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Mississippi

Retail sports betting has been legal since 2018, but only at licensed casinos, including via geofenced apps on casino premises.
There is no statewide mobile betting, no iGaming and no video gaming terminals outside casinos.
A state lottery has sold tickets since November 2019.

More detail

Sports betting. Mississippi legalized retail sports wagering in 2018 using existing Mississippi Gaming Commission (MGC) rulemaking authority under the 1990 Gaming Control Act. A 2017 law (H.B. 967) had amended the Act's "sports pool" definition. Sports wagering, like all MGC-licensed casino gaming, is limited to the state's licensed land-based and riverboat casinos along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River.
Tribal gaming. Two Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians tribal casinos operate under a Class III compact.
Mobile betting. "Mobile" wagering exists only on casino premises via geofenced apps, not statewide online betting. The House has repeatedly passed bills to legalize statewide mobile sports wagering, most recently in 2026. The Senate Gaming Committee has killed each attempt, often entangled with competing bills to ban sweepstakes casinos.
Fantasy sports. The 2017 law also created a licensing framework for paid-entry fantasy sports contests, now the Mississippi Fantasy Contests Act.
Lottery. Mississippi created a state lottery by statute in 2018 (the Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law). Ticket sales began in November 2019.
Other gaming. The state has no commercial card rooms, no iGaming or online poker, and no authorized video gaming terminals outside casinos. Truck-stop VGT bills are reintroduced most sessions.

