed and delivered by the Borrower in
substantially the form of Exhibit B-4 with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith
(each an “Incremental Term Note” and collectively the “Incremental Term Notes”).
The Incremental Term Note issued to each Lender with an Incremental Term Loan Commitment or with
outstanding Incremental Term Loans shall (i) be executed by the Borrower, (ii) be payable to the
order of such Lender and be dated the date of issuance thereof, (iii) be in a stated principal
amount equal to the sum of the Incremental Term Loans made by such Lender on the respective
Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date (or, if issued after such Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date
be in a stated principal amount equal to the outstanding Incremental Term Loans of such Lender on
the date of issuance thereof), (iv) mature on the respective Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date,
(v) bear interest as provided in the appropriate clause of Section 1.08 in respect of the Base Rate
Loans and Eurodollar Loans, as the case may be, evidenced thereby, (vi) be subject to mandatory
repayment as provided in Section 4.02, and (vii) be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement and
the other Credit Documents.

          1.06 Conversions. The Borrower shall have the option to convert on any Business Day
occurring on or after the Eurodollar Loan Availability Date, all or a portion equal to at least the
Minimum
Borrowing Amount for the relevant Tranche of the outstanding principal amount of Loans made
pursuant to one or more Borrowings (so long as of the same Tranche) of one or more Types of Loans
into a Borrowing (of the same Tranche) of another Type of Loan (other than Swingline Loans which
may not be converted pursuant to this Section 1.06), provided that (i) prior to the
Syndication Termination Date, no Base Rate Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan except as
otherwise permitted under Section 1.09(viii), (ii) Eurodollar Loans converted into Base Rate Loans
on any day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to the Loans being converted
shall be accompanied by costs set forth in Section 1.11 and no partial conversion of Eurodollar
Loans shall reduce the outstanding principal amount of such Eurodollar Loans made pursuant to a
single Borrowing to less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto, (iii) unless the
Required Lenders otherwise agree, Base Rate Loans may only be converted into Eurodollar Loans if no
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existence on the date of the conversion and (iv) no conversion
pursuant to this Section 1.06 shall result in a greater number of Eurodollar Loans than is
permitted under Section 1.02. Each such conversion shall be effected by the Borrower by giving the
Administrative Agent at its Notice Office prior to 12:00 Noon (New York time) at least three
Business Days’ (in the case of a conversion of Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Loans) and at least
one Business Day (in the case of a conversion of Eurodollar Loans into Base Rate Loans) prior
notice (each a “Notice of Conversion”) specifying the Loans to be so converted, the
Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to which such Loans were made and, if to be converted into
Eurodollar Loans, the Interest Period to be initially applicable thereto. The Administrative Agent
shall give each Lender prompt notice of any such proposed conversion affecting any of its Loans.

          1.07 Pro Rata Borrowings. All Borrowings of Loans of a Tranche under this Agreement
shall be incurred from the Lenders pro rata on the basis of their Commitments under
such Tranche. It is understood that no Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other
Lender of its obligation to make Loans hereunder and that each Lender shall be obligated to make
the Loans provided to be made by it hereunder, regardless of the failure of any other Lender to
make its Loans hereunder.

          1.08 Interest. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay interest in respect of the unpaid
principal amount of each Base Rate Loan from the date the proceeds thereof are made available to
the Borrower until the earlier of (i) the maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of such
Base Rate Loan and (ii) the conversion of such Base Rate Loan to a Eurodollar Loan pursuant to
Section 1.06, at a rate per annum which shall be equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus the
Base Rate in effect from time to time.

          (b) The Borrower agrees to pay interest in respect of the unpaid principal amount of each
Eurodollar Loan from the date the proceeds thereof are made available to the Borrower until the
earlier of (i) the maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of such Eurodollar Loan and (ii)
the conversion of such Eurodollar Loan to a Base Rate Loan pursuant to Section 1.06, 1.09 or 1.10,
as applicable, at a rate per annum which shall, during each Interest
Period applicable thereto, be equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus the Eurodollar
Rate for such Interest Period.

          (c) Overdue principal and, to the extent permitted by law, overdue interest in respect of each
Loan and any other overdue amount payable hereunder shall, in each case, bear interest at a rate
per annum equal to the greater of (x) 2% per annum in excess of the rate otherwise applicable to
Base Rate Loans of the respective Tranche of Loans from time to time and (y) the rate which is 2%
in excess of the rate then borne by such Loans, in each case with such interest to be payable on
demand.

          (d) Accrued (and theretofore unpaid) interest shall be payable (i) in respect of each Base
Rate Loan, quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date, (ii) in respect of each Eurodollar
Loan, on the last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of an Interest
Period in excess of three months, on each date occurring at three month intervals after the first
day of such Interest Period and (iii) in respect of each Term Loan, on any repayment or prepayment
(on the amount repaid or prepaid), and in respect of any Loan at maturity (whether by acceleration
or otherwise) and, after such maturity, on demand.

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          (e) Upon each Interest Determination Date, the Administrative Agent shall determine the
Eurodollar Rate for each Interest Period applicable to Eurodollar Loans and shall promptly notify
the Borrower and the Lenders thereof. Each such determination shall, absent manifest error, be
final and conclusive and binding on all parties hereto.

          1.09 Interest Periods. At the time it gives any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion in respect of the making of, or conversion into, any Eurodollar Loan (in the case of the
initial Interest Period applicable thereto) or on the third Business Day prior to the expiration of
an Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan (in the case of any subsequent Interest
Period), the Borrower shall have the right to elect, by giving the Administrative Agent notice
thereof, the interest period (each an “Interest Period”) applicable to such Eurodollar
Loan, which Interest Period shall, at the option of the Borrower, be a one, two, three or six or,
to the extent agreed to by all Lenders under the applicable Tranche, nine or twelve month period,
provided that:

     (i) all Eurodollar Loans comprising a Borrowing shall at all times have the same
Interest Period;

     (ii) the initial Interest Period for any Eurodollar Loan shall commence on the date of
Borrowing of such Eurodollar Loan (including the date of any conversion thereto from a Loan
of a different Type) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect of such
Eurodollar Loan shall commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period
applicable thereto expires;

     (iii) if any Interest Period relating to a Eurodollar Loan begins on a day for which
there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest
Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month;

     (iv) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business
Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day;
provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Loan would
otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which
no further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest Period shall expire on the next
preceding Business Day;

     (v) unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, no Interest Period may be selected at
any time when a Default or Event of Default is then in existence;

     (vi) no Interest Period in respect of any Borrowing of Loans of a Tranche shall be
selected which extends beyond the Maturity Date for such Tranche;

     (vii) no Interest Period in respect of any Borrowing under a Tranche shall be selected
which extends beyond any date upon which a mandatory repayment of Loans under such Tranche
will be required to be made under Section 4.02(b) if, after giving effect to the selection
of such Interest Period, the aggregate principal amount of Loans of such Tranche which have
Interest Periods which will expire after such date will be in

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excess of the aggregate
principal amount of Loans under such Tranche then outstanding less the aggregate amount of
such required repayment; and

     (viii) no Interest Period other than a one month Interest Period may be selected prior
to the Syndication Termination Date, and such an Interest Period may only be selected so
long as all outstanding Loans that are maintained as Eurodollar Loans are subject to the
same one month Interest Period which begins and ends on the same day.

          If upon the expiration of any Interest Period applicable to a Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans,
the Borrower has failed to elect, or is not permitted to elect, a new Interest Period to be
applicable to such Eurodollar Loans as provided above, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected
to convert such Eurodollar Loans into Base Rate Loans effective as of the expiration date of such
current Interest Period.

          1.10 Increased Costs, Illegality, etc. (a) In the event that any Lender shall have
determined (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding
upon all parties hereto but, with respect to clause (i) below, may be made only by the
Administrative Agent):

     (i) on any Interest Determination Date that, by reason of any changes arising after the
date of this Agreement affecting the interbank Eurodollar market, adequate and fair means do
not exist for ascertaining the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for in the
definition of Eurodollar Rate; or

     (ii) at any time, that such Lender shall incur increased costs or reductions in the
amounts received or receivable hereunder with respect to any Eurodollar Loan because of any
change since the date of this Agreement in any applicable law or governmental rule,
regulation, order, guideline or request (whether or not having the force of law) or in the
interpretation or administration thereof and including the
introduction of any new law or governmental rule, regulation, order, guideline or
request, such as, for example, but not limited to: (A) a change in the basis of taxation of
payment to any Lender of the principal of or interest on such Eurodollar Loan or any other
amounts payable hereunder (except for changes in the rate of tax on, or determined by
reference to, the net income or profits of such Lender, or any corporation controlling such
Lender, or any franchise tax based on the net income or profits of such Lender, or any
corporation controlling such Lender, in either case pursuant to the laws of the United
States of America or the jurisdiction in which it is organized or in which its principal
office or applicable lending office is located or any subdivision thereof or therein), but
without duplication of any amounts payable in respect of Taxes pursuant to Section 4.04(a),
or (B) a change in official reserve requirements, but, in all events, excluding reserves
required under Regulation D to the extent included in the computation of the Eurodollar
Rate; or

     (iii) at any time, that the making or continuance of any Eurodollar Loan has been made
(x) unlawful by any law or governmental rule, regulation or order, (y) impossible by
compliance by any Lender in good faith with any governmental request (whether or not having
force of law) or (z) impracticable as a result of a contingency

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occurring after the date of
this Agreement which materially and adversely affects the interbank Eurodollar market;

then, and in any such event, such Lender (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of clause (i)
above) shall promptly give notice (by telephone confirmed in writing) to the Borrower and, except
in the case of clause (i) above, to the Administrative Agent of such determination (which notice
the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the other Lenders). Thereafter (x) in
the case of clause (i) above, Eurodollar Loans shall no longer be available until such time as the
Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to
such notice by the Administrative Agent no longer exist, and any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion given by the Borrower with respect to Eurodollar Loans which have not yet been incurred
(including by way of conversion) shall be deemed rescinded by the Borrower, (y) in the case of
clause (ii) above, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender, upon written demand therefor, such
additional amounts (in the form of an increased rate of, or a different method of calculating,
interest or otherwise as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as shall be required
to compensate such Lender for such increased costs or reductions in amounts received or receivable
hereunder (a written notice as to the additional amounts owed to such Lender, showing the basis for
the calculation thereof, submitted to the Borrower by such Lender in good faith shall, absent
manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on all the parties hereto) and (z) in the case
of clause (iii) above, the Borrower shall take one of the actions specified in Section 1.10(b) as
promptly as possible and, in any event, within the time period required by law. Each of the
Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees that if it gives notice to the Borrower of any of the
events described in clause (i) or (iii) above, it shall promptly notify the Borrower and, in the
case of any such Lender, the Administrative Agent, if such event ceases to exist. If any such
event described in clause (iii) above ceases to exist as to a Lender, the obligations of such
Lender to make Eurodollar Loans and to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Loans on the terms
and conditions contained herein shall be reinstated.

          (b) At any time that any Eurodollar Loan is affected by the circumstances described in Section
1.10(a)(ii) or (iii), the Borrower may (and in the case of a Eurodollar Loan affected by the
circumstances described in Section 1.10(a)(iii) shall) either (x) if the affected Eurodollar Loan
is then being made initially or pursuant to a conversion, cancel the respective Borrowing by giving
the Administrative Agent telephonic notice (confirmed in writing) on the same date that the
Borrower was notified by the affected Lender or the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section
1.10(a)(ii) or (iii) or (y) if the affected Eurodollar Loan is then outstanding, upon at least
three Business Days’ written notice to the Administrative Agent, require the affected Lender to
convert such Eurodollar Loan into a Base Rate Loan, provided that, if more than one Lender
is affected at any time, then all affected Lenders must be treated the same pursuant to this
Section 1.10(b).

          (c) If at any time after the date of this Agreement any Lender determines that the
introduction of or any change in any applicable law or governmental rule, regulation, order,
guideline, directive or request (whether or not having the force of law) concerning capital
adequacy, or any change in interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority,
central bank or comparable agency, will have the effect of increasing the amount of capital
required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender
based on the existence of such Lender’s Commitments hereunder or its obligations

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hereunder, then
the Borrower shall pay to such Lender, upon its written demand therefor, such additional amounts as
shall be required to compensate such Lender or such other corporation for the increased cost to
such Lender or such other corporation or the reduction in the rate of return to such Lender or such
other corporation as a result of such increase of capital. In determining such additional amounts,
each Lender will act reasonably and in good faith and will use averaging and attribution methods
which are reasonable, provided that such Lender’s reasonable good faith determination of
compensation owing under this Section 1.10(c) shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive
and binding on all the parties hereto. Each Lender, upon determining that any additional amounts
will be payable pursuant to this Section 1.10(c), will give prompt written notice thereof to the
Borrower, which notice shall show the basis for calculation of such additional amounts.

          1.11 Compensation. The Borrower shall compensate each Lender, upon its written
request (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such compensation), for all
reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, any loss, expense or
liability incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds required
by such Lender to fund its Eurodollar Loans but excluding any loss of anticipated profit) which
such Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender or the
Administrative Agent) a Borrowing of, or conversion from or into, Eurodollar Loans does not occur
on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion (whether or not
withdrawn by the Borrower or deemed withdrawn pursuant to Section 1.10(a) or (b)); (ii) if any
repayment (including any repayment made pursuant to Section 4.02 or as a result of an acceleration
of the Loans pursuant to Section 10) or conversion of any of its Eurodollar Loans occurs on a date
which is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto; (iii) if any prepayment of
any of its Eurodollar Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by
the Borrower; or (iv) as a consequence of (x) any other default by the Borrower to repay its Loans
when required by the terms of this Agreement or any Note held by such Lender or (y) any
election made pursuant to Section 1.10(b).

          1.12 Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that upon the occurrence of any
event giving rise to the operation of Section 1.10(a)(ii) or (iii), Section 1.10(c), Section 2.05
or Section 4.04 with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable
efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another lending
office for any Loans affected by such event, provided that such designation is made on such
terms that such Lender and its lending office suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage,
with the object of avoiding the consequence of the event giving rise to the operation of such
Section. Nothing in this Section 1.12 shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of the
Borrower or the right of any Lender provided in Sections 1.10, 2.05 and 4.04.

          1.13 Replacement of Lenders. (w) If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or
otherwise defaults in its obligations to make Loans or fund Unpaid Drawings, (x) if any Lender is
incurring or is reasonably expected to incur costs which are or would be material in amount and are
associated with a Gaming Authority’s investigation of whether or not such Lender is a Qualified
Person, (y) upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 1.10(a)(ii) or
(iii), Section 1.10(c), Section 2.05 or Section 4.04 with respect to any Lender which results in
such Lender charging to the Borrower increased costs materially greater than those being generally
charged by the other Lenders, or (z) as provided in Section 13.12(b) in

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the case of certain
refusals by a Lender to consent to certain proposed changes, waivers, discharges or terminations
with respect to this Agreement which have been approved by the Required Lenders, the Borrower shall
have the right to either replace such Lender (the “Replaced Lender”) with one or more other
Qualified Person or Persons, none of whom shall constitute a Defaulting Lender at the time of such
replacement (collectively, the “Replacement Lender”) reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent or, at the option of the Borrowers, to replace only (a) the Revolving Loan
Commitment (and outstandings pursuant thereto) of the Replaced Lender with an identical Revolving
Loan Commitment (and outstandings pursuant thereto) provided by the Replacement Lender, or (b) in
the case of a replacement as provided in Section 13.12(b) where the consent of the respective
Lender is required with respect to less than all Tranches of its Loans or Commitments, the
Commitments (and outstandings pursuant thereto) and/or outstanding Term Loans of such Lender in
respect of each Tranche where the consent of such Lender would otherwise be individually required,
with identical Commitments and/or Loans of the respective Tranche provided by the Replacement
Lender, provided that (i) at the time of any replacement pursuant to this Section 1.13, the
Replacement Lender shall enter into one or more Assignment and Assumption Agreements pursuant to
Section 13.04(b) (and with all fees payable pursuant to said Section 13.04(b) to be paid by the
Replacement Lender) pursuant to which the Replacement Lender shall acquire all of the Commitments
and outstanding Loans of, and in each case participations in Letters of Credit by, the Replaced
Lender and, in connection therewith, shall pay to (x) the Replaced Lender in respect thereof an
amount equal to the sum of (A) an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued interest on,
all outstanding Loans of the Replaced Lender, (B) an amount equal to all Unpaid Drawings that have
been funded by (and not
reimbursed to) such Replaced Lender, together with all then unpaid interest with respect
thereto at such time and (C) an amount equal to all accrued, but theretofore unpaid, Fees owing to
such Replaced Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 and (y) any Issuing Lender an amount equal to such
Replaced Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage of any Unpaid Drawing (which at such time remains an
Unpaid Drawing) to the extent such amount was not theretofore funded by such Replaced Lender and
(z) the Swingline Lender an amount equal to such Replaced Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage of any
Mandatory Borrowing to the extent such amount was not theretofore funded by such Replaced Lender;
and (ii) all Obligations of the Borrower owing to the Replaced Lender (other than those
specifically described in clause (i) above in respect of which the assignment purchase price has
been, or is concurrently being, paid) shall be paid in full to such Replaced Lender concurrently
with such replacement. Upon the execution of the respective Assignment and Assumption Agreements,
the payment of amounts referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above and, if so requested by the
Replacement Lender, delivery to the Replacement Lender of the appropriate Note or Notes executed by
the Borrower, (x) the Replacement Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the Replaced Lender
shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder, except with respect to indemnification provisions
under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 1.10, 1.11, 2.05, 4.04, 13.01 and
13.06), which shall survive as to such Replaced Lender.

          1.14 Incremental Loan Commitments. (a) So long as no Default or Event of Default
then exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower shall, in consultation with the Administrative
Agent, have the right to request on one or more occasions on and after the Initial Borrowing Date
and prior to the Incremental Commitment Termination Date that one or more Lenders (and/or one or
more other Persons which will become Lenders as provided below) provide Incremental Commitments
under any Tranche and, subject to the terms and conditions

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contained in this Agreement, make
Incremental Term Loans pursuant thereto or increase its Revolving Loan Commitment, as the case may
be, it being understood and agreed, however, that

     (i) no Lender shall be obligated to provide an Incremental Commitment as a result of
any such request by the Borrower, and until such time, if any, as such Lender has agreed in
its sole discretion to provide an Incremental Commitment and executed and delivered to the
Administrative Agent an Incremental Commitment Agreement as provided in clause (b) of this
Section 1.14, such Lender shall not be obligated to fund any Incremental Term Loans or
increase its Revolving Loan Commitment,

     (ii) any Lender (or, in the circumstances contemplated by clause (viii) below, any
other Person which will qualify as a Qualified Person) may so provide an Incremental
Commitment without the consent of any other Lender,

     (iii) each provision of Incremental Commitments pursuant to this Section 1.14 on a
given date shall be in a minimum aggregate amount (for all Lenders (including in the
circumstances contemplated by clause (viii) below, Qualified Persons who will become
Lenders)) of at least $10,000,000; provided that, the first provision of Incremental
Commitments pursuant to this Section 1.14 shall be in a minimum aggregate amount (for all
Lenders) of at least $50,000,000,

     (iv) the aggregate amount of all Incremental Commitments permitted to be provided
pursuant to this Section 1.14 shall not exceed $400,000,000,

     (v) the relevant Incremental Commitment Agreements shall specifically set forth the
Tranche of the Incremental Commitments being provided thereunder,

     (vi) each Lender agreeing to provide an Incremental Commitment under a Term Loan
Tranche, shall make Incremental Term Loans under the Term Loan Tranche specified in the
relevant Incremental Commitment Agreement pursuant to Section 1.01(e) and such Loans shall
thereafter be deemed to be Term Loans under the relevant Term Loan Tranche for all purposes
of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents,

     (vii) the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender agreeing to provide an Incremental
Commitment under the Revolving Loan Tranche shall be increased by the amount of such
Incremental Commitment specified in the relevant Incremental Commitment Agreement effective
on the date specified in such Incremental Commitment Agreement,

     (viii) if, within 10 Business Days after the Borrower has requested the then existing
Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) to provide Incremental Commitments pursuant to this
Section 1.14 the Borrower has not received Incremental Commitments in an aggregate amount
equal to that amount of Incremental Commitments which the Borrower desires to obtain
pursuant to such request (as set forth in the notice provided by the Borrower as provided
below), then the Borrower may, with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), request Incremental Commitments from Persons
which would qualify as Qualified Persons hereunder in an aggregate amount equal to such
deficiency (and with the fees to

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be paid to such Qualified Person to be no greater than that
to be paid to the then existing Lenders providing Incremental Commitments),

     (ix) no Incremental Term Loan may be incurred unless the Borrower will be in compliance
with the Sections 9.08 through 9.10, inclusive, on a Pro Forma Basis after
giving effect to the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loan and the application of the
proceeds thereof,

     (x) if Incremental Term Loans incurred pursuant to an Incremental Term Loan Commitment
are under a New Tranche, the Applicable Margin for such New Tranche of Incremental Term
Loans, the Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date for such New Tranche and the Scheduled
Repayments for such New Tranche and the other terms of such New Tranche shall be set forth
in the related Incremental Commitment Agreement and shall be satisfactory in all respects to
the Administrative Agent,

     (xi) all actions taken by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 1.14 shall be done in
coordination with the Administrative Agent,

     (xii) the Maturity Date for any Tranche of Incremental Term Loans shall not be prior to
the Initial Term Loan Maturity Date, and

     (xiii) the weighted average life to maturity of any Tranche of Incremental Term Loans
shall not be less than the weighted average life to maturity of the Initial Term Loans.

          (b) At the time of any provision of Incremental Commitments pursuant to this Section 1.14,

     (i) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each such Lender or other Qualified
Person (each an “Incremental Lender”) which agrees to provide an Incremental
Commitment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Incremental Commitment
Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit O (appropriately completed), with the
effectiveness of such Incremental Lender’s Incremental Commitment to occur on the date set
forth in such Incremental Commitment Agreement and the payment of any fees required in
connection therewith,

     (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall have delivered such amendments,
modifications and/or supplements to the Security Documents as are necessary or in the
reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to insure that the additional
Obligations to be incurred pursuant to the Incremental Commitments are secured by, and
entitled to the benefits of, the Security Documents,

     (iii) the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that the
additional Obligations to be incurred on such date pursuant to the Incremental Commitments
are permitted by, and constitute “Senior Debt” under, the Subordinated Notes Documents,

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     (iv) the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that the
additional Obligations to be incurred on such date pursuant to the Incremental Commitments
are permitted by the terms of the outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries including, without limitation, the Subordinated Notes Documents, and

     (v) the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an opinion or opinions, in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, from counsel to the
Borrower reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and dated such date, covering
such of the matters set forth in the opinions of counsel delivered to the Administrative
Agent on the Initial Borrowing Date pursuant to Section 5.03 as may be reasonably requested
by the Administrative Agent, and such other matters as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request.

The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each
Incremental Commitment Agreement, and (i) at such time Annex I shall be deemed modified to reflect
the Incremental Commitments of such Incremental Lenders under the relevant Tranche or Tranches and
(ii) to the extent requested by such Incremental Lenders, the appropriate Notes will be issued, at
the Borrower’s expense, to such Incremental Lenders, to be in conformity with the requirements of
Section 1.05 (with appropriate modifications) to the extent needed to reflect the
Incremental Term Loans made by such Incremental Lenders or the increased Revolving Loan Commitment
of such Incremental Lender, as the case may be.

          (c) In connection with each incurrence of Incremental Term Loans pursuant to Section 1.01(e),
if such Incremental Term Loans are specified pursuant to Section 1.01(e) as being part of an
existing Term Loan Tranche, the Lenders and the Borrower hereby agree that, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may
take all such actions as may be necessary to ensure that all Lenders with outstanding Term Loans
under the relevant Tranche continue to participate in each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans
under such Tranche (after giving effect to the incurrence of Incremental Term Loans pursuant to
Section 1.01(e) on a pro rata basis, including by adding the Incremental Term Loans
to be so incurred to the then outstanding Borrowings of Term Loans on a pro rata
basis even though as a result thereof such new Incremental Term Loan (to the extent required to be
maintained as Eurodollar Loans), may effectively have a shorter Interest Period than the then
outstanding Borrowings of Term Loans under such Tranche and it is hereby agreed that (x) to the
extent any then outstanding Borrowings of Term Loans that are maintained as Eurodollar Loans are
affected as a result thereof, any costs of the type described in Section 1.11 incurred by such
Lenders in connection therewith shall be for the account of the Borrower or (y) to the extent the
Incremental Term Loans to be so incurred are added to the then outstanding Borrowings of Term
Loans which are maintained as Eurodollar Loans, the Lenders that have made such additional
Incremental Term Loans shall be entitled to receive an effective interest rate on such additional
Incremental Term Loans as is equal to the Eurodollar Rate as in effect two Business Days prior to
the incurrence of such additional Incremental Term Loans plus the then Applicable Margin for such
Tranche of Term Loans until the end of the respective Interest Period or Interest Periods with
respect thereto.

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          (d) On the effective date of any increase in the Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to this
Section 1.14, the Borrower shall, in coordination with the Administrative Agent, repay outstanding
Revolving Loans of certain of the Lenders with a Revolving Loan Commitment, and incur additional
Revolving Loans from certain other Lenders with a Revolving Loan Commitment, in each case to the
extent necessary so that all of the Lenders participate in each outstanding Borrowing of Revolving
Loans pro rata on the basis of their respective Revolving Loan Commitments (after
giving effect to any increase in the Total Revolving Loan Commitment pursuant to this Section 1.14)
and with the Borrower being obligated to pay to the respective Lenders the costs of the type
referred to in Section 1.11 in connection with any such repayment and/or Borrowing.

          SECTION 2. Letters of Credit.

          2.01 Letters of Credit. (a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set
forth, the Borrower may request that any Issuing Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment issue, at
any time and from time to time on and after the Initial Borrowing Date and prior to the
30th day preceding the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, (x) for the account of the Borrower
and for the benefit of any
holder (or any trustee, agent or other similar representative for any such holders) of L/C
Supportable Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, an irrevocable sight standby
letter of credit in a form customarily used by such Issuing Lender or in such other form as has
been approved by such Issuing Lender (each such standby letter of credit, a “Standby Letter of
Credit”) in support of such L/C Supportable Obligations and (y) for the account of the
Borrower, an irrevocable sight trade letter of credit in a form customarily used by such Issuing
Lender or in such other form as has been approved by such Issuing Lender (each such trade letter of
credit, a “Trade Letter of Credit”, and each such Trade Letter of Credit and each Standby
Letter of Credit, a “Letter of Credit”) in support of customary commercial transactions of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. It is acknowledged and agreed that each of the letters of
credit which were issued under the Existing Credit Agreement and which remain outstanding on the
Initial Borrowing Date and are set forth on Schedule XII (each such letter of credit, an
“Existing Letter of Credit” and, collectively, the “Existing Letters of Credit”)
shall, from and after the Initial Borrowing Date, constitute a Letter of Credit for all purposes of
this Agreement and shall, for purposes of Sections 2.04 and 3.01, be deemed issued on the Initial
Borrowing Date. The Stated Amount of each Existing Letter of Credit and the expiry date therefor,
each as in effect on the Initial Borrowing Date, is set forth on Schedule XII.

          (b) Each Issuing Lender hereby agrees that it will, at any time and from time to time on or
after the Initial Borrowing Date and prior to the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, following its
receipt of the respective Letter of Credit Request, issue for the account of the Borrower one or
more Letters of Credit (x) in the case of Standby Letters of Credit, in support of such L/C
Supportable Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as are permitted to remain
outstanding without giving rise to a Default or Event of Default hereunder and (y) in the case of
Trade Letters of Credit, in support of buyers of goods as referenced in Section 2.01(a),
provided that the respective Issuing Lender shall be under no obligation to issue any
Letter of Credit of the types described above if at the time of such issuance:

     (i) any order, judgment or decree of any governmental authority or arbitrator shall
purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain such Issuing Lender from issuing such

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Letter of
Credit or any requirement of law applicable to such Issuing Lender or any request or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any governmental authority with
jurisdiction over such Issuing Lender shall prohibit, or request that such Issuing Lender
refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in
particular or shall impose upon such Issuing Lender with respect to such Letter of Credit
any restriction or reserve or capital requirement (for which such Issuing Lender is not
otherwise compensated) not in effect on the date hereof, or any unreimbursed loss, cost or
expense which was not applicable, in effect or known to such Issuing Lender as of the date
hereof and which such Issuing Lender in good faith deems material to it; or

     (ii) such Issuing Lender shall have received notice prior to the issuance of such
Letter of Credit of the type described in the second sentence of Section 2.02(b).

          (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no Letter of Credit shall be issued the Stated Amount
of which, when added to the Letter of Credit Outstandings (exclusive of Unpaid Drawings which are
repaid on the date of, and prior to the issuance of, the respective Letter of Credit) at such time
would exceed (x) $75,000,000 or (y) when added to the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Revolving Loans and all Swingline Loans then outstanding,
the Total Revolving Loan Commitment; (ii) each Letter of Credit shall be denominated in Dollars and
shall be issued only on a sight basis; and (iii) each Letter of Credit shall have an expiry date
occurring not later than the earlier of (x) 12 months (or 180 days in the case of Trade Letters of
Credit) after such Letter of Credit’s date of issuance, provided that the expiry date of any
Standby Letter of Credit may be automatically extendible for successive periods of up to 12 months
and (y) the 364th day after the Revolving Loan Maturity Date.

          2.02 Letter of Credit Requests. (a) Whenever the Borrower desires that a Letter of
Credit be issued for its account, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent and the
respective Issuing Lender at least three Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to
the respective Issuing Lender) written notice thereof. In the case of Letters of Credit to be
issued pursuant to Section 2.01, each notice shall be in the form of Exhibit C (each a “Letter
of Credit Request”).

          (b) The making of each Letter of Credit Request shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty by the Borrower that such Letter of Credit may be issued in accordance with, and will not
violate the requirements of, Section 2.01(c). Unless the respective Issuing Lender has received
notice from the Borrower or the Required Lenders before it issues a Letter of Credit that one or
more of the conditions specified in Section 5 or Section 6 are not then satisfied, or that the
issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate Section 2.01(c), then such Issuing Lender may issue
the requested Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower in accordance with such Issuing
Lender’s usual and customary practices. Upon its issuance of or amendment to any Standby Letter of
Credit, each Issuing Lender shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, in writing, of
such issuance or amendment and such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of such issuance or
amendment. Upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
participating Lender, in writing, of such issuance or amendment and if any Lender so requests, the
Administrative Agent shall provide copies of such issuance or amendment to the requesting Lender.

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          (c) In the event that the Issuing Lender of Trade Letters of Credit is other than the
Administrative Agent, such Issuing Lender will send by facsimile transmission to the Administrative
Agent, promptly on the first Business Day, of each week, its daily aggregate Letter of Credit
stated amount for Trade Letters of Credit for the previous week. The Administrative Agent shall
deliver to each other Participant, upon each calendar month end, and upon each Letter of Credit fee
payment, a report setting forth for such period the daily aggregate stated amount available to be
drawn under the Trade Letters of Credit issued by all the Issuing Lenders during such period.

          2.03 Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by any
Issuing Lender of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have sold and
transferred to each Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment, other than such Issuing Lender (each
such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 2.03, a “Participant”), and each such
Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from
such Issuing Lender, without recourse
or warranty, an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Participant’s
Revolving Loan Percentage in such Letter of Credit, each drawing made thereunder and the
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or
guaranty pertaining thereto (although the Letter of Credit Fee shall be payable directly to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Participants as provided in Section 3.01(b) and the
Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Facing Fees). Upon any change in the
respective Revolving Loan Commitments or Revolving Loan Percentages of the Lenders pursuant to
Section 1.13 or 13.04, it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all such outstanding Letters of
Credit and Unpaid Drawings, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant
to this Section 2.03 to reflect the new Revolving Loan Percentages of the assignor and assignee
Lender or of all Lenders with respective Revolving Loan Commitments.

          (b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall have
no obligation relative to the other Lenders other than to confirm that any documents required to be
delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered and that they appear to
substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action
taken or omitted to be taken by any Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit
if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a
court of competent jurisdiction, shall not create for such Issuing Lender any resulting liability
to the Borrower or any Lender.

