wich casino sank in Buloxi?

[MicroBob]

The Copa Casino is in Gulfport (as opposed to most of the other casinos in Biloxi that we were discussing previously).

It is a reasonably tall boat and it does not surprise me in the least that it wound up a significant distance from where it is supposed to be.

I've played on that thing when you could actually feel the water rocking...which is something that just doesn't happen at the other ones down there to my knowledge.

[Slacker13]

CNBC just showed downtown Biloxi and every single casino is destroyed and 90% of everything around them are gone too.

[goodguy_1]

Video of Katrina Damage on Mississippi Gulf Coast

[RydenStoompala]

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Actually this couldn't be further from the truth. Loss of lives, loss of homes, loss of JOBS. The jobs help people rebuild all that they have lost personally.

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Ya. I'm way off base. They have an enormous local economic impact...as long as you ignore about 90% of the facts.

[steamboatin]

I am beginning to understand a little more about the casino business not that I know much about it but as long as a casino can attract outside money, it is a benefit to the local economy. When the primary customer is a local resident, then they suck way to much money out of the local economy and that is when the problems start.

[RydenStoompala]

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When the primary customer is a local resident

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Bingo. Most of them are built for the locals.

Sorry for hijacking this thread. I'm just in awe of the damage in New Orleans. And those looters...don't get me started.

[nsj]

Photos and Video link at the New York Times home.

In the Biloxi folder, the second photo is of the Grand Casino.

[bpb]

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Ya. I'm way off base. They have an enormous local economic impact...as long as you ignore about 90% of the facts.

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Why use logic and reason in a reply, when you can just sound like a total [censored] instead.

[MicroBob]

The looters suck.
There was a story on morning radio here in Memphis about a couple of evacuees who were car-jacked (there are lots of Louisiana license plates up here).
They probably lost their home down there....then they come up here and get shoved out of their car by a couple of armed thugs.



Regarding the locals playing in Biloxi and gulfport.
This is certainly true (and moreso in Gulfport I imagine) but don't underestimate the impact of the tourism dollars.
Biloxi casinos attract gamblers from a pretty wide stretch of the south.
Anyone from Atlanta who wants to gamble is pretty much heading down to Biloxi.

My Dad worked as a tax-preparer for HR Block on year (post-retirement boredom for the most part).
he lives in Destin, FL which is in the pan-handle about 3 hours from Biloxi.
He said he prepared a LOT of forms of people who had whatever W2 form from some jackpot score on a Biloxi junket.

And that's relatively close.
I suspect it's not unusual for people from Jacksonville or Savannah to take a bus-junket to Biloxi because it's going to be either that, Tunica, or Atlantic City that is the closest gambling for them.


when i lived in Vero Beach, Florida (near where goodguy_1 lives) I knew people who have made gambling junkets to Biloxi. And that has to be a 10 hour or longer ride for them.


Obviously the locals feed into their own casinos too.
And the casinos love to re-work the numbers to their own benefit.
But the tourism dollars that those casinos bring is, in fact, significant.
and the money that the employees themselves are making isn't exactly made up.

[goodguy_1]

yea definetly a hike from south/central florida bitch of a drive but it was a fun place to hang and play some B&M poker-best of all you could stay there in a decent safe place cheaply. Biloxi is/was so cheap. Now the town is destroyed... Feel for all the locals.