Bingo and Oklahoma: 2 birds of a feather

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Posted by Jace | Posted in Bingo | Posted on 05-11-2015

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Oklahoma has long been analogous with Bingo. That’s because the Indian bands of Oklahoma have operated Bingo sessions for years. Guests from each of the surrounding states pile in automobiles and travel to Oklahoma to wager on Bingo on the weekends.

The 1988 IGRA was introduced after a precedent setting determination by The U.S. Supreme Court just the year prior. Since that instance, twenty three of the thirty nine Amerindian tribes of Oklahoma have opened gaming halls. The Chickasaw were the initial Oklahoma Indian tribes to take advantage of the wagering laws, and today operate ten gambling dens of their own. Bingo is the game on which these casinos were founded. computerized games such as slot machine games weren’t permitted, due to the fact that they’re believed to lead to gambling problems at a higher rate than bingo.

In recent years, Oklahoma law has changed to allow for enormous Native wagering casinos. You’ll now discover American Indian gambling dens with slot machine games, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are still not legal in the Native casinos as of yet, but this is just a waiting game. Nobody can say with what having different casino games in the bingo parlors will do for the popularity of bingo.

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