          (c) In the event that any Issuing Lender makes any payment under any Letter of Credit and the
Borrower shall not have reimbursed such amount in full to such Issuing Lender pursuant to Section
2.04(a), such Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, which shall promptly
notify each Participant of such failure, and each Participant shall promptly and unconditionally
pay to such Issuing Lender the amount of such Participant’s Revolving Loan Percentage of such
unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in same day funds. If the Administrative Agent so notifies,
prior to 11:00 A.M. (New York time) on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment
under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to such Issuing Lender in Dollars
such Participant’s Revolving Loan Percentage of the amount of such payment on such Business Day in
same day funds. If and to the extent such Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Loan
Percentage of the amount of such payment

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available to such Issuing Lender, such Participant agrees
to pay to such Issuing Lender, forthwith on demand such amount, together with interest thereon, for
each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to such Issuing Lender at the overnight
Federal Funds Rate. The failure of any Participant to make available to such Issuing Lender its
Revolving Loan Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other
Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to such Issuing Lender its Revolving Loan
Percentage of any Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no Participant
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Participant to make available to such Issuing
Lender such other Participant’s Revolving Loan Percentage of any such payment.

          (d) Whenever any Issuing Lender receives a payment of a reimbursement obligation as to which
it has received any payments from the Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing
Lender shall pay to each Participant which has paid its Revolving Loan Percentage thereof, in
Dollars and in same day funds, an amount equal to such Participant’s share (based upon the
proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such Participant to
the aggregate amount funded by all Participants) of the principal amount of such reimbursement
obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective participations.

          (e) The obligations of the Participants to make payments to each Issuing Lender with respect
to Letters of Credit issued by it shall be irrevocable and not subject to any qualification or
exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including, without limitation, any of the following
circumstances:

     (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit
Documents;

     (ii) the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right which the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of
Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee
may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender, any Participant, or any other
Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions
contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction
between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);

     (iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit
proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement
therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;

     (iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of
any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or

     (v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default.

          2.04 Agreement to Repay Letter of Credit Drawings. (a) The Borrower hereby agrees to
reimburse the respective Issuing Lender, by making payment to the Administrative Agent in
immediately available funds at the Payment Office, for any payment or disbursement

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made by it under
any Letter of Credit (each such amount, so paid until reimbursed, an “Unpaid Drawing”), no
later than three Business Days after the date on which the Issuing Lender gives notice to the
Borrower of such payment or disbursement, with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such
Issuing Lender, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 12:00 Noon (New York time) on the date of
such payment or disbursement, from and including the date paid or disbursed to but excluding the
date such Issuing Lender was reimbursed by the Borrower therefor at a rate per annum which shall be
the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans maintained
as Base Rate Loans; provided, however, to the extent such amounts are not
reimbursed prior to 12:00 Noon (New York time) on the Business Day following notice of such payment
or disbursement, interest shall thereafter accrue on the amounts so paid or disbursed by such
Issuing Lender (and until reimbursed by the Borrower) at a rate per annum which shall be the Base
Rate in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans maintained as Base
Rate Loans plus 2%, in each such case, with interest to be payable on
demand. The respective Issuing Lender shall give the Borrower prompt notice of each Drawing
under any Letter of Credit, provided that the failure to give any such notice shall in no
way affect, impair or diminish the Borrower’s obligations hereunder.

          (b) The obligations of the Borrower under this Section 2.04 to reimburse the respective
Issuing Lender with respect to drawings on Letters of Credit (each, a “Drawing”)
(including, in each case, interest thereon) shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all
circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment which the Borrower
may have or have had against any Lender (including in its capacity as the issuer of the Letter of
Credit or as Participant), or any nonapplication or misapplication by the beneficiary of the
proceeds of such Drawing, the respective Issuing Lender’s only obligation to the Borrower being to
confirm that any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been
delivered and that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of
Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by any Issuing Lender under or in connection with
any Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct
as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall not create for such Issuing Lender any
resulting liability to the Borrower.

          2.05 Increased Costs. If at any time after the date of this Agreement, the
introduction of or any change in any applicable law, rule, regulation, order, guideline or request
or in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Issuing Lender or any Participant,
or any corporation controlling such Person, with any request or directive issued after the date of
this Agreement by any such authority (whether or not having the force of law), shall either (i)
impose, modify or make applicable any reserve, deposit, capital adequacy or similar requirement
against letters of credit issued by any Issuing Lender or participated in by any Participant, or
(ii) impose on any Issuing Lender or any Participant, or any corporation controlling such Person,
any other conditions relating, directly or indirectly, to this Agreement or any Letter of Credit;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to any Issuing Lender or any
Participant of issuing, maintaining or participating in any Letter of Credit, or reduce the amount
of any sum received or receivable by any Issuing Lender or any Participant hereunder or reduce the
rate of return on its capital with respect to Letters of Credit (except for changes in the rate of
tax on, or determined by reference to, the net income or profits of such Issuing Lender or such
Participant, or any corporation controlling such Person, or any franchise tax based on the net

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income or profits of such Lender or Participant, or any corporation controlling such Person, in
either case pursuant to the laws of the United States of America, the jurisdiction in which it is
organized or in which its principal office or applicable lending office is located or any
subdivision thereof or therein), but without duplication of any amounts payable in respect of taxes
pursuant to Section 4.04(a), then, upon demand to the Borrower by such Issuing Lender or any
Participant (a copy of which demand shall be sent by such Issuing Lender or such Participant to the
Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to such Issuing Lender or such Participant such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction in
the amount receivable or reduction on the rate of return on its capital. Any Issuing Lender or any
Participant, upon determining that any additional amounts will be payable pursuant to this Section
2.05, will give prompt written notice thereof to the Borrower, which notice
shall include a certificate submitted to the Borrower by such Issuing Lender or such
Participant (a copy of which certificate shall be sent by such Issuing Lender or such Participant
to the Administrative Agent), setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for the calculation of
such additional amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Issuing Lender or such Participant.
The certificate required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall, if delivered in good
faith and absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower.

          SECTION 3. Commitment Commission; Fees; Reductions of Commitment.

          3.01 Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay the Administrative Agent for distribution
to each Non-Defaulting Lender in the case of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment, a commitment
commission (the “Commitment Commission”) for the period from the Initial Borrowing Date to
and including the Revolving Loan Maturity Date (or such earlier date as the Total Revolving Loan
Commitment shall have been terminated), computed at a rate for each day equal to the Applicable
Commitment Commission Percentage per annum on the daily average Unutilized Revolving Loan
Commitment of such Non-Defaulting Lender. Accrued Commitment Commission shall be due and payable
quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and on the Revolving Loan Maturity Date or such
earlier date upon which the Total Revolving Loan Commitment is terminated.

          (b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for distribution to each
Non-Defaulting Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment (based on their respective Revolving Loan
Percentages), a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued hereunder (the “Letter of Credit
Fee”), for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, to and
including the termination of such Letter of Credit computed at a rate per annum equal to the
Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans maintained as Eurodollar Loans as in effect from time to time
on the daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit. Accrued Letter of Credit Fees shall be due
and payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and upon the first day on or after
the termination of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment upon which no Letters of Credit remain
outstanding.

          (c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the respective Issuing Lender, for its own account, a facing
fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued for its account hereunder (the “Facing Fee”)
for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to and including
the termination of such Letter of Credit, computed at a rate equal to 1/5 of 1% per annum of the
daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit, provided that in no event shall the

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annual
Facing Fee in respect of any Letter of Credit be less than $500. Accrued Facing Fees shall be due
and payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and upon the first day on or after
the termination of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment upon which no Letters of Credit remain
outstanding.

          (d) The Borrower shall pay, upon each payment under, issuance of, or amendment to, any Letter
of Credit, such amount as shall at the time of such event be the
administrative charge which the respective Issuing Lender is generally imposing in connection
with such occurrence with respect to letters of credit.

          (e) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, such other fees
as have been agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

          3.02 Voluntary Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Upon at least two
Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice confirmed in writing) to the
Administrative Agent at its Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly
transmit to each of the Lenders), the Borrower shall have the right, at any time or from time to
time, without premium or penalty, to terminate or partially reduce the Total Unutilized Revolving
Loan Commitment, in whole or in part, provided that (x) each such reduction shall apply
proportionately to permanently reduce the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender with such a
Commitment, (y) any partial reduction pursuant to this Section 3.02 shall be in integral multiples
of $1,000,000 and (z) the reduction to the Total Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment shall in no
case be in an amount which would cause the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Lender to be reduced
(as required by the preceding clause (x)) by an amount which exceeds the remainder of (x) the
Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender as in effect immediately before giving effect
to such reduction minus (y) such Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage of the aggregate principal
amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.

          (b) In the event of certain refusals by a Lender as provided in Section 13.12(b) to consent to
certain proposed changes, waivers, discharges or terminations with respect to this Agreement which
have been approved by the Required Lenders, the Borrower may, subject to the requirements of said
Section 13.12(b) and upon five Business Days’ written notice to the Administrative Agent at its
Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the
Lenders), terminate all of the Revolving Loan Commitment and/or the Incremental Term Loan
Commitments, as applicable, of such Lender so long as all Loans, together with accrued and unpaid
interest, fees and all other amounts, owing to such Lender (other than amounts owing in respect of
any Tranche of Loans maintained by such Lender, if such Loans are not being repaid pursuant to
Section 13.12(b)) are repaid concurrently with the effectiveness of such termination (at which time
Schedule I shall be deemed modified to reflect such changed amounts), and at such time, unless the
respective Lender continues to have outstanding Loans hereunder, such Lender shall no longer
constitute a “Lender” for purposes of this Agreement, except with respect to indemnification
provisions under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 1.10, 1.11, 2.05, 4.04,
13.01 and 13.06), which shall survive as to such repaid Lender.

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          3.03 Mandatory Reduction of Commitments. (a) In addition to any other mandatory
commitment reductions pursuant to this Section 3.03, the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment (and
the Initial Term Loan Commitment of each Lender) shall (i) terminate in its entirety on the Initial
Borrowing Date (after giving effect to the incurrence of Term Loans on such date) and (ii) prior to
the termination of the Total
Initial Term Loan Commitment as provided in clause (i) above, be reduced from time to time to
the extent required by Section 4.02.

          (b) In addition to any other mandatory commitment reductions pursuant to this Section 3.03,
the Total Revolving Loan Commitment (and the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender) shall
terminate in its entirety on the Revolving Loan Maturity Date.

          (c) In addition to any other mandatory commitment reductions pursuant to this Section 3.03,
the Incremental Term Loan Commitment of each Lender provided pursuant to a particular Incremental
Commitment Agreement shall terminate in its entirety on the respective Incremental Term Loan
Borrowing Date specified in such Incremental Commitment Agreement (after giving effect to the
incurrence of the Incremental Term Loans on each such date).

          (d) In addition to any other mandatory commitment reductions pursuant to this Section 3.03,
each of the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment and the Total Revolving Loan Commitment (and the
Commitment of each Lender under each such Tranche) shall terminate in its entirety on December 1,
2005 unless the Initial Borrowing Date has occurred on or prior to such date.

          (e) In addition to any other mandatory commitment reductions pursuant to this Section 3.03, on
each date after the Initial Borrowing Date upon which a mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant
to Sections 4.02(d), (e) or (f) is required (and exceeds in amount the aggregate principal amount
of Term Loans then outstanding) or would be required if Term Loans were then outstanding, the Total
Revolving Loan Commitment shall be permanently reduced by the amount, if any, by which the amount
required to be applied pursuant to said Section (determined as if an unlimited amount of Term Loans
were actually outstanding) exceeds the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans then outstanding.

          (f) The Total Revolving Loan Commitment shall be reduced, and the Revolving Loan Commitment of
the respective Former Lender shall be terminated, in the amount and at the times provided in
Section 13.04(d).

          (g) Each reduction to a Commitment under a Tranche pursuant to this Section 3.03 (or pursuant
to Section 4.02) shall be applied proportionately to reduce the Commitment under such Tranche of
each Lender with such a Commitment.

          SECTION 4. Prepayments; Payments; Taxes.

          4.01 Voluntary Prepayments. (a) The Borrower shall have the right to prepay the
Loans, without premium or penalty, in whole or in part at any time and from time to time on the
following terms and conditions: (i) the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent prior to
11:00 A.M. (New York time) at its Notice Office (x) at least one Business Day’s prior written
notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of its intent to prepay Base Rate Loans
(or, in the case of Swingline Loans prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York time) on the date of

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such prepayment) and (y) at
least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in
writing) of its intent to prepay Eurodollar Loans, the Tranche of Loans to be prepaid, the amount
of such prepayment and the Types of Loans to be prepaid and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the
specific Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to which made, which notice the Administrative Agent
shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders; (ii) each prepayment shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of at least $5,000,000 and, if greater, in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 (or
in the case of Swingline Loans, $10,000 and, if greater, in an integral multiple thereof),
provided that if any partial prepayment of Eurodollar Loans made pursuant to any Borrowing
shall reduce the outstanding Eurodollar Loans made pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less
than the Minimum Borrowing Amount for such Tranche, then such Borrowing shall be converted at the
end of the then current Interest Period into a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; (iii) prepayments of
Eurodollar Loans made pursuant to this Section 4.01 made on any day other than the last day of an
Interest Period applicable thereto shall be subject to the provisions of Section 1.11; (iv) each
prepayment in respect of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall, except as provided in clause
(v) below, be applied pro rata among the Lenders which made such Loans; (v) at the
Borrower’s election in connection with any prepayment of Revolving Loans, such prepayment shall not
be applied to the Revolving Loans of a Defaulting Lender; (vi) each voluntary prepayment of Term
Loans made pursuant to this Section 4.01 shall be applied to each Tranche of Term Loans on a
pro rata basis and (vii) each voluntary prepayment of Term Loans of a Tranche shall
be applied to reduce the then remaining Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche of Term
Loans, pro rata based upon the then remaining amount of such Scheduled Repayments
after giving effect to all prior reductions thereto. After giving effect to the allocation amongst
Tranches required by the immediately preceding sentence, each amount required to be applied to Term
Loans of a given Tranche shall be applied (i) first, to reduce in direct order of maturity those
Scheduled Repayments which will be due and payable within 24 months after the date the respective
prepayment is made and (ii) second, to the extent the amount to be applied to Term Loans of a given
Tranche exceeds the amount to be applied pursuant to preceding clause (i), to reduce the then
remaining Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche pro rata based upon the
then remaining amounts of the Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche after giving effect to
all prior reductions and/or increases thereto.

          (b) In the event of certain refusals by a Lender as provided in Section 13.12(b) to consent to
certain proposed changes, waivers, discharges or terminations with respect to this Agreement which
have been approved by the Required Lenders, the Borrower may, upon five Business Days’ written
notice to the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent
shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders) repay all Loans, together with accrued and unpaid
interest, Fees, and other amounts (including any amounts payable under Section 1.11) owing to such
Lender (or, at the option of the Borrower, owing to such Lender with respect to each Tranche which
gave rise to the need to obtain such Lender’s individual consent) in accordance with said Section
13.12(b) so long as (A) in the case of the repayment of Revolving Loans of any Lender pursuant to
this Section 4.01(b), the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender is terminated concurrently with
such repayment pursuant to Section 3.02(b) (at which time Schedule I shall be deemed modified to
reflect the changed Revolving Loan Commitments) and (B) the consents required by Section 13.12(b)
in connection with the repayment pursuant to this Section 4.01(b) have been obtained. Any
repayment of any Tranche of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 4.01(b) shall only apply to reduce
the then remaining

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Scheduled Repayments of such Tranche to the extent the Term Loans so repaid are
not replaced
pursuant to Section 13.12(b), and with any such reductions to reduce the then remaining
Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche pro rata based upon the then
remaining principal amounts of the Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche after giving
effect to all prior reductions thereto unless otherwise specifically agreed to by the Required
Lenders.

          4.02 Mandatory Repayments and Commitment Reductions. (a) On any day on which the sum
of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and the
Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds the Total Revolving Loan Commitment as then in effect, the
Borrower shall prepay on such date the principal of Swingline Loans and after the Swingline Loans
have been repaid in full, the principal of Revolving Loans in an amount equal to such excess. If,
after giving effect to the prepayment of all outstanding Swingline Loans and all outstanding
Revolving Loans, the aggregate amount of the Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds the Total
Revolving Loan Commitment as then in effect, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent at
the Payment Office on such date an amount of cash or Cash Equivalents equal to the amount of such
excess (up to a maximum amount equal to the Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time), such cash
or Cash Equivalents to be held as security for all obligations of the Borrower under Section
2.04(a) in a cash collateral account to be established by the Administrative Agent. So long as no
Default or Event of Default is then continuing, such cash or Cash Equivalents shall be released to
the Borrower when such obligations under Section 2.04(a) are satisfied or as may be necessary to
insure that the amount of such cash or Cash Equivalents do not exceed the Letter of Credit
Outstandings.

          (b) In addition to any other mandatory repayments or commitment reductions pursuant to this
Section 4.02, on each date set forth below the Borrower shall be required to repay Initial Term
Loans, to the extent then outstanding, in an amount equal to that percentage set forth opposite
such date multiplied by the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term Loans (the “Initial
Term Loan Reference Amount”) outstanding on the Initial Borrowing Date (each such repayment, as
the same may be reduced as provided in Sections 4.01 and 4.02(g) or increased pursuant to the
proviso to this clause (b), an “Initial Term Loan Scheduled Repayment”):

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Percentage of Initial
	 	 	Term Loan
	Scheduled Repayment Date	 	Reference Amount
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2006
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2006
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2006
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2006
	 	 	0.25	%

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	 	 	Percentage of Initial
	 	 	Term Loan
	Scheduled Repayment Date	 	Reference Amount
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2007
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2007
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2007
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2007
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2008
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2008
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2008
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2008
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2009
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2009
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2009
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2009
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2010
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2010
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2010
	 	 	0.25	%

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	 	 	Percentage of Initial
	 	 	Term Loan
	Scheduled Repayment Date	 	Reference Amount
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2010
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2011
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2011
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in September, 2011
	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in December, 2011
	 	 	23.56	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in March, 2012
	 	 	23.56	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Quarterly Payment Date
in June, 2012
	 	 	23.56	%
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Initial Term Maturity Date
	 	 	23.57	%

; provided that (x) Initial Term Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to
the Initial Term Loans shall be paid in full no later than Initial Term Maturity Date, and the
final installment payable by the Borrower in respect of the Initial Term Loans on such date shall
be in an amount, if such amount is different from that specified above, sufficient to repay all
amounts owing by the Borrower under this Agreement with respect to the Initial Term Loans and (y)
if the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term Loans is increased pursuant to Section 1.14,
then each scheduled principal repayment to be made after such increase becomes effective shall be
increased by an amount equal to (a) the aggregate principal amount of the increase in the Initial
Term Loans pursuant to Section 1.14 multiplied by (b) an amount equal to (x) such
scheduled repayment amount divided by (y) the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Initial Term Loans, in each case, immediately prior to giving effect to the increase
in the Initial Term Loans made pursuant to Section 1.14.

          (c) In addition to any other mandatory repayments or commitment reductions pursuant to this
Section 4.02, the Borrower shall be required to make, with respect to each New Tranche of
Incremental Term Loans, to the extent then outstanding, scheduled amortized repayments of
Incremental Term Loans on the dates and in the principal amounts set forth in the respective
Incremental Commitment Agreement (each such repayment, as the same may be
reduced as provided in Sections 4.01 and 4.02, an “Incremental Term Loan Scheduled
Repayment”, and together with each Initial Term Loan Scheduled Repayment, the “Scheduled
Repayments”); provided that, if any Incremental Term Loans are incurred which will be
added to

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(and form part of) an existing New Tranche of Incremental Term Loans, then each Scheduled
Repayment of such New Tranche to be made after such increase becomes effective shall be increased
by an amount equal to (a) the aggregate principal amount of the increase in the Incremental Term
Loans of such New Tranche pursuant to Section 1.14 multiplied by (b) an amount
equal to (x) such Scheduled Repayment divided by (y) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans of such New Tranche, in each case, immediately prior
to giving effect to the increase in Incremental Term Loans of such New Tranche pursuant to Section
1.14.

          (d) In addition to any other mandatory repayments or commitment reductions pursuant to this
Section 4.02, by no later than the Business Day immediately following each date after the Effective
Date upon which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries receives any proceeds from any incurrence
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than (i)
Indebtedness for borrowed money permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 9.04), an amount equal
to 100% of the cash proceeds of the respective incurrence of Indebtedness (net of all reasonable
costs associated therewith, including, without limitation, all due diligence costs and expenses
paid for, or reimbursed by, the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, any underwriting, agency,
structuring or similar fees, discounts and commissions, attorneys’ fees and expenses paid for, or
reimbursed by, the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, all financing and/or commitment fees
and other costs associated therewith) shall be applied as a mandatory repayment of principal of
outstanding Term Loans (or, if the Initial Borrowing Date has not yet occurred, such amounts shall
be applied as a mandatory reduction to the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment and, to the extent in
excess thereof, or in excess of the outstanding Term Loans, as a mandatory repayment of principal
of outstanding Revolving Loans) in accordance with the requirements of Sections 4.02(g) and (h).

          (e) In addition to any other mandatory repayments or commitment reductions pursuant to this
Section 4.02, by no later than the Business Day following each date after the Effective Date upon
which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries receives proceeds from any Asset Sale, an amount
equal to 100% of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds therefrom shall be applied as a mandatory repayment of
principal of outstanding Term Loans (or, if the Initial Borrowing Date has not yet occurred, such
amounts shall be applied as a mandatory reduction to the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment and, to
the extent in excess thereof, or in excess of the outstanding Term Loans, as a mandatory repayment
of principal of outstanding Revolving Loans) in accordance with the requirements of Sections
4.02(g) and (h), provided that the Net Asset Sale Proceeds from Asset Sales shall not be
required to be used to so repay Term Loans to the extent the Borrower elects, as hereinafter
provided, to cause such Net Asset Sale Proceeds to be reinvested in Reinvestment Assets (a
“Reinvestment Election”). The Borrower may exercise its Reinvestment Election (within the
parameters specified in the preceding sentence) with respect to an Asset Sale if the Borrower
delivers a Reinvestment Notice to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days following the
date of the consummation of the respective Asset Sale, with such Reinvestment Election being
effective with respect to the Net Asset Sale Proceeds of such Asset Sale equal to the Anticipated
Reinvestment Amount specified in such Reinvestment Notice and, provided, that (i) if a
Default or Event of Default exists, pending such
reinvestment (or an exercise of remedies by the Administrative Agent), such Net Asset Sale
Proceeds should be deposited in a deposit account subject to the control of the Collateral Agent as
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applied to the repayment of Term Loans due to a Reinvestment Election are not so used within 365
days after the date of receipt of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds (or 450 days to the extent that,
upon expiration of such 365 day period, such proceeds are committed (pursuant to binding
commitments with third parties) to be used to complete such replacement or restoration), then such
remaining portion not used shall be applied on the date which is 365 days (or 450 days) following
the date of receipt of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds as a mandatory repayment of principal of
outstanding Term Loans (and, to the extent in excess thereof, as a mandatory reduction to the Total
Revolving Loan Commitment) in accordance with the requirements of Sections 4.02(g) and (h). At the
time of the acquisition of any Reinvestment Assets, the Borrower shall comply and shall cause its
Subsidiaries to comply with Section 8.11, to the extent applicable.

          (f) In addition to any other mandatory repayments or commitment reductions pursuant to this
Section 4.02, within five Business Days following each date on or after the Effective Date upon
which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries receives any cash proceeds from any Recovery Event
(other than an Excluded Recovery Event), an amount equal to 100% of the Net Insurance Proceeds from
such Recovery Event shall be applied as a mandatory repayment of principal of outstanding Term
Loans (or, if the Initial Borrowing Date has not yet occurred, such amounts shall be applied as a
mandatory reduction to the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment and, to the extent in excess thereof,
or in excess of the outstanding Term Loans, as a mandatory repayment of principal of outstanding
Revolving Loans); provided, however, that Net Insurance Proceeds shall not be
required to be used to so repay Term Loans to the extent the Borrower makes a Reinvestment
Election. The Borrower may exercise its Reinvestment Election with respect to a Recovery Event if
the Borrower delivers a Reinvestment Notice to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days
following the date of receipt of Net Insurance Proceeds from such Recovery Event, with such
Reinvestment Election being effective with respect to the Net Insurance Proceeds of such Recovery
Event equal to the Anticipated Reinvestment Amount specified in such Reinvestment Notice, and
provided, further, that (i) if a Default or Event of Default exists, pending such
reinvestment (or an exercise of remedies by the Administrative Agent), such Net Insurance Proceeds
should be deposited in a deposit account subject to the control of the Collateral Agent as security
for the Obligations and (ii) if all or any portion of the Net Insurance Proceeds from a Recovery
Event not applied to the repayment of Term Loans due to a Reinvestment Election are not so used
within 365 days after the date of receipt of such Net Insurance Proceeds (or 720 days to the extent
that, upon expiration of such 365 day period, such proceeds are committed (pursuant to binding
commitments with third parties) to be used to complete such replacement or restoration), then such
remaining portion not used shall be applied on the date which is 365 days (or 720 days) following
the date of receipt of such Net Insurance Proceeds as a mandatory repayment of principal of
outstanding Term Loans (and, to the extent in excess thereof, as a mandatory reduction to the Total
Revolving Loan Commitment) in accordance with the requirements of Sections 4.02(g) and (h). At the
time of the acquisition of any Reinvestment Assets, the Borrower shall comply and shall cause its
Subsidiaries to comply with Section 8.11, to the extent applicable.

          (g) Each amount required to be applied to repay Term Loans (or to reduce the Total Initial
Term Loan Commitment) pursuant to Sections 4.02(d), (e) and (f) shall be applied to each Tranche of
Term Loans on a pro rata basis (based upon the then outstanding principal amount of
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After giving
effect to the allocation amongst Tranches required by the immediately preceding sentence, each
amount required to be applied to Term Loans of a given Tranche shall be applied (i) first, to
reduce in direct order of maturity those Scheduled Repayments which will be due and payable within
24 months after the date the respective prepayment is made pursuant to said Sections 4.02(d), (e)
and/or (f) and (ii) second, to the extent the amount to be applied to Term Loans of a given Tranche
exceeds the amount to be applied pursuant to preceding clause (i), to reduce the then remaining
Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche pro rata based upon the then
remaining amounts of the Scheduled Repayments of the respective Tranche after giving effect to all
prior reductions and/or increases thereto.

          (h) Each amount required to be applied to repay Loans pursuant to Sections 4.02(d), (e) and
(f) shall be applied (x) first, to the prepayment of outstanding principal of Term Loans
and (y) second, after the principal of all outstanding Term Loans shall have been repaid,
to the repayment of outstanding principal of Revolving Loans. With respect to each repayment of
Loans required by this Section 4.02, the Borrower may designate the Types of Loans of the
respective Tranche which are to be repaid and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the specific
Borrowing or Borrowings of the respective Tranche pursuant to which made, provided that:
(i) repayments of Eurodollar Loans pursuant to this Section 4.02 may only be made on the last day
of an Interest Period applicable thereto unless all Eurodollar Loans of the respective Tranche with
Interest Periods ending on such date of required repayment and all Base Rate Loans of the
respective Tranche have been paid in full; (ii) if any repayment of Eurodollar Loans made pursuant
to a single Borrowing under a Tranche shall reduce the outstanding Eurodollar Loans made pursuant
to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount for such Tranche, such
Borrowing shall be converted at the end of the then current Interest Period into a Borrowing of
Base Rate Loans; and (iii) each repayment of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be
applied pro rata among the Lenders which made such Loans. In the absence of a
designation by the Borrower as described in the preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent shall,
subject to the above, make such designation in its sole discretion with a view, but no obligation,
to minimize breakage costs owing under Section 1.11. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Section 4.02, no mandatory repayment or commitment reduction shall be required
pursuant to Section 4.02(e) or (f) until the date on which the aggregate amount of all Net Asset
Sale Proceeds and Net Insurance Proceeds required to be applied as mandatory repayments and/or
commitment reductions in the absence of the last sentence of this Section 4.02(h) equals or exceeds
$2,500,000.

          (i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 4.01, this Section 4.02 or
elsewhere in this Agreement, the Borrower shall have the option, in its sole discretion, to give
the Lenders with outstanding Term Loans of any Tranche the option to waive a mandatory repayment of
such Term Loans pursuant to Sections 4.02(d), (e) and/or (f) (each such prepayment or repayment, a
“Waivable Repayment”). If the Borrower elects to exercise the option referred to in the
preceding sentence, the Borrower shall give to the Administrative Agent written notice of its
intention to give the Lenders of the selected Tranche or Tranches the right to waive a Waivable
Repayment at least five Business Days prior to such repayment, which notice
the Administrative Agent shall promptly forward to all Lenders of the selected Tranche or
Tranches (indicating in such notice the amount of such repayment to be applied to each such
Lender’s outstanding Term Loans). Any offer by the Borrower to permit such Lenders to waive any
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offer
to waive part of such repayment must be made ratably to such Lenders on the basis of their
outstanding Term Loans of the selected Tranche or Tranches; provided, further, that
no Lender may waive any mandatory repayment if the effect of such Waiver would be to reduce the
Total Revolving Loan Commitment to less than $100,000,000. In the event any such Lender desires to
waive such Lender’s right to receive any such Waivable Repayment in whole or in part, such Lender
shall so advise the Administrative Agent no later than the close of business two Business Days
after the date of such notice from the Administrative Agent, which notice shall also include the
amount such Lender desires to receive in respect of such repayment. If any Lender does not reply
to the Administrative Agent within the aforementioned two Business Day period, such Lender will be
deemed not to have waived any part of such repayment. If any Lender does not specify an amount
such Lender wishes to receive, it will be deemed to have waived 100% of the amount of its share of
such payment. In the event that any such Lender waives all or part of such right to receive any
such Waivable Repayment, the amount so waived shall be applied to the reduction of the Total
Revolving Loan Commitment.

          (j) If any Letter of Credit is outstanding on the 30th day prior to the Revolving Loan
Maturity Date which has an expiry date later than the Revolving Loan Maturity Date (or which,
pursuant to its terms, may be extended to a date later than the Revolving Loan Maturity Date), the
Borrower shall, on such 30th day, either (x) pay to the Administrative Agent at the Payment Office
an amount of cash equal to 105% of the aggregate Stated Amount of all such Letters of Credit to be
held as security for all obligations of the Borrower to the Issuing Lenders in respect of such
Letters of Credit in a cash collateral account to be established by, and under the sole dominion
and control of, the Administrative Agent or (y) deliver to the Administrative Agent a standby
letter of credit (other than a Letter of Credit) in favor of the Administrative Agent and in a
stated amount equal to 105% of the aggregate Stated Amount of all such Letters of Credit, which
standby letter of credit shall be in form and substance, and issued by a financially sound
financial institution, reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

          4.03 Method and Place of Payment. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein,
all payments under this Agreement or any Note shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lender or Lenders entitled thereto not later than 12:00 Noon (New York time) (or
1:00 p.m. (New York time) in the case of Swingline Loans) on the date when due and shall be made in
Dollars in immediately available funds at the Payment Office of the Administrative Agent. Whenever
any payment to be made hereunder or under any Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is not
a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and,
with respect to payments of principal, interest shall be payable at the applicable rate during such
extension.

          4.04 Net Payments. (a) All payments made by the Borrower hereunder or under any Note will be made without
set-off, counterclaim or other defense. Except as provided in Section 4.04(b), all such payments
will be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for, any present or future
taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees, assessments or other charges of whatever nature now or
hereafter imposed by any jurisdiction or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof
or therein with respect to such payments (but excluding, except as provided in the second
succeeding sentence, any tax imposed on or measured by the net income or net profits of a Lender,
or any franchise tax based on the net income or net profits of a Lender, in either case pursuant to
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which the principal office or
applicable lending office of such Lender is located or any subdivision thereof or therein) and all
interest, penalties or similar liabilities with respect to such non-excluded taxes, levies,
imposts, duties, fees, assessments or other charges (all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts,
duties, fees, assessments or other charges being referred to collectively as “Taxes”).
Except as provided in Section 4.04(b), if any Taxes are so levied or imposed, the Borrower agrees
to pay the full amount of such Taxes, and such additional amounts as may be necessary so that every
payment of all amounts due under this Agreement or under any Note, after withholding or deduction
for or on account of any Taxes, will not be less than the amount provided for herein or in such
Note. If any amounts are payable in respect of Taxes pursuant to the preceding sentence of this
Section 4.04(a), then the Borrower agrees to reimburse each Lender, upon the written request of
such Lender, for taxes imposed on or measured by the net income or net profits of such Lender, or
any franchise tax based on the net income or net profits of such Lender, in either case pursuant to
the laws of the jurisdiction in which such Lender is organized or in which the principal office or
applicable lending office of such Lender is located or under the laws of any political subdivision
or taxing authority of any such jurisdiction in which such Lender is organized or in which the
principal office or applicable lending office of such Lender is located and for any withholding of
income or similar taxes as such Lender shall determine are payable by, or withheld from, such
Lender in respect of such amounts so paid to or on behalf of such Lender pursuant to the preceding
sentence and in respect of any amounts paid to or on behalf of such Lender pursuant to this
sentence. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent within 45 days after the date the
payment of any Taxes is due pursuant to applicable law certified copies of tax receipts evidencing
such payment by the Borrower. The Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Lender, and
reimburse such Lender upon its written request, for the amount of any Taxes that arise from the
failure of the Borrower to pay any Taxes when due to the appropriate Tax authority and that become
payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure.

