Including Roadhouse, there are currently eight casinos in the Tunica area, per the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau. Among the casino’s 63,000 square feet, you’ll find 1,041 slots and video poker machines. This is the biggest casino in Tunica in terms of actual gaming square footage. Gold Strike added a 31-story hotel, the tallest building in Mississippi, in 1997. Lady Luck opened 11 months later, and other casinos followed: Harrah’s in 1993 Treasure Bay, Hollywood, Circus Circus (now Gold Strike) and Fitzgerald’s in 1994 and so on. The first Tunica casino, Splash, opened in 1992. What were the original casinos in Tunica? In 2006, there were ten casinos in Tunica with 14,000 slot machines, 400 table games and 12,000 employees. Tunica has been on a long downward slide caused by competition from neighboring states.
