Oklahoma has for a long time been synonymous with Bingo. That’s because the American Indian tribes of Oklahoma have provided Bingo games for decades. Clients from each of the neighboring states load up in autos and visit Oklahoma to play Bingo over the weekends.
The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act became law after a precedent setting decision by The U.S. Supreme Court just the year prior. Since that time, 23 of the thirty nine Amerindian tribes located in Oklahoma have established gambling halls. The Chickasaw were the initial Oklahoma Indian tribes to take advantage of the betting laws, and today run ten casinos of their own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling halls were built on. Electronic games like one armed bandits weren’t approved, due to the fact that they are believed to lead to gambling problems at a higher rate than bingo.
In the past few years, Oklahoma law have changed to allow for enormous American Indian gambling gambling dens. You’ll now discover Native casinos with one armed bandits, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are not yet approved in the American Indian gambling dens as of yet, but this is only a waiting game. Nobody can determine whether having different games in the bingo houses will do for the popularity of bingo.