          (b) Each Lender that is not a United States person (as such term is defined in Section
7701(a)(30) of the Code) for U.S. Federal income tax purposes agrees to deliver to the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Effective Date, or in the case of a Lender that is an
assignee or transferee of an interest under this Agreement pursuant to Sections 1.13 or 13.04
(unless the respective Lender was already a Lender hereunder immediately prior to such assignment
or transfer), on the date of such assignment or transfer to such Lender, (i) two accurate and
complete original signed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI or Form W-8BEN (with
respect to a complete exemption under an income tax treaty) (or successor forms) certifying to such
Lender’s entitlement to a complete exemption from United States withholding tax with respect to
payments to be made under this Agreement and under any Note, or (ii) if the Lender is not a “bank”
within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code and
cannot deliver either Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI or Form W-8BEN (with respect to a
complete exemption under an income tax treaty) pursuant to clause (i) above, (x) a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit D (any such certificate, a “Section 4.04(b)(ii)
Certificate”) and (y) two accurate and complete original signed copies of Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8BEN (with respect to the portfolio interest exemption) (or successor form)
certifying to such Lender’s entitlement to a complete exemption from United States withholding tax
with respect to payments of interest to be made under this Agreement and under any Note. In
addition, each Lender agrees that from time to time after the Effective Date, when a lapse in time
or change in circumstances renders the previous certification obsolete or inaccurate in any
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will deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two new accurate and
complete original signed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN (with respect
to the benefits of any income tax treaty), or Form W-8BEN (with respect to the portfolio interest
exemption) and a Section 4.04(b)(ii) Certificate, as the case may be, and such other forms as may
be required in order to confirm or establish the entitlement of such Lender to a continued
exemption from or reduction in United States withholding tax with respect to payments under this
Agreement and any Note, or it shall immediately notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of
its inability to deliver any such form or Certificate, in which case such Lender shall not be
required to deliver any such form or Certificate pursuant to this Section 4.04(b). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in Section 4.04(a), but subject to Section 13.04(b) and the
immediately succeeding sentence, (x) the Borrower shall be entitled, to the extent it is required
to do so by law, to deduct or withhold income or similar taxes imposed by the United States (or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein) from interest, fees or other amounts
payable hereunder for the account of any Lender which is not a United States person (as such term
is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for U.S. Federal income tax purposes to the extent
that such Lender has not provided to the Borrower U.S. Internal Revenue Service Forms that
establish a complete exemption from such deduction or withholding and (y) the Borrower shall not be
obligated pursuant to Section 4.04(a) hereof to gross-up payments to be made to a Lender in respect
of income or similar taxes imposed by the United States if (I) such Lender has not provided to the
Borrower the Internal Revenue Service Forms required to be provided to the Borrower pursuant to
this Section 4.04(b) or (II) in the case of a payment, other than interest, to a Lender described
in clause (ii) above, to the extent that such Forms do not establish a complete exemption from
withholding of such taxes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the preceding
sentence or elsewhere in this Section 4.04 and except as set forth in Section 13.04(b), the
Borrower agrees to pay additional amounts and to indemnify each Lender in the manner set forth in
Section 4.04(a) (without regard to the identity of the jurisdiction requiring the deduction or
withholding) in respect of any amounts deducted or withheld by it as described in the immediately
preceding sentence as a result of any changes after the Effective Date in any applicable law,
treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order, or in the interpretation thereof,
relating to the deducting or withholding of such Taxes; provided that the Lender complies with the
foregoing provisions of this Section 4.04(b) with respect to providing forms and certificates.

          (c) If the Borrower pays any additional amount under this Section 4.04 to a Lender and such
Lender determines in its sole discretion that it has actually received or realized in connection
therewith any refund or any reduction of, or credit against, its Tax liabilities in or with respect
to the taxable year in which the additional amount is paid (a “Tax Benefit”), such Lender
shall pay to the Borrower an amount that the Lender shall, in its sole discretion, deter
mine is equal to the net benefit, after tax, which was obtained by the Lender in such year as
a consequence of such Tax Benefit; provided, however, that (i) any Lender may
determine, in its sole discretion consistent with the policies of such Lender, whether to seek a
Tax Benefit; (ii) any Taxes that are imposed on a Lender as a result of a disallowance or reduction
(including through the expiration of any tax credit carryover or carryback of such Lender that
otherwise would not have expired) of any Tax Benefit with respect to which such Lender has made a
payment to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 4.04(c) shall be treated as a Tax for which the
Borrower is obligated to indemnify such Lender pursuant to this
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or defenses; and (iii) nothing in this Section 4.04(c) shall require the Lender to disclose any
confidential information to the Borrower (including, without limitation, its tax returns).

          SECTION 5. Conditions Precedent to Credit Events on the Initial Borrowing Date. The
obligation of each Lender to make Loans and to participate in Letters of Credit, and the
obligations of each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, in each case on the Initial
Borrowing Date is subject, at the time of such Credit Event, to the satisfaction of the following
conditions:

          5.01 Execution of Agreement; Notes. On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date (i) the
Effective Date shall have occurred and (ii) there shall have been delivered to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each of the Lenders which has requested the same, the appropriate Note or
Notes executed by the Borrower, in each case in the amount, maturity and as otherwise provided
herein.

          5.02 Fees, etc. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Borrower shall have paid to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders all reasonable costs, fees and expenses (including, without
limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses to the extent invoiced) payable to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders to the extent then due.

          5.03 Opinions of Counsel. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent
shall have received (i) from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, special counsel to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, an opinion addressed to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders and dated
the Initial Borrowing Date covering the matters set forth in Exhibit E, (ii) from local counsel
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, opinions each of which shall be in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and shall cover the
perfection of the security interests granted pursuant to the Security Agreement and the Mortgages
and such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated herein as the Administrative Agent
may reasonably request and (iii) from local gaming counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, opinions each of which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and shall cover Colorado, Missouri, Nevada,
Mississippi and Iowa Gaming Regulations and such other matters incident to the transactions
contemplated herein as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

          5.04 Corporate Documents; Proceedings; etc. (a) On the Initial Borrowing Date, the
Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Initial Borrowing Date, signed by
an Authorized Officer of each Credit Party, and attested to by the Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary of such Credit Party, all in the form of Exhibit F with appropriate insertions, together
with copies of the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of such Credit Party, as the case may
be, and the resolutions, or such other administrative approval, of such Credit Party, as the case
may be, referred to in such certificate, and the foregoing shall be reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent.

          (b) On the Initial Borrowing Date, all corporate and legal proceedings and all instruments and
agreements in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the

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Administrative Agent and
the Required Lenders, and the Administrative Agent shall have received all information and copies
of all documents and papers, including records of corporate proceedings, governmental approvals,
good standing certificates and bring-down telegrams or facsimiles, if any, which the Administrative
Agent reasonably may have requested in connection therewith, such documents and papers where
appropriate to be certified by proper corporate or governmental authorities.

          5.05 Shareholders’ Agreements; Management Agreements; Tax Sharing Agreements; Employee
Benefit Plans; Employment Agreements; Collective Bargaining Agreements; Debt Agreements; Material
Contracts; Non-Compete Agreements; Affiliate Contracts. On or prior to the Initial Borrowing
Date, there shall have been delivered or made available to the Administrative Agent true and
correct copies (which the Borrower hereby certifies are true and complete copies thereof) of (i)
all agreements (if any) entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (after giving
effect to the Transaction) governing the terms and relative rights of its capital stock and any
agreements entered into by shareholders, relating to any such entity with respect to its capital
stock (collectively, the “Shareholders’ Agreements”), (ii) all agreements (if any) with
senior members of, or with respect to, the management of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
(after giving effect to the Transaction) (collectively, the “Management Agreements”), (iii)
all agreements (if any) relating to the sharing of tax liabilities and benefits among the Borrower
and/or its Subsidiaries (each a “Tax Sharing Agreement” and collectively, the “Tax
Sharing Agreements”), (iv) all material “employee benefit plans”, as defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA, and any other material agreements, or plans, with or for the benefit of current or former
employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate (the “Employee
Benefit Plans”), (v) any employment agreements for senior management entered into by a Credit
Party (collectively, the “Employment Agreements”), (vi) any collective bargaining
agreements applying or relating to any employee of a Credit Party (collectively, the
“Collective Bargaining Agreements”), (vii) any agreements evidencing or relating to
Indebtedness in excess of $2,500,000 of a Credit Party (excluding the Loans) whether or not any
such agreement shall remain outstanding after giving effect to the incurrence of Loans on the
Initial Borrowing Date (collectively, the “Debt Agreements”), (viii) all other material
contracts and licenses of a Credit Party (collectively, the “Material Contracts”), (ix) any
material non-compete agreement entered into by a Credit Party and restricting its operations or
business (collectively, the “Non-Compete Agreements”) and (x) all material contracts or written
agreements entered into between a Credit Party, on the one hand, and any of its Affiliates (other
than a Credit Party) on the other hand (collectively, the “Affiliate Contracts”).

          5.06 Refinancing; Indebtedness. (a) On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, the
total commitments pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been terminated, and all
loans and notes with respect thereto shall have been repaid in full (together with interest
thereon) and all other amounts owing pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been
repaid in full (the “Refinancing”). The creditors in respect of the Existing Credit
Agreement shall have terminated and released all security interests in and Liens on the assets of
Borrower and its Subsidiaries created pursuant to the security documentation relating to the
Existing Credit Agreement, and such creditors shall have returned all assets (if any) in their
possession pursuant to the security documentation relating to the Existing Credit Agreement to the
Borrower, and the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence, in form and substance
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satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, that the matters set forth in this Section
5.06 have been satisfied as of the Initial Borrowing Date.

          (b) On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall have no
outstanding preferred equity or Indebtedness, except for Indebtedness incurred pursuant to (i) this
Agreement, (ii) the Existing Subordinated Notes and (iii) the Existing Indebtedness.

          5.07 Pledge Agreement. On the Initial Borrowing Date, each Credit Party shall have
duly authorized, executed and delivered a Pledge Agreement in the form of Exhibit G (such Pledge
Agreement, as amended, modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated or supplemented from time to
time, the “Pledge Agreement”) and shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent, as Pledgee,
all the Pledge Agreement Collateral referred to therein then owned by such Credit Party, (x)
endorsed in blank in the case of promissory notes constituting Pledge Agreement Collateral and (y)
together with executed and undated endorsements for transfer in the case of equity interests
constituting certificated Pledge Agreement Collateral, along with evidence that all other actions
necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable, to perfect the security
interests purported to be created by the Pledge Agreement have been taken and the Pledge Agreement
shall be in full force and effect.

          5.08 Security Agreement. On the Initial Borrowing Date, each Credit Party shall have
duly authorized, executed and delivered a Security Agreement in the form of Exhibit H (as amended,
modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated or supplemented from time to time, the
“Security Agreement”) covering all of such Credit Party’s present and future Security
Agreement Collateral, together with:

          (a) properly completed Financing Statements (Form UCC-1) for filing under the UCC or other
appropriate filing offices of each jurisdiction as may be necessary or, in the
reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable to perfect the security interests
purported to be created by the Security Agreement;

          (b) certified copies of Requests for Information or Copies (Form UCC-11), or equivalent
reports, listing all effective financing statements that name the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries as debtor and that are filed in the jurisdictions referred to in clause (a) above,
together with copies of such other financing statements (none of which shall cover the Collateral
except to the extent evidencing Permitted Liens or in respect of which the Collateral Agent shall
have received termination statements (Form UCC-3) or such other termination statements as shall be
required by local law);

          (c) evidence of the completion (or that such completion will occur within 10 days of the
Initial Borrowing Date) of all other recordings and filings of, or with respect to, the Security
Agreement as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable to
perfect the security interests intended to be created by the Security Agreement; and

          (d) evidence that all other actions necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral
Agent, desirable to perfect and protect the security interests purported to be created by the
Security Agreement have been taken or will be taken within 10 days of the Initial Borrowing Date.

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          5.09 Mortgages; Title Insurance; etc. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Collateral
Agent shall have received:

          (a) duly authorized, fully executed, acknowledged, and delivered deeds of trust, mortgages,
leasehold deeds of trust or leasehold mortgages substantially in the form of Exhibit I (as amended,
modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated or supplemented from time to time, each a
“Mortgage” and collectively, the “Mortgages”), which Mortgages shall cover such of
the Real Property owned or leased by each Credit Party as shall be designated as such on Schedule
III as a mortgaged property thereunder (each, a “Mortgaged Property” and collectively, the
“Mortgaged Properties”), together with evidence that counterparts of the Mortgages have
been delivered to the title insurance company insuring the Lien of the Mortgages for recording in
all places to the extent necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable
to effectively create a valid and enforceable Lien on each Mortgaged Property in favor of the
Collateral Agent (or such other trustee as may be required or desired under local law) for the
benefit of the Secured Creditors;

          (b) duly authorized, fully executed, acknowledged, and delivered subordination, nondisturbance
and attornment agreements, assignments of leases, landlord consents, tenant estoppel certificates,
and such other documents relating to the Mortgages that the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request;

          (c) extended coverage policies of mortgage title insurance covering each Mortgaged Property,
together with all endorsements reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent relating thereto issued
by title insurers reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (the “Mortgage Policies”)
in amounts reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders (but not in
excess of the value of the respective Mortgaged Property) assuring
the Collateral Agent that the Mortgages on such Mortgaged Properties are valid and enforceable
first priority mortgage liens on the respective Mortgaged Properties, free and clear of all defects
and encumbrances except Permitted Encumbrances and such Mortgage Policies shall otherwise be in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and
shall include, as appropriate and to the extent available, an endorsement for future advances under
this Agreement and the Notes and for any other matter that the Collateral Agent in its reasonable
discretion may reasonably request, shall not include an exception for mechanics’ liens, and shall
provide for affirmative insurance (to the extent available) and such reinsurance as the Collateral
Agent in its discretion may reasonably request;

          (d) a survey of each Mortgaged Property (and all improvements thereon) or update to an
existing survey (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the state
where such Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably
acceptable to the Collateral Agent) to the Collateral Agent in its capacity as such and the title
company, (iii) complying in all respects with the minimum detail requirements of the American Land
Title Association as such requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such survey, and
(iv) sufficient for the title company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the Mortgage
Policy relating to such Mortgaged Property and issue the Mortgage Policies and endorsements
required pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.09(c) above;

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          (e) flood certificates covering each Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certified to the Collateral Agent in its capacity as
such, stating whether or not each such Mortgaged Property is located in a flood hazard area, as
determined by designation of each such Mortgaged Property in a specified flood hazard zone by
reference to the applicable FEMA map; and

          (f) appraisals conducted in accordance with MAI (Member Appraisal Institute) and FIRREA
(Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act) standards and otherwise in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent from a third-party appraiser
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for each Mortgaged Property which MAI
appraisals shall satisfy the applicable requirements of the Real Estate Appraisal Reform Amendments
of FIRREA.

          5.10 Subsidiary Guaranty. On the Initial Borrowing Date, each Subsidiary Guarantor
shall have executed and delivered a guaranty agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit J (as
amended, modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated or supplemented from time to time, the
“Subsidiary Guaranty”).

          5.11 Ship Mortgages. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Collateral Agent shall have
received duly authorized, fully executed, acknowledged, and delivered first preferred ship
mortgages substantially in the form of Exhibit M (as amended, modified, extended, renewed,
replaced, restated or supplemented from time to time, each a “Ship Mortgage” and
collectively, the “Ship Mortgages”), which Ship Mortgages shall cover such of the Ship
Properties owned or leased by
the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries as shall be designated as such on Schedule IX as a
mortgaged ship property thereunder (each, a “Mortgaged Ship Property” and collectively, the
“Mortgaged Ship Properties”), together with evidence that the Ship Mortgages have been
recorded or filed (or will be filed or recorded within 10 days of the Initial Borrowing Date) in
all places to the extent necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable
to effectively create a valid and enforceable Lien on each Mortgaged Ship Property in favor of the
Collateral Agent (or such other trustee as may be required or desired under local law) for the
benefit of the Secured Creditors.

          5.12 Adverse Change, etc. On the Initial Borrowing Date, after giving effect to the
Transaction, nothing shall have occurred (and the Lenders shall have become aware of no facts or
conditions not previously known) since December 31, 2004 which could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect.

          5.13 Solvency Certificate; Insurance. On or before the Initial Borrowing Date, the
Borrower shall have delivered or shall cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent (i) a
solvency certificate in the form of Exhibit L from the chief financial officer or treasurer of the
Borrower, which shall be delivered to each of the Lenders and dated the Initial Borrowing Date,
stating that, after giving effect to the Transaction and the incurrence of all financings
contemplated herein, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) are not insolvent
and will not be rendered insolvent by the Indebtedness incurred in connection herewith, will not be
left with unreasonably small capital with which to engage in their respective businesses and will
not have incurred debts beyond their ability to pay such debts as they mature and become due and
(ii) evidence of insurance complying with the requirements of Section 8.03

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for the business and
properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in scope, form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and naming the Collateral Agent
as an additional insured and/or loss payee, and stating that such insurance shall not be canceled
or revised without 30 days’ prior written notice by the insurer to the Collateral Agent.

          5.14 Financial Statements; Projections; Management Letters. On or prior to the
Initial Borrowing Date, the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Lenders shall have received and be
satisfied with (i) audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for the three fiscal
years ended prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, (ii) unaudited consolidated financial statements
of the Borrower for each fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended after the close of its most recent
fiscal year and at least 45 days prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, (iii) interim financial
statements of the Borrower for each month ended after the date of the last available quarterly
financial statements and at least 30 days prior to the Initial Borrowing Date and (iv) detailed
projected consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the five
fiscal years ending after the Initial Borrowing Date, which projections shall (x) reflect the
forecasted consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving
effect to the Transaction, and (y) be prepared and approved by the Borrower.

          5.15 Litigation. On the Initial Borrowing Date, no litigation by any entity (private
or governmental) shall be pending or threatened with respect to this Agreement, any other Document
or any documentation executed in connection herewith or with respect to the Transaction, or which
the Required Lenders shall determine could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.

          5.16 Approvals, etc. (a) On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, (i) all
necessary governmental (domestic and foreign) and third party approvals and consents (including, in
any event, (x) all required Gaming Authority approvals and consents and (y) all shareholder and
board of director approvals and consents) required in connection with the Transaction and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Credit Documents which are to occur by
the Initial Borrowing Date and otherwise referred to herein or therein shall have been obtained and
remain in full force and effect and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any
action being taken by any competent authority which restrains, prevents or imposes materially
adverse conditions upon the consummation of the Transaction and the other transactions contemplated
by this Agreement and (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received copies or other evidence
reasonably satisfactory to it of all such approvals and consents. Additionally, there shall not
exist any judgment, order, injunction or other restraint issued or filed or a hearing seeking
injunctive relief or other restraint pending or notified prohibiting or imposing materially adverse
conditions upon the consummation of the Transaction or the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the other Credit Documents which are to occur by the Initial Borrowing Date.

          (b) On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall be satisfied in
its discretion with any conditions or requirements imposed by the Missouri, Nevada, Mississippi,
Colorado and Iowa or other relevant Gaming Authorities upon the Lenders, this Agreement, the other
Credit Documents or the Transaction not disclosed to the Lenders prior to the Effective Date.

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          (c) On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall have
received any approvals or qualifications required under applicable Gaming Regulations in connection
with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents to be obtained prior to the Initial Borrowing
Date, and the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall have received all other approvals,
authorizations or consents of, or notices to or registrations with any governmental body and
required releases and consents from other appropriate Persons (including, without limitation, the
shareholders of the Borrower) in connection with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and
shall have provided copies or other satisfactory evidence of all approvals, authorizations or
consents referred to above to the Administrative Agent to the extent available.

          5.17 No Conflict with Agreements. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall receive an officer’s
certificate of the Borrower (in form and substance, and with supporting calculations, and executed
by an officer of the Borrower, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) setting forth
the calculations showing compliance (after giving effect to the Transaction and all incurrences of
Indebtedness hereunder on the Initial Borrowing Date) with the covenant set forth in Section 4.09
of the Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture.

          5.18 Credit Facility Rating. On or prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, each of S&P
and Moody’s shall have provided a credit rating for the Indebtedness to be incurred pursuant to
this Agreement.

          5.19 Margin Regulations. All Loans and all other financings to the Borrower (and all
guaranties thereof and security therefor), as well as the Transaction and the consummation thereof,
shall be in compliance with all applicable requirements of law, including Regulations T, U and X.

          SECTION 6. Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events. The obligation of each Lender
to make Loans and participate in Letters of Credit (including Loans made and Letters of Credit
issued on the Initial Borrowing Date), and the obligation of any Issuing Lender to issue any Letter
of Credit (including any Letter of Credit issued on the Initial Borrowing Date), is subject, at the
time of each such Credit Event (except as hereinafter indicated), to the satisfaction of the
following conditions:

          6.01 No Default; Representations and Warranties. At the time of each such Credit
Event and also after giving effect thereto (i) there shall exist no Default or Event of Default and
(ii) all representations and warranties contained herein or in any other Credit Document shall be
true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and
warranties had been made on the date of such Credit Event (it being understood and agreed that any
representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to
be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date).

          6.02 Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request. (a) Prior to the making of each
Loan (other than a Swingline Loan or a Mandatory Borrowing), the Administrative Agent

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shall have
received the notice required by Section 1.03(a). Prior to the making of each Swingline Loan, the
Swingline Lender shall have received the notice referred to in Section 1.03(b).

          (b) Prior to the issuance of each Letter of Credit, the Administrative Agent and the
respective Issuing Lender shall have received a Letter of Credit Request meeting the requirements
of Section 2.02.

          6.03 Compliance with Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture. Prior to each Credit Event, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative
Agent shall receive an officer’s certificate of the Borrower (in form and substance, and with
supporting calculations, and executed by an officer of the Borrower, reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent) setting forth the calculations showing compliance (after giving effect to
such Credit Event and all incurrences of Indebtedness hereunder) with the covenant set forth in
Section 4.09 of the Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture.

          The acceptance of the benefit of each Credit Event shall constitute a representation and
warranty by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders that all the
conditions specified in Section 5 and in this Section 6 and applicable to such Credit Event exist
as of that time (except to the extent that any of the conditions specified in Section 5 are
required to be satisfactory to or determined by any Lender, the Required Lenders and/or the
Administrative Agent). All of the Notes, certificates, legal opinions and other documents and
papers referred to in Section 5 and in this Section 6, unless otherwise specified, shall be
delivered to the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office or to counsel for the Administrative
Agent for the account of each of the Lenders and, except for the Notes, in sufficient counterparts
or copies for each of the Lenders.

          SECTION 7. Representations and Warranties. In order to induce the Lenders to enter
into this Agreement and to make the Loans, and issue (or participate in) the Letters of Credit as
provided herein, the Borrower makes the following representations and warranties, in each case
after giving effect to the Transaction consummated on the Initial Borrowing Date, all of which
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes and the making of the
Loans and the issuance of the Letters of Credit, with the occurrence of each Credit Event on or
after the Initial Borrowing Date being deemed to constitute a representation and warranty that the
matters specified in this Section 7 are true and correct on and as of the Initial Borrowing Date in
all material respects and in all material respects on the date of each such Credit Event (it being
understood and agreed that any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a
specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such
specified date).

          7.01 Corporate Status. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is a duly
organized and validly existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
its organization, (ii) has the corporate power and authority to own its property and assets and to
transact the business in which it is engaged and presently proposes to engage and (iii) is duly
qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the conduct of its
business requires such qualifications except for failures to be so qualified which, individually or
in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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          7.02 Corporate Power and Authority. Each Credit Party has the corporate power and
authority to execute, deliver and perform the terms and provisions of each of the Credit Documents
to which it is party and has
taken all necessary corporate action, as the case may be, to authorize the execution, delivery
and performance by it of each of such Credit Documents. Each Credit Party has duly executed and
delivered each of the Credit Documents to which it is party, and each of such Credit Documents
constitutes such Credit Party’s legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with
its terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally affecting
creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in
equity or at law).

          7.03 No Violation. Neither the execution, delivery or performance by any Credit Party
of the Credit Documents to which it is a party, nor compliance by it with the terms and provisions
thereof, (i) will contravene any material provision of any applicable law, statute, rule or
regulation or any applicable order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or governmental
instrumentality, (ii) will conflict with or result in any breach of any of the material terms,
covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except pursuant to the Security
Documents) upon any of the material properties or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
pursuant to the terms of any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, credit agreement or loan
agreement, or any other material agreement, contract or instrument, to which the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound or to which it
may be subject or (iii) will violate any provision of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws
of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

          7.04 Governmental Approvals. No order, consent, approval, license, authorization or
validation of, or filing, recording or registration with (except as have been obtained or made
prior to the Initial Borrowing Date or, if later, the date as of which this representation is being
made), or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof,
is required to authorize, or is required in connection with, (i) the execution, delivery and
performance of any Document or (ii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any
such Document, except, (x) post-closing approvals required to be obtained from the Nevada Gaming
Authorities with respect to pledge and negative pledge provisions applicable to CPI and
restrictions on transfer of assets of CPI, (y) in the case of any Document other than a Credit
Document, in the case of any failure to obtain where such failure to so obtain would not have a
Material Adverse Effect and (z) the approval of one or more Gaming Authorities may be required in
connection with foreclosure under the Security Documents.

          7.05 Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Undisclosed Liabilities; Projections;
etc. (a) The consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower as at December 31, 2003, December
31, 2004 and September 30, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of operation, cash flows
and (with respect to December 31, 2004), stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income of the
Borrower for each fiscal year or fiscal quarter ended on such dates,
copies of which have been furnished to the Lenders prior to the Initial Borrowing Date,
present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Borrower at the
dates of such balance sheets and the consolidated results of the operations of the Borrower for the
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covered thereby. All of the foregoing historical financial statements have been prepared
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied by the Borrower.
Since December 31, 2004, there has been no material adverse change in the business, operations,
property, assets, liabilities, or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as
a whole.

          (b) (i) On and as of the Initial Borrowing Date, after giving effect to the Transaction and
to all Indebtedness incurred, and to be incurred, and Liens created, and to be created, by the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection therewith, (a) the sum of the assets, at a fair
valuation, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries will exceed their debts; (b) the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole have not incurred and do not intend to incur, and do not believe that
they will incur, debts beyond their ability to pay such debts as such debts mature; and (c) the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole will have sufficient capital with which to conduct
their businesses. For purposes of this Section 7.05(b), “debt” means any liability on a claim, and
“claim” means (i) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated,
unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable,
secured, or unsecured or (ii) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach
gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment,
fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.

          (c) Except as fully disclosed in the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section
7.05(a) or as disclosed in writing to the Lenders prior to the Effective Date, there were as of the
Initial Borrowing Date no liabilities or obligations with respect to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries of any nature whatsoever (whether absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise and
whether or not due) which, either individually or in aggregate, would be material to the Borrower
or to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

          (d) On and as of the Initial Borrowing Date, the financial projections dated as of August 16,
2005 (the “Projections”) previously delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
have been prepared on a basis consistent with the financial statements referred to in Section
7.05(a) (other than as set forth or presented in such Projections), and there are no statements or
conclusions in any of the Projections which are based upon or include information known to the
Borrower to be misleading in any material respect or which fail to take into account material
information regarding the matters reported therein. As of the Initial Borrowing Date, the Borrower
believes that the Projections are reasonable estimates of the Borrower’s anticipated performance,
based on good faith assumptions and the best information available to the Borrower as of the date
of delivery thereof and as of the Initial Borrowing Date (it being understood that projections are
inherently uncertain and there can be no assurance that the Projections will be reflected in actual
performance).

          7.06 Litigation. There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Borrower, threatened (i) on the Initial Borrowing Date, with respect to any Document or (ii) that
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          7.07 True and Complete Disclosure. All factual information (taken as a whole)
furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent or any Lender

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for
purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, the other Credit Documents or any transaction
contemplated herein or therein is, and all other such factual information (taken as a whole)
hereafter furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender will be, true and accurate in all material respects on the date as of which such information
is dated or certified and not incomplete by omitting to state any fact necessary to make such
information (taken as a whole) not misleading in any material respect at such time in light of the
circumstances under which such information was provided.

          7.08 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. (a) All proceeds of the Initial Term Loans
drawn on the Initial Borrowing Date shall be utilized by the Borrower (i) to effect the Transaction
and (ii) to pay fees and expenses related to the Transaction.

          (b) Proceeds of Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans may be utilized for the Borrower’s and its
Subsidiaries’ general corporate and working capital purposes including the repayment, redemption or
repurchase of the Existing Subordinated Notes.

          (c) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or
to extend credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock. Neither the making of
any Loan nor the use of the proceeds thereof will violate or be inconsistent with the provisions of
Regulation T, U or X.

          7.09 Tax Returns and Payments. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has timely
filed or caused to be timely filed, on the due dates thereof or within applicable grace periods,
with the appropriate taxing authority, all Federal and all material state and foreign returns,
statements, forms and reports for taxes (the “Returns”) required to be filed by or with
respect to the income, properties or operations of the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries.
The Returns accurately reflect in all material respects all liability for taxes of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, for the periods covered thereby. Each of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries has paid all material taxes payable by them other than taxes which are not
delinquent or are being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been
established in accordance with GAAP. Except as disclosed in the financial statements referred to
in Section 7.05(a), as of the Initial Borrowing Date there is no material action, suit, proceeding,
investigation, audit, or claim now pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, threatened by any authority regarding any taxes relating to the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries. As of the Initial Borrowing Date, except as set forth in Schedule VII, neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into an agreement or waiver or been requested
to enter into an
agreement or waiver extending any statute of limitations relating to the payment or collection
of taxes of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or is aware of any circumstances that would
cause the taxable years or other taxable periods of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries not to
be subject to the normally applicable statute of limitations.

