Snoqualmie Tribe celebrated the opening of their brand new casino Thursday.

The ceremony started at 10 p.m. Thursday night, the casino which contained as much as 30,000 visitors and the 1,300 employees together to celebrate its new 170,000-square-foot gaming emporium, the Snoqualmie Tribe has the dice in its collective hands and a $375 million bet on the crisp, new felt of the craps table, the roulette wheels, the smoke-free poker room and the 1,700 state-of-the-art slot machines.

It was the largest traffic jam in local history during the first 24 hours of the casino’s operations.

The new casino is a new beginning for the tribe, as they have finally received recognition, a means for a new life, and a way to participate within their local community.