Exhibit 3

JOINT FILING AGREEMENT

In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, each of the undersigned Reporting Persons hereby agrees to the joint filing, along with all other such Reporting Persons, on behalf of each of them of a statement on Schedule 13D (including amendments thereto) with respect to the Preferred Stock and Common Stock of Archon Corporation, and that this Agreement be included as an Exhibit to such joint filing. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned hereby executes this Agreement as of this 5^th day of September, 2007.

D. E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios, L.L.C.
By:	D. E. Shaw & Co., L.L.C., as
managing member
By:
	/s/Julius Gaudio
	Julius Gaudio
	Managing Director

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.L.C.
By:
	/s/Julius Gaudio
	Julius Gaudio
	Managing Director

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
By:
	/s/Julius Gaudio
	Julius Gaudio
	Managing Director

David E. Shaw
By:
	/s/Julius Gaudio
	Julius Gaudio
	Attorney-in-Fact for David E. Shaw