In the first full year after Harrah's began operation, casinos in Tunica County won $776 million from gamblers. With people lining up, more casinos came, building glitzy resorts in Tunica County's northern end, as close to Memphis, Tennessee, as possible. The first casino opened on a riverboat docked at a remote river landing in 1992. A boom that peaked with 13,000 jobs has slid into a struggle for survival. The Tunica Miracle - as boosters called the coming of gambling to what had been an isolated, economically moribund slice of the Mississippi Delta - is over. Harrah's closed June 2 - 18 years after it first opened as the Grand Casino. was giving up on the 136,000 square-foot casino floor - the largest between New Jersey and Las Vegas. It was easy to see why Caesars Entertainment Corp. Gamblers were few in number, and dealers stood ready at idle card tables. on a Monday in May at Harrah's Tunica Hotel & Casino in northwestern Mississippi. Retrieved – via BusinessWire.It was 3:30 p.m.
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