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                            HARRAH'S ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
                              TELEPHONE VOTING SCRIPT

Speech 1   Welcome to Harrah's Entertainment Inc. telephone voting system.
           Please enter your control number, followed by the pound key, now.

Speech 2   To vote your proxy in accordance with the Board of Directors'
           recommendations, as indicated on your proxy card and in the proxy
           statement, please press 1. To vote on each issue separately,
           press 2.

Speech 2A  If you plan to attend the annual meeting press 1. Otherwise press
           0. If you have an additional Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. proxy
           you would like to vote, press 1. To terminate this call, press 2,
           or simply hang up.

Speech 3   You will now vote for the directors. To vote for all nominees,
           press 1. To withhold authority to vote for all nominees, press 2.
           To withhold authority to vote for an individual nominee, press 3.

Speech 3A  Please consider nominee Joe M. Henson.  To vote for this nominee,
           press 1. To withhold your vote, press 2.

Speech 3B  Please consider nominee R. Brad Martin.  To vote for this nominee,
           press 1. To withhold your vote, press 2.

Speech 3C  Please consider nominee Colin V. Reed.  To vote for this nominee,
           press 1. To withhold your vote, press 2.

Speech 3D  Please consider nominee Eddie N. Williams.  To vote for this
           nominee, press 1. To withhold your vote, press 2.

Speech 4   Proposal 2. Approve the adoption of the Company's Senior Executive
           Incentive Plan. To vote for, press 1. To vote against, press 2. To
           abstain, press 3.

Speech 5   Proposal 3. Approval of amendment to the Company's 1990 Stock
           Option Plan. To vote for, press 1. To vote against, press 2. To
           abstain, press 3.

Speech 6   Proposal 4. Ratification of the appointment of Arthur Andersen LLP
           as independent public accountants for the Company for the 2000
           calendar year. To vote for, press 1. To vote against, press 2. To
           abstain, press 3.



Speech 7   If you plan to attend the annual meeting press 1. Otherwise press
           0.

Speech 8   If you have an additional Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. proxy you
           would like to vote, press 1. To terminate this call, press 2, or
           simply hang up.