Reviewed Oct 11, 2026 · 65 sources

Legal status

LiveLegal, not launchedLimitedContestedProhibitedNot authorizedRepealedNA

Vertical	Status	Launched	Model	Details
Sports (online)	Limited	Jul 21, 2018	Hybrid	Mobile/online wagering is authorized only on the physical premises of a licensed casino (geofenced apps usable only while on-site), not statewide. The House has passed statewide mobile-wagering bills (e.g., the Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act, H.B. 4074) in multiple sessions through 2026, but the Senate Gaming Committee (chaired by opponents including Sen. David Blount) has killed every Senate companion or House-passed bill to date, often because it became entangled with competing sweepstakes-casino-ban legislation in conference. An initial wagering-account registration must be completed in person at the casino's premises before the account can be used, even though placing wagers afterward is app-based. Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-5; Miss. Admin. Code Title 13, Part 9 [1],[2],[3]
Sports (retail)	Live	Jul 21, 2018	Hybrid	Mississippi did not pass new sports-betting legislation after Murphy v. NCAA; it instead relied on a 2017 amendment (H.B. 967) that broadened the Gaming Control Act's "sports pool" definition to include wagers on collegiate and professional sporting/athletic events, then had the MGC adopt sports-wagering regulations under its existing rulemaking authority (approved for comment May 17, 2018; effective ~30 days after final adoption). Legal wagering at MGC-licensed casinos began July 21, 2018. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians separately authorized sports betting at Pearl River Resort and Bok Homa Casino in 2018 under its own gaming-commission regulations and Class III compact. Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-5 ("sports pool" definition, as amended by H.B. 967 (2017)); Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-33(3); Miss. Admin. Code Title 13, Part 9 [4],[5],[6],[3]
Online casino	Not authorized			No Mississippi statute authorizes online casino games (slots/table/live dealer); casino gaming is confined to licensed land-based/riverboat premises under the Gaming Control Act.[7]
Online poker	Not authorized			No statute authorizes online peer-to-peer poker; poker is offered only live at licensed casino poker rooms.[7]
Commercial casinos	Live	Legalized 1990	Competitive	Licensed land-based and dockside/riverboat casinos operate along the Gulf Coast (Biloxi, Gulfport, Bay St. Louis/D'Iberville) and the Mississippi River (Tunica, Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez), plus smaller inland counties authorized by local option; over two dozen licensed properties as of recent MGC reporting. Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-1 et seq. (Mississippi Gaming Control Act) [7]
Tribal casinos	Live		Monopoly Tribal	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians operates Pearl River Resort (Golden Moon and Silver Star casinos) and Bok Homa Casino in Neshoba County under a Class III compact approved by the Department of the Interior. 25 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq. (IGRA); Tribal-State Gaming Compact between the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the State of Mississippi (1993, amended 1994) [8],[9]
Lottery	Live	Nov 25, 2019	Monopoly State	Enacted as S.B. 2001 in the 2018 First Extraordinary Session: the House gave final passage (58-54) on Aug. 28, 2018, the governor approved the bill Aug. 31, 2018, and it took effect Sept. 1, 2018. Scratch-off ticket sales began Nov. 25, 2019, ahead of a planned Dec. 1, 2019 target, with more than 1,200 retailers at launch and over $2.5 million in first-day sales. Net proceeds are deposited in the Lottery Proceeds Fund; by statute the first $80 million per fiscal year goes to the State Highway Fund, and the remainder to the Education Enhancement Fund. Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law (2018); Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-1 et seq. [10],[11],[12]
iLottery	Not authorized			Mississippi Lottery tickets are sold only through licensed retail locations; there is no channel for buying tickets online.[10]
Daily fantasy	Live	Legalized Jul 1, 2017	Competitive	H.B. 967 (2017) replaced a 2016 law that had a one-year sunset; it requires MGC licensure ($5,000 fee) for fantasy-contest operators with 100 or more Mississippi players drawn from the general public, bars operator employees from playing, and requires operators to verify that each player is at least 18 years old. A separate provision for fantasy contests offered on-premises at a licensed casino instead requires player verification at 21 or older, so the minimum age is 18 for ordinary contests and 21 for casino-based ones. Before 2017, the Mississippi Attorney General had opined that paid-entry fantasy sports was illegal gambling under state law. Mississippi Fantasy Contests Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-301 et seq. (enacted by H.B. 967 (2017)) [13],[14],[15],[16],[17]
VGTs / VLTs	Not authorized			No video gaming terminals are authorized at bars/truck stops outside licensed casinos. Bills to let the Mississippi Lottery Corporation authorize a limited number of truck-stop VGTs per congressional district (e.g., H.B. 76 in 2026, H.B. 452 in 2025, H.B. 855 in 2019) have been introduced repeatedly since at least 2019 without passing.[18]
Historical horse racing	Not authorized			No statute authorizes historical horse racing (HHR) terminals in Mississippi; gaming devices are confined to MGC-licensed casino premises under the Gaming Control Act.[7]
Sweepstakes casinos	Contested			No dedicated sweepstakes-casino statute has passed; ban bills passed the Senate twice in a row (SB 2104 in 2026, 52-0, and a 2025 predecessor) but died in the House both times — in 2025 after the House attached online sports-wagering language that failed in conference, and in 2026 after the bill stalled in the House Gaming Committee ahead of the March 3 crossover deadline. Enforcement has instead used existing gambling law: on June 17, 2025, the Mississippi Gaming Commission sent cease-and-desist letters to 10 unlicensed operators, including Chumba Casino (VGW), stating publicly "there are no legal exceptions for online sports books or so-called 'sweepstakes' casinos." VGW subsequently wound down its dual-currency Sweeps Coins program in Mississippi (last redemption Sept. 4, 2025) while continuing free-play Gold Coins; a separate private suit (Saulny v. VGW, removed to S.D. Miss.) seeks recovery of gambling losses under Mississippi's money-lost-at-gaming statute. Other sweepstakes brands (e.g., Stake.us, Pulsz) were not named in the June 2025 letters.[19],[20],[21],[22]
Prediction markets	Not authorized			No Mississippi Gaming Commission cease-and-desist letter, lawsuit, or other enforcement action against a specific CFTC-registered event-contract platform (e.g., Kalshi, Polymarket) has been identified, so prediction-market contracts remain available to Mississippi residents statewide under the platforms' claimed CFTC/federal preemption. The state's response so far has stayed at the policy level: Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a multistate coalition letter (May 4, 2026) urging federal regulators to return control of mobile sports betting to the states, calling prediction markets "entertainment-based gambling rather than tools for financial risk management." Mississippi sits in the Fifth Circuit, which had not ruled on the CFTC-preemption question as of October 2026.[23]
Skill games	Prohibited			No skill-game carve-out exists in Mississippi law. The Mississippi Gaming Commission's public FAQ states that under Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-1 et seq., any device requiring consideration, involving an element of chance, and offering the potential to win a reward of value is an illegal gambling device/slot machine subject to seizure and destruction under § 97-33-7, regardless of any skill element. The Mississippi Supreme Court (Wright/Henson line of cases construing Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-5(ff)) held that a machine need only have the "potential for reward" to be a slot machine subject to seizure, so purported "skill" games are treated the same as slot machines outside MGC-licensed casinos. Mississippi has no legislative carve-out for gray/skill machines.[24]
Card rooms	Not authorized			No standalone cardroom licensing framework outside licensed casino poker rooms; the Gaming Control Act does not authorize cardrooms at non-casino venues.[7]
Lottery couriers	Not authorized			Mississippi Attorney General Opinion (Lynn Fitch's office, responding to Sen. Jeremy England, Feb. 8, 2024) concluded lottery courier services "as described" do not comply with the Lottery Law: "The Lottery Law prohibits any person other than a duly certified lottery retailer from selling lottery tickets to the public," and online reservation/resale via computer, tablet, or smartphone independently violates § 27-115-17(2)(d)'s device-sales ban. "There is currently nothing in the Lottery Law that authorizes the use of lottery couriers in Mississippi." Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-17(2)(d); Miss. Code Ann. §§ 27-115-5(g), 27-115-65(1) [25]
Pick'em fantasy	Prohibited			Mississippi Gaming Commission executive director Jay McDaniel wrote fantasy operators in October 2023 stating that house-banked/single-performance pick'em contests are not permitted under the Fantasy Contests Act and that winning outcomes must rest on accumulated statistics across multiple athletes, not one player's single-game performance (i.e., no true player-vs-house pick'em). Underdog shut down its MS pick'em product in February 2024, then relaunched a peer-to-peer "Pick'em Champions" format in September 2025 after MGC review; it is the only MS-licensed real-money pick'em operator. PrizePicks offers only a free (no-prize) version in-state. 2024-2025 bills (H.B. 635, H.B. 874) proposing to amend § 75-76-5 and § 97-33-305 to address digital/modern fantasy formats have not passed.[26],[27],[28]
Pari-mutuel	Limited			Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations let a licensed casino run a pari-mutuel race book that takes wagers on horse and greyhound races simulcast from out-of-state tracks ("casino simulcasting"), on the licensed premises only. No live horse or dog racetrack operates in Mississippi, so pari-mutuel wagering, where it occurs at all, happens only on simulcast racing at a casino. 13 Miss. Code R. Part 9, Rules 4.3, 4.6, 4.8 [29],[3]?
Advance deposit wagering	Not authorized			Mississippi has no live horse or dog racetracks and no statewide remote advance-deposit wagering. Gaming Commission rules allow casino wagering accounts and mobile devices only inside approved casino and hotel premises (Rules 3.4 and 3.15), and pari-mutuel wagers must be placed on licensed premises (Rule 4.8). 13 Miss. Code R. Part 9, Rules 3.4, 3.15, 4.8 [29]
Charitable gaming	Live		Competitive	Mississippi's Charitable Bingo Law (Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-33-51 through 97-33-203) authorizes nonprofit civic, educational, wildlife-conservation and religious organizations to run bingo games, with pull-tabs and video pull-tabs permitted as companion games, and separately exempts qualifying raffles run by and for the benefit of such nonprofits (all proceeds to the organization) from the general gambling statutes and from the gaming-device provisions of § 75-76-1 et seq. Sessions are capped at two per day and eight per week (one six-hour session per week for lower-volume licensees), with a $7,500 per-session prize limit ($8,000 if only one session is held that week). Licensed organizations report to the Mississippi Gaming Commission. Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-33-51 to 97-33-203 (Charitable Bingo Law); Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-67(5) [30]
Esports betting	Contested			The Mississippi Gaming Commission's "sports pool" rule defines the term as the business of accepting wagers on "collegiate or professional sporting events or athletic events or other similar events," without naming esports, and the Commission has not published an interpretation of whether esports fall under "other similar events." A House-passed 2024 bill (H.B. 774) would have explicitly defined "sporting event" to include "electronic sports events, competitive video game events, and other events the Commission authorizes." 13 Miss. Code R. § 9-1.1; Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-89(2) [31],[32]?
Social casino	Contested			No Mississippi statute directly addresses pure free-to-play social casino apps that have no cash-out mechanism. Dual-currency sweepstakes-model apps, which do offer a cash-equivalent prize path, are different and are the subject of active Mississippi Gaming Commission enforcement and private litigation. VGW's brands continue to operate in Mississippi as traditional, single-currency, no-cash-prize social casinos following their 2025 Sweeps Coins wind-down.[22]

