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Seventh Amendment to the 2001 Restatement

 Exhibit 10.96 
 SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO 
 2001 RESTATEMENT OF 
 THE HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC. 
 SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN 
 WHEREAS, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
has established and maintains the Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan (the “Plan”) for the benefit of its eligible employees and the eligible employees of certain participating companies; and 
 WHEREAS, it is desirable to amend the Plan to provide for special hardship withdrawals by Plan participants who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina;

 WHEREAS, Section 14.2 of the Plan provides that the Board, the HRC and any one of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Senior
Vice President of Human Resources or another person designated by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer has the power to amend the Plan in any respect; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, this Seventh Amendment to the 2001 Restatement of the Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan is adopted and shall supersede the provisions of the Plan to the
Senior Vice President of Human Resources to the extent those provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of this Seventh Amendment. 
 BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, pursuant to the power and authority reserved by Section 14.2(a) of the Plan to the, the Plan is hereby amended, effective as of August 30, 2005, by adding the following as new Section 8.6A of the Plan:

 “Section 8.6A Special Hardship Withdrawals for Affected Participants. An Active or Inactive Participant who is
an Affected Participant (as defined in subsection (e)) may take an in-service withdrawal on account of a Special Hardship (as defined in subsection (c) in accordance with the rules established by the Administrator and subject to the following:

 (a) Subject to subsection (b), a Special Hardship withdrawal shall be available to an Affected Participant from the
following Accounts: (i) the Rollover Account, (ii) the After-Tax Account, (iii) the vested Matching Account, (iv) the vested Discretionary Contribution Account, (v) the 401(k) Account (excluding post-1988 investment
earnings) and (vi) the vested Prior Plan Account. 
 (b) An Affected Participant’s aggregate Special Hardship
withdrawals shall not exceed the lesser of: 
 (i) the total amount of his Rollover Account, After-Tax Account, 401(k) Account
(excluding post-1988 earnings), vested Matching Account, vested Discretionary Contribution Account and vested Prior Plan Account reduced by the unpaid amount due on his outstanding loan(s) under the Plan, and 
  

 (ii) the amount which is necessary to satisfy the Special Hardship, including any amounts
necessary to pay federal, state or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the Special Hardship withdrawal. 
 (c) An Affected Participant will have a “Special Hardship” if the Vice President of Benefits of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. determines, in his sole discretion, that the Affected Participant has an
immediate and heavy financial need as a result of the damage and disruption caused by Hurricane Katrina and such need may not be relieved from other resources that are reasonably available to the Affected Participant. To the extent that the Vice
President of Benefits of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. does not have any actual knowledge to the contrary, he can rely upon the Affected Participant’s representation that the need cannot reasonably be relieved: 
  

	 	(i)	Through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise; 

  

	 	(ii)	By liquidation of his assets, including those of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to him; 

  

	 	(iii)	By stopping 401(k) Contributions (including Catch-up Contributions) and After Tax Contributions under the Plan; 

  

	 	(iv)	By taking other currently available distributions (including Harrah’s Stock dividends under Section 5.6(c)) or nontaxable loans from any plan; or 

 

	 	(v)	By borrowing a sufficient amount from commercial sources on reasonable commercial terms. 

 (d) This Special Hardship withdrawal is provided in addition to other withdrawals and loans available under the Plan. 
 (e) For purposes of this Section, an “Affected Participant” shall mean a Participant who was employed at the Harrah’s New
Orleans casino on August 29, 2005 and who remains an Employee on and after his Special Hardship withdrawal request.” 
 IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Seventh Amendment to be executed by its duly authorized officer on this 20 day of September, 2005. 
  

			
	 HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
 S&RP ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

		
	By:	 	/s/    JEFFREY SHOVLIN
	 Name:
 Title:
	 	 Jeffrey Shovlin
 Chairman

  

 2Eighth Amendment to the 2001 Restatement

 Exhibit 10.97 
 EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO 
 2001 RESTATEMENT OF 
 THE HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC. 
 SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN 
 WHEREAS, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), has established and maintains the Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan, as amended from time to time (the “Plan”) for the benefit of its eligible employees and the eligible
employees of certain participating companies; and 
 WHEREAS, it is desirable to amend the Plan to place certain amendment authority under
the Plan with the Administrative Committee, with other amendment authority reserved for the Board or the HRC; 
 WHEREAS, Section 14.2
of the Plan provides that the Board, the HRC, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President of Human Resources or another person designated by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer has the power to amend the Plan in any
respect; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, this Eighth Amendment to the 2001 Restatement of the Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.
Savings and Retirement Plan is adopted and shall supersede the provisions of the Plan. 
 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, pursuant to the power
and authority reserved by Section 14.2(a) of the Plan, the Plan is hereby amended, effective as of signatory date set forth below, by amending and restating the Section 14.2 of the Plan as follows: 
 “Section 14.2 AMENDMENT OF PLAN. 
 (a) As limited in Section 14.3 of the Plan, complete or partial amendments to the Plan, including retroactive amendments to meet legal or tax qualification requirements, may be made from time to time by the
Company. Amendments to the Plan shall be adopted by the Board or the HRC. Additionally, the Administrative Committee shall have the authority to adopt amendments that are necessary to bring the Plan into conformity with legal and tax requirements or
to improve Plan administration, provided that no such amendments involve a material increase in cost of benefits provided by this Plan. 
 (b) As limited in Section 14.3 of the Plan, no amendment shall decrease the vested percentage any Participant has in his or her Accounts. The Plan may be amended under this Section or terminated under
Section 14.1 without the vote of the stockholders of the Company, except to the extent that stockholder approval is required by Rule 16b-3, promulgated under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended. 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Eighth Amendment to be executed by its
duly authorized officer on this 20 day of September, 2006. 
  