          7.10 Compliance with ERISA. As of the Initial Borrowing Date, neither Borrower, any
Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors, contributes to or maintains a Plan or has any actual or
contingent liability under any Plan. To the extent that Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA
Affiliate becomes the sponsor, contributes to or maintains a Plan or has any actual or contingent
liability under a Plan, Borrower shall schedule such Plan. Except as, individually or in the
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Effect, (i) to the extent
applicable, each Plan (and each related trust, insurance contract or fund) is in compliance with
its terms and with all applicable laws including, without limitation, ERISA and the Code; (ii) each
Plan (and each related trust, if any) which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Code has received or has applied for a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service to
the effect that it meets the requirements of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code; (iii) no
Reportable Event has occurred with respect to a Plan; (iv) to the knowledge of the Borrower, each
of its Subsidiaries and each ERISA Affiliate, no Plan which is a multiemployer plan (as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) is insolvent or in reorganization; (v) no Plan has an Unfunded Current
Liability; (vi) no Plan has an accumulated funding deficiency, within the meaning of Section 412
of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or has applied for or received a waiver of an accumulated
funding deficiency or an extension of any amortization period, within the meaning of Section 412 of
the Code or Section 303 or 304 of ERISA; (vii) all contributions required to be made with respect
to a Plan have been timely made; (viii) neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any
ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability (including any indirect, contingent or secondary
liability) to or on account of a Plan pursuant to Section 409, 502(i), 502(1), 515, 4062, 4063,
4064, 4069, 4201, 4204 or 4212 of ERISA or Section 401(a)(29), 4971 or 4975 of the Code or
reasonably expects to incur any such liability under any of the foregoing Sections with respect to
any Plan; (ix) to the knowledge of Borrower, each Subsidiary and each ERISA Affiliate, no
proceedings have been instituted to terminate or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan which is
subject to Title IV of ERISA; (x) no action, suit, proceeding, hearing, audit or investigation with
respect to the administration, operation or the investment of assets of any Plan (other than
routine claims for benefits) is pending or, to the knowledge of Borrower, Subsidiary and each ERISA
Affiliate, expected or threatened; (xi) using actuarial assumptions and computation methods
consistent with Part 1 of subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA, the aggregate liabilities of the
Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their ERISA Affiliates to all Plans which are multiemployer plans
(as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) in the event of a complete withdrawal therefrom, as of
the close of the most recent fiscal year of each such Plan ended prior to the date of the most
recent Credit Event, would not exceed $10,000,000; (xii) each group health plan (as defined in
Section 607(1) of ERISA or Section 4980B(g)(2) of the Code) which covers or has covered employees
or former employees of the Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or any ERISA Affiliate has at
all times been operated in compliance in all material respects with the provisions of Part 6 of
subtitle B of Title I of ERISA and Section 4980B of the Code each group health plan (as defined in
45 Code of Federal Regulations Section 160.103) which covers or has covered employees or former
employees of the Borrower, any Subsidiary of
the Borrower, or any ERISA Affiliate has at all times been operated in compliance with the
provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the regulations
promulgated thereunder; and (xiii) no lien imposed under the Code or ERISA on the assets of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate exists or is likely to arise on
account of any Plan. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not maintain or contribute to any
employee welfare benefit plan (as d
efined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) which provides benefits to
retired employees or other former employees (other than as required by Section 601 of ERISA) or any
Plan the obligations with respect to which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect on the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

          7.11 The Security Documents. (a) The provisions of the Security Agreement are
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legal, valid and enforceable security interest in all right, title and interest of the Credit
Parties in the Security Agreement Collateral described therein, and the Security Agreement, upon
the filing of Form UCC-1 financing statements or the appropriate equivalent (which filing, if this
representation is being made more than 10 days after the Initial Borrowing Date, has been made),
creates a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest in all
of the Security Agreement Collateral described therein which is capable of being perfected with
such filings, subject to no other Liens other than Permitted Liens and Liens to be released in
connection with the Transaction.

          (b) The security interests created in favor of the Collateral Agent, as Pledgee, for the
benefit of the Secured Creditors under the Pledge Agreement constitute first priority perfected
security interests in the Pledged Securities described in the Pledge Agreement, subject to no
security interests of any other Person. No filings or recordings are required in order to perfect
(or maintain the perfection or priority of) the security interests created in the Pledged
Securities and the proceeds thereof under the Pledge Agreement, so long as the Collateral Agent
maintains possession of such Pledged Securities consisting of certificated securities.

          (c) The Mortgages create, as security for the obligations purported to be secured thereby, a
valid and enforceable perfected security interest in and mortgage lien on all of the Mortgaged
Properties in favor of the Collateral Agent (or such other trustee as may be required or desired
under local law) for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, superior to and prior to the rights of
all third persons (except that the security interest and mortgage lien created in the Mortgaged
Properties may be subject to the Permitted Encumbrances, Permitted Liens and Liens to be released
in connection with the Transaction related thereto) and subject to no other Liens (other than Liens
permitted under Section 9.01). Schedule III contains a true and complete list of each parcel of
Real Property owned or leased by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the Initial Borrowing Date
(after giving effect to the Transaction) and the type of interest therein held by the Borrower or
such Subsidiary.

          (d) The Ship Mortgages create, as security for the obligations purported to be secured
thereby, a valid and enforceable perfected security interest in and mortgage lien on all of the
Ship Properties in favor of the Collateral Agent (or such other trustee as may be required or
desired under local law) for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, superior to and prior to
the rights of all third persons (except that the security interest and mortgage lien created in the
Ship Properties may be subject to the Permitted Encumbrances, Permitted Liens and Liens to be
released in connection with the Transaction related thereto) and subject to no other Liens (other
than Liens permitted under Section 9.01). Schedule IX contains a true and complete list of each
Ship Property owned or leased by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the Initial Borrowing Date
and the type of interest therein held by the Borrower or such Subsidiary.

          7.12 Properties. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries have good and valid title
to all material properties owned by them (or a valid leasehold estate with respect to all material
properties leased by them), including all property reflected in the most recent balance sheet of
the Borrower referred to in Section 7.05(a) (except for property sold or otherwise disposed of
since the date of such balance sheet in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise permitted
by this Agreement or if prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, the Existing

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Credit Agreement), free
and clear of all Liens, other than (i) as referred to in the balance sheet or in the notes thereto
or in such pro forma balance sheet or (ii) Permitted Liens.

          7.13 Subsidiaries. As of the Initial Borrowing Date, the Borrower will have no direct
or indirect Subsidiaries other than those listed on Schedule VIII.

          7.14 Compliance with Statutes, etc. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in
compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions
imposed by, all governmental bodies, domestic or foreign, in respect of the conduct of its business
and the ownership of its property, except such noncompliances as could not individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          7.15 Investment Company Act. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
“investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

          7.16 Public Utility Holding Company Act. Neither the Borrower nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, or an
“affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company” within the
meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.

          7.17 Labor Relations. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice
that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is (i) no unfair labor
practice complaint pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best
knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them, before the National Labor Relations
Board, and no significant grievance or significant arbitration proceeding arising out of or under
any collective bargaining agreement is so pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them, (ii) no strike, labor
dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the
best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and
(iii) to the best knowledge of the Borrower, no concerted and continuous effort to organize a union
with respect to the employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, except (with respect to
any matter specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, either individually or in the aggregate)
such as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          7.18 Patents, Licenses, Franchises and Formulas. Each of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries owns all material patents, trademarks, permits, service marks, trade names,
copyrights, licenses, franchises and formulas, or has sufficient rights to use the foregoing, and
has obtained assignments of all leases and other rights of whatever nature, necessary for the
present conduct of its business, without any known conflict with the rights of others which, or the
failure to obtain which, as the case may be, could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.

          7.19 Indebtedness. Schedule VI sets forth a true and complete list of all
Indebtedness (other than (x) the Loans and Indebtedness incurred under the Existing Subordinated
Notes and (y) Indebtedness having an outstanding principal balance less than

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$2,500,000;
provided that in no event shall the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness
described in this clause (y) exceed $10,000,000) of the Credit Parties as of the Initial Borrowing
Date after giving effect to the Transaction and the other transactions contemplated hereby, in each
case showing the aggregate amount thereof and the name of the respective obligor and any other
entity which directly or indirectly guaranteed such debt (the “Existing Indebtedness”).

          7.20 Environmental Matters. Except for matters that either individually or in the
aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or as is set forth on
Schedule X:

          (a) Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has complied and is in compliance with all
applicable Environmental Laws and the requirements of any permits issued under such Environmental
Laws. There are no past, pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, threatened Environmental Claims against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or
any Real Property currently or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
previously owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. There are no facts,
circumstances, conditions or occurrences on any Real Property currently owned or
operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries, on any formerly owned or operated Real Property or any property
adjoining or in the vicinity of any currently owned or operated Real Property that could reasonably
be expected (i) to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or any currently owned or operated Real Property or (ii) to cause any such Real
Property to be subject to any restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, use or transferability of
such Real Property by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under any applicable Environmental
Law.

          (b) Hazardous Materials have not at any time been generated, used, treated or stored on, or
transported to or from, or Released on or from, any Real Property owned or operated by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries except in compliance with all Environmental Laws and reasonably required
in connection with the operation, use and maintenance of any such Real Property by the Borrower’s
or such Subsidiary’s business. There are not now any underground storage tanks owned or operated by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries located on any Real Property owned or operated by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

          7.21 Senior Debt. All of the Obligations constitute “Senior Debt” under the
Subordinated Notes Documents.

          7.22 Legal Names; Type of Organization (and Whether a Registered Organization);
Jurisdiction of Organization; etc. Schedule XI attached hereto contains, as of the Effective
Date, the exact legal name of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, the type of organization
of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, whether or not the Borrower and each Subsidiary
Guarantor is a registered organization, the jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower and each
Subsidiary Guarantor, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor’s location (for purposes of
Section 9-307 of the UCC) and the organizational identification number (if any) of the Borrower and
each Subsidiary Guarantor.

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          SECTION 8. Affirmative Covenants. The Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that on
and after the Effective Date and until the Total Commitment and all Letters of Credit have
terminated (or have been cash collateralized or supported by a backstop letter of credit as
provided in Section 4.02(j)) and the Loans, Notes and Unpaid Drawings, together with interest, Fees
and all other Obligations incurred hereunder and thereunder, are paid in full:

          8.01 Information Covenants. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent for
distribution to each Lender:

          (a) Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event within 45
days after the close of each of the first three quarterly accounting periods in each fiscal year
of the Borrower (subject to extension in the event of an SEC 12b-25 filing), (i) the
consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such
quarter and the related consolidated statements of operations and statements of cash flows for such
quarter and for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year ended with the last day of such quarter and
setting forth in the statements of operations only, the comparative figures for the corresponding
quarter in the prior fiscal year and the budgeted figures for such quarter as set forth in the
respective budget delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(d), (ii) the consolidating balance sheets of
each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and the related consolidating
statements of operations and consolidating statements of cash flows for such quarter and for the
elapsed portion of the fiscal year ended with the last day of such quarter, in each case setting
forth in the statements of operations only, the comparative figures for the corresponding quarter
in the prior fiscal year and the budgeted figures for such quarter as set forth in the respective
budget delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(d), and (iii) management’s discussion and analysis of the
important operational and financial developments during such quarterly period in respect of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

          (b) Annual Financial Statements. Within 90 days after the close of each fiscal year
of the Borrower (subject to extension in the event of an SEC 12b-25 filing), the consolidated
balance sheets of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year
and the related statements of operations and retained earnings and of cash flows for such fiscal
year and, setting forth comparative figures for the preceding fiscal year and certified, in the
case of such consolidated statements, by Ernst & Young LLP or such other independent registered
public accounting firm of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent, together with a report of such accounting firm (which report shall be unqualified as to
scope) and a statement stating that in the course of its regular audit of the financial statements
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, which audit was conducted in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards, such accounting firm obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of
Default under Sections 9.03, 9.04, 9.05 and 9.07 through 9.10, inclusive, which has occurred and is
continuing or, if in the opinion of such accounting firm such a Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof, (ii) the consolidating balance
sheets of each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries at the end of such fiscal year and the related
consolidating statement of operations and retained earnings and statement of cash flows for such
fiscal year, in each case setting forth comparative figures for the preceding fiscal year, and
(iii) management’s discussion and analysis of the important operational and financial developments
during such fiscal year in respect of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

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          (c) Management Letters. Promptly after the receipt thereof by the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries, a copy of any final “management letter” received by the Borrower or such
Subsidiary from its independent registered public accounting firm and management’s responses
thereto.

          (d) Budgets. No later than 60 days following the commencement of the first day of
each fiscal year of the Borrower, a budget in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent prepared by the Borrower for (x) in the case of budgeted statements of operations, each of
the twelve months of such fiscal year prepared in detail, including break-downs for each fiscal
quarter, and (y) in the case of budgeted statements of cash flows and
balance sheets, for such fiscal year on an annual basis and prepared in reasonable detail,
including break-downs for each fiscal quarter.

          (e) Officer’s Certificates. At the time of the delivery of the financial statements
provided for in Section 8.01(a) and (b), a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer, President,
Vice President or Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower to the effect that, to the best of such
officer’s knowledge, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if any
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, specifying the nature and extent
thereof, which certificate shall (x) set forth the calculations required to establish whether the
Borrower was in compliance with the provisions of Sections 9.03, 9.04, 9.05, and 9.07 through 9.10,
inclusive, at the end of such fiscal quarter or year, as the case may be, (y) the Applicable Margin
for the Margin Reduction Period commencing with the delivery of the respective financial statements
and (z) certify that there have been no changes to Annexes C, E, and Annexes G through J, in each
case of the Security Agreement and Annexes A through F of the Pledge Agreement, in each case since
the Initial Borrowing Date or, if later, since the date of the most certificate delivered pursuant
to this Section 8.01(e), or if there have been any such changes, a list in reasonable detail of
such changes (but, in each case with respect to this clause (z), only to the extent that such
changes are required to be reported to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of such Security
Documents) and whether the Borrower and the other Credit Parties have otherwise taken all actions
required to be taken by them pursuant to such Security Documents in connections with any such
changes.

          (f) Notice of Default or Litigation. Promptly, and in any event within five Business
Days after an Authorized Officer of the Borrower obtains knowledge thereof, notice of (i) the
occurrence of any event which constitutes a Default or Event of Default or (ii) any litigation or
governmental investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, any investigation by any
Gaming Authority) pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

          (g) Other Reports and Filings. Promptly, copies of all (i) financial information,
proxy materials and other information and reports, if any, which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries shall file with the SEC and (ii) notices of default in the observance or performance
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any agreement or condition relating to any
Indebtedness in a principal amount equal to or exceeding $10,000,000 in the aggregate (other than
the Obligations) or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating
thereto.

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          (h) Environmental Matters. Promptly upon, and in any event within thirty days after,
an officer of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of one or
more of the following environmental matters which occurs after the Initial Borrowing Date unless
such environmental matters could not, individually or when aggregated with all other such
environmental matters, be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

     (i) any material Environmental Claim pending or threatened in writing against the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property owned, operated or occupied by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

     (ii) any condition or occurrence on or arising from any Real Property owned, operated
or occupied by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that (a) results in material
noncompliance by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with any applicable Environmental
Law or (b) would reasonably be expected to form the basis of a material Environmental Claim
against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any such Real Property;

     (iii) any condition or occurrence on any Real Property owned, operated or occupied by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to cause such Real
Property to be subject to any material restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, use or
transferability by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of such Real Property under any
Environmental Law; and

     (iv) the taking of any material removal or remedial action in response to the actual or
alleged presence of any Hazardous Material on any Real Property owned, operated or occupied
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as required by any Environmental Law or any
governmental or other administrative agency; provided that in any event the Borrower
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent all material notices received by it or any of its
Subsidiaries from any government or governmental agency under, or pursuant to, CERCLA.

All such notices shall describe in reasonable detail the nature of the claim, investigation,
condition, occurrence or removal or remedial action and the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s
response thereto. In addition, the Borrower will provide the Lenders with copies of all material
communications with any government or governmental agency and all material communications with any
Person relating to any Environmental Claim of which notice is required to be given pursuant to this
Section 8.01(h), and such detailed reports of any such Environmental Claim as to which notice is
required, as may reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders.

          (i) Notice of Commitment Reductions and Mandatory Repayments. On or prior to the
date of any reduction to the Total Commitment or any mandatory repayment of outstanding Term Loans
pursuant to any of Sections 4.02(d) through (f), inclusive, the Borrower shall provide written
notice of the amount of the respective reduction or repayment, as the case may be, the calculation
thereof (in reasonable detail) and the event to which the respective reduction or repayment
relates.

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          (j) Other Information. From time to time, such other information or documents
(financial or otherwise) with respect to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries as any Lender may
reasonably request in writing; provided that such written request shall be delivered by any such
Lender to the Administrative Agent and such other information or documents shall be delivered by
the Borrower to the Administrative Agent who shall promptly deliver same to the Lender making such
written request.

          8.02 Books, Records and Inspections. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in
material conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States and all requirements of law shall be made
of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will,
and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit officers and designated representatives of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to visit and inspect, during regular business hours, upon
reasonable advance notice and under guidance of officers of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, any of
the properties of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, and to discuss the affairs, finances and
accounts of the Borrower or such Subsidiary with, and be advised as to the same by, its and their
officers (and in connection therewith representatives of the Administrative Agent may examine, and
may coordinate the examination by the Lenders of, the books of account of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary), all at such reasonable times and intervals and to such reasonable extent as the
Administrative Agent or such Lender may request.

          8.03 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. (a) The Borrower will, and will cause each
of its Subsidiaries to, (i) keep all property necessary in its business in good working order and
condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted), (ii) maintain insurance on all its property in at
least such amounts and against at least such risks as is consistent and in accordance with industry
practice and (iii) furnish to each Lender, upon written request, full information as to the
insurance carried.

          (b) All policies (including Mortgage Policies) or certificates (or certified copies thereof)
with respect to such insurance (i) shall be endorsed to the Collateral Agent’s satisfaction for the
benefit of the Collateral Agent (including, without limitation, by naming the Collateral Agent as
loss payee or as an additional insured), (ii) shall state that such insurance policies shall not be
canceled without 30 days’ prior written notice thereof by the respective insurer to the Collateral
Agent, (iii) shall provide that the respective insurers irrevocably waive any and all rights of
subrogation with respect to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Creditors, (iv) shall contain the
standard non-contributory mortgagee clause endorsement in favor of the Collateral Agent with
respect to hazard insurance coverage, and (v) shall, except in the case of public liability
insurance, business interruption insurance and workers’ compensation insurance, provide that any
losses shall be payable notwithstanding (A) any act or neglect of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, (B) the occupation or use of the properties for purposes more hazardous than those
permitted by the terms of the respective policy if such coverage is obtainable at commercially
reasonable rates and is of the kind from time to time customarily insured against by Persons owning
or using similar property and in such amounts as are customary, (C) any foreclosure or other
proceeding relating to the insured properties if such coverage is available at commercially
reasonable rates or (D) any change in the title to or ownership or possession of the insured
properties if such coverage is available at commercially reasonable rates.

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          (c) If the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to maintain all insurance in
accordance with this Section 8.03, or if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to so
endorse and deposit all policies or certificates with respect thereto, the Administrative Agent
and/or the Collateral Agent shall have the right (but shall be under no obligation) to procure such
insurance and the Borrower agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent as
the case may be, for all costs and expenses of procuring such insurance.

          8.04 Corporate Franchises. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done, all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and its material
rights, franchises, licenses and patents; provided, however, that nothing in this
Section 8.04 shall prevent (i) sales of assets (including, without limitation, capital stock of, or
other equity interests in, Subsidiaries of the Borrower) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
in accordance with Section 9.02, (ii) the withdrawal by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of
their qualification as a foreign corporation or of their license under any Gaming Regulations in
any jurisdiction where such withdrawal could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect or (iii) mergers or consolidations or liquidations permitted under Section 9.02.

          8.05 Compliance with Statutes, etc. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable
restrictions imposed by, all governmental bodies, domestic or foreign, in respect of the conduct of
its business and the ownership of its property, except for instances of noncompliance as could not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          8.06 ERISA. To the extent that Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate
sponsors, contributes to or maintains a Plan or has any actual or contingent liability under a
Plan, as soon as possible and, in any event, within 10 days after the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate knows of the occurrence of any of the following, the Borrower
will deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Borrower
setting forth the full details as to such occurrence and the action, if any, that the Borrower,
such Subsidiary or such ERISA Affiliate is required or proposes to take, together with any notices
then required or proposed to be given to or filed with or by the Borrower, such Subsidiary, the
Plan administrator or such ERISA Affiliate to or with the PBGC or any other government agency, or a
Plan participant and any material notices received by such Borrower, such Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate from the PBGC or any other government agency, or a Plan participant with respect thereto:
that a Reportable Event has occurred (except to the extent that the Borrower has previously
delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate and notices (if any) concerning such event
pursuant to the next clause hereof); that a contributing sponsor (as defined in Section 4001(a)(13)
of ERISA) of a Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA is subject to the advance reporting requirement of
PBGC Regulation Section 4043.61 (without regard to subparagraph (b)(1) thereof), and an event
described in subsection .62, .63, .64, .65, .66, .67 or .68 of PBGC Regulation Section 4043 is
reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30 days; that an
accumulated funding deficiency, within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of
ERISA, has been incurred or an application is in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower, likely to
be or has been made to the Secretary of the Treasury for a waiver or modification of the minimum
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installment payments) or an extension of any amortization
period under Section 412 or Section 303 or 304 of ERISA of the Code with respect to a Plan; that
any contribution required to be made with respect to a Plan has not been timely made, which failure
is reasonably expected to result in a material liability to the Borrower of any of its
Subsidiaries; that a Plan has been or is reasonably expected to be terminated, reorganized,
partitioned or declared insolvent under Title IV of ERISA; that a
Plan has an Unfunded Current Liability; that proceedings are in the reasonable opinion of the
Borrower likely to be or have been instituted or notice has been given to terminate or appoint a
trustee to administer a Plan which is subject to Title IV of ERISA; that a proceeding has been
instituted pursuant to Section 515 of ERISA to collect a delinquent contribution to a Plan; that
the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate will or is reasonably expected to
incur any material liability (including any indirect, contingent or secondary liability) to or on
account of the termination of or withdrawal from a Plan under Section 4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201,
4204 or 4212 of ERISA under Section 401(a)(29), 4971, 4975 or 4980 of the Code or Section 409 or
502(i) or 502(l) of ERISA; or, with respect to a group health plan (as defined in Section 607(1) of
ERISA or Section 4980B(g)(2) of the Code) under section 4980B of the Code; or that the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries may reasonably be expected to incur any material liability pursuant to any
employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) that provides benefits to
retired employees or other former employees (other than as required by Section 601 of ERISA or
benefits the full cost of which is borne by the employee or former employee) or any Plan. The
Borrower will deliver to the Administrative Agent copies of any records, documents or other
information that must be furnished to the PBGC with respect to any Plan pursuant to Section 4010 of
ERISA. The Borrower will also deliver to the Administrative Agent a complete copy of the annual
report (Form 5500 series) of each Plan (including, to the extent required, the related financial
and actuarial statements and opinions and other supporting statements, certifications, schedules
and information) required to be filed with the annual report. In addition to any certificates or
notices delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the first sentence hereof, copies of
annual reports and any records, documents or other information required to be furnished to the PBGC
or any other government agency, and any material notices received by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate with respect to any Plan shall be delivered to the
Administrative Agent reasonably promptly after the date such annual report has been filed or such
records, documents or other information required to be furnished to the PBGC or any other
government agency or such material notice has been received by the Borrower, the respective
Subsidiary or the ERISA Affiliate, as applicable.

          8.07 End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters. The Borrower shall cause (i) each of its
fiscal years to end on December 31, and (ii) each of its fiscal quarters to end on March 31, June
30 and September 30.

          8.08 Performance of Obligations. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, perform all of their obligations under the terms of each mortgage, indenture,
security agreement and other debt instrument by which it is bound, except for instances of such
non-performance as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

          8.09 Payment of Taxes. The Borrower will pay and discharge or cause to be paid and
discharged, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all taxes,

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assessments
and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits, or upon any
properties belonging to it, in each case on a timely basis, and all lawful claims of governmental
authorities which, if
unpaid, might become a lien or charge upon any properties of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries; provided that neither of the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be
required to pay (i) any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim which is being contested in
good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves with respect thereto in
accordance with GAAP or (ii) any immaterial taxes so long as (x) no assets of the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries are at risk of seizure, levy or forfeiture or (y) such taxes could not
otherwise be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          8.10 Intellectual Property Rights. The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, maintain in full force and effect all material Intellectual Property rights
necessary or appropriate to the business of the Credit Parties and take no action (including,
without limitation, the licensing of Intellectual Property), or fail to take an action, as the case
may be, in connection with such Intellectual Property rights which could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.

          8.11 Additional Security; Further Assurances. (a) The Borrower will, and will cause
each of the other Credit Parties that are Subsidiaries to, grant to the Collateral Agent security
interests and mortgages (an “Additional Mortgage”) in such Real Property of the Borrower or
such other Credit Parties that are Subsidiaries as are not covered by the original Mortgages to the
extent acquired after the Initial Borrowing Date (including to the extent acquired through a
Permitted Acquisition) and having a fair market value in excess of $10,000,000 (as determined in
good faith by the Borrower), or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, as may
reasonably be requested from time to time by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (each
such Real Property, an “Additional Mortgaged Property”).

          (b) The Borrower will, and will cause each of the other Credit Parties that are Subsidiaries
to, grant to the Collateral Agent security interests and mortgages (an “Additional Ship
Mortgage”) in such ship, barge or other vessel of the Borrower or such other Credit Parties
that are Subsidiaries as are not covered by the original Ship Mortgages to the extent acquired
after the Initial Borrowing Date (including to the extent acquired through a Permitted Acquisition)
and having a fair market value in excess of $10,000,000 (as determined in good faith by the
Borrower), or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, as may reasonably be
requested from time to time by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (each such Ship
Property, an “Additional Ship Mortgaged Property”).

          (c) In connection with the acquisition of the capital stock of a Person that becomes a
Subsidiary of the Borrower or the formation of a new Subsidiary of the Borrower, the Borrower shall
pledge or cause to be pledged all capital stock of any such Person so acquired which is owned by
the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (excluding (i) any
Subsidiary that does not constitute a Material Subsidiary, (ii) any Native American Subsidiary and
(iii) subject to Section 8.12, that portion of the voting stock of any Foreign Subsidiary which
would be in excess of 65% of the total outstanding voting stock of such Foreign Subsidiary) and
cause such Person (excluding any Subsidiaries that do not
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Subsidiaries) to enter into a guaranty substantially similar to the Subsidiary Guaranty and
additional security documents substantially similar to the Security Documents (to the extent
applicable), all as otherwise set forth in this Section 8.11, provided that if the pledge
of the capital stock of any Subsidiary acquired or created after the Initial Borrowing Date
requires approval under the applicable Gaming Regulations, the Borrower shall be required to pledge
such stock only if the requisite approvals are obtained after the exercise of its commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain such approvals (and the Borrower agrees to use its commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain such approvals).

          (d) The Borrower will cause each Domestic Subsidiary acquired, established or created after
the Initial Borrowing Date (except for any Subsidiary that does not constitute a Material
Subsidiary and any Native American Subsidiary) to grant to the Collateral Agent a first priority
Lien, subject to Permitted Liens, on all personal property (tangible and intangible) of such
Domestic Subsidiary upon terms substantially similar to those set forth in the Security Documents
(including, without limitation, the Pledge Agreement and the Security Agreement) as appropriate,
provided that such Subsidiary shall not be required to be a Subsidiary Guarantor or grant
Liens pursuant to the Security Documents to the extent any such action is prohibited by applicable
Gaming Regulations.

          (e) The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries required to take action under
Section 8.11 (a), (b), (c) and (d) to, at the expense of the Borrower, make, execute, endorse,
acknowledge, file and/or deliver to the Collateral Agent from time to time such vouchers, invoices,
schedules, confirmatory assignments, conveyances, financing statements, transfer endorsements,
powers of attorney, certificates, real property surveys, reports and other assurances or
instruments and take such further steps relating to the Collateral covered by any of the Security
Documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably require pursuant to this Section 8.11.
Furthermore, the Borrower shall cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent such opinions of
counsel, title insurance and other related documents as may be reasonably requested by the
Collateral Agent to assure itself that this Section 8.11 has been complied with.

          (f) The security interests required to be granted pursuant to this Section 8.11 shall be
granted pursuant to security documentation which shall be substantially similar to the Security
Documents previously executed and delivered by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as applicable and
otherwise reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent and shall
constitute valid and enforceable perfected security interests prior to the rights of all third
Persons and subject to no other Liens except such Liens and priority as are permitted by Section
9.01. The Additional Security Documents and other instruments related thereto shall be duly
recorded or filed in such manner and in such places and at such times as are required by law to
establish, perfect, preserve and protect the Liens, in favor of the Collateral Agent for the
benefit of the respective Secured Creditors, required to be granted pursuant to the Additional
Security Documents and all taxes, fees and other charges payable in connection therewith shall be
paid in full by the Borrower. At the time of the execution and delivery of the Additional Security
Documents, the Borrower shall cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent such opinions of
counsel, Mortgage Policies, title surveys, real estate appraisals and other related documents as
may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to assure
themselves that this Section 8.11 has been complied with.

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          (g) The Borrower agrees that each action required above by Section 8.11(a), (b) and (e) shall
be completed as soon as possible, but in no event later than 60 days after such action is requested
to be taken by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders. Subject to receipt of any
requisite approvals under applicable Gaming Regulations, the Borrower further agrees that each
action required by Sections 8.11(c) and (d) shall be completed within 30 days of the creation or
acquisition of a new Subsidiary subject thereto (or within 30 days of the date a Subsidiary first
becomes a Material Subsidiary, as the case may be).

          8.12 Foreign Subsidiaries Security; etc. Neither the Borrower nor any of its
Subsidiaries which is a Credit Party shall be required to pledge more than 65% of total outstanding
voting stock of any Foreign Subsidiary (although 100% of the non-voting stock of each Foreign
Subsidiary which is a Material Subsidiary owned by any Credit Party shall be required to be so
pledged) and Foreign Subsidiaries of the Borrower shall not be required to enter into the
Subsidiary Guaranty or any of the Security Documents unless there is a change in U.S. tax law as a
result of which the pledge of more than 65% of the total outstanding voting stock of the respective
Foreign Subsidiary, the furnishing of the guarantee pursuant to the Subsidiary Guaranty, or the
furnishing of security pursuant to the Security Documents would not give rise to “deemed dividend”
(or other adverse) tax consequences to the Borrower, in which case upon the request of the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, or the Required Lenders, the Borrower shall, or shall
cause its relevant Subsidiary or Subsidiaries to, (a) pledge such additional shares of the voting
stock of each such Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary and (b) cause each such Wholly-Owned
Foreign Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary to (A) enter into a security agreement
substantially in the form of the Security Agreement (and/or, if requested by the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders, enter into such additional or alternative
security documentation as is necessary or desirable under relevant local law to grant a security
interest in substantially all assets of the respective Foreign Subsidiary of the types which are
covered by the Security Agreement), (B) enter into a pledge agreement substantially in the form of
the Pledge Agreement (and/or, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the
Required Lenders, enter into such additional or alternative security documentation as is necessary
or desirable under relevant local law to grant a security interest in substantially all assets of
the respective Foreign Subsidiary of the types which are covered by the Pledge Agreement (other
than stock of any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary)), (C) enter into a guaranty
substantially in the form of the Subsidiary Guaranty (and/or if requested by the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders, enter into such additional and/or alternative
guarantees as may be necessary or desirable under local law) and (D) enter into such mortgages or
other security documentation under relevant local law as may be necessary or desirable to grant
security interests in such Real Property of the respective Foreign Subsidiary as may be requested
to be covered by such documentation by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the
Required Lenders. In the circumstances described above (x) all documentation required to be
entered into as described above shall be prepared by counsel to the Administrative Agent and shall
be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent and (y) the Borrower shall, or shall cause its relevant Subsidiaries to, take all actions in
connection with the entering into of the various documentations described above which may be
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders
(including making necessary filings under applicable law, delivering such title
insurance, surveys, etc., as may be customary under relevant local law, and delivering such
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customary under relevant local law).
All actions required to be taken (as described above) by or with respect to the various Foreign
Subsidiaries shall be at the expense of the Borrower and shall be taken promptly (and in any event
within 30 days) after any written request therefor shall have been received by the Borrower from
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders.

          8.13 Permitted Acquisitions. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Section 8.13 and
the requirements contained in the definition of Permitted Acquisition, the Borrower and any of its
Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries may from time to time effect Permitted Acquisitions, so long as
(in each case except to the extent the Required Lenders otherwise specifically agree in writing in
the case of a specific Permitted Acquisition):

     (i) no Default or Event of Default shall be in existence at the time of the
consummation of the proposed Permitted Acquisition or immediately after giving effect
thereto;

     (ii) the Borrower shall have given the Administrative Agent at least ten Business Days’
prior written notice of any Permitted Acquisition (or such shorter period as may be agreed
to by the Administrative Agent) and shall have given the Lenders such other information
related to the Person or business, division or product line being acquired and the Permitted
Acquisition as any Lender shall reasonably request, including, without limitation, due
diligence materials, organizational documents, good standing certificates, governmental
approvals and consents as the Required Lenders shall reasonably request;

     (iii) if such acquisition is a Significant Permitted Acquisition, calculations are made
by the Borrower of compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 9.08, 9.09 and 9.10,
on a Pro Forma Basis as if the respective Permitted Acquisition (as well as
all other Permitted Acquisitions theretofore consummated) had occurred on the first day of
the relevant calculation period, and such calculations shall show that such financial
covenants would have been complied with if the Permitted Acquisition had occurred on the
first day of such calculation period;

     (iv) the aggregate Maximum Permitted Consideration paid in connection with all
Permitted Acquisitions consummated after the Initial Borrowing Date and on or prior to the
date of the consummation of the proposed Permitted Acquisition does not exceed $300,000,000;

     (v) all representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit
Documents (other than those excepted by the Administrative Agent with respect to the
Permitted Acquisition) shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same
effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of
such Permitted Acquisition (both before and after giving effect thereto), unless stated
to relate to a specific earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties
shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date;

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     (vi) the Borrower provides to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as soon as
available but not later than 10 Business Days after the execution thereof, a copy of any
executed purchase agreement or similar agreement with respect to such Permitted Acquisition;
and

     (vii) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s
certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower, certifying to the best of his
knowledge, compliance with the requirements of preceding clauses (i) through (vi),
inclusive, containing the calculations required by the preceding clauses (iii) and (iv).

