EXHIBIT 3.13


                          ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF
                  ISLE OF CAPRI HOTELS - BOSSIER CITY, L.L.C.

     BE IT KNOWN, that on the date stated below, before me, the undersigned
Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified in and for the jurisdiction named
below, personally came and appeared SHAUN B. RAFFERTY (the "Organizer") as
organizer of Isle of Capri Hotels - Bossier City, L.L.C. (the "Company") and
adopts the following Articles of Organization of the Company pursuant to Title
12, Chapter 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the Louisiana Limited
Liability Company law (the "LaLLCL").

     1. Name. The name of the Company is Isle of Capri Hotels - Bossier City,
L.L.C.

     2. Purpose. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful activity.

     3. Management. The business of the Company shall be managed by or under the
authority of the members or one or more managers elected by the members (who may
but need not be members), as provided in the operating agreement of the Company.
The rights and duties, including any restrictions thereof, of the members, if
management is reserved to the members, or the managers, if management is vested
in managers, shall be specified in the operating agreement.

     4. Limitation of Members' Liability. The members of the Company shall not
be personally liable for any monetary damages or breach of any duty, as and to
the extent provided in Section 1314 of the LaLLCL. If the LaLLCL is amended to
authorize any further elimination or limitation of the personal liability of
members, then the liability of the members of the Company shall be eliminated or
limited to the fullest extent permitted by the LaLLCL, as so amended. Any repeal
or modification of this Article by the members of the Company shall not
adversely affect any right or protection of a member of the Company under this
Article with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such
repeal or modification.

     5. Indemnification. The Company shall have the power to provide in its
operating agreement for indemnification of its members, managers, employees and
agents to the fullest extent set forth in the LaLLCL. No amendment to the
operating agreement limiting the right to indemnification shall affect the
entitlement of any person to indemnification whose claim thereto results from
conduct occurring prior to the date of such amendment.

     6. Organizer. the name and post office address of the Organizer is:

     Shaun B. Rafferty
     30th Floor - Texaco Center
     400 Poydras Street
     New Orleans, Louisiana 70130



     THUS DONE AND PASSED, on this November 5, 1997, before me, the undersigned
Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified in and for Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, by the personal appearance of Shaun B. Rafferty as Organizer, who
acknowledged and declared under oath, in the presence of the two undersigned
witnesses, that he signed these Articles of Organization as his free act and
deed for the purposes stated herein.


 /s/ Witness                         /s/ Shaun B. Rafferty
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Witness                             Shaun B. Rafferty
                                    Organizer
 /s/ Witness
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Witness


                         /s/ Daniel E. Davillier
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                               NOTARY PUBLIC

                            DANIEL E. DAVILLIER
                               NOTARY PUBLIC
                             State of Louisiana
                       My Commission is issued for Life.