Oklahoma has long been synonymous with Bingo. That’s due to the fact that the Native tribes of Oklahoma have operated Bingo sessions for decades. Patrons from all of the surrounding states pile in cars and visit Oklahoma to bet on Bingo over the weekends.
The 1988 IGRA became law after a landmark determination by The U.S. Supreme Court just the prior year. Since that instance, twenty three of the thirty nine Indian tribes located in Oklahoma have established gaming halls. The Chickasaw were the initial Oklahoma Native tribes to take advantage of the gaming restrictions, and at this time control ten gambling dens of their very own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling halls were built on. Electronic games like one armed bandits weren’t authorized, due to the fact that they’re thought to contribute to gambling addiction at a higher rate than bingo.
In the past few years, Oklahoma law have changed to allow for large Native gaming gambling halls. You will now see Native gambling halls with slot machine games, video poker and black jack tables. Craps and roulette are not yet legal in the Indian gambling dens as of yet, although that is just a waiting game. Nobody can say whether having other gambling hall games in the bingo parlors will do for the draw of bingo.