List of casinos in the U.S. State of Mississippi; Casino City County State District Type Comments Ameristar Casino Vicksburg: Treasure Bay Casino in the 1990s, before Hurricane Katrina. Gambling addiction is a clinically recognized problem that requires special therapy and medical intervention in most cases to achieve full recovery. The premise of gambling is simple – you risk something you have in the hopes of adding to the value of your original stake. Gambling addiction is a clinically recognized problem that requires special therapy and medical intervention in most cases to achieve full recovery. The premise of gambling is simple – you risk something you have in the hopes of adding to the value of your original stake.
- Harrah's Gulf Coast
- Gambling In Alabama
- Map Of Casinos In Mississippi
- Gambling In Mississippi Cruise Ships
The state has a long history with gambling and many a film has romanticized the riverboat casinos that paddle up and down the Mississippi, but the Civil War put an end to the popular river-based casinos.
It was not until 1990 that Mississippi once again began to enjoy legalized gaming and has since become famous for a plethora of cruise vessel floating casinos down along the Gulf of Mexico.
Harrah's Gulf Coast
Gaming in the state is regulated by the Mississippi Gaming Commission and is taxed to ensure some of the profits are flowed back into important state programs such as housing, education and health care. The casinos are themselves are a mix of riverboats, state-authorized commercial land-based casinos, and establishments on Native American soil. All of this has helped the region become one of the top gambling destinations in America.
Sports betting has been fully legalized, but at this juncture only bets that are placed in person are able to be accepted. The first wagers taken on sports were at two MGM Resorts on August 1, 2018. At the time of writing, 22 casinos have now taken a sports bet in the Magnolia State.
Fans of DFS are also able to celebrate as access to fantasy leagues was fully legalized in 2017.
However, despite the interest in sports betting, fans of the horses and greyhound are sadly out of luck because Mississippi has no horse racing venues to visit.
At present, there is no state lottery in operation, but thanks to the creation of the Mississippi Lottery Corp. after the state legislature authorized the creation of a lottery scratch card tickets could be on by the fall, with access to the big money games such as Mega Millions and the national Powerball available soon after.
Gambling In Alabama
A riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast. Several states authorized this type of casino in order to enable gambling but limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type of legal fiction as the riverboats were seldom if ever taken away from the dock.
History[edit]
Paddlewheel riverboats had long been used on the Mississippi River and its tributaries to transport passengers and freight. After railroads largely superseded them, in the 20th century, they were more frequently used for entertainment excursions, sometimes for several hours, than for passage among riverfront towns. They were often a way for people to escape the heat of the town, as well as to enjoy live music and dancing. Gambling was also common on the riverboats, in card games and via slot machines.
When riverboat casinos were first approved in the late 20th century by the states, which generally prohibited gaming on land, these casinos were required to be located on ships that could sail away from the dock. In some areas, gambling was allowed only when the ship was sailing, as in the traditional excursions. They were approved in states with frontage along the Mississippi and its tributaries, including Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. Illinois also allowed limited riverboat casinos in the Chicago metropolitan area, which has a Mississippi River connection through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, while Northwest Indiana has three 'riverboat' casinos in harbors along Lake Michigan.
An unusual situation occurred on the Potomac River in the mid-20th century due to a quirk in the state border between Maryland and Virginia. The border is not in the middle of the river, rather it is at the low water mark on the Virginia side such that the entire river is in Maryland (except for small portions in the District of Columbia.) As a result, there were several riverboat casinos docked off of the Virginia shoreline in the 1950s, when gambling was legal in Maryland but not Virginia. As the river was in Maryland, visitors could park in Virginia, and walk across a pier, crossing the state line in the process.[1]
As an example, in 1994 Missouri voters approved amending the state constitution to allow 'games of chance' on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. By 1998, 'according to the state Gaming Commission, just three of the 16 operations comprising Missouri's $652-million riverboat gambling industry [were] clearly on the main river channel.' The state supreme court had ruled that boats had to be 'solely over and in contact with the surface' of the rivers.[2] Several casinos had been located on riverboats located in a moat or an area with water adjacent to a navigable waterway, leading them to be referred to as 'boats in moats.'[2] The state legislatures were unwilling to give up the revenues generated by gambling. Over time, they allowed gaming casinos to be built on stilts, though with the requirement they had to be over navigable water.
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which destroyed most riverboat casinos and their associated facilities of hotels, restaurants, etc., in states along the Gulf Coast, several states changed their enabling legislation or amended constitutions. They permitted such casinos to be built on land within certain geographic limits from a navigable waterway. Most of Mississippi's Gulf Coast riverboat casinos have been rebuilt on beachfronts with solid foundation systems since the hurricane.
References[edit]
- ^'Virginia-Maryland Boundary'. www.virginiaplaces.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- ^ abSloca, Paul (18 January 1998). 'Missouri's 'Boats in Moats' Get That Sinking Feeling'. Associated Press. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
External links[edit]
- Partial listing of permanently moored casinos, DeJong and Lebet, Inc., Naval Architects and Marine Designers
Map Of Casinos In Mississippi
Gambling In Mississippi Cruise Ships