We all remember the days when summer vacation always seemed to end too soon. Like most kids, we dreaded the return of school, teachers and homework. Nowadays, even some adults dread the end of summer. The end of summer means less sunshine, the looming inevitability of cold weather and the end of daylight savings time, ensuring that we leave work, essentially, in the dark..
Baccarat is a game with a low house edge — 1.06 percent if you’re betting on banker, 1.24 percent if you’re betting on player. No skill is required. Extra cards are drawn or not drawn according to a chart. Players have no strategy options — this is strictly a guessing game over whether the player hand or banker hand will win.
The Down the Road blog has a special guest post today from Michael Johnson, Director of Tennis at Tunica National Golf & Tennis. Coach Michael is here to tell us how to practice our serves while beating the heat on the four clay courses at Tunica National:
Double Double Bonus Poker is the one of the most popular video poker games around, largely because of the 2,000-coin bonanza for four Aces when the fifth card is a 2, 3 or 4.
As many of you know, we’re working to open the new Tunica Gateway to the Blues Visitor Center and Museum. We expect the Visitor Center to open in the fall and the museum to be soon after. If you’re like me and can’t stand the wait, I wanted to tell you about a couple Music Lover’s add-ons to your Tunica vacation that are just up the road in Memphis. Plus, if you’re traveling along the Mississippi Blues Trail, there’s a marker in Memphis!
Have you ever heard “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”? Well, if you’ve been in Tunica lately, humor is in the ear of the listener! If you’re looking to laugh, Tunica’s the place to Live it Up!
I love to laugh and try surrounding myself with funny people all the time. And with the opening of the Funny Bone Comedy Club at Harrah’s Tunica, it’s gotten a lot easier!
A regular reader wrote to tell me about her night playing the slots in a crowded casino.
“It was packed,” she wrote. “I heard somebody who worked there say, ‘Big crowd means we’ll be paying out a lot tonight,’ and he had a big smile on his face. I asked if he meant jackpots and he said, ‘Oh, there’ll be some jackpots.’
I’m pleased to report that the Tunica destination is alive, well and OPEN for business! Everyone is aware that we lived through a very difficult month of May due to the rising floodwaters of the Mighty Mississippi. Due to the great exposure of this event by both local and national news sources, we thought we would update you on the true story of the great flood of 2011.
Baccarat is a game with a low house edge — 1.06 percent if you’re betting on banker, 1.24 percent if you’re betting on player. No skill is required. Extra cards are drawn or not drawn according to a chart. Players have no strategy options — this is strictly a guessing game over whether the player hand or banker hand will win.
Did you hear?! The Roaming Gnome broke into our Comp Closet and stole our Summer Stay & Stuff packages to experience Tunica for himself. We’re glad that he decided to visit, but if he had asked we would have been more than happy to show the little rascal around town! We have been hot on his trail to get your comps back, but we need your help finding him.
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When I first started writing about casino games at the beginning of the 1990s, and really started watching what other blackjack players were doing, soft 17 seemed to be the most misplayed hand around. That 17 seemed to be a magic line that players would not cross, even the hand was Ace-6, or Ace-2-4, or Ace-3-3, or any other “soft” combination that included an Ace being counted as an 11.
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