          (b) At the time of each Permitted Acquisition involving the creation or acquisition of a
Subsidiary, or the acquisition of capital stock or other equity interest of any Person, the capital
stock or other equity interests thereof created or acquired in connection with such Permitted
Acquisition shall be pledged for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8.11.

          (c) The Borrower shall cause each Subsidiary which is formed to effect, or is acquired
pursuant to, a Permitted Acquisition to comply with, and to execute and deliver, all of the
documentation required by, Section 8.11 to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.

          (d) The consummation of each Permitted Acquisition shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty by the Borrower that the certifications by the Borrower (or by one or more of its
Authorized Officers) pursuant to Section 8.13(a) are true and correct and that all conditions
thereto have been satisfied and that such acquisition is permitted in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, which representation and warranty shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty for all purposes hereunder, including, without limitation, Sections 6 and 10.

          8.14 Compliance with Environmental Laws. (a) (i) The Borrower will comply, and will
use its best efforts to cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, with all Environmental Laws
applicable to the ownership or use of its Real Property now or hereafter owned or operated by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, will promptly pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses
incurred in connection with such compliance, and will keep or cause to be kept all such Real
Property free and clear of any Liens imposed pursuant to such Environmental Laws and (ii) neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries will generate, use, treat, store, release or dispose of,
or permit the generation, use, treatment, storage, release or disposal of Hazardous Materials on
any Real Property now or hereafter owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or
transport or permit the transportation of Hazardous Materials to or from any such Real Property,
except in compliance with all Environmental Laws and reasonably required in connection with the
operation, use and maintenance of any such Real Property in the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s
business, and except to the extent that the failure to comply with the requirements specified in
clause (i) or (ii) above, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected
to result in liability under Environmental Laws that could have a Material Adverse Effect. If required to
do so under any applicable legally binding directive or order of any governmental agency, the
Borrower agrees to undertake, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to undertake, to the extent
required under applicable Environmental Laws, any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action
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Materials from any Real Property owned or operated
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in accordance with the requirements of all applicable
Environmental Laws and in accordance with such legally binding orders and directives of all
governmental authorities, except to the extent that (x) the Borrower or such Subsidiary is
contesting such order or directive in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which
adequate reserves have been established to the extent required by GAAP or (y) the failure to take
any such action could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

          (b) At the written request of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, at any time
and from time to time as is reasonable after (i) the Obligations have become due and payable
pursuant to Section 10 or (ii) the Lenders receive notice under Section 8.01(h) for any event for
which notice is required to be delivered with respect to conditions at any Real Property, the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries will provide, at their sole cost and expense, an environmental site
assessment report of reasonable scope and expense concerning any relevant Real Property now or
hereafter owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, prepared by an
environmental consulting firm approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion,
indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous Materials and the potential cost of any removal or
remedial action in connection with any Hazardous Materials on such Real Property. If the Borrower
and any of its Subsidiaries fail to provide the same within 45 days after such request was made,
the Administrative Agent may order the same, and the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, to the extent
the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries have the authority to do so, shall grant and hereby
grants, to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, access to such Real Property and specifically
grants the Administrative Agent and the Lenders an irrevocable non-exclusive license, subject to
the rights of tenants, to undertake such an assessment, all at the Borrower’s and its Subsidiary’s
expense.

          SECTION 9. Negative Covenants. The Borrower covenants and agrees that on and after
the Effective Date and until the Total Commitment and all Letters of Credit have terminated (or
have been cash collateralized or supported by a backstop letter of credit as provided in Section
4.02(j)) and the Loans, Notes and Unpaid Drawings, together with interest, Fees and all other
Obligations incurred hereunder and thereunder, are paid in full:

          9.01 Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any property or assets
(real or personal, tangible or intangible) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, provided that the provisions of this Section 9.01 shall not
prevent the creation, incurrence, assumption or existence of the following (Liens described below
are herein referred to as “Permitted Liens”):

     (i) inchoate Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet due
and payable or Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies being
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been
established in accordance with GAAP or Liens for property taxes on property which is to be
abandoned or for which the sole recourse for such tax, assessment or governmental charge or
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     (ii) Liens in respect of property or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
imposed by law, which were incurred in the ordinary course of business and do not secure
Indebtedness for borrowed money, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, materialmen’s and
mechanics’ liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business, and (x)
which do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of the Borrower’s or such
Subsidiary’s property or assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the
business of the Borrower or such Subsidiary or (y) which are being contested in good faith
by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture
or sale of the property or assets subject to any such Lien;

     (iii) Liens in existence on the Effective Date which are listed, and the property
subject thereto described, in Schedule V, but only to the respective date, if any, set forth
in such Schedule V for the removal and termination of any such Liens, plus renewals,
replacements and extensions of such Liens to the extent set forth on Schedule V,
provided that (x) the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness, if any,
secured by such Liens does not increase from that amount outstanding at the time of any such
renewal, replacement or extension and (y) any such renewal, replacement or extension does
not encumber any additional assets or properties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

     (iv) Permitted Encumbrances;

     (v) Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;

     (vi) licenses, leases or subleases granted to other Persons in the ordinary course of
business not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

     (vii) Liens upon assets subject to Capitalized Lease Obligations to the extent
permitted by Section 9.04(iii), provided that (x) such Liens only serve to secure
the payment of Indebtedness arising under such Capitalized Lease Obligation (and
replacements, extensions, refinancings and renewals thereof) and (y) the Lien encumbering
the assets giving rise to the Capitalized Lease Obligation does not encumber any other asset
of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower;

     (viii) Liens placed upon equipment or machinery or other personal or real property used
in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries at the time of
acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any such Subsidiary or within 180 days thereafter to
secure Indebtedness incurred to pay all or a portion of the purchase price thereof and all
renewals, replacements, refinancings or extensions thereof,
provided that (x) Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted by this clause (viii)
is permitted by Section 9.04(iii) and (y) in all events, the Lien encumbering the equipment
or machinery so acquired does not encumber any other asset of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary;

     (ix) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions (including zoning restrictions),
encroachments, protrusions and other similar charges or encumbrances, and minor title

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deficiencies, in each case whether now or hereafter in existence, not securing Indebtedness
for borrowed money and not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

     (x) Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statement filings regarding
operating leases entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

     (xi) Liens arising out of the existence of judgments or awards not constituting an
Event of Default under Section 10.09, provided that no cash or property in excess of
$1,000,000 is deposited or delivered to secure the respective judgment or award;

     (xii) statutory, contractual and common law landlords’ liens under leases to which the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a party;

     (xiii) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) incurred or deposits made in the
ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance
and other types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory
obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, statutory bonds, bids, leases,
government contracts, trade contracts, performance and return of money bonds and other
similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money);

     (xiv) any interest or title of a lessor, sublessor, licensee or licensor under any
lease or license agreement permitted by this Agreement;

     (xv) Liens in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law encumbering
deposits (including the right of set-off) held by such banking institutions incurred in the
ordinary course of business and which are within the general parameters customary in the
banking industry;

     (xvi) Liens arising in connection with transactions relating to accounts receivable
permitted under Section 9.02(ix); and

     (xvii) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 9.01 so long as neither (i) the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the
aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets
subject thereto exceeds (as to the Borrower and all of its Subsidiaries) $10,000,000 at any
one time.

          9.02 Consolidation, Merger, Purchase or Sale of Assets, etc. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or
dissolve its affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell,
lease or otherwise dispose of (or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time) all or any
part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or
otherwise acquire (in one or a series of related transactions) any part of the property or assets
(other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials, equipment and intangible
assets, including property acquired by way of trade or barter agreements, in the ordinary course of
business) of any Person, except that:

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     (i) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Capital Expenditures to the extent not
in violation of Section 9.07;

     (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any
assets, provided that (a) the aggregate Net Asset Sale Proceeds of all assets
subject to sales or other dispositions pursuant to this clause (ii) shall not exceed
$25,000,000 in any transaction or series of related transactions, and (b) each such
disposition is for fair market value;

     (iii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell, lease, transfer, convey or otherwise
dispose of property, equipment or any other asset that is (a) obsolete or worn out or (b) no
longer useful or necessary in the operation of the business of such Person;

     (iv) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Investments to the extent permitted by
Section 9.05;

     (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) real or personal property
in the ordinary course of business (so long as such lease does not create a Capitalized
Lease Obligation not otherwise permitted by Section 9.04(iii));

     (vi) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make sales, conveyances or other
dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;

     (vii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may transfer, license or sublicense software,
trademarks, patents and other Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business and
which does not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;

     (viii) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor may transfer assets to, lease assets to
or acquire or lease assets from the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as
the security interests granted pursuant to the Security Documents are not, in the reasonable
judgment of the Collateral Agent, adversely affected thereby) or any Subsidiary of the
Borrower may be merged or consolidated with or into, or be liquidated into, the Borrower or
any Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the Borrower or such Subsidiary Guarantor is the
surviving corporation);

     (ix) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without
recourse (except for customary indemnities, representations, warranties and agreements) and
in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the
ordinary course of business (x) which are overdue or (y) which the Borrower may
reasonably determine are difficult to collect, but only in connection with the compromise or
collection thereof (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing of receivables);

     (x) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Permitted Acquisitions so long as such
Permitted Acquisitions are effected in accordance with Section 8.13; and

     (xi) the Borrower may liquidate and dissolve Subsidiaries which are not Material
Subsidiaries.

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To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 9.02 with respect to the
sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 9.02 (other than to
another Credit Party or pursuant to clause (viii) hereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and
clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and Collateral
Agent shall be authorized to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing
and shall, at the request of the Borrower, take any such actions reasonably appropriate to effect
the foregoing.

          9.03 Dividends. The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, authorize, declare or pay any Dividends with respect to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
except that:

     (i) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may pay Dividends to the Borrower or any
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower; and

     (ii) so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, the
Borrower may authorize, declare or pay Dividends so long as the aggregate amount paid (or
value of property distributed) in respect of all such Dividends shall not exceed $40,000,000
in any one fiscal year of the Borrower.

          9.04 Indebtedness. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, contract, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

     (i) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents;

     (ii) Indebtedness under Interest Rate Protection or Other Hedging Agreements to the
extent entered into pursuant to Section 9.05;

     (iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower and any Subsidiary of the Borrower evidenced by
Capitalized Lease Obligations to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.07 and purchase
money Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower secured by Liens
permitted under Section 9.01(viii) and any refinancings, renewals or extensions thereof;
provided that the aggregate amount of Indebtedness
evidenced by Capitalized Lease Obligations and the aggregate principal amount of such
purchase money Indebtedness and all such refinancings, renewals or extensions, outstanding
under this clause (iii) at any one time shall not exceed $25,000,000;

     (iv) Indebtedness of the Borrower, and subordinated guaranties thereof by the
Subsidiary Guarantors, constituting Subordinated Notes, provided that the aggregate
principal amount thereof shall not exceed $500,000,000 at any one time outstanding;

     (v) the Existing Indebtedness and any refinancing, renewals or extensions thereof
(provided that the principal amount thereof is not increased);

     (vi) Contingent Obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (A) as a guarantor of the
lessee under any lease pursuant to which the Borrower or a Subsidiary is the lessee so long
as such lease is otherwise permitted hereunder, (B) with respect to any

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Indebtedness of the
Borrower or a Subsidiary permitted by this Section 9.04 (other than Section 9.04(iv) or
(vii)) or (C) permitted under Section 9.05(v));

     (vii) (x) the Borrower may make loans or advances to any of its Subsidiaries that are
Subsidiary Guarantors and (y) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may make loans or advances to
the Borrower or to another Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a Subsidiary Guarantor so long
as, in each case (A) any such loan or advance shall be evidenced by an Intercompany Note,
which Intercompany Note shall be pledged to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Creditors in accordance with, and to the extent provided by, the Pledge Agreement,
and (B) in the case of any intercompany loans or advances made to the Borrower, the
Intercompany Note shall contain subordination provisions contained in Exhibit N;

     (viii) Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in respect of trade-related
letters of credit, in each case provided in the ordinary course of business, and any
extension, renewal or refinancing thereof to the extent not provided to secure the repayment
of other Indebtedness and to the extent that the amount of refinancing Indebtedness is not
greater than the amount of Indebtedness being refinanced;

     (ix) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of
a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against sufficient funds in the ordinary course
of business, provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within two Business
Days of its incurrence; and

     (x) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not to exceed
$15,000,000 in aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time.

          9.05 Advances, Investments and Loans. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any
of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, lend money or credit or make advances to any
Person, or purchase or acquire any stock, obligations or securities of, or any other interest in,
or make any capital contribution to, any other Person, or purchase or own a futures contract or
otherwise become liable for the purchase or sale of currency or other commodities at a future date
in the nature of a futures
contract (each of the foregoing an “Investment” and collectively, the
“Investments”), except that the following shall be permitted:

     (i) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold accounts receivables owing
to any of them, if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or
dischargeable in accordance with customary terms;

     (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold cash and Cash Equivalents;

     (iii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make loans and advances in the ordinary
course of business to their respective officers, directors and employees so long as the
aggregate principal amount thereof at any time outstanding (determined without regard to any
write-downs or write-offs of such loans and advances) shall not exceed $10,000,000;

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     (iv) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may enter into non-speculative Interest Rate
Protection or Other Hedging Agreements;

     (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may incur Contingent Obligations in Native
American Subsidiaries or other Persons in support of capital projects entered into in
conjunction with Persons which are not Subsidiaries of the Borrower; provided that the
exposure incurred by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in respect of such Contingent
Obligations shall be expressly limited to an aggregate amount which is not in excess of
$250,000,000;

     (vi) the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries may make Investments in any Subsidiary
that is not a Material Subsidiary or as necessary to form Subsidiaries of the Borrower
permitted under Section 9.15;

     (vii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may acquire and own promissory notes and other
similar non-cash consideration received by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection
with dispositions permitted by Section 9.02;

     (viii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may acquire and own investments (including
debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers
and customers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with,
customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business;

     (ix) the Borrower or any Subsidiary may make Investments in any Subsidiary Guarantor;

     (x) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Permitted Acquisitions permitted under
Section 9.02(x);

     (xi) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness permitted under Section
9.04;

     (xii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Investments with the net proceeds of
new common equity issuances of the Borrower so long as such Investments are made within 180
days following the date of receipt of such proceeds; and

     (xiii) in addition to investments permitted by clauses (i) through (xii) of this
Section 9.05, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Investments on any date in an
amount not to exceed the Available Investment Basket Amount on such date, it being
understood and agreed that to the extent the Borrower or one or more other Credit Parties
(after the respective Investment has been made) receives (A) a cash return from the
respective Investment of amounts previously invested pursuant to this clause (xiii) (which
cash return may be made by way of repayment of principal in the case of loans and cash
equity returns (whether as a distribution, dividend or redemption) in the case of equity
investments), (B) a reduction or termination of an Investment in the form of a Contingent
Obligation made under this clause (xiii) or (C) a return in the form of an asset
distribution in respect of the respective Investment of any asset previously contributed
pursuant to this clause (xiii), then the amount of such cash return of investment, such
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termination of a Contingent Obligation or the fair market value of such
distributed asset (as determined in good faith by senior management of the Borrower), as the
case may be, shall apply to increase the Available Investment Basket Amount,
provided that the aggregate amount of increases to the Available Investment Basket
Amount described above in respect of any Investment shall not exceed the amount previously
invested pursuant to this clause (xiii) in such Investment.

          9.06 Transactions with Affiliates. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of
its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction or series of related transactions, whether or not
in the ordinary course of business, with any Affiliate of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
other than on terms and conditions substantially as favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary as
would reasonably be obtained by the Borrower or such Subsidiary at that time in a comparable
arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, except that:

     (i) Dividends may be paid to the extent provided in Section 9.03;

     (ii) loans may be made and other transactions may be entered into by the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by Sections 9.02, 9.04 and 9.05;

     (iii) customary fees, indemnities and reimbursements may be paid to officers,
consultants and directors of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;

     (iv) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may enter into and make payments pursuant to
employment arrangements with officers and senior management employees in the ordinary course
of business;

     (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make payments pursuant to employment
agreements existing on the Initial Borrowing Date;

     (vi) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make payments pursuant to the Tax Sharing
Agreements or under substantially similar agreements with existing Subsidiaries or
Subsidiaries created or acquired after the Effective Date;

     (vii) the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors may enter into transactions among
themselves; and

     (viii) the Borrower may issue its capital stock (other than Disqualified Stock).

          9.07 Maximum Capital Expenditures. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of
its Subsidiaries to, make any Capital Expenditures, except that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
may make Capital Expenditures so long as the aggregate amount of such Capital Expenditures made
under this Section 9.07 does not exceed during the period from the Initial Borrowing Date to and
including Initial Term Maturity Date, $1,000,000,000.

          9.08 Leverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Leverage Ratio at any time
during a period set forth below to be greater than the ratio set forth opposite such period below:

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	Period	 	Ratio
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2005
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2006
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2006
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2006
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2006
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2007
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2007
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2007
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2007
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2008
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2008
	 	 	5.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2008
	 	 	5.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2008
	 	 	5.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2009
	 	 	5.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2009
	 	 	5.25:1.00	 

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	Period	 	Ratio
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2009
	 	 	5.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2009
	 	 	5.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2010
	 	 	4.75:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2010
	 	 	4.75:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2010
	 	 	4.75:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2010
	 	 	4.75:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2011
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2011
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2011
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2011
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2012
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2012
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2012
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Thereafter
	 	 	4.50:1.00.	 

          9.09 Senior Leverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Senior Leverage Ratio at
any time during a period set forth below to be greater than the ratio set forth opposite such
period below:

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	Period	 	Ratio
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2005
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2006
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2006
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2006
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2006
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2007
	 	 	4.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2007
	 	 	4.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2007
	 	 	4.25:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2007
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2008
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2008
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2008
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2008
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2009
	 	 	4.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2009
	 	 	4.25:1.00	 

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	Period	 	Ratio
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2009
	 	 	4.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2009
	 	 	3.75:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2010
	 	 	3.50:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2010
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2010
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2010
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2011
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2011
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2011
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
December 31, 2011
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
March 31, 2012
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
June 30, 2012
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter ending
September 30, 2012
	 	 	3.00:1.00	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Thereafter
	 	 	3.00:1.00.	 

          9.10 Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, in
each case taken as one accounting period, ended on the last day of any fiscal quarter to be less
than 1.25:1.00.

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          9.11 Limitation on Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain
Other Agreements; Limitations of Prepayments and Modifications of Indebtedness; etc. The
Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to

     (i) amend, modify or change its Certificate of Incorporation (including, without
limitation, by the filing or modification of any certificate of designation) or By-Laws,
other than any amendments, modifications or changes which would not be reasonably likely to
be materially adverse to the interest of the Lenders,

     (ii) amend or modify, or permit the amendment or modification of, any provision of any
Subordinated Notes Document or make any payment consistent with an amendment thereof or
change thereto, if the effect of such amendment or change is to increase the interest rate
or amount of interest required to be paid in cash on the Subordinated Notes, change (to
earlier dates) any dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due thereon,
change any event of default or condition to an event of default with respect thereto (other
than to eliminate or decrease the scope of any such event of default or increase any grace
period related thereto), change (to earlier dates or greater amounts) the redemption,
mandatory prepayment or defeasance provisions thereof,
change the subordination provisions of such Subordinated Notes Document (or of any
guaranty thereof), or change any collateral therefor (other than to release such
collateral), or if the effect of such amendment or change, together with all other
amendments or changes made, is to increase materially the obligations of the obligor
thereunder or to confer any additional rights on the holders of such Subordinated Notes, (or
a trustee or other representative on their behalf), which could, in the reasonable judgment
of the Administrative Agent, reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to any Credit
Party or Lenders, or

     (iii) make (or give any notice in respect thereof) any voluntary or optional payment or
prepayment on or voluntary or optional redemption or acquisition for value (including,
without limitation, by way of depositing with the trustee with respect thereto monies or
securities before due for the purpose of paying when due) of (i) the Existing Subordinated
Notes if, at the time of giving irrevocable notice of any such redemption or repurchase, any
Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom or (ii) any Additional
Subordinated Notes, if at the time of giving irrevocable notice of any such redemption or
repurchase, any Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom or if, after
giving effect to such redemption or repurchase, more than 50% of the aggregate initial
principal amount of the Additional Subordinated Notes are redeemed or repurchased prior to
the Maturity Date.

          9.12 Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries. The Borrower will not, and
will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any such
Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its capital stock or any other
interest or participation in its profits owned by Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or
pay any Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) make loans or
advances to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or (c) transfer any of its properties or
assets to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, except for such

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encumbrances or
restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) applicable law, (ii) this Agreement and the other
Credit Documents, (iii) customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease
governing a leasehold interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (iv) customary
provisions restricting assignment of any contract or licensing agreement entered into by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business, (v) the Subordinated
Notes Documents, (vi) purchase money obligations or Capital Lease Obligations (or refinancings
thereof that impose no more restrictive restrictions) for property acquired in the ordinary course
of business that impose restrictions of the nature described in clause (c) above solely on the
property so acquired, (vii) Permitted Liens on assets securing Indebtedness permitted under Section
9.04, (viii) restrictions applicable to assets subject to an agreement for the sale of such assets
and (ix) restrictions applicable to Indebtedness or capital stock of a Person acquired by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary as in effect at the time of acquisition, except if such restriction was
incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition or such restriction applies
to the Borrower, any Subsidiary (other than the Person acquired) or the assets thereof (other than
the assets of the Person so acquired) or any after-acquired property (other than proceeds of such
assets).

          9.13 Limitation on Issuance of Capital Stock. (a) The Borrower shall not issue any
Disqualified Stock.

          (b) The Borrower will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to issue any capital stock or other
equity interests (including by way of sales of treasury stock) or any options or warrants to
purchase, or securities convertible into, capital stock, except (i) for transfers and replacements
of then outstanding shares of capital stock, (ii) for stock splits, stock dividends and similar
issuances which do not decrease the percentage ownership of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
in any class of the capital stock of such Subsidiary, (iii) to qualify directors to the extent
required by applicable law, (iv) in connection with the creation of Subsidiaries of the Borrower in
compliance with Section 9.15 and (v) to the Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary.

          9.14 Business. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
engage (directly or indirectly) in any business other than the type of business in which the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the Effective Date and reasonable extensions thereof.

          9.15 Limitations on Creation/Sale of Subsidiaries . (a) The Borrower will not, and
will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, establish, create or acquire after the Initial
Borrowing Date any Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary, provided that (A) the Borrower
and its Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries that are, or are to become, Subsidiary Guarantors may
create and/or acquire Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries so long as (i) all of the capital stock of
such new Subsidiary are pledged to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
Pledge Agreement, (ii) such new Subsidiary enters into the Subsidiary Guaranty and executes and
delivers to the Collateral Agent counterparts of the Security Agreement and the Pledge Agreement,
(iii) such new Subsidiary enters into such Additional Security Documents as the Administrative
Agent or the Required Lenders may require pursuant to Section 8.11 and (iv) such new Subsidiary
executes and delivers all other relevant documentation (including opinions of counsel) of the type
described in Section 5 as (x) such new Subsidiary would have had to

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deliver if it were a Credit
Party on the Initial Borrowing Date or (y) reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, and
(B) Subsidiaries which are not Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries may be created, established and
acquired, so long as any Capital Stock therein owned by one or more Credit Parties are pledged
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement to the extent required by the terms thereof and Section 8.11.

          (b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell or otherwise
dispose of any of the capital stock or other equity interests of any of their respective
Subsidiaries, provided that (x) sales or issuances of capital stock of Subsidiaries formed
or acquired after the Initial Borrowing Date shall be permitted so long as after giving effect
thereto the Borrower owns, directly or indirectly, at least 75% of the capital stock of such
Subsidiary and such sale or issuance is permitted by Section 9.02 and Subsidiaries of the Borrower
on the Initial Borrowing Date (including any successors) continue to be 100% owned, directly or
indirectly, by
the Borrower and the Net Asst Sale Proceeds of such sale or disposition are or will be applied
and/or reinvested in accordance with Section 4.02, (y) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may
sell or otherwise dispose of 100% of the capital stock of a Subsidiary of such Person owned by the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries so long as such sale is permitted by Section 9.02 and the Net Asset
Sale Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are or will be applied and/or reinvested in
accordance with Section 4.02 and (z) the Borrower may liquidate and dissolve Subsidiaries which are
not Material Subsidiaries.

          9.16 No Other Designated Senior Indebtedness. The Borrower will not, and will not
permit any Subsidiary to, create or permit the creation after the Initial Borrowing Date of, any
class of “Designated Senior Debt” (or similar term) as defined in any Subordinated Notes Document
other than the Obligations.

          SECTION 10. Events of Default. Upon the occurrence of any of the following specified
events (each an “Event of Default”):

          10.01 Payments. The Borrower shall (i) default in the payment when due of any
principal of any Loan or any Note or (ii) default, and such default shall continue unremedied for
three or more Business Days, in the payment when due of any Unpaid Drawings or interest on any Loan
or Note, or any Fees or any other amounts owing hereunder, thereunder or under any other Credit
Document; or

          10.02 Representations, etc. Any representation, warranty or statement made by any
Credit Party herein or in any other Credit Document or in any certificate delivered pursuant hereto
or thereto shall prove to be untrue in any material respect on the date as of which made or deemed
made; or

          10.03 Covenants. The Borrower shall (i) default in the due performance or observance
by it of any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 7.08, 8.01(f)(i), 8.07 or Section 9
or (ii) default in the due performance or observance by it of any other term, covenant or agreement
contained in this Agreement (other than as described in Section 10.01, 10.02 or 10.03(i)), and such
default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Borrower by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender specifying such default; or

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          10.04 Default Under Other Agreements. The Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall
(i) default in any payment of any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) beyond the period of
grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created or
(ii) default in the observance or performance of any agreement or condition relating to any
Indebtedness (other
than the Obligations) or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or
relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or
other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a
trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause (determined without regard to
whether any notice is required), any such Indebtedness to become due or required to be repurchased
prior to its stated maturity, provided that (x) it shall not be a Default or Event of
Default under this Section 10.04 unless the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness as
described in preceding clauses (i) and (ii) is at least $25,000,000; or

          10.05 Bankruptcy, etc. The Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries shall
commence a voluntary case concerning itself under Title 11 of the United States Code entitled
“Bankruptcy”, as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto (the “Bankruptcy
Code”); or an involuntary case is commenced against the Borrower or any of its Material
Subsidiaries and the petition is not controverted within 10 days, or is not dismissed within 60
days, after commencement of the case; or a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy Code) is
appointed for, or takes charge of, all or substantially all of the property of the Borrower or any
of its Material Subsidiaries, or the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries commences any
other proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors,
dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter
in effect relating to the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries, or there is commenced
against the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries any such proceeding which remains
undismissed for a period of 60 days, or the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries is
adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or
proceeding is entered; or the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries suffers any appointment
of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial part of its property to continue
undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or the Borrower or any of its Material
Subsidiaries makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any corporate action is
taken by the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries for the purpose of effecting any of the
foregoing; or

          10.06 ERISA. To the extent that Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate
sponsors, contributes to or maintains a Plan or has any actual or contingent liability under a Plan
at any time during the course of a Loan under this Agreement, (a) any Plan shall fail to satisfy
the minimum funding standard required for any plan year or part thereof under Section 412 of the
Code or Section 302 of ERISA or a waiver of such standard or extension of any amortization period
is sought or granted under Section 412 of the Code or Section 303 or 304 of ERISA, a Reportable
Event shall have occurred, a contributing sponsor (as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA) of a
Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA shall be subject to the advance reporting requirement of PBGC
Regulation Section 4043.61 (without regard to subparagraph (b)(1) thereof) and an event described
in subsection .62, .63, .64, .65, .66, .67 or .68 of PBGC Regulation Section 4043 shall be
reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30 days, any Plan which
is subject to Title IV of ERISA shall have had or is reasonably likely to have a trustee appointed
to administer such Plan, any Plan which is subject to Title IV of ERISA is, shall have been or is
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termination proceedings under ERISA, any Plan shall have an Unfunded Current Liability, a
contribution required to be made with respect to a Plan has not been timely made, the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or is reasonably likely to incur a
liability to or on account of a Plan under Section 409, 502(i), 502(l), 515, 4062, 4063, 4064,
4069, 4201, 4204 or 4212 of ERISA or Section 401(a)(29), 4971 or 4975 of the Code or on account of
a group health plan (as defined in Section 607(1) of ERISA or Section 4980B(g)(2) of the Code or 45
Code of Federal Regulations Section 160.103) under Section 4980B of the Code and/or the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
has incurred or is reasonably likely to incur liabilities pursuant to one or more employee welfare
benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) which provide benefits to retired employees or
other former employees (other than as required by Section 601 of ERISA or benefits the full cost of
which are borne by the employee or former employee); (b) there shall result from any such event or
events the imposition of a lien, the granting of a security interest, or a liability or a material
risk of incurring a liability; and (c) such lien, security interest or liability, individually
and/or in the aggregate has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
or

          10.07 Security Documents. At any time after the execution and delivery thereof, any
of the Security Documents shall cease to be in full force and effect, or shall cease in any
material respect to give the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors the Liens,
rights, powers and privileges purported to be created thereby (including, without limitation, a
perfected security interest in, and Lien on, all of the Collateral), in favor of the Collateral
Agent, superior to and prior to the rights of all third Persons (except as permitted by Section
9.01), and subject to no other Liens (except as permitted by Section 9.01), in each case other than
release or termination in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents, or any Credit Party
shall default in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or agreement on its part
to be performed or observed pursuant to any of the Security Documents and, other than in the case
of any such default which adversely affects the validity, perfection or priority of any Lien
created thereby in any material respect (each of which defaults shall constitute an Event of
Default without notice or lapse of time), such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30
days after written notice to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent specifying such default; or

          10.08 Guaranty. Any Guaranty or any provision thereof shall cease to be in full force
or effect as to the relevant Guarantor or other party thereunder (other than in accordance with the
express terms thereof) or any Guarantor or other party thereunder or Person acting by or on behalf
of such Guarantor or such party shall deny or disaffirm in writing such Guarantor’s or such party’s
obligations under the relevant Guaranty, or any Guarantor or such party shall default in the due
performance or observance of any term, covenant or agreement on its part to be performed or
observed pursuant to any Guaranty; or

          10.09 Judgments. One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries a liability (not paid
or fully covered by a reputable and solvent insurance company) and such judgments and decrees
either shall be final and non-appealable or shall not be vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded
pending appeal for any period of 60 consecutive days, and the aggregate amount of all such
judgments exceeds $25,000,000; or

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          10.10 Gaming Authority. Any License Revocation occurs that continues for more than 30
consecutive days with respect to any Material Gaming Facility; or

          10.11 Change of Control. A Change of Control shall occur;

then, and in any such event, and at any time thereafter, if any Event of Default shall then be
continuing, the Administrative Agent, upon the written request of the Required Lenders, shall by
written notice to the Borrower, take any or all of the following actions, without prejudice to the
rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the holder of any Note to enforce its claims
against any Credit Party (provided that, if an Event of Default specified in Section 10.05
shall occur with respect to the Borrower, the result which would occur upon the giving of written
notice by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower as specified in clauses (i) and (ii) below shall
occur automatically without the giving of any such notice): (i) declare the Total Commitment
terminated, whereupon all Commitments of each Lender shall forthwith terminate immediately and any
Commitment Commission shall forthwith become due and payable without any other notice of any kind;
(ii) declare the principal of and any accrued interest in respect of all Loans and the Notes and
all Obligations owing hereunder and thereunder to be, whereupon the same shall become, forthwith
due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby waived by each Credit Party; (iii) terminate any Letter of Credit which may be terminated in
accordance with its terms; (iv) direct the Borrower to pay (and the Borrower agrees that upon
receipt of such notice, or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 10.05
with respect to the Borrower, it will pay) to the Collateral Agent at the Payment Office such
additional amount of cash, to be held as security by the Collateral Agent, as is equal to the
aggregate Stated Amount of all Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower and then
outstanding; (v) enforce, as Collateral Agent, all of the Liens and security interests created
pursuant to the Security Documents (subject to compliance with Gaming Regulations) and (vi) apply
any cash collateral held pursuant to Section 4.02 in satisfaction of the Obligations.

