Craps in Mississippi: Casinos With Craps Tables and Where to Play

Where the craps tables are in Mississippi

The map of craps in Mississippi follows water. State law opened gaming in the early 1990s for the Gulf Coast counties and the counties along the Mississippi River, so almost every commercial casino sits on one of those two edges. The interior has only the resorts run by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, which operate under their own arrangement.

Biloxi alone holds eight of the 26, the densest cluster of Mississippi craps anywhere in the state. Robinsonville and Tunica Resorts add five more within an hour of Memphis, which is why Tennessee players make up a big share of the northern crowd. Vicksburg has three rooms with dice, and Greenville two, one of them electronic.

The Gulf Coast strip

On the coast the casinos line Beach Boulevard and the Back Bay. Beau Rivage, Hard Rock Biloxi, IP Casino Resort Spa, Golden Nugget Biloxi, Harrah’s Gulf Coast, Palace, Treasure Bay and Boomtown are all in Biloxi, with Scarlet Pearl just across the bay in D’Iberville, Island View in Gulfport, and two more in Bay St. Louis.

The river towns

Up north the old Tunica strip still carries the most tables: Horseshoe Tunica, Gold Strike, Hollywood Casino Tunica, Fitz and 1st Jackpot. Isle of Capri sits in Lula near the Helena bridge. Further south, Vicksburg has Ameristar, Riverwalk and WaterView, and Natchez has Magnolia Bluffs, the southernmost river room on the list.

The biggest casinos with craps in Mississippi

Size on a casino floor usually means more tables open at once, and more tables mean a better chance of finding a low minimum on a busy night. The largest rooms for Mississippi craps are the resort properties: Beau Rivage and IP in Biloxi, Horseshoe and Gold Strike in Tunica, and the Silver Star at Pearl River Resort.

Beau Rivage, run by MGM Resorts International, is the coast’s flagship and the property most visitors picture when they think of Biloxi. Boyd Gaming’s IP Casino Resort Spa sits on the Back Bay and publishes 20x odds, the highest figure any Mississippi casino in our directory lists. Golden Nugget Biloxi publishes 10x odds on the beach side of town.

In Tunica County, Horseshoe Tunica and Gold Strike are the two big names, and Gold Strike is the one room in the state where our data shows crapless craps. Silver Star, the main Choctaw property at Pearl River Resort, gives central Mississippi a dice pit without the drive to the coast or the river.

Mississippi craps: dice, electronic and crapless

Nearly all Mississippi craps is the real thing: 24 of the 26 casinos in our directory run live tables with a stickman, a boxman and physical dice. The other two, Tropicana Greenville and Bok Homa Casino in Sandersville, list electronic craps, where you bet on a touchscreen station and the dice are rolled inside a machine or shown on screen.

Electronic tables have one real advantage for a newcomer. Minimums tend to be lower than on the live pit, and nobody is waiting for you to make a decision. The rules for the pass line bet and the odds are the same, so the math does not change. What changes is the pace, which is usually slower.

Gold Strike in Tunica Resorts is the only Mississippi casino in our data that lists crapless craps. In that version a 2, 3, 11 or 12 on the come-out becomes a point instead of an instant decision. It sounds friendlier, but the house edge on the line bet rises sharply. Our page on crapless craps shows why.

Table minimums and odds the casinos publish

Most Mississippi rooms do not print their craps limits online, and limits move with the crowd anyway. Where a casino does publish a figure, it is listed below. Treat each one as a starting point to confirm by phone, because weekend evenings on the coast often push the lowest open table up a notch or two.

Odds matter more than most visitors realize. The odds bet behind the line pays true odds and carries no house edge, so a table that lets you take 20x lets you put far more of your money on a bet the casino earns nothing from. At IP the published 20x limit is the best figure on this list.

A $3 or $5 minimum, on the other hand, is about bankroll. At Boomtown the casino publishes a $3 table, which lets you play the line with full odds for a fraction of what a Las Vegas Strip pit asks. If you are learning, that low floor gives you far more rolls for the same money.

Is craps legal in Mississippi?

Yes. Craps in Mississippi is fully legal at licensed casinos, and it has been since the state’s gaming law took effect in the early 1990s. The Mississippi Gaming Commission licenses and regulates the commercial casinos on the coast and the river. You must be 21 to play, and the law allows casinos only in approved counties.

The Choctaw properties are different. Silver Star and Bok Homa are run by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians under federal Indian gaming law and a compact with the state, so their games are overseen through the tribe’s own gaming commission rather than the state body. At the table, the experience is the same: real dice, real stakes, casino rules.

One oddity is worth knowing. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005 the state let Gulf Coast casinos build on land near the shoreline instead of floating over the water, which is why the Biloxi resorts now look like ordinary towers. Several river casinos still sit on barges, even if you would never notice from the gaming floor.

Online craps in Mississippi

Online real-money craps is not licensed in Mississippi. The state allows sports betting inside its casinos, but no casino app may take real-money craps bets from players in the state. Seven states license online casinos, led by New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and you must be physically inside one of those states to play.

So the honest answer for Mississippi craps online is practice, not wagering. Our free craps table plays by standard casino rules, with a pass line, odds and every proposition bet, and costs nothing. It is a sensible way to learn the layout before a trip, and our guide on how to play craps covers the rules step by step.

Be wary of offshore sites that advertise to Mississippi players. They hold no US license, so no state regulator stands behind the payouts, the dice software or your deposit. If you are traveling to one of the four licensed states, the relevant page, such as online craps in New Jersey, explains what is available there.

Tips for a craps trip in Mississippi

Call ahead. That single step saves more disappointment than anything else, because craps tables in smaller rooms may open only in the evening or on weekends. The casino’s own website and its phone line are the only reliable sources for current hours, minimums and odds, and staff in the pit will usually tell you which nights run busiest.

Plan around the two corridors. A Gulf Coast weekend lets you try several rooms for craps in Mississippi within a few miles, while the river towns are spread out: Tunica to Vicksburg is a long drive. The full list on our casinos page and the other state guides help when you are mapping a longer road trip.

Playing craps in Mississippi responsibly

Set a loss limit before you walk to the rail and leave the rest of your money in the room. Craps moves quickly, and a hot table makes it easy to keep pressing bets. Should gambling stop being fun, call 1-800-GAMBLER for free, confidential help, and read our page on responsible gambling for practical tools.

Casinos in the state also offer self-exclusion, and the pit will not be offended if you ask for a table with a lower minimum. A practical detail to finish on: at most Mississippi casinos, chips from one property are not accepted at another, so cash out before you drive to the next place on Beach Boulevard.