Oklahoma: River Spirit Casino endures flooding, pandemic to reopen twice from closures Cory Jones, Tulsa World · June 2, 2020 at 6:19 am First came flooding. Then a pandemic. Not typically the one to take losses, now River Spirit Casino Resort hopes its second reopening of the past 12 months sticks for a long, long time. A large majority of Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s 2,200 casino employees returned to work Monday having not missed a single paycheck nor benefits during either closure, the most recent of which persisted for 11 weeks. “We’ll have lost almost 25% of our revenue for the year for the nation,” said Pat Crofts, CEO of Muscogee (Creek) Nation Casinos. “So it’s very, very significant being closed down for almost three months. And if you include the flood from last year, over the past 12 months we’ve been closed three and a half months, which is more than 25%.”
