Oklahoma has long been synonymous with Bingo. That’s due to the fact that the Native tribes of Oklahoma have run Bingo sessions for ages. Clients from each of the surrounding states pile in vans and travel to Oklahoma to bet on Bingo for the weekends.
The 1988 IGRA became law after a benchmark determination by The U.S. Supreme Court just the year before. From that time, 23 of the thirty nine Native bands located in Oklahoma have established gaming halls. The Chickasaw were the 1st Oklahoma American Indian band to take advantage of the betting laws, and today run ten gambling dens of their own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling halls were founded. Electronic games like one armed bandits weren’t permitted, on the grounds that they are believed to lead to gambling problems at a higher rate than bingo.
In the past few years, Oklahoma law has changed to permit large Indian betting gambling dens. You’ll now find Amerindian casinos with slot machines, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are not yet authorized in the American Indian casinos as of yet, although that is just a waiting game. Nobody can determine what having other games in the bingo parlours will do for the draw of bingo.