          SECTION 11. Definitions and Accounting Terms.

          11.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such
meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):

          “Accounting Changes” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.07(a).

          “Additional Collateral” shall mean all property (whether real or personal) in which
security interests are granted (or have been purported to be granted) (and continue to be in effect
at the time of determination) pursuant to Section 8.11.

          “Additional Mortgage” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.11(a).

          “Additional Mortgaged Property” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.11(b).

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          “Additional Security Documents” shall mean all mortgages, pledge agreements, security
agreements and other security documents entered into pursuant to Section 8.11 with respect to
Additional Collateral.

          “Additional Ship Mortgage” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.11(b).

          “Additional Ship Mortgaged Property” shall have the meaning provided in Section
8.11(b).

          “Additional Subordinated Notes” shall mean subordinated notes issued by the Borrower,
provided that (x) the covenants and events of default contained in the indenture, note
purchase agreement or other document relating to such indebtedness, when considered as a whole, are
no more restrictive in any material respect on the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries than the
provisions of the indenture for the Existing Subordinated Notes, (y) the subordination provisions
contained in the indenture, note purchase agreement or other document relating to such indebtedness
are no less favorable to the Lenders in any material respect than those contained in the indenture
for the Existing Subordinated Notes and (iii) no principal payment in respect of such indebtedness
is scheduled to be paid prior to 366 days after the Initial Term Maturity Date.

          “Administrative Agent” shall mean Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in its
capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders hereunder, and shall include any successor to the
Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 12.09.

          “Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person (including for
purposes of Section 9.06 only, all directors, officers and partners of such Person) directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, such
Person; provided, however, that for purposes of Section 9.06, an Affiliate of the
Borrower shall include any Person that directly or indirectly owns more than 10% of any class of
the capital stock of the Borrower. A Person shall be deemed to control another Person if such
Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such other Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities,
by contract or otherwise.

          “Affiliate Contracts” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Agreement” shall mean this Credit Agreement, as amended, modified, extended, renewed,
replaced, restated or supplemented from time to time.

          “Anticipated Reinvestment Amount” shall mean, with respect to any Reinvestment
Election, the amount specified in the Reinvestment Notice delivered by the Borrower in connection
therewith as the amount of Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance Proceeds from the related Asset
Sale or Recovery Event, as the case may be, that the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries intend to use
to purchase, construct or otherwise acquire Reinvestment Assets.

          “Applicable Margin” and “Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage” shall
mean: (a) with respect to Revolving Loans or Commitment Commissions, from and after any Start Date
to and including the corresponding End Date, the respective percentage per

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annum set forth below
under the respective Revolving Loans or Commitment Commission Percentage, as the case may be, and
opposite the respective Level (i.e., Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5, Level 6
or Level 7, as the case may be) indicated to have been achieved on the applicable Test Date for
such Start Date (as shown on the respective officer’s certificate delivered pursuant to Section
8.01(e) or the first proviso below):

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Applicable
	 	 	 	 	Revolving Loans	 	Revolving Loans	 	Commitment
	 	 	 	 	maintained as	 	maintained as	 	Commission
	Level	 	Leverage Ratio	 	Eurodollar Loans	 	Base Rate Loans	 	Percentage
	1

	 	Greater than or
equal to 5.0:1.00
	 	 	1.75	%	 	 	0.75	%	 	 	0.50	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	2

	 	Less than 5.00:1.00
but greater than or
equal to 4.50:1.00
	 	 	1.625	%	 	 	0.625	%	 	 	0.375	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	3

	 	Less than 4.50:1.00
but greater than or
equal to 4.00:1.00
	 	 	1.50	%	 	 	0.50	%	 	 	0.30	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	4

	 	Less than 4.00:1.00
but greater than or
equal to 3.50:1.00
	 	 	1.25	%	 	 	0.25	%	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	5

	 	Less than 3.50:1.00
but greater than or
equal to 3.00:1.00
	 	 	1.00	%	 	 	0	%	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	6

	 	Less than 3.00:1.00
but greater than or
equal to
2.50:1.00
	 	 	0.875	%	 	 	0	%	 	 	0.25	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	7

	 	Less than
2.50:1.00
	 	 	0.75	%	 	 	0	%	 	 	0.25	%

; provided, however, that (x) if the Borrower fails to deliver the financial
statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(a) or (b) (accompanied by the
officer’s certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(e) showing the applicable
Leverage Ratio on the

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relevant Test Date) on or prior to the respective date required by such
Sections, then Level 1 pricing shall apply until such time, if any, as the financial statements
required as set forth above and the accompanying officer’s certificate have been delivered showing
the pricing for the respective Margin Reduction Period is at a level which is less than Level 1 (it
being understood that, in the case of any late delivery of the financial statements and officer’s
certificate as so required, the Applicable Margin and Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage,
if any, shall apply only from and after the date of the delivery of the complying financial
statements and officer’s certificate) and (y) if the Majority Grid Lenders so elect, Level 1
pricing shall apply at any time when any Default or Event of Default under Section 10.01 is in
existence; provided, further, that for the period from the Initial Borrowing Date
to the date of the delivery of the Borrower’s financial statements (and related officer’s
certificate) in respect of its fiscal quarter ending closest to December 31, 2005, Level 5 pricing
shall apply to the Revolving Loans;

          (b) with respect to Initial Term Loans maintained as (i) Base Rate Loans, a percentage per
annum equal to 0.50% and (ii) Eurodollar Loans, a percentage per annum equal to 1.50%;

          (c) with respect to Swingline Loans, 0%; and

          (d) with respect to each New Tranche of Incremental Term Loans, the Applicable Margins shall
be that percentage set forth in, or calculated in accordance with, Section 1.14 and the relevant
Incremental Commitment Agreement (or, in the case of any New Tranche of Incremental Term Loans
extended pursuant to more than one Incremental Commitment Agreement, as may be provided in the
first Incremental Commitment Agreement executed and delivered with respect to such New Tranche).

          “Asset Sale” shall mean the sale, transfer or other disposition by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries to any Person other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any asset
of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, other than (a) sales, transfers or other dispositions in the
ordinary course of business of goods or inventory and/or obsolete, worn out or excess
equipment (including gaming equipment replaced in the ordinary course of business) or
intellectual property, (b) mergers among Credit Parties or where a Credit Party is the surviving
Person permitted by Section 9.02, (c) dispositions to a Credit Party, (d) the sale or issuance of
any capital stock of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Credit Party, (e) leases or subleases of
real or personal property in the ordinary course of business on commercially reasonable terms to
the extent that the Borrower determines that such property is immaterial and no longer necessary in
the conduct of its business or such lease or sublease is to an operator of a restaurant, store or
other enterprise within or adjacent to a casino facility of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, (f)
making Investments as permitted by Section 9.05 or (g) sales, transfers or other dispositions the
proceeds of which do not exceed $2,500,000 for any transaction or series of related transactions.

          “Assignment and Assumption Agreement” shall mean the Assignment and Assumption
Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit K (appropriately completed).

          “Authorized Officer” of any Credit Party shall mean any of the Chairman of the Board,
the President, the Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any
Assistant Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer, the Chief Financial Officer or the

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Controller of such
Credit Party or any other officer of such Credit Party which is designated in writing to the
Administrative Agent, DBTCA and the Issuing Lender by any of the foregoing officers of such Credit
Party as being authorized to give such notices under this Agreement.

          “Available Investment Basket Amount” shall mean, on any date of determination, an
amount equal to the sum (without duplication) of (i) $250,000,000 minus (ii) the aggregate
amount of Investments made (including for such purpose the fair market value of any assets
contributed to any Investment Entity (as determined in good faith by senior management of the
Borrower), net of Indebtedness assigned to, and assumed by, the respective Investment Entity in
connection therewith) pursuant to Section 9.05(xiii) after the Effective Date, minus (iii)
the aggregate amount of Indebtedness or other obligations (whether absolute, accrued, contingent or
otherwise and whether or not due) of any Investment Entity for which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than the respective Investment Entity) is liable on such date of determination,
minus (iv) all payments made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the
respective Investment Entity) in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations of the respective
Investment Entity (including, without limitation, payments in respect of obligations described in
preceding clause (iii) after the Effective Date, plus (v) the amount of any increase to the
Available Investment Basket Amount made after the Effective Date in accordance with the provisions
of Section 9.05(xiii).

          “Bankruptcy Code” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05.

          “Base Rate” at any time shall mean the higher of (i) 1/2 of 1% in excess of the Federal
Funds Rate and (ii) the Prime Lending Rate.

          “Base Rate Loan” shall mean (i) each Swingline Loan and (ii) each Loan designated or
deemed designated as such by the Borrower at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion
thereto.

          “Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

          “Borrowing” shall mean the borrowing of one Type of Loan of a single Tranche from all
the Lenders having Commitments of the respective Tranche (or from the Swingline Lender in the case
of Swingline Loans) on a given date (or resulting from a conversion or conversions on such date)
having in the case of Eurodollar Loans the same Interest Period, provided that Base Rate
Loans incurred pursuant to Section 1.10(b) shall be considered part of the related Borrowing of
Eurodollar Loans.

          “Business Day” shall mean (i) for all purposes other than as covered by clause (ii)
below, any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be in New York City a legal holiday
or a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other government action
to close and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in connection with, and payments
of principal and interest on, Eurodollar Loans, any day which is a Business Day described in clause
(i) above and which is also a day for trading by and between banks in the New York interbank
Eurodollar market.

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          “Calculation Date” shall mean the date of the respective Permitted Acquisition,
incurrence, assumption or issuance of Indebtedness, repayment of Indebtedness, or other event, as
the case may be, which gives rise to the requirement to calculate compliance with the financial
covenants under this Agreement on a Pro Forma Basis.

          “Calculation Period” shall mean the Test Period (taken as one accounting period) most
recently ended prior to a given Calculation Date.

          “Capital Expenditures” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all expenditures
(excluding barter transactions effected in the ordinary course of business) by such Person which
should be capitalized in accordance with GAAP, including all such expenditures with respect to
fixed or capital assets (including, without limitation, expenditures for maintenance and repairs
which should be capitalized in accordance with GAAP) and the amount of capital assets associated
with Capitalized Lease Obligations incurred by such Person (which Capital Expenditures shall be
deemed to include expenditures by such person to acquire stock or other evidence of beneficial
ownership of any other Person for the purpose of acquiring the capital assets of such Person (to
the extent of such capital assets). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Capital Expenditures shall not
include capitalized interest.

          “Capitalized Lease Obligations” of any Person shall mean all rental obligations which,
under GAAP, are or will be required to be capitalized on the books of such Person, in each case
taken at the amount thereof accounted for as indebtedness in accordance with GAAP.

          “Cash Equivalents” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) securities issued or directly and
fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof
(provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support
thereof) having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition, (ii) time
deposits and certificates of deposit with maturities of not more than one year from the date of
acquisition by such Person of any commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking
subsidiary of a bank
holding company organized under the laws of the United States, any State thereof, the District
of Columbia or any foreign jurisdiction having capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating
in excess of $200,000,000, (iii) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 90 days for
underlying securities of the types described in clause (i) above entered into with any bank meeting
the qualifications specified in clause (ii) above, (iv) commercial paper issued by any Person
incorporated in the United States rated at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least
P-1 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s and in each case maturing not more than one year after the
date of acquisition by such Person, (v) investments in money market funds substantially all of
whose assets are comprised of securities of the types described in clauses (i) through (iv) above
and (vi) demand deposit accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business.

          “CERCLA” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., and any successor thereto.

          “Change of Control” shall mean (i) that the Neilsen Family Group shall fail to own or
control more than 35% of the Voting Stock of the Borrower or (ii) any Person or group of related
Persons for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, together with any Affiliates

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thereof
(other than the Neilsen Family Group) shall become the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of
shares representing a greater percentage of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the
issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower at such time than is beneficially owned by the
Neilsen Family Group or (iii) the replacement of a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Borrower over a two-year period from the directors who constituted the Board of Directors of the
Borrower at the beginning of such period, and such replacement shall not have been approved by a
vote of at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the Borrower then still in office who
either were members of such Board of Directors at the beginning of such period or whose election as
a member of such Board of Directors was previously so approved, or (iv)a “change of control” or
similar event shall occur as provided in any Subordinated Notes Document.

          “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and
the regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder. Section references to the Code are
to the Code, as in effect at the date of this Agreement, and to any subsequent provision of the
Code, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.

          “Collateral” shall mean all property (whether real or personal) with respect to which
any security interests have been granted (or purported to be granted) pursuant to any Security
Document, including, without limitation, all Pledge Agreement Collateral, all Security Agreement
Collateral, all Mortgaged Properties, all Ship Properties and all cash and Cash Equivalents
delivered as collateral pursuant to Section 4.02 or Section 10 hereof and all Additional
Collateral, if any.

          “Collateral Agent” shall mean the Administrative Agent acting as collateral agent for
the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents.

          “Collective Bargaining Agreements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Commitment” shall mean any of the commitments of any Lender, i.e., whether
the Initial Term Loan Commitments or Revolving Loan Commitment.

          “Commitment Commission” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.01(a).

          “Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated EBITDA,
adjusted by subtracting therefrom the sum of (i) the amount of all cash payments made or required
to be made by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in respect of taxes or tax liabilities measured by
taxable income for such period after giving effect to applicable net operating loss and AMT carry
forwards and all other applicable tax credits, (ii) the amount of all cash Dividends actually paid
during such period (including, without limitation, capital stock repurchases during such period)
and (iii) the amount of all Capital Expenditures made by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries actually
paid during such period for the purpose of maintenance and repairs of fixed or capital assets.

          “Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, the total
consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding
amortization or write-off of debt discount and debt issuance costs but including commissions and
other fees and charges associated with Indebtedness and all commissions and

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other fees and charges
owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under any
Interest Rate Protection or Other Hedging Agreements in respect of interest rates to the extent
such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance with GAAP) determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP for such period and which are required to be paid in cash during that
period (calculated without regard to any limitations on the payment thereof) plus, without
duplication, that portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP representing the interest
factor for such period and any interest expense capitalized during such period.

          “Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of the
Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP, before Consolidated Net Interest Expense, provision for taxes and non-cash compensation
expense and without giving effect to any extraordinary or unusual or nonrecurring gains or losses,
adjusted by adding thereto the amount of all depreciation and amortization charges and the amount
of pre-opening expenses that were deducted in arriving at Consolidated Net Income for such period.

          “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, for any period the ratio of (x)
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for such period to (y) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such period;
provided that all calculations of compliance with Section 9.10 shall be on a Pro
Forma Basis.

          “Consolidated Fixed Charges” shall mean, for any period, the sum, without duplication,
of (i) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for such period and (ii) the scheduled principal amount
of all amortization payments on all Indebtedness (including, without limitation, the principal
component of all Capitalized Lease Obligations but excluding, if contingent,
Contingent Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for such period (as determined on the first day of such period).

          “Consolidated Indebtedness” shall mean, at any time, without duplication, the sum of
the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Indebtedness and the principal component of
Capitalized Lease Obligations, of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

          “Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, for any period, net after-tax income of the
Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.

          “Consolidated Net Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, the total consolidated
interest expense (calculated without regard to any limitations on the payment thereof) of the
Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP for such period plus, without duplication, that portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations of
the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP representing the interest factor for such period in each case net of the total
consolidated cash interest income of such Person for such period.

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          “Consolidated Subsidiaries” shall mean, as to any Person, all Subsidiaries of such
Person which are consolidated with such Person for financial reporting purposes in accordance with
GAAP.

          “Contingent Obligation” shall mean, as to any Person, any obligation of such Person
guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations
(“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly
or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not
contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or
indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (x) for the purchase or payment of any
such primary obligation or (y) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor
or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase
property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such
primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation
or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in
respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Contingent Obligation shall not
include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.
The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is
made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation for which such Person may be
liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not
stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming
such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such Person in good faith.

          “CPI” shall mean Cactus Pete’s, Inc., a Nevada corporation.

          “Credit Documents” shall mean this Agreement and, after the execution and delivery
thereof pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, each Note, each Security Document and each
Subsidiary Guaranty.

          “Credit Event” shall mean the making of any Loan or the issuance of any Letter of
Credit.

          “Credit Party” shall mean the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.

          “DBTCA” shall mean Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in its individual capacity.

          “Debt Agreements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Default” shall mean any event, act or condition which with notice or lapse of time,
or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

          “Defaulting Lender” shall mean any Lender with respect to which a Lender Default is in
effect.

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          “Development Agreement” shall mean that certain Development Agreement dated April 24,
1995 by and between Kansas City Station Corporation and The Port Authority of Kansas City,
Missouri, as amended.

          “Disqualified Stock” shall mean any capital stock which, by its terms (or by the terms
of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the
happening of any event (including a change of control event), (i) matures (excluding any maturity
as the result of an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily redeemable,
pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the option of the holder
thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the first anniversary of the Initial Term Maturity
Date, (ii) is convertible into or exchangeable (unless at the sole option of the issuer thereof)
for (a) debt securities or (b) any capital stock referred to in (i) above, in each case at any time
prior to the first anniversary of the latest Maturity Date or (iii) contains any restrictive
covenants other than those which are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

          “Dividend” with respect to any Person shall mean that such Person has declared or paid
a dividend or returned any equity capital to its stockholders as such or authorized or made any
other distribution, payment or delivery of property (other than common stock of such Person or
options or warrants to acquire such common stock) or cash to its stockholders as such, or redeemed,
retired, purchased or otherwise acquired, directly or indirectly, for consideration (other than for
common stock of such Person or options or warrants to acquire such common stock) any shares of any
class of its capital stock outstanding on or after the Effective Date (or any options or warrants
issued by such Person with respect to its capital stock), or set aside any funds for any of the
foregoing purposes, or shall have permitted any of its Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise
acquire for consideration any shares of any class of the capital stock of such Person outstanding
on or after the Effective Date (or any options or warrants issued by such Person with respect to
its capital stock). Without limiting the foregoing, “Dividends” with respect to any Person shall
also include all payments made or required to be made by such
Person with respect to any stock appreciation rights, plans, equity incentive or achievement
plans or any similar plans or setting aside of any funds for the foregoing purposes to the extent
such payments (or the obligations to make such payments) do not result in a deduction to
Consolidated Net Income.

          “Dollars” and the sign “$” shall each mean freely transferable lawful money of
the United States.

          “Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary that is incorporated or organized in
the United States or any State thereof.

          “Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.04(b).

          “Effective Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.10.

          “Employee Benefit Plan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Employment Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

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          “End Date” shall mean, with respect to any Margin Reduction Period, the last day of
such Margin Reduction Period.

          “Environmental Claims” shall mean any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial
actions, suits, written demands, demand letters, written claims, liens, written notices of
non-compliance or violation, investigations or proceedings arising under any Environmental Law
(hereafter “Claims”) or any permit issued under any such law, including, without limitation, (a)
any and all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal,
response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law, and
(b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost
recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from Hazardous Materials or arising from
alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the environment.

          “Environmental Law” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, provincial, foreign or
local statute, law, rule, regulation or rule of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each
case as amended, and any legally binding judicial or administrative interpretation thereof,
including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment relating to the
environment, employee health and safety or Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation,
CERCLA, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 6901, et
seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.;
the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C.
§ 3803 et seq.; the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et
seq.; the Hazardous Material Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq.;
and any state and local or foreign counterparts or equivalents, in each case as amended from time
to time.

          “ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. Section
references to ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the date of this Agreement and any
subsequent provisions of ERISA, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted
therefor.

          “ERISA Affiliate” shall mean each person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) which
together with the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower would be deemed to be a “single
employer” (i) within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or (ii) as a result
of the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower being or having been a general partner of such
person.

          “Eurodollar Loan” shall mean each Loan designated as such by the Borrower at the time
of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto.

          “Eurodollar Loan Availability Date” shall mean the third Business Day following the
Initial Borrowing Date.

          “Eurodollar Rate” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan for any Interest
Period, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
London time, on the date that is two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest
Period by reference to the rate for eurodollar deposits which appears on the page of

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the Telerate
screen that displays an average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate (such page
currently being page number 3740 or page 3750 of the Telerate screen) for a period equal to such
Interest Period; provided that, to the extent that an interest rate is not ascertainable
pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this definition, the “Eurodollar Rate” shall be the
interest rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per
annum at which Eurodollar deposits in Eurodollars are offered for such relevant Interest Period to
major banks in the London interbank market in London, England by the Administrative Agent at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the beginning
of such Interest Period.

          “Event of Default” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.

          “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

          “Excluded Recovery Event” shall mean any Recovery Event or series of related Recovery
Events the proceeds of which do not exceed $2,500,000.

          “Existing Credit Agreement” shall mean the credit agreement dated as of December 20,
2000, among the Borrower, various lenders, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Co-Arranger and Syndication
Agent, Bear Stearns Corporate Lending Inc., as Documentation Agent, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
as Joint Lead Arranger and sole Book Manager and DBTCA, as Administrative Agent, as amended.

          “Existing Indebtedness” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.19. For the
avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this Agreement, the Existing Subordinated Notes do not
constitute Existing Indebtedness.

          “Existing Letters of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a).

          “Existing Subordinated Notes” shall mean those Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009
issued by the Borrower pursuant to the Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture.

          “Existing Subordinated Notes Indenture” shall mean the Indenture, dated as of February
2, 2001, among the Borrower, the guarantors as defined therein and U.S. Bank Trust National
Association, as trustee, as amended.

          “Facing Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.01(c).

          “Federal Funds Rate” shall mean for any period, a fluctuating interest rate equal for
each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal Funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal Funds brokers, as
published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day)
by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is
a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the
Administrative Agent from three Federal Funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the
Administrative Agent.

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          “Fees” shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to or referred to in Section 3.01.

          “Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is incorporated
or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof.

          “Former Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(c).

          “GAAP” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.07(a).

          “Gaming Authority” shall mean the governmental authorities charged with the
administration and enforcement of the Gaming Regulations.

          “Gaming Business” shall mean the businesses and operations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries with respect to, and the properties and assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
used in connection with, the Specified Casino Properties and any other casinos, hotel casinos or
gaming businesses now or in the future owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or in which
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an interest either through a joint venture or as a
party to a management agreement.

          “Gaming Regulations” shall mean the laws, rules, regulations and orders applicable to
the casino and gaming businesses or activities of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in any
jurisdiction, as in effect from time to time, including the policies, interpretations and
administration thereof by the Gaming Authorities.

          “Guarantor” shall mean each Subsidiary Guarantor.

          “Guaranty” shall mean the Subsidiary Guaranty made pursuant to Section 5.10, and any
Subsidiary Guaranty executed pursuant to Section 8.11(c).

          “Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petrochemical or petroleum products,
radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation,
transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated
biphenyls, and radon gas; and (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in
the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous wastes,” “hazardous materials,” “restricted
hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous materials,” “restrictive hazardous wastes,” “toxic
substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants” or “pollutants,” or words of similar meaning and
regulatory effect under any applicable Environmental Law.

          “Incremental Commitment” shall mean a commitment to make additional Term Loans or
increase the Revolving Loan Commitment pursuant to Section 1.14.

          “Incremental Commitment Agreement” shall mean an Incremental Commitment Agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit O (appropriately completed).

          “Incremental Commitment Termination Date” shall mean the Revolving Loan Maturity Date.

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          “Incremental Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.14(b).

          “Incremental Term Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.01(e).

          “Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date” shall mean for any Incremental Term Loan, the
date specified as such in the respective Incremental Commitment Agreement pursuant to which such
Incremental Term Loans are to be made; provided that no such date shall occur after the
applicable Incremental Commitment Termination Date.

          “Incremental Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, for each Incremental Lender, the
commitment of such Incremental Lender to make Incremental Term Loans under a Term Loan Tranche
pursuant to Section 1.01(e) on a given Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date, as such commitment (x)
is set forth in the respective Incremental Commitment Agreement delivered pursuant to Section
1.14(b) or (y) may be terminated pursuant to Sections 3.03 and/or 10.

          “Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean for any New Tranche, the maturity
date set forth for such New Tranche of Incremental Term Loans in the respective Incremental
Commitment Agreement relating thereto, provided that the maturity date for all Incremental Term
Loans of a given Tranche shall be the same date.

          “Incremental Term Loan Scheduled Repayment” shall have the meaning provided in Section
4.02(c).

          “Incremental Term Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.05(g).

          “Indebtedness” shall mean, as to any Person, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness
of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other
than, to the extent deferred in the ordinary course of business, deferred payments in respect of
services by employees) due more than six months after acquisition of the property or receipt of
services or which is otherwise represented by a note, (ii) the maximum amount
available to be drawn under all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and
all unpaid drawings in respect of such letters of credit, (iii) all Indebtedness of the types
described in clause (i), (ii), (iv), (v) or (vi) of this definition secured by any Lien on any
property owned by such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness has been assumed by such Person (to
the extent of the lesser of the amount of such Indebtedness and the value of the respective
property), (iv) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (v) all Contingent Obligations of such Person in
respect of Indebtedness, (vi) all obligations under any Interest Rate Protection or Other Hedging
Agreement or under any similar type of agreement and (vii) all obligations under Synthetic Leases
of such Person.

          “Initial Borrowing Date” shall mean the date occurring on or after the Effective Date
on which the initial Borrowing of Term Loans hereunder occurs.

          “Initial Term Loan” shall mean each Loan made pursuant to Section 1.01(a).

          “Initial Term Loan Commitments” shall mean for each Lender the amount set forth
opposite such Lender’s name in Schedule I hereto in the column entitled “Initial Term Loan
Commitment” as same may be (x) reduced from time to time pursuant to Sections 3.03, 4.02

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and/or 10
or (y) adjusted from time to time as a result of assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to
Section 1.13 or 13.04(b).

          “Initial Term Loan Reference Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section
4.02(b).

          “Initial Term Loan Scheduled Repayment” shall have the meaning provided in Section
4.02(b).

          “Initial Term Maturity Date” shall mean November 10, 2012.

          “Initial Term Notes” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.05(a).

          “Intellectual Property” shall mean all United States and foreign patents, patent
applications, registered and unregistered trademarks, trade names, service marks and registered
copyrights, owned by or licensed to any of the Credit Parties as of the Initial Borrowing Date that
is material to the operation of the business of any of the Credit Parties.

          “Interest Determination Date” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the
second Business Day prior to the commencement of any Interest Period relating to such Eurodollar
Loan.

          “Interest Period” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.09.

          “Interest Rate Protection or Other Hedging Agreement” shall have the meaning provided
in the Security Documents.

          “Investment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.05.

          “Investment Entity” shall mean any Person (other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary
Guarantor) in which an Investment is made by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries.

          “Issuing Lender” shall mean DBTCA or any of its Affiliates including, but not limited
to, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch, and, in the event DBTCA or such Affiliate declines to become
an Issuing Lender for the purpose of issuing Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2, any Lender
which at the request of the Borrower and with the consent of the Administrative Agent agrees, in
such Lender’s sole discretion, to become an Issuing Lender for the purpose of issuing Letters of
Credit pursuant to Section 2. On the Initial Borrowing Date, the sole Issuing Lender is (x) in the
case of Standby Letters of Credit, DBTCA and (y) in the case of Trade Letters of Credit, Deutsche
Bank AG, New York Branch.

          “Joint Lead Arrangers” shall have the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this
Agreement.

          “L/C Supportable Obligations” shall mean obligations of the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business including, without limitation, the
Borrower’s obligations under the Revenue Bonds Guaranty Agreement and the Development Agreement.

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          “Leaseholds” of any Person means all the right, title and interest of such Person as
lessee or licensee in, to and under leases or licenses of land, improvements and/or fixtures.

          “Lender” shall mean each financial institution listed on Schedule I, as well as any
Person which becomes a “Lender” hereunder pursuant to Sections 1.13 and 13.04(b), provided
that in any event, each such institution shall be a Qualified Person.

          “Lender Default” shall mean (i) the refusal (which has not been retracted) of a Lender
to make available its portion of any Borrowing (including a Mandatory Borrowing) or to fund its
portion of any unreimbursed payment under Section 2.03(c) or (ii) a Lender having notified in
writing the Borrower and/or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its
obligations under Section 1.01(b), Section 1.01(d) or Section 2.

          “Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a).

          “Letter of Credit Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.01(b).

          “Letter of Credit Outstandings” shall mean, at any time, the sum of (i) the aggregate
Stated Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit and (ii) the amount of all Unpaid Drawings
relating to Letters of Credit.

          “Letter of Credit Request” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.02(a).

          “Leverage Ratio” shall mean on the date of determination thereof the ratio of (i)
Consolidated Indebtedness on such date to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period ended on the
last day of the fiscal quarter last ended prior to the date such determination is made,
provided that all calculations of compliance with Sections 9.08 and 9.09 shall be on a
Pro Forma Basis.

          “License Revocations” shall mean the revocation, failure to renew or suspension of, or
the appointment of a receiver, supervisor or similar official with respect to, any casino, gambling
or gaming license issued by any Gaming Authority covering any Material Gaming Facility.

          “Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, lien
(statutory or other), preference or priority arrangement in the nature of a security interest or
other security agreement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any financing or similar statement or notice
filed under the UCC or any other similar recording or notice statute, and any lease having
substantially the same effect as any of the foregoing).

          “Liquor Laws” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.17.

          “Loan” shall mean each Term Loan, each Revolving Loan and each Swingline Loan.

          “Majority Grid Lenders” shall mean Non-Defaulting Lenders, whose outstanding Revolving
Loan Commitments (or after the termination thereof, outstanding Revolving Loans

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and Revolving Loan
Percentage of outstanding Swingline Loans and Letter of Credit Outstandings) represent an amount
greater than 50% of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment (or after the termination thereof, the sum
of the then total outstanding Revolving Loans and Revolving Loan Percentage of Non-Defaulting
Lenders of the then outstanding Swingline Loans and Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time) of
Non-Defaulting Lenders.

          “Majority Lenders” shall mean collectively (and not individually) with respect to any
Tranche, Non-Defaulting Lenders whose outstanding Term Loans of such Tranche (or, if prior to the
Initial Borrowing Date, Initial Term Loan Commitments of such Tranche) constitute at least a
majority of the total outstanding Term Loans of such Tranche (or, if prior to the Initial Borrowing
Date, Initial Term Loan Commitments of such Tranche) of all Non-Defaulting Lenders.

          “Management Agreements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Mandatory Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.01(d).

          “Margin Reduction Period” shall mean each period which shall commence on the date
occurring after the Effective Date upon which the respective officer’s certificate is delivered
pursuant to Section 8.01(e) and which shall end on the date of actual delivery of the next
officer’s certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(e) or the latest date on which such next officer’s
certificate is required to be so delivered.

          “Margin Stock” shall have the meaning provided in Regulation U.

          “Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on (i) the business,
operations, properties, assets, liabilities or financial condition of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole (after giving effect to the Transaction), (ii) the ability of the
Credit
Parties to perform their material obligations under the Credit Documents or (iii) the rights
and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Credit Documents.

          “Material Contracts” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Material Gaming Facility” means any gaming facility the absence, loss or closing of
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, including in any event the
Specified Casino Properties.

          “Material Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of Borrower now existing or hereafter
acquired or formed by Borrower which, (a) on a consolidated basis for such Subsidiary and its
Subsidiaries, (i) for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended accounted for more than 5% of
the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, or (ii) as at the end of such four
fiscal quarters, was the owner of more than 5% of the consolidated assets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, (b) owns, supplies or operates any assets or function necessary for the conduct of
business at any Material Gaming Facility, or (c) owns any material Intellectual Property necessary
for the conduct of business at any of the Material Gaming Facilities; provided that the
Subsidiaries of the Borrower which are not otherwise Material Subsidiaries but for this proviso
shall be Material Subsidiaries to the extent that on a consolidated basis all such Subsidiaries and
their Subsidiaries (i) for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended accounted

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for more than 10%
of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or (ii) as at the end of such four
fiscal quarters were the owner of more than 10% of the consolidated assets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, provided that in any event each Subsidiary which is required to be a
guarantor of the Subordinated Notes shall be a “Material Subsidiary”.

          “Maturity Date” shall mean, with respect to any Tranche, the final maturity date under
such Tranche (i.e., the Initial Term Maturity Date, the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, each
Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date and the Swingline Expiry Date, as the case may be).

