![]() But along with a 2011 flood that closed casinos for weeks and a menu of other attractions that is insufficient to draw more visitors, the spread of the legalized gambling that revived this region has also contributed to its recent decline. ![]() It’s extraordinarily rare for a major casino to just shut down. “If you just want to gamble, you don’t have to go very far to do it.” “There’s gambling everywhere,” said Allen Godfrey, the executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission, which reported that the state’s nontribal casinos posted $2.1 billion in gross gambling revenues last year. In Tunica County in the impoverished Mississippi Delta, it is a disquieting reality that underlines the deeper threat facing Mississippi and other states with legalized gambling: There may be too many casinos chasing too few gambling dollars. And on Monday, Harrah’s Tunica will close, which company officials say will most likely lead to up to 950 job losses. This is what happens when a casino resort approaches an inglorious end. A nearby jewelry display sat aglow but bare. At the height of a recent dinner hour at Mississippi’s largest casino, fewer than two dozen patrons were seated in the buffet’s dining room. ![]()
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