Gamblers Fall for Billionaire’s Vegas Touch in the Swamp Country

Home to swamp tours, refineries and petrochemical plants, not to mention the occasional alligator, Lake Charles isn’t often mistaken for Las Vegas.

But the Louisiana city’s becoming a bright spot among recovering U.S. gambling destinations, with its three bustling casinos -- the newest of which of has seven restaurants, five bars, a beach, a marina with deep-water yacht slips and a pool that’s open ’til 2:30 a.m.