Top 10 Things I Like About the Gold Strike in Tunica MS

10. The buffet, no matter how many times I eat it and am disappointed, always seems like the best damn idea on earth.
9. Poker room rates: $30 a night on weekdays, $50 on weekends, if you play just 8 hours a day. Nice deal.
8. The locals: you’ve never seen so many elderly rednecks who will blind down $100 over the course of a few hours. They really just like to sit there. If they get drunk they’ll talk dirty to the waitresses fairly openly, and that’s weird.
7. Free Cardplayer magazines in the poker room, good to read while you’re waiting …read more