Casino Gambling Southern Style

by Guide Bill Burton

For the last few years I have been hearing great reviews about Tunica Mississippias a gaming destination. It is currently the country's third largest behindLas Vegas and Atlantic City. One common remark I constantly heard was thatin Tunica you were treated with true Southern Hospitality.

I had been planning on visiting Tunica to see for myself. When my friend,author Frank Scoblete invited me to join him for some seminars he was conductingat , I accepted his offer immediately.It would give me a chance to check out the place and see if it was as friendlyas everyone says it is. I was not disappointed with what I experienced.

The attitude of the casino personnel can best be described as player friendly.In all the contacts I had with the casino employees each one of them seemedto go out of their way to make the players feel comfortable. I observed thisat the five-dollar tables as well as the higher limit tables. Speaking oflimits. There are plenty of tables available to lower limit players and thetable limits do not increase forcing players to either increase their betsor leave the game as they do in other places. Players seeking lower limitscan find plenty of five-dollar tables open on Friday and Saturday night.

The table games are good. Blackjack players can find double deck games inall denominations. Craps players can get 10x odds and higher in some places.Full pay video poker is a little harder to find. There are some casinos offering9/6 Jacks or Better but others have shorter pay tables. You really have tolook around. Slot player will enjoy everything from a nickel machine up tothe large denomination high roller machines.

There are ten casinos to chose from in Tunica. They are spread out over severalmiles but some are grouped in walking distance to each other. See Map. A car orshuttle bus is need to go from one area to the next. Combined the casinoshave 633,000 square feet of gaming space which houses 515 table games andover 17,000 slot machines. There is a little something for everyone no matterwhat game you enjoy to play.

The actual casino gaming space must be located on water to meet the Statesgaming regulations for Riverboat Casinos. Instead of boats they are actuallyhuge barges that are moored in the water. Most of these seem to consist ofbig ponds filled with Mississippi River water. You can't tell when you crossover from the land-based hotel onto the floating casino floor.

Before casino gambling was legalized, Tunica County was one of the poorestcounties in the United States. Since the casino boom there has been aconsiderable increase in the per capita income. The influx of money generatedby the casinos has been a godsend to this once desolate land of cotton fields.The area is growing in leaps and bounds. The is the tallest structure in Mississippi. There are presentlyover 6,000 hotel rooms spread amongst the casinos. A brand new 100,000 squarefoot exposition center is slated to open this July. There is still much expansiongoing on at the casinos. Sam's Town is in the middle of a 21 million-dollarrenovation that will include creation of the largest state-of-the-art buffetin the area, addition to the Atrium and a full service RV park on the property.Next door the Isle of Capri plans to construct a 14 million-dollar EntertainmentCenter featuring two adjacent theaters under one roof.

Las Vegas style entertainment has made its way to Tunica. This is partlydue to the fact that most of the casinos are owned by several of the samecorporations that own casinos in Las Vegas. They have been bringing in theirexpertise to transform the area into the world class destination that ithas become.

All of the casinos have joined together in a remarkable concept to marketall the casinos as a resort destination rather than focusing solely on individualefforts. There have been many joint promotions among the casino that havebenefited the entire area. Recently the first was held in Tunica taking place in theand the Gold Strike next door. The cross-promotion also includes shuttlebetween various casinos to make it easier for guest to visit surroundingproperties.

Casino Gambling mixed with Southern Hospitality is a winning combination.If you would like to try a refreshing new gaming vacation, I would highlyrecommend a trip to Tunica Mississippi.

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