Casino Revenue Down On Mississippi Gulf Coast

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Mississippi casino operators said they saw a definite decline in revenue when Louisiana legalized online sports betting before Mississippi. Now that Mississippi Legislators seem likely to approve online sports betting, the state could get some of that lost revenue back. Like Mississippi, Alabama doesn’t have the huge population of New York or New Jersey to keep casinos afloat. The Beau Rivage Resort & Casino and Harrah’s Gulf Coast in Biloxi bring players in by planeload every week and Alabama will need to draw gamblers from other states, in part by attracting some of the drive-in traffic before it gets to Mississippi.

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