Sports betting in Mississippi: status, tax rate, sportsbooks and bills →

Tax rates

Vertical	Channel	Rate	Base	Tier	Since	Statute
Commercial casinos	total	4%	GGR	$0–$50.0K	1990	Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177 Graduated monthly state gross-revenue fee under the 1990 Gaming Control Act: 4% on the first $50,000 of monthly gross revenue, 6% on the next $84,000 (to $134,000), 8% on gross revenue over $134,000. Local cities/counties (e.g., Biloxi, Gulfport, Tunica County, Harrison County) separately levy an additional ~3.2% monthly gross-revenue fee under individual local/private legislation; not all gaming counties impose a local fee. [7]?
Commercial casinos	total	6%	GGR	$50.0K–$134K	1990	Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177[7]
Commercial casinos	total	8%	GGR	$134K–∞	1990	Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177[7]
Daily fantasy	total	8%	NET_REVENUE		Jul 1, 2017	Mississippi Fantasy Contests Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-301 et seq. 8% tax on "net revenue," defined as total entry fees collected from all players less total cash prizes paid out. [13]
Sports (online)	online	8%	GGR		Jul 21, 2018	Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177 Same graduated casino gross-revenue tax applies to on-premises mobile sports-wagering revenue; no statewide online product exists to tax separately. [36]
Sports (retail)	retail	8%	GGR		Jul 21, 2018	Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177 Sports-wagering revenue is taxed as ordinary casino gross gaming revenue under the same graduated § 75-76-177 schedule (top rate 8% applies once a licensee's total monthly gaming revenue, including sports wagering, exceeds $134,000); secondary sources describe this simply as "8% state tax" on sports wagering specifically. [36]

Rules and requirements

Casinos

Number of tribal gaming facilities: 3
Pearl River Resort's two casinos (Golden Moon, Silver Star) plus Bok Homa Casino, all operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
[8]
Number of federally recognized tribes with Class III compacts: 1
Only the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has a Class III gaming compact with the state.
[9]

Legislation

Summary of significant pending gambling legislation this session: Recurring, unresolved fights over (1) legalizing statewide mobile sports wagering (House-passed bills including H.B. 4074 and H.B. 1581 in 2026, killed in the Senate Gaming Committee or Senate Finance Committee) and (2) banning sweepstakes casinos (Senate-passed SB 2104 in 2026 and a 2025 predecessor, both died in the House); a separate Senate bill (SB 2249, 2026) proposed licensing online sports and horse-racing wagering through casino-partnered platforms at a 12% tax, with a Jan. 9, 2027 launch deadline, but did not pass.[19],[1]

Minimum age

Minimum age to gamble in a commercial casino: 21
Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-155(1)(a) states that "a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall not... [p]lay, be allowed to play, place wagers, or collect winnings, whether personally or through an agent, from any gaming authorized under this chapter." Mississippi Gaming Commission rule 13-2-2-8 similarly will not ordinarily license anyone under 21.
[35]
Minimum age for charitable bingo/raffles: 18
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-67(5): "No licensee shall allow any person under eighteen (18) years of age to play a bingo game unless accompanied by his or her parent or legal guardian," and no one under 18 may assist in holding, operating or conducting the game.
[30]?
Minimum age to play DFS: 18
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-305(2)(d) requires a fantasy-contest operator to "[v]erify that a fantasy contest player is eighteen (18) years of age or older" before accepting entry fees.
[16],[17]?
Minimum age to purchase lottery: 21
Confirmed via the Attorney General's lottery-courier opinion, which states lottery retailers "are prohibited from selling lottery tickets to anyone under age 21" per Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-73.
[25]
Minimum age to place a sports wager: 21
Same 21-and-over requirement applies to sports wagering as a form of gaming "authorized under this chapter" per Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-155(1)(a) (Title 75, Chapter 76 covers sports wagering as well as casino gaming); a narrower 2026 bill (HB 4074) that would have added an explicit under-21 online sports-wagering ban died in committee 2026-03-17, implying the general casino-age statute is relied on for sports wagering today rather than a sports-specific provision.
[35]
Typical minimum age at tribal casinos (per compact): 21
Section 7.2 of the Tribal-State Gaming Compact between the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the State of Mississippi: "No person below the age of 21 on the date of Gaming shall be permitted to play any Class III Game."
[8]

Notes

Free-text notes that fit no other field: Mississippi's sports-wagering authorization is unusual nationally: rather than passing a dedicated sports-betting act, the Legislature in 2017 broadened an existing "sports pool" definition in the Gaming Control Act, and the Mississippi Gaming Commission then used its existing administrative rulemaking authority (modeled partly on Nevada's regulations) to launch retail/on-premises sports wagering in July 2018 without any additional enabling statute.[5]

