May 19 - Gold Strike Casino
May 18 through May 20 - Tunica Arena & Exposition Center
May 19 through May 20 - Sam's Town Casino
We’ve all watched poker on TV or walked past a poker table. Maybe you’re even like me and have played poker with family or friends at home, but until today, I’d never been given a real poker lesson in a casino. Travel Tunica decided Hollywood Casino’s poker room was the place to learn how to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. (more…)
You might get a free or discounted room mailed to you from your favorite casino monthly. Or you may just have driven past the resort area (non-casino) hotels and not known enough about them to ask for rates and a tour.
Recently, several of us at the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau were invited to take tours of many resort area hotel rooms. Whether you’ll be staying here because casino rooms are sold out, or you are looking to save money, I found the non-casino hotel rooms were very comparable to casino hotel rooms in Tunica. Here’s a sneak peak of what you’d find. (more…)
I remember when Three Card Poker was a new game in the 1990s, struggling to carve out a niche. It had failed to make enough money to satisfy the house in a trial at the Stardust in Las Vegas, but it was a hit in Mississippi. The success of the game in Tunica was enough to convince operators in other states that maybe the Stardust experience was an anomaly. (more…)
Travel Tunica has taken you to the golf greens this year, but this week we wanted to explore “golf with a shotgun” at the Willows Sporting Clays & Hunting Center at Harrah’s Casino. (more…)
Have you ever noticed that different casinos have their blackjack dealers place the cut card in different places in the deck? The cut card is a solid-color plastic card. After a player cuts the cards, the dealer then inserts the cut card into the deck. When he reaches the cut card while dealing cards, he knows it’s time to shuffle after the hand is completed. (more…)
When my wife and I go to a casino together, we usually go our separate ways to play. We have different favorites, I do a lot of scouting around the casino to see what’s new while she gets right into playing.
We always take some time to find a couple of open seats side-by-side and play together for a bit. On one September trip, we settled into a couple of quarter three-reel slot machines. We each slid a $20 bill into the validator and started the reels spinning.
A couple of seats down the row, a woman was varying her play, pushing the button for a while, then switching to pulling the handle, then switching back. She caught me looking, and said, “You have to change your luck once in a while, don’t you?” I smiled, and went back to my own game. (more…)
When the stresses of the week have gotten to you, sometimes you wish you could just escape. Usually your desire never becomes reality because most people don’t have time in the middle of the week to take a vacation and still be back in time for work in the morning. I decided I would try out the increasingly popular theory that Tunica is close enough to Memphis to take a work week getaway, but I will admit, I was skeptical.
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It’s football season! That means every Saturday, Sunday, and Monday there is a big game on TV. For those of you who will be in Tunica hitting the slots all weekend (or those of you who don’t have the NFL package like me and still want to see the big game on big TVs), Travel Tunica decided you need to know where to catch the game if you aren’t at home. (more…)
Barenaked Ladies is an unconventional name for a band, but then again the band has never claimed to be. With quick speaking lyrics in songs like “One Week” and “Pinch Me”, Barenaked is an original. The band released their first album in the early 90’s, but I bought my first album, Stunt, during my college years and the songs were addictive and just made me want to dance. (more…)
Video poker players who have been around a while might remember a game called Flush Attack. Every so often, the game would go into “attack” mode, and the next flush on the bank of machines would pay as much as four of a kind.
In the beginning sharp players would play until they were dealt a flush, or four parts of a flush, then wait for the attack before drawing. The sharps would collect the big bonuses. The tourists didn’t stand a chance. (more…)
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