Posted on 01/23/2019 9:08:55 AM PST by C19fan
Growing up in Tunica at the height of its casino boom, Roosevelt Hall felt his community had been dealt a winning hand.
Lavish monuments to gaming — a gleaming high-rise tower, an Irish medieval castle, an art deco movie house — rose up amid the cotton and rice fields, flooding the impoverished Mississippi Delta county with tourists, money and jobs.
But the 38-year-old bartender is increasingly hedging his bets on the future.
Nearly five years ago, Hall lost his job when the county’s largest gambling complex, Harrah’s, closed due to a glut in the market. After securing another position at the Tunica Roadhouse, he has watched his tips dwindle from about $150 to $25 a night. At the end of the month, the casino will shut down and Hall is unsure whether he will find a secure job at one of the seven surviving casinos.
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That’s a real drag.
Gambling, like socialism, works fine until you run out of other people’s money.
In this case other cities and areas more conveniently located cut into your action.
Just like all over the country. Indian Casinos, non-Indian Casinos, riverboats, and more. Market is saturated.
Crap, I ran out of my money too. LOL! Play stupid games lose lots of money.
Everybody expects to be a Winner when it comes to gambling. But reality is that, while it may be fun, and it may seem worth it to some, in the end, pretty much everyone plays the Loser.
Municipalities are no different from the guy from out of town.
I am part of a timeshare, not recommend getting one, that has a location in Tunica. There is nothing to do in the general area except go to Graceland.
Competition is a reality in any industry. And there are winners and losers no matter how much that offends the whiny liberals.
When I lived in Fort Lauderdale, I used to love going to Jai Alai, now it’s pretty much dead because of all the other gambling alternatives.
Still 10 casinos in Tunica area
Not enough population nearby for all that
Memphis mostly
And the very few actual ‘winners’ are usually flat broke within 2 years of their good fortune...
I am close enough, in Nashville, that Tunica always sounded like it might be an enjoyable weekend. Stay in a nice hotel, go to a nice restaurant or two, lose 100 bucks at roulette and call it a night.
Then I talked to people who had been there, and they were like, what nice hotel? what nice restaurant? Yes you can lose money, but beyond that there are no amenities, and you’re basically on a mudflat in the Delta.
Tunica.....Is that near One-ica?
“I used to love going to Jai Alai, now it’s pretty much dead because of all the other gambling alternatives.”
Same thing with dog racing. I used to love going to Derby Lane in St Petersburg. Did simple bets like $2 win, place or show on a single horse. Nothing crazy or huge. Ate dinner with my mom and brother there in the clubhouse. In general, had a good time.
But with all the other kinds of gambling out there as well as the fact that younger gamblers don’t get into it, dog tracks are slowly going away.
Meanwhile, the big brains down in Mass are going to be building a big casino in East Boston right near Logan Airport. They are banking on stealing much of the business from Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in CT and one in RI.
MGM just opened a casino in Springfield, Mass. There is an Indian casino up in ME. Most of the people going to the CT casinos come Mass.
So, up until just recently if you wanted to gamble in New England you pretty much headed for CT. The CT casinos are what killed Atlantic City. I am just glad they didn’t make it legal here in NH. They wanted to build two right over the border from Ma in Salem and Hudson, NH.
So. Who's bright idea was it to build a multi-million dollar gambling complex in “America’s Ethiopia”?
“When I lived in Fort Lauderdale, I used to love going to Jai Alai,”
Talk about a rigged game ...
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