							
		 	HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC.	  	
				
		 	By:	 	 /s/ Mary H. Thomas
	  	
				
		 	Name:	 	 Mary H. Thomas
	  	
				
		 	Title:	 	 Senior Vice President - HR
	  	

  

 2Ninth Amendment to the 2001 Restatement

 Exhibit 10.98 
 NINTH AMENDMENT 
 TO THE 2001 RESTATEMENT OF THE 
 HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC. 
 SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN 
 WHEREAS, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
has established and maintains the Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan (the “Plan”) for the benefit of its eligible employees and the eligible employees of certain participating companies; and 
 WHEREAS, Section 14.2 of the Plan provides that the Board of Directors of the Company and/or its Human Resources Committee has the power to amend
the Plan in any respect; and 
 WHEREAS, the Committee desires to amend the Plan at this time to revise certain sections of the Plan that
relate to the rights of Plan Participants and Beneficiaries to vote or tender shares of Harrah’s Stock contained in the Harrah’s Stock Fund; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended, effective November 7, 2006, as follows: 
 1.

 Amend Section 5.4, as amended by the Seventh Amendment to the Plan, by deleting the section in its entirety and replacing it with
the following language: 
 Section 5.4 Rights of Participants and Beneficiaries to Vote or Tender Harrah’s Stock. Each
Participant or Beneficiary invested in the Harrah’s Stock Fund shall be entitled to vote or tender full or partial shares of Harrah’s Stock held in the Plan on his or her behalf, as follows: 
  

	 	(a)	In the case of a vote, each Participant or Beneficiary shall be entitled to instruct the Trustee (or instruct the Investment Manager if an Investment Manager has been appointed with
respect to the Harrah’s Stock Fund) how to vote full or partial shares held on his or her behalf. Prior to such vote, each Participant or Beneficiary entitled to vote shall be supplied by the Trustee (or by the Investment Manager) with proxy
statements or other materials relating to such vote and sufficient to instruct the Trustee (or Investment Manager) to vote such shares in the manner indicated by the Participant or Beneficiary. With respect to the vote of any shares for which
instructions are not received from a Participant or Beneficiary, the Investment Committee shall instruct the Trustee (or Investment Manager) how to vote such shares in the manner it shall direct in its complete discretion. Upon receipt of such
instructions from Participants or Beneficiaries, or from the Investment Committee, the Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall act with respect to such shares as instructed, to the extent such action is consistent with law. 

 

	 	(b)	 In the case of a tender offer for the purchase of no more than five percent (5%) of the total outstanding shares of Harrah’s Common Stock (such total to
be determined based on the number of shares held both inside and outside the Plan), the Investment Committee shall determine in its complete discretion whether or not to pass through to Participants and Beneficiaries the right to tender shares. If
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Investment Committee determines to pass through such tender rights, the Investment Committee shall inform the Trustee (or Investment Manager) of this
decision, and the Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall supply each Participant and Beneficiary entitled to tender with the tender offer and such other materials relating to the tender offer as may be appropriate to instruct the trustee (or
Investment Manager) to tender such shares in the manner determined by the Participant or Beneficiary. Upon receipt of such instructions, the Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall act with respect to such shares as instructed to the extent such
action is consistent with law. If the Investment Committee decides not to pass through a tender offer described in this Section 5.4(b), or in the event a Participant or Beneficiary fails to instruct the Trustee (or Investment Manager) with
respect to shares held in the Plan on his or her behalf, the Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall not tender such shares in connection with the offer. 

  

	 	(c)	In the case of a tender offer for more than five percent (5%) of the total outstanding shares of Harrah’s Common Stock (such total to be determined based on the number of
shares held both inside and outside the Plan), tender rights shall be passed through to Participants and Beneficiaries. The Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall supply each Participant or Beneficiary entitled to tender with the tender offer and
such other materials relating to the tender as may be appropriate and sufficient to instruct the Trustee (or Investment Manager) to tender such shares in the manner directed by the Participant or Beneficiary. Upon receipt of such instructions, the
Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall act with respect to such shares as instructed to the extent such action is consistent with law. In the event a Participant or Beneficiary fails to instruct the Trustee (or Investment Manager) with respect to
shares held in the Plan on his or her behalf, the Trustee (or Investment Manager) shall not tender such shares in connection with the offer. 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Committee adopts this Ninth Amendment to the Plan on this 7th day of November, 2006. 
  

			
	S&RP ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
	HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
		
	By:	 	/s/ Jeffrey Shovlin
		
	Its:	 	Chairman

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