Rain falls in Tunica's town center, but a levee protects it from river flooding. The Horseshoe Casino in Elizabeth, Indiana closed in advance of the recent flooding. 2018 at 5:31 AM EST - Updated August 15 at 3:26 PM.
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10:00am of May 18th was the re-opening of the Gold Strike in Tunica after dealing with record flooding.
Yes. Free drinks. And I've been told by several people that its very easy to get meal comps even for minimum play.
My local Indian casino here in Florida has a Floorman who spent several years in Tunica and recommends the Gold Strike. Ofcourse he is biased because he used to work there but some poker regulars at the local Indian casino all favor the Gold Strike too.
I've been to Tunica once when I was living in St. Louis. It's about a 5 hour drive away and has a good variety of table games. We spent a night in Memphis and a night in Tunica. I had the best run of poker in a cash game that I ever have had, so I have good memories. And the drinks are free, which I hadn't found outside of Vegas.
Now that I'm living in Chicago, it's too far for me to ever consider going to again, unless by some weird chance I happen to be in Memphis again.
They're barges, so they just floated above the flood. Once the water levels receed to the point where the parking lot is no longer covered, there's little to prevent them from opening.
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You can see that the levee is working very well, keeping the swollen river out of the downtown area. The two riverboat casinos are near downtown but on the wet side of the levee, of course. They appear to be floating high, with their parking lots underwater. It looks as if they will be fine once the water recedes.
The third casino is south of town, near the bridge to Arkansas. It, too, is surrounded by water with its parking lots submerged. It appears to have been constructed on its own little patch of high ground, with a bit of a sea wall around it (though I can't really remember from my only visit whether that is actually accurate). If the water doesn't go much higher, even that casino should be fine.
The river was supposed to crest in Greenville yesterday, at a level higher than the great flood of 1927. Good levees can do a great job, provided the Corps doesn't decide that it is better to blow them up, sacrificing one area in an attempt to save another.
Casinos In Tunica Mississippi 2020
I was at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana last night. They were closed as recently as a couple weeks ago, but the river (Ohio) there is back down nicely now. Even the lowest parkinglots were clear of water, though the employees were still parking in the hotel ramp. There appears to have been some interior damage in some areas - most notably the walkway from the shore to the boat. They had the carpet ripped up, the walls stripped and covered temporarily, and water removal equipment everywhere.I'd imagine the Tunica casinos and other MS and LA properties will have similar recoveries as the water recedes farther south. I hope everything is fixed up and operational by the time I'm in the area in mid-july!
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ROBINSONVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A north Mississippi casino has reopened after county workers built an earthen dike and pumped water off its partially flooded access road.
Media outlets report the Fitz Casino in Tunica County reopened Thursday night.
The casino has said there was never any flooding in its parking lot or casino. However, county emergency managers ordered the casino closed Sunday because the rising waters of the Mississippi River were flooding the road. Yu gi oh poker night.
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You can see that the levee is working very well, keeping the swollen river out of the downtown area. The two riverboat casinos are near downtown but on the wet side of the levee, of course. They appear to be floating high, with their parking lots underwater. It looks as if they will be fine once the water recedes.
The third casino is south of town, near the bridge to Arkansas. It, too, is surrounded by water with its parking lots submerged. It appears to have been constructed on its own little patch of high ground, with a bit of a sea wall around it (though I can't really remember from my only visit whether that is actually accurate). If the water doesn't go much higher, even that casino should be fine.
The river was supposed to crest in Greenville yesterday, at a level higher than the great flood of 1927. Good levees can do a great job, provided the Corps doesn't decide that it is better to blow them up, sacrificing one area in an attempt to save another.
Casinos In Tunica Mississippi 2020
I was at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana last night. They were closed as recently as a couple weeks ago, but the river (Ohio) there is back down nicely now. Even the lowest parkinglots were clear of water, though the employees were still parking in the hotel ramp. There appears to have been some interior damage in some areas - most notably the walkway from the shore to the boat. They had the carpet ripped up, the walls stripped and covered temporarily, and water removal equipment everywhere.I'd imagine the Tunica casinos and other MS and LA properties will have similar recoveries as the water recedes farther south. I hope everything is fixed up and operational by the time I'm in the area in mid-july!
Map Of Tunica Casinos
ROBINSONVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A north Mississippi casino has reopened after county workers built an earthen dike and pumped water off its partially flooded access road.
Media outlets report the Fitz Casino in Tunica County reopened Thursday night.
The casino has said there was never any flooding in its parking lot or casino. However, county emergency managers ordered the casino closed Sunday because the rising waters of the Mississippi River were flooding the road. Yu gi oh poker night.
The Mississippi appears to have crested Tuesday at 52.6 feet (16.03 meters) at Tunica. That's the second-highest level recorded after 2011.
Thomas keller poker. The county's other six casinos remained open.
All Fitz employees have been notified to report back to work.
A number of residential camps unprotected by levees remain flooded. The Tunica County Riverpark is also closed.