Sports betting rules

Wagering on college sports allowed at all: Yes
The 2017-amended "sports pool" definition in § 75-76-5 covers wagers on "collegiate or professional sporting events or athletic events."
[2]
Wagering on in-state college teams allowed: Yes
Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations list the specific wager types books may not accept, and do not exclude wagers on in-state college teams from the allowed "collegiate sporting or athletic events" category.
[3]
Individual college player prop bets allowed: Yes
Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations bar wagers placed by or on behalf of a coach or participant in an event, but do not restrict prop-style wagers about a player's or team's performance.
[3]?
New online accounts must be created in person: Yes
Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations require that "an initial verification of the account must be done in-person by a patron at the licensee's premises before the acceptance of any wager that will utilize a Wagering account," including for mobile/app-based wagering.
[3]
Online sports wagering available statewide (not tethered to premises): No
Mobile/online sports wagering apps function only while the bettor is physically on a licensed casino's premises (geofenced); Mississippi has no statewide mobile sports-wagering product.
[1]
Operators must use official league data for some bets: No
Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations require only that an event's outcome be "confirmed from reliable sources satisfactory to the Executive Director," without mandating the use of data purchased from a sports governing body or official league source.
[3]
Summary of prop-bet restrictions (e.g. no in-game player props): No bets on non-collegiate amateur sports (other than Olympic events), no wagers placed by or on behalf of a coach or participant in the event being wagered on, and no wagers on the outcome of an election for public office.[3]

Tax revenue

Uses that commercial-casino and iGaming tax revenue is directed to by law, largest share first where the law sets shares: general_fund
Casino gross-revenue tax collected under Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-177 is state general-fund revenue with no dedicated earmark.
[7]
Where gaming tax revenue goes (education fund: Casino/sports-wagering gross-revenue tax revenue is state general-fund revenue collected by the Department of Revenue under § 75-76-177; lottery proceeds fund state highway/infrastructure needs up to a statutory annual cap, then flow to the Education Enhancement Fund.[7],[11]
Uses that sports-wagering tax revenue is directed to by law, largest share first where the law sets shares: general_fund
Sports-wagering revenue is taxed under the same § 75-76-177 casino gross-revenue schedule, with no separate earmark; it flows to the state general fund along with other casino tax revenue.
[7],[36]

Revenue

Tax revenueMonthly · Commercial casinos

Monthly3-month average

$20.0M$40.0M20182020202220242026Mar 2021 $31.2M$24.6M

Calendar-year totals from available reports; incomplete years are partial totals.

Vertical	Measure	2026	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019
Commercial casinos	GGR	$1.6B	$2.4B	$2.4B	$2.5B	$2.6B	$2.7B	$1.8B	$2.2B
Commercial casinos	Tax paid	$169M	$288M	$289M	$292M	$304M	$316M	$211M	$262M
Sports (retail)	AGI (adjusted revenue)	$2.1M
Sports (retail)	Handle	$14.1M

Commercial casinosMonthly GGR

Monthly3-month average

$100M$200M$300M20182020202220242026Apr 2021 $261M$201M

What these figures mean

Commercial casinos: GGR is adjusted gross gaming revenue summed over the Central, Coastal and Northern regions. Tax paid is the Dept. of Revenue's own printed statewide "Totals" column (General Fund Transfer + Bond Sinking Fund + Transfer to Local Governments), shifted back one month from its "Collection Month" label to the revenue month it funds.
Sports (retail): Adjusted revenue is the sports wagering workbook's "taxable" figure for the state, available for the latest month only.

Revenue report sources (3)

Lottery

Status: Live · Monopoly State
Notes
Enacted as S.B. 2001 in the 2018 First Extraordinary Session: the House gave final passage (58-54) on Aug. 28, 2018, the governor approved the bill Aug. 31, 2018, and it took effect Sept. 1, 2018. Scratch-off ticket sales began Nov. 25, 2019, ahead of a planned Dec. 1, 2019 target, with more than 1,200 retailers at launch and over $2.5 million in first-day sales. Net proceeds are deposited in the Lottery Proceeds Fund; by statute the first $80 million per fiscal year goes to the State Highway Fund, and the remainder to the Education Enhancement Fund.
[10],[11],[12]
Authorized: Sep 1, 2018
Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law (2018); Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-1 et seq.
First tickets sold: Nov 25, 2019
Run by: Mississippi Lottery Corporation
Minimum age: 21[25]
Multistate games: Powerball, Mega Millions, Lotto America, Millionaire for Life[33]
Where the money goes: By statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-85), the first $80 million of net Mississippi Lottery proceeds each fiscal year is deposited into the State Highway Fund for road and bridge work; net proceeds above that threshold go to the Education Enhancement Fund.[34],[11]
Online sales (iLottery): Not authorized
Mississippi Lottery tickets are sold only through licensed retail locations; there is no channel for buying tickets online.
[10]
Courier services: Not authorized
Notes
Mississippi Attorney General Opinion (Lynn Fitch's office, responding to Sen. Jeremy England, Feb. 8, 2024) concluded lottery courier services "as described" do not comply with the Lottery Law: "The Lottery Law prohibits any person other than a duly certified lottery retailer from selling lottery tickets to the public," and online reservation/resale via computer, tablet, or smartphone independently violates § 27-115-17(2)(d)'s device-sales ban. "There is currently nothing in the Lottery Law that authorizes the use of lottery couriers in Mississippi."
[25]

Lottery sales and money kept by the stateState fiscal years

SalesKept by the stateOnline gambling legalized

$200M$400M$600MFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY20241$516M$205M

1Jul 1, 2017: online sports betting (limited) legalized · launched Jul 21, 2018

Yearly figures

Fiscal year	Sales	Prizes	Administration	Kept by the state	Prize share
FY2024	$516M	$299M	$12.3M	$205M	58%
FY2023	$504M	$292M	$11.1M	$202M	58%
FY2022	$461M	$251M	$10.3M	$200M	54%
FY2021	$430M	$283M	$10.7M	$136M	66%
FY2020	$280M	$198M	$9.6M	$72.2M	71%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Finances