          “Maximum Permitted Consideration” shall mean, with respect to any Permitted
Acquisition, the sum (without duplication) of (i) the fair market value of Borrower capital stock
issued as consideration in connection with such Permitted Acquisition, (ii) the aggregate principal
amount of all cash paid by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such
Permitted Acquisition (including payments of fees and costs and expenses in connection therewith),
and (iii) the fair market value (determined in good faith by senior management of the Borrower) of
all other consideration payable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such
Permitted Acquisition.

          “Maximum Swingline Amount” shall mean $25,000,000.

          “Minimum Borrowing Amount” shall mean (A) with respect to Base Rate Loans, (i) for
Term Loans of any Tranche, $1,000,000 (and, if greater, in an integral multiple thereof), (ii) for
Revolving Loans, $1,000,000 (and, if greater, in an integral multiple thereof) and (iii) for
Swingline Loans, $1,000,000 (and, if greater, in an integral multiple thereof) and (B) with respect
to Eurodollar Loans, (i) for Term Loans of any Tranche, $10,000,000 (and, if greater, in an
integral multiple of $1,000,000), (ii) for Revolving Loans, $5,000,000 (and, if greater, in an
integral multiple of $1,000,000).

          “Moody’s” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

          “Mortgage” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.09(a), and, after the
execution and delivery thereof, shall include each Additional Mortgage delivered pursuant to
Section 8.11.

          “Mortgaged Property” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.09(a) and, after the
execution or delivery thereof, shall include each property covered by an Additional Mortgage.

          “Mortgaged Ship Property” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.11 and, after
the execution or delivery thereof, shall include each property covered by an Additional Ship
Mortgage.

          “Mortgage Policies” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.09(c).

          “Native American Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of the Borrower formed for the
exclusive purpose of engaging in the business of managing, constructing, developing, servicing, and
otherwise supporting gaming, lodging and related businesses under the auspices of a Native American
tribe, band or other form of government.

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          “Neilsen Family Group” shall mean collective reference to (i) Craig Neilsen, Ray
Neilsen and their respective executors, administrators, testamentary trustees, heirs, legatees and
beneficiaries, (ii) Craig Neilsen or Ray Neilsen in their respective capacities as a trustee under
a revocable trust, together with each successor trustee thereof, (iii) any corporation,
partnership, trust, foundation or other Person in which no one has any interest (directly or
indirectly) except for Craig Neilsen, Ray Neilsen and any spouse and descendants (whether by blood
or adoption and including stepchildren) and the spouses of any such natural person and (iv) Craig
Neilsen or Ray Neilsen as the executor of any Person named above.

          “Net Asset Sale Proceeds” shall mean for any sale, lease, transfer or other
disposition of assets, the gross cash proceeds (including any cash received by way of deferred
payment pursuant to a promissory note, receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received)
received by the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries from such sale, lease, transfer or other
disposition, net of reasonable transaction costs (including, without limitation, any underwriting,
brokerage or other customary selling commissions and reasonable legal, advisory and other fees and
expenses, including title and recording expenses and reasonable expenses incurred for preparing
such assets for sale, associated therewith) and payments of unassumed liabilities relating to the
assets sold at the time of, or within 30 days after, the date of such sale, the amount of such
gross cash proceeds required to be used to repay any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness owed to
the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement) which is secured by the respective assets which were sold,
and the estimated marginal increase in income taxes which will be payable in cash by the Borrower’s
consolidated group with respect to the fiscal year in which the sale occurs as a result of such
sale; but excluding (i) any portion of any such gross cash proceeds which the Borrower determines
in good faith should be reserved for post-closing adjustments (to the extent the Borrower delivers
to the Lenders a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer as to such determination), it being
understood and agreed that on the day that all such post-closing
adjustments have been determined (which shall not be later than 60 days following the date of
the respective asset sale), the amount (if any) by which the reserved amount in respect of such
sale or disposition exceeds the actual post-closing adjustments payable by the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries shall constitute Net Asset Sale Proceeds on such date and (ii) any portion of any
such gross cash proceeds which the Borrower determines in good faith should be reserved for
post-closing liabilities, it being understood and agreed that on the day that all such post-closing
liabilities have been determined (which shall not be later than one year following the date of the
respective asset sale), the amount (if any) by which the reserved amount in respect of such sale or
disposition exceeds the actual post-closing liabilities, plus any related reasonable transaction
costs, payable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall constitute Net Asset Sale Proceeds
on such date.

          “Net Insurance Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any Recovery Event, the cash
proceeds (net of reasonable fees and costs (including legal fees) and taxes of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries incurred in connection with such Recovery Event)) received by the respective Person in
connection with such Recovery Event.

          “New Tranche” shall mean each Tranche of Incremental Term Loans other than Initial
Term Loans.

          “Non-Compete Agreements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

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          “Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean and include each Lender which is not a Defaulting
Lender.

          “Note” shall mean each Initial Term Note, each Revolving Note, each Incremental Term
Note and the Swingline Note.

          “Notice of Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.03.

          “Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.06.

          “Notice Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent located at 60 Wall
Street, New York, New York 10005, Attention: Mary Kay Coyle, or such other office as the
Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties hereto.

          “Obligations” shall mean all amounts owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral
Agent or any Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Credit Document.

          “Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.03(a).

          “PATRIOT Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.18.

          “Payment Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent located at 60 Wall
Street, New York, New York 10005, Attention: Mary Kay Coyle, or such other office as the
Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties hereto.

          “PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to
Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.

          “Permitted Acquisition” shall mean the acquisition by the Borrower or any of its
Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries of assets constituting a business, division or product line of
any Person not already a Subsidiary of the Borrower or any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or of
75% or more of the capital stock or other equity interests of any such Person, provided
that (A) those acquisitions that are structured as stock acquisitions shall be effected through a
purchase of at least 75% of the capital stock or other equity interests of such Person by the
Borrower or such Domestic Wholly-Owned Subsidiary or through a merger between such Person and a
Domestic Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, so that after giving effect to such merger, at
least 75% of the capital stock or other equity interests of the surviving corporation of such
merger is owned by the Borrower or a Domestic Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, (B) in the case of the
acquisition of at least 75% of the capital stock or other equity interests of any Person, such
Person (the “Acquired Person”) shall own no capital stock or other equity interests of any
other Person unless the Acquired Person owns 100% of the capital stock or other equity interests of
such other Person, (C) substantially all of the business, division or product line acquired
pursuant to the respective Permitted Acquisition, or the business of the Acquired Person and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, is in the United States, (D) the assets acquired, or the business of
the Acquired Person and its Subsidiaries, shall be in (or after the acquisition will be used in) a
business permitted to be conducted pursuant to Section 9.14 and (E) all applicable requirements of
Section 8.13 applicable to Permitted Acquisitions are satisfied. It is understood and agreed

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that,
for purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower, at its option, may treat an acquisition the
consideration for which is $10,000,000 or less as either a Permitted Acquisition subject to Section
8.13 or a Capital Expenditure subject to Section 9.07.

          “Permitted Encumbrance” shall mean, with respect to any Mortgaged Property, such
exceptions to title as are set forth in the title insurance policy or title commitment delivered
with respect thereto, all of which exceptions must be acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its
reasonable discretion.

          “Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.01.

          “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation,
association, trust or other enterprise or any government or political subdivision or any agency,
department or instrumentality thereof.

          “Plan” shall mean any multiemployer or single-employer plan, as defined in Section
4001 of ERISA, which is maintained or contributed to by (or to which there is an obligation to
contribute of), the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate, and each such
plan with respect to which the Borrower, a Subsidiary of the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate
maintained, contributed or had an obligation to contribute to and with respect to which any such
entity has any actual or contingent liability.

          “Pledge Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.07.

          “Pledge Agreement Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in the Pledge
Agreement.

          “Pledged Securities” shall mean “Pledged Securities” as defined in the Pledge
Agreement.

          “Prime Lending Rate” shall mean the rate which Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
announces from time to time as its prime lending rate, the Prime Lending Rate to change when and as
such prime lending rate changes. The Prime Lending Rate is a reference rate and does not
necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Bankers Trust
Company may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime
Lending Rate.

          “Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, in connection with any calculation of compliance with
any financial covenant or financial term, the calculation thereof after giving effect on a pro
forma basis to (i) the assumption, incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness incurred (or for
purposes of Section 1.14(a) the incurrence of any Incremental Term Loan) after the first day of the
relevant Calculation Period as if such Indebtedness had been assumed, incurred or issued (and the
proceeds thereof applied) on the first day of the relevant Calculation Period, (ii) the permanent
repayment of any Indebtedness (other than such revolving Indebtedness that may be reborrowed) after
the first day of the relevant Calculation Period as if such Indebtedness had been retired or repaid
on the first day of the relevant Calculation Period, (iii) any Significant Permitted Acquisition
occurring after the first day of the relevant Calculation Period as if such Significant Permitted
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after the first day of
the relevant Calculation Period and on or prior to the Calculation Date) had been effected on the
first day of the respective Calculation Period, taking into account cost savings and expenses which
would otherwise be accounted for as an adjustment pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation S-X under
the Securities Act, as if such cost savings or expenses were realized on the first day of the
respective period and (iv) the commencement of operations of any Substantial Project occurring
after the first day of the relevant Calculation Period, as if such Substantial Project commenced on
the first day of the respective Calculation Period (annualized on a straight-line basis).

          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, (x) for the purposes of Sections
9.08 and 9.09, pro forma effect (as otherwise provided above) shall only be given for events or
occurrences which occurred during the respective Test Period but not thereafter and (y) for
purposes of Sections 1.14(a)(ix) and 8.13, pro forma effect (as otherwise provided above) shall be
given for events or occurrences which occurred during the respective Calculation Period and
thereafter but on or prior to the respective date of determination.

          “Projections” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.05(d).

          “Qualified Person” shall mean, with respect to any Lender party to this Agreement on
the Initial Borrowing Date or that becomes a Lender pursuant to Section 1.13, 13.04(b) or 13.04(c),
any Person which shall not have been found unsuitable under the Gaming Regulations of any, and
which meets the requirements, if any, of all jurisdictions regulating the
Gaming Business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the extent that the Borrower has so
notified the Lenders of such requirements of such jurisdictions pursuant to Section 13.04(e).

          “Quarterly Payment Date” shall mean the last Business Day of each March, June,
September and December commencing with December 2005.

          “Real Property” of any Person shall mean all the right, title and interest of such
Person in and to land, improvements and fixtures, including Leaseholds.

          “Recovery Event” shall mean the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of
any (i) cash insurance proceeds payable (x) by reason of theft, loss, physical destruction or
damage or any other similar event with respect to any property or assets of the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries and (y) under any policy of insurance required to be maintained under Section 8.03
or (ii) condemnation award payable by reason of eminent domain or deed in lieu thereof.

          “Reference Lender” shall mean DBTCA.

          “Refinancing” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.06.

          “Refinancing Documents” shall mean all documents executed in connection with the
Refinancing.

          “Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.16.

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          “Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof
establishing reserve requirements.

          “Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

          “Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

          “Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

          “Reinvestment Assets” shall mean any long-term productive assets to be employed in the
business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (or any capital expenditures in connection with
improvement of capital assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) or capital stock of a
Person that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor.

          “Reinvestment Election” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.02(e).

          “Reinvestment Notice” shall mean a written notice signed by the Authorized Officer of
the Borrower stating that the Borrower, in good faith, intends and expects to use all or
a specified portion of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds of an Asset Sale to purchase, construct or
otherwise acquire Reinvestment Assets.

          “Release” shall mean any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing or migration into the environment.

          “Replaced Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.13.

          “Replacement Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.13.

          “Reportable Event” shall mean an event described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA with
respect to a Plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA other than those events as to which the
30-day notice period is waived under PBGC Regulation Section 4043.

          “Required Lenders” shall mean Non-Defaulting Lenders, the sum of whose outstanding
Term Loans (or, if prior to the Initial Borrowing Date, Initial Term Loan Commitments) and
Revolving Loan Commitments (or after the termination thereof, outstanding Revolving Loans and
Revolving Loan Percentage of outstanding Swingline Loans and Letter of Credit Outstandings)
represent an amount greater than 50% of the sum of (x) all outstanding Term Loans (or, if prior to
the Initial Borrowing Date, Initial Term Loan Commitments) of Non-Defaulting Lenders, and (y) the
Total Revolving Loan Commitment (or after the termination thereof, the sum of the then total
outstanding Revolving Loans and Revolving Loan Percentage of Non-Defaulting Lenders of the then
outstanding Swingline Loans and Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time) of all Non-Defaulting
Lenders.

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          “Returns” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.09.

          “Revenue Bonds Guaranty Agreement” shall mean that certain Guaranty Agreement dated as
of July 15, 1999 between The 210 Highway Transportation Development District and Kansas City
Station Corporation, as such Guaranty Agreement may be amended, modified or otherwise replaced
provided that the obligation of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries thereunder are not increased.

          “Revolving Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.01(b).

          “Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, for each Lender, the amount set forth opposite
such Lender’s name in Schedule I hereto directly below the column entitled “Revolving Loan
Commitment”, as same may be (x) reduced from time to time pursuant to Sections 3.02, 3.03, 4.02
and/or 10, (y) increased pursuant to Section 1.14 or (z) adjusted from time to time as a result of
assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to Section 1.13 or 13.04(b).

          “Revolving Loan Maturity Date” shall mean November 10, 2010.

          “Revolving Loan Percentage” shall mean, at any time, for each Lender with a Revolving
Loan Commitment, the percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment by the
Total Revolving Loan Commitment; provided that, if the Total Revolving Loan Commitment has
been terminated, the Revolving Loan Percentage of each such Lender shall be determined by dividing
such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment
immediately prior to such termination by the Total Revolving Loan Commitment immediately prior
to such termination.

          “Revolving Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.05(a).

          “S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., and its successors.

          “Scheduled Repayments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.02(c).

          “SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.

          “Section 4.04(b)(ii) Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.04(b).

          “Secured Creditors” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the Security
Documents.

          “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.

          “Security Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.08 and include any
Additional Security Document delivered pursuant to Section 8.11.

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          “Security Agreement Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in the Security
Agreement.

          “Security Document” shall mean and include the Pledge Agreement, the Security
Agreement, each Mortgage, each Ship Mortgage and, after the execution and delivery thereof, each
Additional Mortgage, Additional Ship Mortgage and each Additional Security Document required to be
delivered pursuant to Section 8.11.

          “Senior Consolidated Indebtedness” shall mean all Consolidated Indebtedness other than
(x) the Subordinated Notes and (y) any other Indebtedness which by its terms is contractually
subordinated to any other Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

          “Senior Leverage Ratio” shall mean on the date of determination thereof the Leverage
Ratio at such date except that the reference therein to “Consolidated Indebtedness” shall
be deemed to be a reference to “Senior Consolidated Indebtedness”.

          “Shareholders’ Agreements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Ship Mortgage” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.11 and, after the
execution and delivery thereof, shall include each Additional Ship Mortgage delivered pursuant to
Section 8.11.

          “Ship Property” shall mean each of the vessels listed on Schedule IX on which the
casino businesses and related activities of the respective Subsidiaries of the Borrower are
conducted.

          “Significant Permitted Acquisition” shall mean a Permitted Acquisition with respect to
which the Maximum Permitted Consideration is more than $10,000,000.

          “Specified Casino Properties” shall mean the properties of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries
known as “Ameristar Vicksburg”, “Ameristar Council Bluffs”, “Ameristar St. Charles”, “Ameristar
Kansas City” and “Mountain High Casino.”

          “Standby Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a).

          “Start Date” shall mean, with respect to any Margin Reduction Period, the first day of
such Margin Reduction Period.

          “Stated Amount” of each Letter of Credit shall, at any time, mean the maximum amount
available to be drawn thereunder (in each case determined without regard to whether any conditions
to drawing could then be met).

          “Subordinated Notes” shall mean the Additional Subordinated Notes and the Existing
Subordinated Notes.

          “Subordinated Notes Documents” shall mean and include the documentation related to the
Subordinated Notes, in each case as may be amended, modified, or supplemented pursuant to the terms
hereof and thereof.

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          “Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any corporation more than 50% of whose
stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority
of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class
or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of
any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person
and (ii) any partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person has more than a 50% equity interest at the time.

          “Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower in
existence on the Initial Borrowing Date, as well as each Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower
established, created or acquired after the Initial Borrowing Date which becomes a party to the
Subsidiary Guaranty in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or the provisions of the
Subsidiary Guaranty.

          “Subsidiary Guaranty” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.10.

          “Substantial Project” shall mean each capital project commencing after the Effective
Date for which the overall amount expended for Capital Expenditures exceeds $100,000,000.

          “Substitute Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(c).

          “Swingline Expiry Date” shall mean the date which is five Business Days prior to the
Revolving Loan Maturity Date.

          “Swingline Lender” shall mean Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in its capacity as
the lender of Swingline Loans.

          “Swingline Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.01(c).

          “Swingline Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.05(a).

          “Syndication Termination Date” shall mean the date which is the earlier of (i) the
30th day after the Initial Borrowing Date or (ii) the date on which the Administrative Agent, in
its sole discretion, determines (and notifies the Borrower) that the primary syndication (and the
resultant addition of institutions as Lenders pursuant to Section 13.04) has been completed.

          “Synthetic Lease” shall mean, as applied to any Person, any lease (including leases
that may be terminated by the lessee at any time) of any property (whether real, personal or mixed)
(x) that is not a capital lease in accordance with GAAP and (y) in respect of which the lessee
retains or obtains ownership of the property so leased for federal income tax purposes, other than
any such lease under which that Person is the lessor.

          “Tax Benefit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.04(c).

          “Taxes” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.04(a).

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          “Tax Sharing Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.05.

          “Term Loan” shall mean the Initial Term Loans and the Incremental Term Loans.

          “Term Loan Tranche” shall mean a Tranche of Term Loans (i.e. the Initial Term
Loans or any Incremental Term Loans.

          “Test Date” shall mean, with respect to any Start Date, the last day of the most
recent fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended immediately prior to such Start Date.

          “Test Period” shall mean four consecutive fiscal quarters (taken as one accounting
period).

          “Total Commitment” shall mean the sum of the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment and
the Total Revolving Loan Commitment.

          “Total Initial Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Initial
Term Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders.

          “Total Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Revolving
Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders.

          “Total Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the
Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders.

          “Trade Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a).

          “Tranche” shall mean the respective facility and commitments utilized in making Loans
hereunder, with there being three separate Tranches, i.e., Initial Term Loans, Revolving
Loans and Swingline Loans. In addition, any Incremental Term Loans may be made pursuant to one or
more New Tranches which shall be designated pursuant to the respective Incremental Commitment
Agreements in accordance with the relevant requirements specified in Section 1.14.

          “Transaction” shall mean the Refinancing and the incurrence of Loans on the Initial
Borrowing Date.

          “Type” shall mean the type of Loan determined with regard to the interest option
applicable thereto, i.e., whether a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.

          “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the
relevant jurisdiction.

          “Unfunded Current Liability” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by which the
value of the accumulated plan benefits under the Plan, determined on a plan termination basis in
accordance with actuarial assumptions at such time consistent with those prescribed by the PBGC for
purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds the fair market value of all plan assets allocable to
such liabilities under Title IV of ERISA (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions).

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          “United States” and “U.S.” shall each mean the United States of America.

          “Unpaid Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.04(a).

          “Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment” with respect to any Lender, at any time, shall
mean such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment at such time less (i) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of Revolving Loans made by such Lender plus (ii) such Lender’s Revolving Loan
Percentage of all Letter of Credit Outstandings.

          “Voting Stock” shall mean, as to any Person, any class or classes of capital stock of
such Person pursuant to which the holders thereof have the general voting power under ordinary
circumstances to elect at least a majority of the Board of Directors of such Person, or any class
or classes of capital stock convertible into such stock at the option of the holders thereof.

          “Waivable Repayment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.02(i).

          “Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean each Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Borrower incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof.

          “Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, any Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of such Person which is also a Foreign Subsidiary of such Person.

          “Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any corporation 100% of
whose capital stock (other than director’s qualifying shares) is at the time owned by such Person
and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, association,
joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of
such Person has a 100% equity interest at such time. Any reference to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary,
unless expressly to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of another Person, shall mean a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Borrower.

          “Withdrawal Period” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(d).

          SECTION 12. The Administrative Agent.

          12.01 Appointment. (a) The Lenders hereby designate Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas as Administrative Agent (for purposes of this Section 12, the term “Administrative Agent”
shall include Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in its capacity as Collateral Agent pursuant to
the Security Documents) to act as specified herein and in the other Credit Documents. Each Lender
hereby irrevocably authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of such Note shall be
deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under
the provisions of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents and any other instruments and
agreements referred to herein or therein and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties
hereunder and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Administrative Agent
by the terms hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The
Administrative Agent may perform any of

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its duties hereunder by or through its respective officers,
directors, agents, employees or affiliates.

          (b) Except for Sections 12.09(b) and (c), the provisions of this Section 12 are solely for the
benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither the Borrower nor any of its
Subsidiaries shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions hereof.
In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall act
solely as agent for the Lenders, and the Administrative Agent does not assume (and shall not be
deemed to have assumed) any obligation or relationship of agency or trust with or for the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries.

          12.02 Nature of Duties. (a) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or
responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and the Security Documents.
Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its respective officers, directors, agents, employees
or affiliates shall be liable for any action taken or omitted by it or them hereunder or under any
other Credit Document or in connection herewith or therewith, unless caused by its or their gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The duties of the Administrative Agent shall be mechanical and
adminis
trative in nature; the Administrative Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement or any
other Credit Document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or the holder of any Note;
and nothing in this Agreement or any other Credit Document, expressed or implied, is intended to or
shall be so construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent any obligations in respect of this
Agreement or any other Credit Document except as expressly set forth herein or therein.

          (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any provision of any other Credit
Document, each of the Syndication Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers is named as such for
recognition purposes only, and in its capacity as such shall have no powers, duties,
responsibilities or liabilities with respect to this Agreement or the other Credit Documents or the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; it being understood and agreed that the Syndication
Agent and each such Joint Lead Arranger shall be entitled to all indemnification and reimbursement
rights in favor of the Administrative Agent as, and to the extent, provided for under Sections
12.06 and 13.01. Without limitation of the foregoing, each of the Syndication Agent and the Joint
Lead Arrangers shall not, solely by reason of this Agreement or any other Credit Documents, have
any fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or any other Person.

          12.03 Lack of Reliance on the Administrative Agent. Independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the holder of each Note, to the extent it
deems appropriate, has made and shall continue to make (i) its own independent investigation of the
financial condition and affairs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with the making
and the continuance of the Loans and the taking or not taking of any action in connection herewith
and (ii) its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and, except
as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or
responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any Lender or the holder of
any Note with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its
possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or times thereafter. The Administrative
Agent shall not be responsible to any Lender or the holder of any Note for any recitals,
statements, information, representations or warranties herein or in any document,

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certificate or
other writing delivered in connection herewith or for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness,
validity, enforceability, perfection, collectibility, priority or sufficiency of this Agreement or
any other Credit Document or the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or be
required to make any inquiry concerning either the performance or observance of any of the terms,
provisions or conditions of this Agreement or any other Credit Document, or the financial condition
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or the existence or possible existence of any Default or Event
of Default.

          12.04 Certain Rights of the Administrative Agent. If the Administrative Agent shall
request instructions from the Required Lenders with respect to any act or action (including failure
to act) in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document, the Administrative Agent
shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received instructions from the Required Lenders; and the
Administrative Agent shall not incur liability to any Person by reason of so refraining
provided, however, that this shall not affect the obligations
of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to the Borrower. Without limiting the foregoing,
neither any Lender nor the holder of any Note shall have any right of action whatsoever against the
Administrative Agent as a result of the Administrative Agent acting or refraining from acting
hereunder or under any other Credit Document in accordance with the instructions of the Required
Lenders.

          12.05 Reliance. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be
fully protected in relying, upon any note, writing, resolution, notice, statement, certificate,
telex, teletype or telecopier message, cablegram, radiogram, order or other document or telephone
message signed, sent or made by any Person that the Administrative Agent believed to be the proper
Person, and, with respect to all legal matters pertaining to this Agreement and any other Credit
Document and its duties hereunder and thereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by the
Administrative Agent.

          12.06 Indemnification. To the extent the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed and
indemnified by the Borrower, the Lenders will reimburse and indemnify the Administrative Agent (and
any affiliate thereof), in proportion to their respective “percentages” as used in determining the
Required Lenders (determined as if there were no Defaulting Lenders), for and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, costs, expenses
or disbursements of whatsoever kind or nature which may be imposed on, asserted against or incurred
by the Administrative Agent (or any affiliate thereof) in performing its respective duties
hereunder or under any other Credit Document, in any way relating to or arising out of this
Agreement or any other Credit Document; provided that no Lender shall be liable for any
portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and
non-appealable decision).

          12.07 The Administrative Agent in Its Individual Capacity. With respect to its
obligation to make Loans, or issue or participate in Letters of Credit, under this Agreement, the
Administrative Agent shall have the rights and powers specified herein for a “Lender” and may
exercise the same rights and powers as though it were not performing the duties specified herein;
and the term “Lenders”, “Required Lenders”, “Majority Lenders”, “Majority Grid Lenders”,

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“holders
of Notes” or any similar terms shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include the
Administrative Agent in its individual capacity. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates may
accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other
business with any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party (or any Person engaged in a
similar business with any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof) as if it were not performing the
duties specified herein, and may accept fees and other consideration from the Borrower or any other
Credit Party for services in connection with this Agreement and otherwise without having to account
for the same to the Lenders.

          12.08 Holders. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as
the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment,
transfer or endorsement thereof, as the case may be, shall have been filed with the Administrative
Agent. Any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or
giving such authority or consent, is the holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding on any
subsequent holder, transferee, assignee or indorsee, as the case may be, of such Note or of any
Note or Notes issued in exchange therefor.

          12.09 Resignation by the Administrative Agent. (a) The Administrative Agent may
resign from the performance of all its functions and duties hereunder and/or under the other Credit
Documents at any time by giving 15 Business Days’ prior written notice to the Borrower and the
Lenders. Such resignation shall take effect upon the appointment of a successor Administrative
Agent pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) below or as otherwise provided below.

          (b) Upon any such notice of resignation, the Lenders shall appoint a successor Administrative
Agent hereunder or thereunder who shall be a commercial bank or trust company reasonably acceptable
to the Borrower and eligible to act as such under Gaming Regulations as a Qualified Person.

          (c) If a successor Administrative Agent shall not have been so appointed within such 15
Business Day period, the Administrative Agent, with the consent of the Borrower, shall then appoint
a successor Administrative Agent eligible to act as such under Gaming Regulations as a Qualified
Person who shall serve as Administrative Agent hereunder or thereunder until such time, if any, as
the Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided above.

          (d) If no successor Administrative Agent has been appointed pursuant to clause (b) or (c)
above by the 20th Business Day after the date such notice of resignation was given by the
Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent’s resignation shall become effective and the
Required Lenders shall thereafter perform all the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder
and/or under any other Credit Document until such time, if any, as the Lenders appoint a successor
Administrative Agent as provided above.

          (e) Upon a resignation of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 12.09, the
Administrative Agent shall remain indemnified to the extent provided in this Agreement and the
other Credit Documents and the provisions of this Section 12 (and the analogous provisions of the
other Credit Documents) shall continue in effect for the benefit of the Administrative Agent for
all of its actions and inactions while serving as the Administrative Agent.

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          12.10 Amendments to Security Documents. (a) Each Lender authorizes and directs the
Collateral Agent to enter into the Security Documents for the benefit of the Lenders and the other
Secured Creditors. Each Lender hereby agrees, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance
thereof will be deemed to agree,
that, except as otherwise set forth herein, any action taken by the Required Lenders in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the Security Documents, and the exercise by the
Required Lenders of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders. The
Collateral Agent is hereby authorized on behalf of all of the Lenders, without the necessity of any
notice to or further consent from any Lender, from time to time prior to an Event of Default, to
take any action with respect to any Collateral or Security Documents which may be necessary to
perfect and maintain perfected the security interest in and liens upon the Collateral granted
pursuant to the Security Documents. In addition to the foregoing, each Lender acknowledges and
agrees to the provisions of Section 31 of the Pledge Agreement and Section 10.09 of the Security
Agreement.

          (b) The Lenders hereby authorize the Collateral Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to
release any Lien granted to or held by the Collateral Agent upon any Collateral (i) upon
termination of the Commitments and payment and satisfaction of all of the Obligations at any time
arising under or in respect of this Agreement or the Credit Documents or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) constituting property being sold or otherwise disposed of (to
Persons other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) upon the sale or other disposition thereof in
compliance with Section 9.02, (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required
Lenders (or all of the Lenders hereunder, to the extent required by Section 13.12) or (iv) as
otherwise may be expressly provided in the relevant Security Documents. Upon request by the
Administrative Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in writing the Collateral Agent’s
authority to release particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 12.10.

          (c) The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Lenders or to any other
Person to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Credit Party or is cared for,
protected or insured or that the Liens granted to the Collateral Agent herein or pursuant hereto
have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are
entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise or to continue exercising at all or in any
manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity any of the rights, authorities and powers
granted or available to the Collateral Agent in this Section 12.10 or in any of the Security
Documents, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission
or event related thereto, the Collateral Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in
its sole discretion, given the Collateral Agent’s own interest in the Collateral as one of the
Lenders and that the Collateral Agent shall have no duty or liability whatsoever to the Lenders,
except for its gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

          12.11 Other Agents. No Person listed on the signature pages hereto as a Co-Arranger,
Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent, Lead Arranger or Sole Book Manager shall have any
obligations hereunder in its capacity as such.

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          12.12 Delivery of Information. The Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver to any Lender originals or copies
of any documents, instruments, notices, communications or other information received by the
Administrative Agent from any Credit Party, any Subsidiary, the Required Lenders, any Lender or any
other Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document except (i) as
specifically provided in this Agreement or any other Credit Document and (ii) as specifically
requested from time to time in writing by any Lender with respect to a specific document,
instrument, notice or other written communication received by and in the possession of the
Administrative Agent at the time of receipt of such request and then only in accordance with such
specific request.

          SECTION 13. Miscellaneous.

          13.01 Payment of Expenses, etc. (a) The Borrower shall: (i) whether or not the
transactions herein contemplated are consummated, pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and
expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers (including, without limitation,
the reasonable fees and disbursements of White & Case LLP and local counsel) in connection with the
preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and the
documents and instruments referred to herein and therein and any amendment, waiver or consent
relating hereto or thereto, of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers in connection
with its syndication efforts with respect to this Agreement and, following an Event of Default,
each of the Lenders in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents and the documents and instruments referred to herein and therein (including, without
limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent and,
following an Event of Default, for each of the Lenders including, without duplication, any
reasonable allocated costs of in-house counsel); (ii) pay and hold each of the Lenders harmless
from and against any and all present and future stamp, excise and other similar taxes with respect
to the foregoing matters (including, without limitation, Mississippi personal property tax) and
save each of the Lenders harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or
resulting from any delay or omission (other than to the extent attributable to such Lender) to pay
such taxes; and (iii) defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent, the
Joint Lead Arrangers and each Lender, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees,
representatives and agents from and hold each of them harmless against any and all liabilities,
obligations (including removal or remedial actions), losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorneys’ and
consultants’ fees and disbursements) incurred by, imposed on or assessed against any of them as a
result of, or arising out of, or in any way related to, or by reason of, (a) any investigation,
litigation or other proceeding (whether or not the Administrative Agent or any Lender is a party
thereto) related to the entering into and/or performance of this Agreement or any other Credit
Document or the use of any Letter of Credit or the proceeds of any Loans hereunder or the
consummation of any transactions contemplated herein (including, without limitation, the
Transaction) or in any other Credit Document or the exercise of any of their rights or remedies
provided herein or in the other Credit Documents, (b) any non-compliance with any Environmental Law
relating to any Real Property at any time owned or operated by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries, (c) the actual or alleged generation, presence or Release of
Hazardous Materials on or from, or the transportation of Hazardous Materials to or from, any Real
Property owned or at any time operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (d) any
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or any Real Property owned
or at any time operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, including, in each case,
without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel and other consultants incurred
in connection with any such investigation, litigation or other proceeding, provided, the
Borrower shall not have any obligation to defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless any Person
hereunder with respect to any liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements to the extent they arise from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of that Person, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment
of a court of competent jurisdiction.

