Bally's Casino Tunica is a 238 room hotel

Hotel

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

 and a 40000 square feet (3,716.1 m²) casino

Casino

In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...

 with a rustic 19th century theme that is located in Tunica, Mississippi

Tunica, Mississippi

Tunica is a town in Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, located near the Mississippi River. Until the early 1990s the town was one of the most impoverished places in the United States, semi-famous for the particularly deprived neighbourhood known as "Sugar Ditch Alley", named for the open...

. The casino is owned by Colony Capital and operated by its Resorts International Holdings

Resorts International Holdings

Not to be confused with the Las Vegas, Nevada based casino/resort operator MGM Resorts International.Resorts International Holdings, LLC , also known as Colony Resorts Holdings is an affiliate of Colony Capital, LLC based in Las Vegas, Nevada. RIH was created by Colony Capital in 2000 after it...

 division. Caesars Entertainment owns the Bally's name and is used by Resorts International Holdings.

History

The casino was opened in 1995 by Bally Entertainment Corporation. It was originally located at Mhoon Landing, the site of all of four of Tunica's original casinos (Splash Casino, Bally's, President Casino Southern Mist

President Casinos

President Casinos is a gaming company and casino operator based in St. Louis, Missouri that was active in the 1990s. In the 2000s it went into bankruptcy and is liquidating by the end of the decade.-History:...

 and Lady Luck). When larger casinos were built upriver closer to Memphis, Bally's closed and moved upriver — literally, as the casino barge was floated to a new berth in Robinsonville (now called Tunica Resorts

Tunica Resorts, Mississippi

Tunica Resorts is an unincorporated community located in northern Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, north of the county seat of Tunica. The community was originally named Robinsonville, but the name was changed in 2003. Locals still refer to the town by this name. The community is situated...

) close to Casino Center, home of the Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

The Horseshoe Casino Tunica is a casino resort located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. It was developed by Jack Binion, the son of Las Vegas gaming legend Benny Binion and named after his father's famous Binion's Horseshoe downtown gambling hall...

, Gold Strike Resort and Casino

Gold Strike Resort and Casino

Gold Strike Resort and Casino in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi is an MGM Resorts International resort located 20 minutes south of Memphis, Tennessee. In 2008, MGM Mirage made a large investment in Gold Strike Casino Resort and a commitment to the Tunica market with a multi-million dollar renovation...

, and Tunica Roadhouse. As part of the move, Bally's acquired the Lady Luck Hotel a short distance from the new casino location.

In recent years, Bally's has become known as a "low roller" casino with low-minimum craps

Craps

Craps is a dice game in which players place wagers on the outcome of the roll, or a series of rolls, of a pair of dice. Players may wager money against each other or a bank...

, blackjack

Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as Twenty-one or Vingt-et-un , is the most widely played casino banking game in the world...

 and roulette

Roulette

Roulette is a casino game named after a French diminutive for little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even....

 games. In particular, the craps tables offered bets as low as 25 cents back in 2004.

Bally's Tunica was eventually acquired by Park Place Entertainment which later became Caesars Entertainment. When Caesars was acquired by Harrah's Entertainment

Harrah's Entertainment

Caesars Entertainment Corporation is a private gaming corporation that owns and operates over 50 casinos, hotels, and seven golf courses under several brands. The company, based in Paradise, Nevada, is the largest gaming company in the world, with yearly revenues $8.9 billion...

in 2005, Bally's Tunica (along with Harrah's Tunica) was sold to Colony Capital to keep Harrah's from dominating the Tunica market with five casinos.