Lottery timeline

Feb 8, 2024 · Other · Lottery couriers
Mississippi Attorney General issues an opinion concluding lottery ticket courier services are not authorized under the Lottery Law[25]
Nov 25, 2019 · Launched · Lottery
Mississippi Lottery begins scratch-off ticket sales statewide, more than $2.5 million sold in the first 24 hours[10],[11]
Sep 1, 2018 · Legalized · Lottery
Governor approves S.B. 2001 (Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law), creating the Mississippi Lottery Corporation; law takes effect[12]
Aug 28, 2018 · Other · Lottery
Mississippi House gives final passage (58-54) to the Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law in special session[10]

Licensed operators

Operator	Brand	Vertical	License	Status	Partner / venue
Bally's Corporation	Hard Rock Casino - Biloxi	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[38]
Bally's Corporation	Bally's Vicksburg	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[39]
Boyd Gaming	IP Casino Resort Spa	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37]
Caesars Entertainment	Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lula	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37]
Caesars Entertainment	Trop Casino Greenville	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[40],[41]
Caesars Entertainment	Harrah's Gulf Coast	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[42]
Caesars Entertainment	Horseshoe Casino and Hotel (Tunica)	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[43]
Cherokee Nation	Gold Strike Casino Resort	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[44],[45]
Churchill Downs Incorporated	Riverwalk Casino Hotel	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[46]
Churchill Downs Incorporated	Harlow's Casino Resort & Spa	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[47]
Foundation Gaming Group	WaterView Casino and Hotel	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[48]
Foundation Gaming Group	Fitzgerald's Casino - Tunica	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[49]
Full House Resorts	Silver Slipper Casino	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[50]
Golden Nugget	Golden Nugget Biloxi	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[51]
Granieri family	Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[52]
Island View Casino Resort	Island View Casino Resort	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[53]
MGM Resorts International	Beau Rivage Casino	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[54]
Palace Casino Resort	Palace Casino Resort	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[55]
PENN Entertainment	1st Jackpot Casino Tunica	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[56]
PENN Entertainment	Hollywood Casino - Tunica	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[57]
PENN Entertainment	Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[39]
PENN Entertainment	Boomtown Casino - Biloxi	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37]
PENN Entertainment	Ameristar Casino Hotel Vicksburg	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37]
Saratoga Casino Holdings	Magnolia Bluffs Casino	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[58]
Treasure Bay Gaming and Resorts	Treasure Bay Casino and Hotel	Commercial casinos	Commercial casino license	active	[37],[59]

Casinos

27 properties open, 5 closed.

Property	Type	City	Operator	Hotel
1st Jackpot Casino Tunica Formerly a Bally's property; its hotel has closed but the casino floor remains open. [65]	Commercial casino	Tunica
Ameristar Casino Vicksburg[65]	Commercial casino	Vicksburg	PENN Entertainment
Bally's Vicksburg Formerly Rainbow Casino, Lady Luck Casino Vicksburg, and Casino Vicksburg. [65]	Commercial casino	Vicksburg	Bally's Corporation
Beau Rivage[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	MGM Resorts International	Yes
Gold Strike Casino Resort[65]	Commercial casino	Tunica	MGM Resorts International	Yes
Golden Nugget Biloxi[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Golden Nugget
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Hard Rock International	Yes
Harlow's Casino Resort[65]	Commercial casino	Greenville
Harrah's Gulf Coast[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Caesars Entertainment
Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast Formerly Casino Magic. [65]	Commercial casino	Bay St. Louis	PENN Entertainment
Hollywood Casino Tunica[65]	Commercial casino	Tunica	PENN Entertainment
Horseshoe Casino Tunica[65]	Commercial casino	Tunica	Caesars Entertainment
IP Casino Resort Spa[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Caesars Entertainment	Yes
Island View Casino Resort Built on the former Grand Casino Gulfport site after Hurricane Katrina. [65]	Commercial casino	Gulfport	Island View Casino Resort
Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lula[65]	Commercial casino	Lula	Caesars Entertainment
Magnolia Bluffs Casino[65]	Commercial casino	Natchez
Palace Casino Resort[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Palace Casino Resort
Riverwalk Casino Hotel[65]	Commercial casino	Vicksburg		Yes
Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort[65]	Commercial casino	D'Iberville
Silver Slipper Casino[65]	Commercial casino	Lakeshore
Treasure Bay Casino Biloxi[65]	Commercial casino	Biloxi	Treasure Bay Gaming and Resorts
Trop Casino Greenville Formerly Lighthouse Point; absorbed the nearby Bayou Caddy's Jubilee Casino after it closed in 2012. [65]	Commercial casino	Greenville
WaterView Casino & Hotel Formerly an Isle of Capri property and later DiamondJacks Casino & Resort. [65]	Commercial casino	Vicksburg		Yes
Wind Creek Casino & Hotel D'Iberville[65]	Commercial casino	D'Iberville	Poarch Band of Creek Indians	Yes
Bok Homa Casino[65]	Tribal casino	Sandersville	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Golden Moon Casino Part of the Pearl River Resort complex. [65]	Tribal casino	Choctaw	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Silver Star Casino Part of the Pearl River Resort complex. [65]	Tribal casino	Choctaw	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Closed (5)

Property	Type	City	Operator	Open
Harrah's Casino Tunica Formerly Grand Casino Tunica. [65]	Commercial casino	Tunica	Caesars Entertainment	? – 2014
Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Natchez[65]	Commercial casino	Natchez	Caesars Entertainment	? – 2015
Resorts Casino Tunica[65]	Commercial casino	Tunica		? – 2019
Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall Tunica[65]	Commercial casino	Tunica	Boyd Gaming	? – Nov 2025
Tunica Roadhouse Casino & Hotel Formerly Sheraton Casino and Hotel Tunica; the casino floor closed in 2019 and the hotel followed in 2020. [65]	Commercial casino	Tunica		? – 2019