          (b) The Borrower further agrees to pay the reasonable legal fees of gaming counsel for the
Administrative Agent in Missouri, Nevada, Mississippi, Colorado and Iowa and any other relevant
state or other jurisdiction and all reasonable costs (including costs of investigation) associated
with any qualification (or exemption or waiver therefrom) of any Lender under, or compliance in
connection with the Gaming Regulations in connection with the syndication under this Agreement.

          13.02 Right of Setoff; Collateral Matters. In addition to any rights now or hereafter
granted under applicable law or otherwise, and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon
any amount becoming due and payable by the Borrower hereunder (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise), each Lender is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time,
without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind to the Borrower or to any other
Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set off and to appropriate and apply any
and all deposits (general or special) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by such
Lender (including, without limitation, by branches and agencies of such Lender wherever located) to
or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against and on account of the Obligations and
liabilities of the Borrower to such Lender under this Agreement or under any of the other Credit
Documents, including, without limitation, all interests in Obligations purchased by such Lender
pursuant to Section 13.06(b), and all other claims of any nature or description arising out of or
connected with this Agreement or any other Credit Document, irrespective of whether or not such
Lender shall have made any demand hereunder and although said Obligations, liabilities or claims,
or any of them, shall be contingent or unmatured.

          13.03 Notices. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other
communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telex, telecopier
or cable communication) and mailed, telegraphed, telexed, telecopied, cabled or delivered: if to
the Borrower, at the Borrower’s address specified opposite its signature below; if to any Lender,
at its address specified on Schedule II; and if to the Administrative Agent, at its Notice Office;
or, as to any Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, at such other address as shall be
designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties hereto and, as to each
Lender, at such other address as shall be designated by such Lender in a written notice to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent. All such notices and communications shall, when mailed, be
effective (5) Business Days after deposit in the mails, and when telegraphed, telexed, telecopied,
or cabled or sent by overnight courier, be effective one Business Day after dispatch, except that
notices and communications to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall not be effective
until received by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, as the case may be.

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          13.04 Benefit of Agreement. (a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of and be enforceable by the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto;
provided, however, no Credit Party may assign or transfer any of its rights,
obligations or interest hereunder or under any other Credit Document without the prior written
consent of the Lenders (it being understood that this Section 13.04 shall not prevent a merger or
consolidation otherwise permitted by this Agreement) and, provided, further, that,
although any Lender may transfer, assign or grant participations in its rights hereunder, such
Lender shall remain a “Lender” for all purposes hereunder (and may not transfer or assign all or
any portion of its Commitments hereunder except as provided in Section 13.04(b)) and the
transferee, assignee or participant, as the case may be, shall not constitute a “Lender” hereunder
and, provided, further, that no Lender shall transfer or grant any participation
under which the participant shall have rights to approve any amendment to or waiver of this
Agreement or any other Credit Document except to the extent such amendment or waiver would (i)
extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan, Note or Letter of Credit (unless such Letter of
Credit is not extended beyond the first anniversary of the Revolving Loan Maturity Date) in which
such participant is participating, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or
Fees thereon (except (x) in connection with a waiver of applicability of any post-default increase
in interest rates and (y) any amendment or modification that is not agreed to by each Lender
directly affected thereby to the financial definitions in this Agreement or to Section 13.07(a)
shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or Fees for purposes of this clause (i),
notwithstanding the fact that such amendment or modification would otherwise actually result in
such a reduction, so long as the primary purpose (as determined in good faith by the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent) of the respective amendment or modification was not to decrease the
pricing pursuant to this Agreement) or reduce the principal amount thereof, or increase the amount
of the participant’s participation over the amount thereof then in effect (it being understood that
a waiver of any Default or Event of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the Total Commitment
shall not constitute a change in the terms of such participation, and that an increase in any
Commitment or Loan shall be permitted without the consent of any participant if the participant’s
participation is not increased as a result thereof), (ii) consent to the assignment or transfer by
the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement or (iii) release all or
substantially all of the Collateral under all of the Security Documents (except as expressly
provided in the Credit Documents) supporting the Obligations in which such participant is
participating. In the case of any such participation, the participant shall not have any rights
under this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents (the participant’s rights against such
Lender in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the agreement executed by such
Lender in favor of the participant relating thereto) and all amounts payable by the Borrower
hereunder shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation.

          (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender (or any Lender together with one or more other
Lenders) may (x) assign all or a portion of its Revolving Loan Commitment (and related outstanding
Obligations hereunder) and/or its outstanding Term Loans (or, if prior to the Initial Borrowing
Date, Initial Term Loan Commitment) to (i)(A) its parent company and/or any affiliate of such
Lender which is at least 50% owned by such Lender or its parent company or to one or more Lenders
or (B) to one or more other Lenders or any affiliate of any such other Lender which is at least 50%
owned by such other Lender or its parent company (provided that any fund that invests in
bank loans and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor of another fund which is a
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an affiliate of such
other Lender for the purposes of this sub-clause (x)(i)(B)), or (ii) in the case of any Lender that
is a fund that invests in bank loans, any other fund that invests in bank loans and is managed by
the same investment advisor of any Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor and (y)
assign all, or if less than all, a portion equal to at least in the case of assignments of, (x)
for Term Loans, $1,000,000 or (y) for Revolving Loans, $5,000,000 hereunder to one or more
Qualified Persons (treating any fund that invests in bank loans and any other fund that invests in
bank loans and is managed by the same investment advisor of such fund or by an Affiliate of such
investment advisor as a single Qualified Person), each of which assignees shall become a party to
this Agreement as a Lender by execution of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, provided
that, (i) at such time Schedule I shall be deemed modified to reflect the Commitments (and/or
outstanding Term Loans) of such new Lender and of the existing Lenders, (ii) upon surrender of the
old Notes, new Notes will be issued, at the Borrower’s expense, to such new Lender and to the
assigning Lender, such new Notes to be in conformity with the requirements of Section 1.05 (with
appropriate modifications) to the extent needed to reflect the revised Commitments (and/or
outstanding Term Loans) and requested by such new Lender and/or assigning Lender, (iii) the consent
of the Administrative Agent and, with respect to assignments of Revolving Loans and/or Revolving
Loan Commitments, each Issuing Lender shall be required in connection with any such assignment
pursuant to clause (y) of this Section 13.04(b) (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed), (iv) unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, the consent of
the Borrower shall be required in connection with any such assignment pursuant to clause (y) of
this Section 13.04(b) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), it being
understood and agreed that for the first 15 days following the Initial Borrowing Date, the written
consent of the Borrower shall not be required in connection with any such assignments to the extent
occurring in connection with the primary syndication of this facility; provided that the
Borrower has approved all such Lenders prior to the Initial Borrowing Date and (v) the
Administrative Agent shall receive at the time of each such assignment, from the assigning or
assignee Lender, the payment of a non-refundable assignment fee of $3,500 and, provided,
further, that such transfer or assignment will not be effective until recorded by the
Administrative Agent on the Register pursuant to Section 13.16 hereof. To the extent of any
assignment pursuant to this Section 13.04(b), the assigning Lender shall be relieved of its
obligations hereunder with respect to its assigned Commitments. At the time of each assignment
pursuant to this Section 13.04(b) to a person which is not already a Lender hereunder and which is
not a United States person (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for Federal
income tax purposes, the respective assignee Lender shall provide to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent the appropriate Internal Revenue Service Forms (and, if applicable a Section
4.04(b)(ii) Certificate) described in Section 4.04(b). To the extent that an assignment of all or
any portion of a Lender’s
Commitments and related outstanding Obligations pursuant to Section 1.13 or this Section
13.04(b) would, at the time of such assignment, result in increased costs under Section 1.10, 1.11,
2.05 or 4.04 from those being charged by the respective assigning Lender prior to such assignment,

then the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Borrower shall
be obligated to pay any other increased costs of the type described above resulting from changes
after the date of the respective assignment).

          (c) If any Gaming Authority shall determine that any Lender is not qualified as an approved
financial source or otherwise does not meet the standards pursuant to the Gaming Regulations in the
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Gaming Business shall
determine that any Lender does not meet its suitability standards (in any such case, a “Former
Lender”), the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Lender or the Borrower shall have the right
(but not the duty) to designate a lender or lenders (in each case, a “Substitute Lender”,
which may be any Lender or Lenders that agree to become a Substitute Lender and, if not an existing
Lender, with the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the extent provided in
Section 13.04(b)) that has agreed to assume the rights and obligations of the Former Lender,
subject to receipt by the Administrative Agent of evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
that such Substitute Lender is a Qualified Person, or has a reasonable basis for a belief that the
Substitute Lender is eligible to be a Qualified Person, and compliance with Gaming Regulations. The
Substitute Lender shall assume the rights and obligations of the Former Lender under this Agreement
pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, which assumption shall be required to comply
with, and shall become effective in accordance with, the provisions of Section 13.04(b),
provided that the purchase price to be paid by the Substitute Lender to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Former Lender for such assumption shall equal the sum of (i) the
unpaid principal amount of any Notes held or Loans made by the Former Lender plus accrued interest
thereon plus (ii) the Former Lender’s pro rata share of the aggregate amount of
Drawings under all Letters of Credit that have not been reimbursed by the Borrower, plus accrued
interest thereon, plus (iii) such Former Lender’s pro rata share of accrued Fees to
the date of the assumption, and, provided, further, the Borrower shall pay all
obligations owing to the Former Lender under the Credit Documents (including all obligations, if
any, owing pursuant to Section 1.11, but excluding those amounts in respect of which the purchase
price is being paid as provided above). Each Lender agrees that if it becomes a Former Lender,
upon payment to it by the Borrower of all such amounts, if any, owing to it under the Credit
Documents, it will execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption Agreement upon payment of such
purchase price.

          (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section 13.04, but subject to
applicable Gaming Regulations, if any Lender becomes a Former Lender, and if the Administrative
Agent or the Borrower fails to find a Substitute Lender pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section
within any time period specified by the appropriate Gaming Authority for the withdrawal of a Former
Lender (the “Withdrawal Period”), the Borrower shall immediately (i) prepay in full the
outstanding principal amount of each Note held or Loan made by such Former Lender, together with
accrued interest thereon to the earlier of (x) the date of payment or (y) the last day of any
Withdrawal Period, and (ii) at the option of the Borrower either (A) place an amount equal to such
Former Lender’s Revolving Loan Percentage in each Letter of Credit in a separate cash collateral
account with the Administrative Agent for each outstanding Letter of Credit, which amount will be
applied by the Administrative Agent to satisfy the Borrower’s
reimbursement obligations to the respective Issuing Lender in respect of Drawings under the
applicable Letter of Credit or (B) if no Default or Event of Default then exists, terminate the
Revolving Loan Commitment of such Former Lender at which time the other Lenders’ Revolving Loan
Percentages will be automatically adjusted as a result thereof, provided that the option
specified in this clause (B) may only be exercised if, immediately after giving effect thereto, no
Lender’s outstanding Revolving Loans, when added to the product of (a) such Lender’s Revolving Loan
Percentage and (b) the sum of (I) the aggregate amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such
time and (II) the aggregate amount of all Swingline Loans then outstanding, would exceed such
Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.

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          (e) Subject to the last sentence of this Section 13.04(e), each Lender agrees that all
participations and assignments made hereunder shall be subject to, and made in compliance with, all
Gaming Regulations applicable to lenders. Each Lender agrees further that it will not grant
participations or assignments (other than to funds that invest in bank loans and are managed by the
same investment advisor of such assigning Lender) prior to receiving notice from the Administrative
Agent that it has completed the primary syndication of this facility. The Administrative Agent
shall provide such notice to the Lenders and the Borrower promptly after completing such primary
syndication. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that unless the Borrower has provided the Lenders
with a written opinion of counsel as to the suitability standards applicable to lenders of any
relevant Gaming Authority with jurisdiction over the Gaming Business, no Lender shall have the
responsibility of determining whether or not a potential assignee of such Lender would be a
Qualified Person under the Gaming Regulations of any such jurisdiction (provided that any relevant
Gaming Authority may nonetheless determine such assignee not to be a Qualified Person).

          (f) Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or prohibit any Lender from pledging its Loans and
Notes hereunder to a Federal Reserve Lender in support of borrowings made by such Lender from such
Federal Reserve Bank and, with notice to the Administrative Agent, any Lender which is a fund may
pledge all or any portion of its Loans and Notes to its trustee in support of its obligations to
its trustee.

          13.05 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative. No failure or delay on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender or any holder of any Note in exercising any right, power or
privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document and no course of dealing between the
Borrower or any other Credit Party and the Administrative Agent or any Lender or the holder of any
Note shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right,
power or privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder.
The rights, powers and remedies herein or in any other Credit Document expressly provided are
cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, powers or remedies which the Administrative Agent or
any Lender or the holder of any Note would otherwise have. No notice to or demand on any Credit
Party in any case shall entitle any Credit Party to any other or further notice or demand in
similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender or the holder of any Note to any other or further action in any circumstances without
notice or demand.

          13.06 Payments Pro Rata. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the
Administrative Agent agrees that promptly after its receipt of each payment from or on behalf of
the Borrower in respect of any Obligations hereunder, it shall distribute such payment to the
Lenders (other than any Lender that has consented in writing to waive its pro rata
share of any such payment) pro rata based upon their respective shares, if any, of
the Obligations with respect to which such payment was received.

          (b) Each of the Lenders agrees that, if it should receive any amount hereunder (whether by
voluntary payment, by realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of setoff or lender’s
lien, by counterclaim or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under the Credit Documents,
or otherwise), which is applicable to the payment of the principal of, or

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interest on, the Loans,
Unpaid Drawings, Commitment Commission or Letter of Credit Fees, of a sum which with respect to the
related sum or sums received by other Lenders is in a greater proportion than the total of such
Obligation then owed and due to such Lender bears to the total of such Obligation then owed and due
to all of the Lenders immediately prior to such receipt, then such Lender receiving such excess
payment shall purchase for cash without recourse or warranty from the other Lenders an interest in
the Obligations of the respective Credit Party to such Lenders in such amount as shall result in a
proportional participation by all the Lenders in such amount; provided that if all or any
portion of such excess amount is thereafter recovered from such Lender, such purchase shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.

          (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the provisions of the preceding
Sections 13.06(a) and (b) shall be subject to the express provisions of this Agreement which
require, or permit, differing payments to be made to Non-Defaulting Lenders as opposed to
Defaulting Lenders.

          13.07 Calculations; Computations. (a) The financial statements to be furnished to
the Lenders pursuant hereto shall be made and prepared in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States consistently applied throughout the periods involved
(except as set forth in the notes thereto or as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrower to
the Lenders and except that quarterly financial statements may not include notes and are subject to
year-end adjustments); provided that, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all
computations determining compliance with Sections 9.08 through 9.10, inclusive, and the Applicable
Margin shall utilize accounting principles and policies in conformity with those used to prepare
the historical financial statements delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 7.05(a) (with the
foregoing generally accepted accounting principles, subject to the preceding proviso, herein called
“GAAP”). In the event of any changes (“Accounting Changes”) in accounting
principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or,
if applicable, the SEC, if such Accounting Changes result in a change in the method of calculation
of financial covenants, standards or terms of this Agreement, then the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent agree to enter into negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this
Agreement so as
to equitably reflect such Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for
evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same after such Accounting Changes as if
such Accounting Changes had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been
executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all
financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated as if
such Accounting Changes had not occurred.

          (b) All computations of interest payable at the Eurodollar Rate, Commitment Commission and
Fees hereunder shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 days for the actual number of days
(including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such
interest, Commitment Commission or Fees are payable. All computations of interest payable at the
Base Rate shall be made on the basis on a year of 365 (or 366, as applicable) days for the actual
number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for
which such interest is payable.

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          13.08 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. (a)
THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN CERTAIN OF THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS,
BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. ANY LEGAL
ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN
THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,
AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR
ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR
THEREBY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. THE BORROWER FURTHER IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO
THE SERVICE OF PROCESS OUT OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY
THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO ANY CREDIT PARTY
AT ITS ADDRESS SET FORTH OPPOSITE ITS SIGNATURE BELOW. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, ANY LENDER OR THE HOLDER OF ANY NOTE TO SERVE PROCESS IN
ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST ANY
CREDIT PARTY IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

          (b) THE BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO
THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT BROUGHT IN THE COURTS REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (a)
ABOVE AND HEREBY
FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY SUCH COURT THAT ANY SUCH
ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

          (c) EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY
JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE
OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

          13.09 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and
by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same
instrument. A set of counterparts executed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

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          13.10 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective on the date (the
“Effective Date”) on which the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders
shall have signed a counterpart hereof (whether the same or different counterparts) and shall have
delivered the same to the Administrative Agent at its Notice Office or, in the case of the Lenders,
shall have given to the Administrative Agent telephonic (confirmed in writing), written or telex
notice (actually received) at such office that the same has been signed and mailed to it. The
Administrative Agent will give the Borrower and each Lender prompt written notice of the occurrence
of the Effective Date.

          13.11 Headings Descriptive. The headings of the several sections and subsections of
this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or
construction of any provision of this Agreement.

          13.12 Amendment or Waiver; etc. (a) Neither this Agreement nor any other Credit
Document nor any terms hereof or thereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated unless
such change, waiver, discharge or termination is in writing signed by the respective Credit Parties
party thereto and the Required Lenders, provided that no such change, waiver, discharge or
termination shall, without the consent of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) with
Obligations being directly affected,

     (i) extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan or Note or extend the Stated
Maturity of any Letter of Credit beyond the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, or reduce the rate
or extend the time of payment of interest or Fees thereon (except (x) in connection with a
waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates and (y) any amendment
or modification that is not agreed to by each Lender directly affected
thereby to the financial definitions in this Agreement or to Section 13.07(a) shall not
constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or Fees for purposes of this clause (i),
notwithstanding the fact that such amendment or modification would otherwise actually result
in such a reduction, so long as the primary purpose (as determined in good faith by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent) of the respective amendment or modification was not
to decrease the pricing pursuant to this Agreement), or reduce the principal amount thereof
(except to the extent repaid in cash);

     (ii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral (except as expressly provided
in the Credit Documents) under all the Security Documents or release all or substantially
all of the Guarantors;

     (iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 13.12;

     (iv) reduce the percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders (it being
understood that, with the consent of the Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit
pursuant to this Agreement may be included in the determination of the Required Lenders on
substantially the same basis as the extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Loan Commitments
are included on the Effective Date); or

     (v) consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement;

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          provided, further, that no such change, waiver, discharge or termination shall
(1) increase the Commitments of any Lender over the amount thereof then in effect without the
consent of such Lender (it being understood that waivers or modifications of conditions precedent,
covenants, Defaults or Events of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the Total Commitment shall
not constitute an increase of the Commitment of any Lender and that an increase in the available
portion of any Commitment of any Lender shall not constitute an increase in the Commitment of such
Lender), (2) without the consent of the Swingline Lender, amend, modify or waive any provision
relating to the rights or obligations of the Swingline Lender or with respect to Swingline Loans
(including, without limitation, the obligations of the other Lenders with Revolving Loan
Commitments to fund Mandatory Borrowings), (3) without the consent of the Administrative Agent,
amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2 or alter its rights or obligations with respect
to Letters of Credit, (4) without the consent of the Administrative Agent, amend, modify or waive
any provision of Section 12 as same applies to the Administrative Agent or any other provision as
same relates to the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent, (5) without the consent of
the Collateral Agent, amend, modify or waive any provision relating to the rights or obligations of
the Collateral Agent, and (6) without the consent of the Majority Lenders of any Tranche of Term
Loans, amend the definition of Majority Lenders with respect to such Tranche, or this clause (6),
or alter the required application of any prepayments or repayments (or commitment reductions), as
between the various Tranches, pursuant to Section 4.01 or 4.02 (excluding Sections 4.02(b) or (c))
with respect to such Tranche (although the Required Lenders may waive, in whole or in part, any
such prepayment, repayment or commitment reduction, except pursuant to Sections 4.02(b) or (c), so
long as the application, as amongst the various Tranches, of any such prepayment, repayment or
commitment reduction
which is still required to be made is not altered) or reduce the amount of, or extend the date
of, any Scheduled Repayment with respect to such Tranche.

          (b) If, in connection with any proposed change, waiver, discharge or termination to or of any
of the provisions of this Agreement as contemplated by clauses (i) through (v), inclusive, of the
first proviso to Section 13.12(a), the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained but the consent
of one or more of such other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained, then the Borrower
shall have the right, so long as all non-consenting Lenders whose individual consent is required
are treated as described in either clause (A) or (B) below, to either (A) replace each such
non-consenting Lender or Lenders (or, at the option of the Borrower if the respective Lender’s
consent is required with respect to less than all Tranches of Loans (or related Commitments), to
replace only the respective Tranche or Tranches of Commitments and/or Loans of the respective
non-consenting Lender which gave rise to the need to obtain such Lender’s individual consent) with
one or more Replacement Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13 so long as at the time of such
replacement, each such Replacement Lender consents to the proposed change, waiver, discharge or
termination or (B) terminate such non-consenting Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment and/or repay
each Tranche of outstanding Term Loans of such Lender in accordance with Sections 3.02(b) and/or
4.01(b), provided that, unless the Commitments terminated, and Loans repaid, pursuant to
preceding clause (B) are immediately replaced in full at such time through the addition of new
Lenders or the increase of the Commitments and/or outstanding Loans of existing Lenders (who in
each case must specifically consent thereto), then in the case of any action pursuant to preceding
clause (B) the Required Lenders (determined both (x) before giving effect to the proposed action
and (y) as if the Loans and Commitments being terminated (and not replaced) were not outstanding)
shall specifically consent thereto, provided, further, that

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in any event the
Borrower shall not have the right to replace a Lender, terminate its Revolving Loan Commitment or
repay its Loans solely as a result of the exercise of such Lender’s rights (and the withholding of
any required consent by such Lender) pursuant to the second proviso to Section 13.12(a).

          13.13 Survival. All indemnities set forth herein including, without limitation, in
Sections 1.10, 1.11, 2.05, 4.04, 13.01, 13.06 and 13.15 shall survive the execution, delivery and
termination of this Agreement and the Notes and the making and repayment of the Loans.

          13.14 Domicile of Loans. Each Lender may transfer and carry its Loans at, to or for
the account of any office, Subsidiary or Affiliate of such Lender. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, to the extent that a transfer of Loans pursuant to this Section 13.14
would, at the time of such transfer, result in increased costs under Section 1.10, 1.11, 2.05 or
4.04 from those being charged by the respective Lender prior to such transfer, then the Borrower
shall not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Borrower shall be obligated to pay
any other increased costs of the type described above resulting from changes giving rise to such
increased costs after the date of the respective transfer to the extent such costs would have been
applicable had such transfer not occurred).

          13.15 Confidentiality. (a) Subject to the provisions of clause (b) of this Section
13.15, each Lender agrees that it will not disclose without the prior written consent of the
Borrower (other than to its employees, auditors, advisors or counsel or to another Lender if the
Lender or such Lender’s holding or parent company in its sole discretion determines that any such
party should have access to such information in connection with this Agreement and the Transaction,
provided such Persons shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 13.15 to the same extent
as such Lender) any information with respect to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which is
now or in the future furnished pursuant to this Agreement or any other Credit Document,
provided that any Lender may disclose any such information (a) as has become generally
available to the public (other than as a result of a breach of this Section 13.15 by such Lender),
(b) as may be required or appropriate in any report, statement or testimony submitted to any
municipal, state or Federal regulatory body having or claiming to have jurisdiction over such
Lender or to the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or similar
organizations (whether in the United States or elsewhere) or their successors, (c) as may be
required or appropriate in respect to any summons or subpoena or in connection with any litigation,
(d) in order to comply with any law, order, regulation or ruling applicable to such Lender, (e) to
the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, (f) to any prospective or actual transferee or
participant in connection with any contemplated transfer or participation of any of the Notes or
Commitments or any interest therein by such Lender, provided that such prospective
transferee agrees with such Lender on terms and conditions substantially the same as those
contained in this Section 13.15 and (g) to any Person (or such Person’s investment advisor) with
whom such Lender has entered into or proposes to enter into (in each case either directly or
indirectly) any credit swap agreement with respect to such Lender’s Loans and/or Commitments,
provided such Person (and such investment advisor, if any) agrees to be bound by the
confidentiality provisions contained in this Section 13.15.

          (b) The Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that each Lender may share with any of its
affiliates any information related to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (in-

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cluding, without
limitation, any nonpublic customer information regarding the creditworthiness of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, if the Lender or such Lender’s holding or parent company in its sole judgment
determines that any such party should have access to such information in connection with this
Agreement and the Transaction, provided such Persons shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section 13.15 to the same extent as such Lender and provided such sharing of information is
undertaken in connection with this Agreement and the Transaction.

          13.16 Registry. The Borrower hereby designates the Administrative Agent to serve as
the Borrower’s agent, solely for purposes of this Section 13.16, to maintain a register (the
“Register”) on which it will record the Commitments from time to time of each of the
Lenders, the Loans made by each of the Lenders and each repayment in respect of the principal
amount of the Loans of each Lender. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent
manifest error. Failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation shall not
affect the Borrower’s obligations in respect of such Loans. With respect to any Lender, the
transfer of the Commitments of such Lender and the rights to the principal of, and interest on, any
Loan made
pursuant to such Commitments shall not be effective until such transfer is recorded on the
Register maintained by the Administrative Agent with respect to ownership of such Commitments and
Loans and prior to such recordation all amounts owing to the transferor with respect to such
Commitments and Loans shall remain owing to the transferor. The registration of assignment or
transfer of all or part of any Commitments and Loans shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent
on the Register only upon the acceptance by the Administrative Agent of a properly executed and
delivered Assignment and Assumption Agreement pursuant to Section 13.04(b). Coincident with the
delivery of such an Assignment and Assumption Agreement to the Administrative Agent for acceptance
and registration of assignment or transfer of all or part of a Loan, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, the assigning or transferor Lender shall surrender the Note evidencing such Loan, and
thereupon one or more new Notes in the same aggregate principal amount shall be issued to the
assigning or transferor Lender and/or the new Lender. The Borrower agrees to indemnify the
Administrative Agent from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities of
whatsoever nature which may be imposed on, asserted against or incurred by the Administrative Agent
in performing its duties under this Section 13.16 except for gross negligence or willful
misconduct.

          13.17 Application of Gaming Regulations. This Agreement is subject to the Gaming
Regulations and laws involving the sale and distribution of liquor (the “Liquor Laws”).
Without limiting the foregoing, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders acknowledge that (i) they
are subject to being called forward by the Gaming Authorities or such other governmental
authorities enforcing the Liquor Laws, in their discretion, for licensing or a finding of
suitability or to file or provide other information, and (ii) all rights, remedies and powers in or
under this Agreement may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate
any applicable provisions of the Gaming Regulations and Liquor Laws and only to the extent that
required approvals (including prior approvals) are obtained from the requisite Gaming Authorities
and such other governmental authorities. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree to
cooperate with all Gaming Authorities and such other governmental authorities in connection with
the provision of such documents or other information as may be requested by such Gaming Authorities
and such other governmental authorities.

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          13.18 USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Each Lender hereby notifies each Credit Party that
pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub.L. 107-56 (signed into law
October 26, 2001)) (the “PATRIOT Act”), it is required to obtain, verify, and record
information that identifies each Credit Party, which information includes the name of each Credit
Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify each Credit Party in accordance
with the PATRIOT Act, and each Credit Party agrees to provide such information from time to time to
any Lender.

          13.19 Post-Closing Actions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Agreement or the other Credit Documents, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that on the
Initial Borrowing Date, the capital stock of CPI shall not be pledged pursuant to Section 5.07 of
this Agreement,
and restrictions on transfers and agreements not to encumber stock of CPI shall be
inapplicable. The Borrower hereby agrees that the Borrower shall use its commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain the necessary approvals from the applicable Gaming Authority in order to pledge
or cause to be pledged all capital stock of CPI pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and to cause the
restrictions on transfers and agreements not to encumber stock of CPI. It is understood and agreed
that the Borrower shall cause the stock of CPI to be pledged to the Collateral Agent pursuant to
the Pledge Agreement as promptly as possible following receipt of the approval therefore from the
relevant Gaming Authority.

          In addition, the parties hereto acknowledge that certain notice filings with respect to the
Transaction need to be completed following the Initial Borrowing Date pursuant to the Gaming
Regulations applicable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. The Borrower agrees to complete all
such filings in a timely manner and to notify the Administrative Agent upon the completion thereof.

          All provisions of this Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents (including, without
limitation, all conditions precedent, representations, warranties, covenants, events of default and
other agreements herein and therein) shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to effect the
foregoing (and to permit the taking of the actions and the satisfaction of the conditions described
above within the time periods required hereby (and, rather than as otherwise provided in the Credit
Documents)); provided, that (x) to the extent any representation and warranty would not be
true because the foregoing actions were not taken, or conditions were not satisfied, on the Initial
Borrowing Date, the respective representation and warranty shall be required to be true and correct
in all material respects at the time the respective action is taken or condition is satisfied (or
was required to be taken or satisfied) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section
13.19 and (y) all representations and warranties relating to the Security Documents shall be
required to be true immediately after the actions required to be taken, or the conditions required
to be satisfied, by this Section 13.19 have been taken or satisfied (or were required to be taken
or satisfied).

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their duly authorized officers to execute
and deliver this Agreement as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Address:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	AMERISTAR CASINOS, INC.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Ameristar Casinos, Inc.
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	3773 Howard Hughes Parkway
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Suite 490S
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Las Vegas, Nevada 89109	 	By:	 	/s/ Thomas M. Steinbauer
	 	 	 	 	 
	Attention: Chief Financial Officer	 	 	 	Title:	 	Senior Vice President of Finance,
	Fax: 702-369-8860	 	 	 	 	 	Chief Financial Officer,
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Treasurer and Secretary
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	with copies to:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Ameristar Casinos, Inc.
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	3773 Howard Hughes Parkway
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Suite 490S
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Attention: Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Fax:
702-733-8478
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
	 	 	Individually and as Administrative Agent
	60 Wall Street
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	New York, New York 10005
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Tel:
(212) 250-6039
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Fax: (212) 797-5690	 	By:	 	/s/ Brenda Casey	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Attention: May Kay Coyle

	 	 	 	Title:
	 	Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	/s/ May Kay Coyle	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:
	 	Managing Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
	 	 	 	 	Individually and as Joint Lead Arranger and
Syndication Agent	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	/s/ Clark A. Wood	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:
	 	Senior Vice President	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 10, 2005, AMONG
AMERISTAR CASINOS, INC., THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME, DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES
INC. AND WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND WELLS FARGO BANK,
N.A., AS SYNDICATION AGENT
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	BANK OF SCOTLAND
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Karen Weich	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Assistant Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Andrew Backstrom	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ G. Lee Wagner, Jr.	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	CALYON NEW YORK BRANCH
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Dianne M. Scott	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Managing Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ F. Frank Herrera	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK AND GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Christian Jagenberg	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President & Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Werner Schmidbauer	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Kwong Yew Wong	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: First Vice President & General Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Philip Cheong	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President & Deputy General Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Yoshihiro Hayakutome	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Joint General Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	HSH NORDBANK AG
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Frank A. Anderson	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Tobias M. Voss	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Assistant Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	SOCIETE GENERALE
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Patricia Wright	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	MERRILL LYNCH CAPITAL CORPORATION
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Michael E. O’Brien	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK, LTD.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Raymond Ventura	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Deputy General Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANK A DIVISION OF NEW YORK PRIVATE BANK & TRUST
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Patricia Goldstein	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Executive Vice President
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	
& Chief Credit Officer
	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	BNP PARIBAS
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Janice S. Ho	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Mitchell Ozawa	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Managing Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	ALLIED IRISH BANKS, P.L.C.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ John Farrace	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Martin Chin	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	NATIONAL CITY BANK OF INDIANA
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Jeffrey T. Dysert	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Clifford F. Cho	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	COMERICA WEST INCORPORATED
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Bryan Camden	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Corporate Banking Representative	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Joseph Badini	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Duly Authorized Signatory	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	NATEXIS BANQUES POPULAIRES
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Peyman Parhami	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Mark A. Harrington	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President & Manager	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Chris Haskew	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	PEOPLE’S BANK
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Francis J. McGinn	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	BANK OF HAWAII
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ James Karnowski	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	FIRST BANK
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Traci L. Dodson	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE
ZENTRAL-GENOSSENSCHAFTSBANK FRANKFURT AM MAIN
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Paul Fitzpatrick	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Bemd Henrik Franke	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Senior Vice President

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