Granted the 3 of us went there after 7 which was probably too late, but they are open til 9 so the food should have been fresh. The new Phase I facility features the company's first hotel.We did not have a good exoerience when we came to dinner. The Copa owners are using the new site for the new Island View Casino, which has opened a temporary land-based facility (now allowed after regulations were relaxed after Katrina) in the Grand's former hotel on the north side of Beach Boulevard. In December 2005, Harrah's Entertainment announced a deal to sell the former Grand site and remaining assets to the owners of the Copa. The storm surge from Katrina swept the barge onto the parking lot of the neighboring Grand Casino Gulfport, with the barge coming to rest against the Grand's parking deck. When Copa Casino adopted a more permanent structure-a barge-the vessel was sold to be scrapped.Īs one of the two only casinos in Gulfport or Biloxi not to have an attached hotel (other than Boomtown Casino), the Copa catered to a locals market, featuring low-minimum table games and relatively high paybacks on slot machines and video poker. In 1993 she was docked permanently in Gulfport, Mississippi and became the Copa Casino. The ship was renamed Pride of Mississippi in 1988 and, after relocation to Texas, Pride of Galveston in 1991. In the late 1980s, Rick Carter and two other partners, Terry Green and William Redd, bought a 40-year-old ship to be used as a gaming property. The facility was located in a berth of the Mississippi State Docks. The casino was originally housed in a former cruise ship, the Pride of Galveston, then later on a barge built to resemble an on-shore building, but which still floated on water to comply with Mississippi dockside gaming laws. Prior to its destruction in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, it operated a small casino that catered to local residents. The Copa Casino was a casino located in Gulfport, Mississippi ( USA).

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