Enforcement

Penalties against licensed companies

Date	Against	Action	Amount	What happened
Aug 15, 2024	Underdog Sports, LLC	Consent agreement Pick'em fantasy		The Mississippi Gaming Commission's executive director received a disciplinary complaint against pick'em daily-fantasy operator Underdog Sports, LLC and was authorized to execute a stipulation and agreement resolving it; the public agenda does not state the underlying violation or any financial terms. The Commission's agenda gives no further details.[60]

Actions against unlicensed operators

Date	Against	Action	Amount	What happened
Jun 17, 2025	Multiple unlicensed online sportsbooks and sweepstakes casinos	Cease and desist		The Mississippi Gaming Commission issued cease-and-desist letters, by mail and electronically, to multiple online operators running sports wagering and/or online casino games in Mississippi without a license, citing state gambling and racketeering statutes and federal laws (UIGEA, Wire Act, Illegal Gambling Business Act), and said it is referring case files for criminal prosecution. The Commission rejected any "free-to-play" defense for sweepstakes-style casinos.[61],[62]

Tribal gaming

Compact notices in the Federal Register: 1 · first notice Jul 15, 1996, latest Jul 15, 1996

Tribal gaming revenue in the NIGC Washington, D.C. Region

NIGC Washington, D.C. RegionFederal fiscal years

$5.0B$10.0B$15.0BFY2019FY2021FY2023FY2025$11.2B

The National Indian Gaming Commission reports revenue only by region. This region also includes Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New York.[63]

Compact notices

Published	Tribe	Notice	Federal Register
Jul 15, 1996	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians	Amendment approved	61 FR 36892

The Interior Department publishes a notice when a compact or amendment is approved or takes effect. Older compacts published before 1994 are not included.

Problem gambling

Name and terms of the statewide self-exclusion program: Mississippi Gaming Commission statewide Self-Exclusion Program (applies to all MGC-licensed casinos)[64]
Available exclusion durations (e.g. 1 year: 3 years (minimum), longer fixed terms, lifetime (only after completing a prior 3-year exclusion)
"The minimum amount of time you can exclude is 3 years... You can choose longer periods but cannot choose a lifetime until you have completed at least 3 years."
[64]

Economy

Adults 21 and over: 2.1M (2024; 3.0M residents)
Gambling revenue per adult: $1,135 in 2025 · 2nd of 29 states with a full year of reports
$2.4B kept by operators from commercial casinos, divided by adults 21 and over. Tribal casinos and the lottery are not included.
Gambling taxes collected: $317M in FY2025 · 2.9% of all state taxes
Gambling jobs: 17.8K in 2025 · $39,164 average annual pay

Gambling taxes collectedState fiscal years

Gambling taxesLottery proceeds

$200M$400MFY2013FY2016FY2019FY2022FY2025$317M$205M

Census Bureau tax collections on amusements and pari-mutuel wagering. Most states book casino, sports betting and video gaming taxes here; amusement taxes can also include admissions taxes unrelated to gambling. Lottery proceeds are what the lottery transfers to the state after prizes and costs.

Gambling jobsAnnual average

10.0K20.0K30.0K20152017201920212023202517.8K

Casinos, casino hotels, card rooms, bingo halls, off-track betting and slot-route operators, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Racetracks are not included. Jobs at tribal casinos are counted as government jobs.

Gambling jobs by industry, 2025

Industry	Ownership	Employers	Jobs	Average pay
Gambling industries	tribal and other government-owned	2	1,154	$44,905
Gambling industries	privately owned	27	1,090	$32,630
Casino hotels	tribal and other government-owned	3	1,743	$32,267
Casino hotels	privately owned	25	13.8K	$40,069

Taxes by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Amusement taxes	Pari-mutuel taxes	Share of state taxes	Lottery proceeds
FY2025	$310M	$6.6M	2.90%	—
FY2024	$313M	$4.4M	2.99%	$205M
FY2023	$320M	$3.3M	2.98%	$202M
FY2022	$188M	$184K	1.84%	$200M
FY2021	$208M	—	2.20%	$136M
FY2020	$149M	—	1.84%	$72.2M
FY2019	$157M	—	1.90%	—
FY2018	$156M	—	1.98%	—
FY2017	$158M	—	2.04%	—
FY2016	$169M	—	2.21%	—

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, States (NST-EST2025-ALLDATA); U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections (STC): Historical Dataset; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025 annual averages, NAICS 7132 (Gambling industries)

