S-8

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada	88-0300760
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
3800 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada	89502
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. 1993 Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Ronald Rowan Chief Financial Officer Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. 3800 South Virginia Street Reno, Nevada 89502
(Name and address telephone number of agent for service)
(775) 335-4600
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Michael J. Bonner Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, 7th Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 (702) 792-7000

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of each class of Securities to be registered	Amount to be Registered(1)	Proposed maximum offering price per share(2)	Proposed maximum aggregate offering price(2)	Amount of Registration Fee(3)
Common Stock, $0.01 par value	1,000,000 shares	$23.99	$23,988,050.00	$736.43

(1)Represents the maximum number of shares which may be distributed pursuant to this Registration Statement.

(2)Computed solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and aggregate offering price are based upon the average of the high and low prices of the registrant’s common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Stock Market on June 26, 2007, and the weighted average exercise price of outstanding options not previously registered.

(3)Calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

As permitted by General Instruction E to Form S-8, this Registration Statement incorporates by reference the information contained in the earlier Registration Statement on Form S-8 POS (File No. 333-85418), filed on April 9, 2002, relating to shares of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (the "Company" or "Registrant") Common Stock, $0.01 par value, to be issued pursuant to Registrant's 1993 Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Plan"), which information is hereby updated by the following information.

In 2003, the board of directors of the Company approved and adopted, and the Company’s stockholders approved, an amendment to the Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), of the Company reserved under the Plan to 350,000. Effective March 31, 2005, the Company declared a 2 for 1 stock split. In 2005, the board of directors of the Company approved and adopted, and the Company’s stockholders approved, an amendment to the Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company reserved under the Plan to 1,000,000. In 2007, the board of directors of the Company approved and adopted, and the Company’s stockholders approved, an amendment to the Plan to increase the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company reserved under the Plan to 1,500,000. Accordingly, as amended, the total number of shares of Common Stock available under the Plan is 1,500,000, of which 1,000,000 shares are being registered hereunder.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following material previously filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") are incorporated herein by reference:

1.The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the annual period ended December 31, 2006.

2.The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007.

3.The Company's Reports filed on Form 8-K on February 22, 2007; April 27, 2007; May 24, 2007; May 25, 2007; May 30, 2007 and June 19, 2007.

4.The description of the Common Stock of the Company contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on July 15, 1993 and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the shares of the Company's common stock offered have been sold or which deregisters all of such shares then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated herein by reference and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document all or part of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superceded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supercedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superceded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superceded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 6.Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Sections 78.7502 and 78.751 of Chapter 78 of the Nevada Revised Statutes and the Company’s articles of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions for indemnification of officers and directors of the Company and in certain cases employees and other persons. The bylaws require that such person will be indemnified in any proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company. Indemnification would cover expenses, including attorney’s fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement.

The Company’s bylaws also provide Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any present or past director or officer, and in certain cases employees and other persons, insuring against any liability asserted against such person incurred in such capacity or arising out of such status, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such person. The Company maintains directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 8.Exhibits

Exhibit Number	Description
5.1	Opinion of Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario regarding the legality of the securities being registered is filed herewith and incorporated herein by reference.
23.1	Consent of Ernst & Young, LLP is filed herewith and is incorporated herein by reference.
23.2	Consent of Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1	Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto).

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Reno, State of Nevada, on June 29, 2007.

Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.
By:	/s/ Ronald Rowan
	Ronald Rowan Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know All Persons By These Presents, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ronald Rowan, as a true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement filed herewith and any or all amendments to said registration statement (including post-effective amendments and registration statements filed pursuant to Rule 462 and otherwise), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent the full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing, as to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement was signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated:

Signature	Title			Date
/s/ John Farahi		Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Director			June 29, 2007
John Farahi
/s/ Bob Farahi		Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Director			June 29, 2007
Bob Farahi
/s/ Ronald Rowan		Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer	)		June 29, 2007
Ronald Rowan
/s/ Craig F. Sullivan		Director			June 29, 2007
Craig F. Sullivan
/s/ Ronald R. Zideck		Director			June 29, 2007
Ronald R. Zideck
/s/ Charles W. Scharer		Director			June 29, 2007
Charles W. Scharer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description
5.1	Opinion of Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario regarding the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1	Consent of Ernst & Young, LLP.
23.2	Consent of Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1	Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto).

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

June 29, 2007

Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.

3800 S. Virginia St.

Reno, Nevada 89502

Re:Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. 1993 Executive Long Term Incentive Plan

Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As counsel to Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), we are rendering this opinion in connection with the registration by the Company of 1,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, $0.01 par value, of the Company and the proposed sale thereof. The Shares are to be issued and sold in connection with the Company’s 1993 Executive Long Term Incentive Plan.

We have examined all instruments, documents and records which we deemed relevant and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.

Based on such examination and subject to the limitations hereinabove provided, we are of the opinion that the Company has the full power and authority under the laws of the State of Nevada, and under the Company’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, as amended, to issue the Shares and that such Shares are validly authorized shares of common stock of the Company, and when issued, upon receipt of payment therefor, will be legally issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to any preemptive or similar rights.

We hereby consent to the filing of the foregoing opinion as an exhibit to the above-referenced registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to the use of our name in such registration statement.

Sincerely,

/s/ Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the reference to our firm in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. 1993 Executive Long Term Incentive Plan of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. and to the incorporation by reference therein of our reports dated March 9, 2007, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. included in its Annual Report Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. management's assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. filed with the Securities andExchange Commission.

Las Vegas, Nevada

June 29, 2007

/s/ Ernst & Young, LLP