Timeline

May 4, 2026 · Other · Prediction markets
Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch joins a multistate coalition letter urging federal regulators to return control of mobile/prediction-market betting to the states[23]
Mar 3, 2026 · Other · Sweepstakes casinos
SB 2104 sweepstakes-casino ban dies in the House Gaming Committee ahead of the crossover deadline, ending the 2026 effort[19]
Mar 3, 2026 · Other · Sports (online)
Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act (H.B. 4074) and companion H.B. 1581 die in the Senate after House passage, extending Mississippi's lack of statewide mobile sports wagering[1]
Feb 6, 2026 · Other · Sweepstakes casinos
Mississippi Senate unanimously passes SB 2104 banning internet sweepstakes casinos (52-0)[20]
Sep 4, 2025 · Restricted · Sweepstakes casinos
VGW completes wind-down of its dual-currency Sweeps Coins program in Mississippi (last redemption date) following the MGC cease-and-desist letter[22]
Jun 17, 2025 · Cease And Desist · Sweepstakes casinos
Mississippi Gaming Commission sends cease-and-desist letters to 10 unlicensed operators, including offshore sportsbooks and Chumba Casino (VGW)[21]
Jan 1, 2025 · Other · Sweepstakes casinos
2025 Mississippi legislative session sees a Senate-passed sweepstakes-casino ban die in conference after the House attached statewide online sports-wagering language[19]
Feb 8, 2024 · Other · Lottery couriers
Mississippi Attorney General issues an opinion concluding lottery ticket courier services are not authorized under the Lottery Law[25]
Miss. Att'y Gen. Op. (Feb. 8, 2024, responding to Sen. Jeremy England)
Nov 25, 2019 · Launched · Lottery
Mississippi Lottery begins scratch-off ticket sales statewide, more than $2.5 million sold in the first 24 hours[10],[11]
Sep 1, 2018 · Legalized · Lottery
Governor approves S.B. 2001 (Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law), creating the Mississippi Lottery Corporation; law takes effect[12]
Laws 2018, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 2 (S.B. 2001)
Aug 28, 2018 · Other · Lottery
Mississippi House gives final passage (58-54) to the Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Law in special session[10]
Aug 2, 2018 · Launched · Sports (retail)
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians opens its sportsbook at Pearl River Resort/Bok Homa Casino, among the first tribal sportsbooks outside Nevada[6]
Jul 21, 2018 · Launched · Sports (retail)
Legal sports wagering begins at Mississippi Gaming Commission-licensed casinos[4]
Jun 21, 2018 · Regulation Adopted · Sports (retail)
Mississippi Gaming Commission gives final approval to sports-wagering regulations (Title 13, Part 15)[5]
May 17, 2018 · Regulation Adopted · Sports (retail)
Mississippi Gaming Commission releases proposed sports-wagering regulations for public comment[5]
May 14, 2018 · Court Ruling · Sports (retail)
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down PASPA (Murphy v. NCAA), clearing the way for state sports-wagering regimes nationally[4]
Mar 20, 2017 · Legalized · Daily fantasy
Governor Phil Bryant signs H.B. 967, enacting the Mississippi Fantasy Contests Act and amending the Gaming Control Act's "sports pool" definition[14],[2]
2017 Miss. Laws, H.B. 967
Jan 1, 2016 · Other · Daily fantasy
Mississippi Attorney General opines that paid-entry daily fantasy sports contests constitute illegal gambling under existing state law[15]

Regulators

Mississippi Gaming Commission (MGC) — Commercial casinos, Sports (retail), Sports (online), Daily fantasy
· Self-exclusion
Mississippi Lottery Corporation — Lottery
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Gaming Commission — Tribal casinos, Sports (retail)

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Secondary source only; reports the 2026 death of H.B. 4074/H.B. 1581 and SB 2249 in the Senate.
Mississippi Legislature Returns to Mobile Sports Wagering and Sweepstakes Policy · Jones Walker LLP · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary (law-firm) source; describes the 2017 "sports pool" definition amendment to §§ 75-76-5 and 75-76-33(3) and 2026 bill landscape.
Mississippi Gaming Commission Regulations, Title 13, Part 9 — Racebooks and Sports Pools · Mississippi Secretary of State / Mississippi Gaming Commission · regulation · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
Text extracted via pdftotext after the PDF's embedded text layer did not render through the fetch tool's HTML converter. Confirms this regulation is Title 13, Part 9 of the Mississippi Administrative Code; the sports_retail and sports_online verticals previously miscited it as Part 15, which is actually the Commission's separate Fantasy Contests regulation, corrected here.
“an initial verification of the account must be done in-person by a patron at the licensee's premises before the acceptance of any wager”
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What Has to Happen Before the First Sports Wager in Mississippi? · The National Law Review · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
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“4% on the first $50,000... 6% on the next $84,000... 8% on all gross revenue over $134,000”
Tribal-State Compact for Regulation of Class III Gaming (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians) · Law Insider (hosted compact document) · compact · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
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Federal compact document; this research confirmed its existence and 1994 date via search results but did not read the full compact text.
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Mississippi Lottery Bond · SuretyOne (surety-bond industry blog) · secondary · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
Secondary source only; corroborated by Mississippi Today's special-session coverage of the Aug. 28, 2018 House vote and Aug. 31, 2018 gubernatorial approval.
“On August 31st, 2018, the governor approved Senate Bill 2001...to be effective September 1st, 2018.”
Daily Fantasy Sports Scores First Legislative Victory Of 2017 · Legal Sports Report · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; describes H.B. 967's licensing, 8% net-revenue tax, 100-player threshold, and employee-play ban.
Mississippi Governor Signs DFS Legislation · Global Gaming Business News · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; confirms Gov. Bryant's March 2017 signature and July 1, 2017 effective date.
Mississippi Attorney General Says Daily Fantasy Sports Is Illegal Under State Law · Becker & Poliakoff · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary (law-firm) source describing the pre-2017 AG opinion.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-305 — Fantasy Contests Act: prohibited acts, players and operators · FindLaw (reproducing the Mississippi Code) · secondary · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
“Verify that a fantasy contest player is eighteen (18) years of age or older”
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-307 — Fantasy Contests Act: on-premises contests · FindLaw (reproducing the Mississippi Code) · secondary · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
Subsection (5) requires on-premises fantasy contests to be offered only by a Gaming Control Act licensee at its licensed establishment, with player age verified at 21 or older rather than the 18 set by § 97-33-305 for ordinary contests.
“twenty-one (21) years of age or older”
MS HB76 | 2026 | Regular Session · LegiScan · bill · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Bill-tracking source; describes proposed truck-stop video lottery terminal authorization (5 per congressional district, 1-cent minimum stake, $750 maximum payout).
Mississippi fails to pass sweeps ban & online sports betting bills · SBC Americas · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; reports the 2026 session ending without a sweepstakes ban or mobile sports-betting law.
Mississippi Begins New Sweepstakes Casino Ban Push with SB2104 · Gambling Insider · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; describes SB 2104's 52-0 Senate passage and prior-year conference failure.
No Bills? No Problem. Louisiana, Mississippi Send Cease-And-Desist Letters To Sweeps Operators · Sweepsy · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; reports the June 17, 2025 Mississippi Gaming Commission cease-and-desist letters to 10 operators including Chumba Casino.
“there are no legal exceptions for online sports books or so-called 'sweepstakes' casinos”
VGW Mississippi sweepstakes exit 2025 · CasinoBeats · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; reports VGW's phased wind-down of Sweeps Coins in Mississippi (stopped earning July 31, 2025; final redemptions Sept. 4, 2025) following the MGC cease-and-desist letter, while Gold Coins free play continues.
Mississippi demands state control of mobile sports betting, prediction markets · Public Gaming International · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Secondary source only; reports AG Lynn Fitch joining a May 4, 2026 multistate coalition letter.
“entertainment-based gambling rather than tools for financial risk management”
Frequently Asked Questions · Mississippi Gaming Commission · regulator page · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
States the three-part test (consideration, chance, potential reward) for an illegal gambling device/slot machine under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-33-1, 97-33-7; cites the amusement-games-for-children exemption at § 97-33-8.
Attorney General Opinion: Lottery Ticket Couriers (responding to Sen. Jeremy England) · Office of the Mississippi Attorney General (Lynn Fitch) · ag opinion · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
Binary PDF; text extracted via pdftotext. Dated February 8, 2024.
“There is currently nothing in the Lottery Law that authorizes the use of lottery couriers in Mississippi.”
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Bill-tracking source; confirms proposed 2024 amendments to §§ 75-76-5 and 97-33-305 regarding fantasy-contest formats.
Underdog Shutters Fantasy Pick'em Product In Mississippi · Legal Sports Report · secondary · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
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Mississippi Gaming Commission Regulations — Part 9, Racebooks and Sports Pools · Mississippi Secretary of State / Gaming Commission · regulation · retrieved Oct 12, 2026
Official PDF linked from MGC regulations index and read 2026-10-12. Chapter 4 Rules 4.3 and 4.8 authorize approved casino simulcast pari-mutuel wagering on licensed premises. Rules 3.4 and 3.15 limit account/mobile wagering to approved premises; Rule 4.4 applies gaming taxes to pool commissions.
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Text extracted via pdftotext after the PDF's embedded text layer did not render through the fetch tool's HTML converter; codifies Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-33-51 through 97-33-203.
“No licensee shall allow any person under eighteen (18) years of age to play a bingo game unless accompanied by his or her parent or legal guardian”
13 Miss. Code R. § 9-1.1 - General Terms · Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (reproducing Mississippi Administrative Code) · regulation · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
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Fetched directly (site redirects from mslotteryhome.com and from the trailing-slash-less URL). Current draw games listed: Powerball, Mega Millions, Lotto America, Millionaire for Life (all multistate), plus in-state Mississippi Match 5, Cash 3, Cash 4, Cash Pop, and 79 active scratch-off games. Cash4Life and Lucky for Life do not appear on the page.
Lottery hits threshold that will fulfill funding obligation to state transportation · Mississippi Public Broadcasting · secondary · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
Secondary source only; corroborates the $80 million/year highway-fund-then-education-fund split described in Miss. Code Ann. § 27-115-85 and reported by other outlets covering MLC monthly transfers.
“The first 80 million dollars in lottery transfers every year goes into the State Highway Fund”
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“Lists 25 operating casinos across Central, Coastal, and Northern regions, each marked 'Sports Wagering: Y.'”
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“Owner: Gaming and Leisure Properties. Operating license holder: Bally's Corporation (formerly Twin River Worldwide Holdings); operates under a Hard Rock International franchise.”
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“Bally's Vicksburg (formerly Rainbow, Lady Luck, and Casino Vicksburg); Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast (formerly Casino Magic).”
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“Trop Casino Greenville | Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (c) Caesars Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.”
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Page not independently re-fetched this session for this specific excerpt; relied on prior research-session knowledge that Eldorado Resorts/Gaming and Leisure Properties acquired Tropicana Entertainment in 2018 for $1.85B, consistent with caesars-trop-greenville confirming the property is now Caesars-branded.
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“Owner: Vici Properties. Operator: Caesars Entertainment.”
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“Owner: Vici Properties. Operating license holder: Caesars Entertainment.”
MGM Resorts sells Gold Strike Tunica, CDI sells Arlington Heights property · Gambling Insider · press · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
“MGM Resorts International has closed on the sale of the operations of Gold Strike Tunica to Cherokee Nation Businesses subsidiary CNE Gaming Holdings for $450m in cash.”
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“Owner: Vici Properties. Operating license holder: Caesars Entertainment; leases the property back from Vici.”
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“Churchill Downs agreed to buy Riverwalk Casino Hotel Vicksburg for $141 million in 2012.”
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“Churchill Downs bought Harlow's Casino Resort & Hotel in Greenville, Mississippi for about $138 million, closing December 2010.”
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“The former DiamondJacks property will become WaterView Casino and Hotel, new owners Foundation Gaming Group LLC recently announced.”
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“Owned and operated by Full House Resorts.”
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“Sold to Fertitta Entertainment in 2012 and converted into a Golden Nugget.”
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“Owner: Rick Carter and Terry Green. After Hurricane Katrina, Harrah's Entertainment chose not to rebuild Grand Casino Gulfport and sold the site to Copa owners Rick Carter and Terry Green.”
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“Owner: Vici Properties. Operator: MGM Resorts International.”
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Page not fetched; ownership attribution to Robert and Lawana Low confirmed via search-result summaries of 2009-2011 trade coverage, not verbatim page text.
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“Owner: Gaming and Leisure Properties. Operating license holder: Penn Entertainment.”
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“Owner: Gaming and Leisure Properties. Operating license holder: Penn Entertainment.”
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“Saratoga Casino Holdings, owners of the Magnolia Bluffs Casino in Natchez, has sold the Magnolia Bluffs Hotel to a group of out-of-state owners; the casino itself stays with Saratoga.”
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“FY 2025’s GGR of $46.2 billion marks the highest ever GGR for the Indian gaming industry.”
Self Exclusion FAQ · Mississippi Gaming Commission · regulator page · retrieved Oct 10, 2026
“The minimum amount of time you can exclude is 3 years... cannot choose a lifetime until you have completed at least 3 years.”
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