Oklahoma has for a long time been interrelated with Bingo. That’s owing to the fact that the American Indian tribes of Oklahoma have provided Bingo games for years. Clients from each of the neighboring states load up in trucks and head over to Oklahoma to gamble on Bingo on the weekends.
The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) became law after a landmark determination by The U.S. Supreme Court the year before. From that time, 23 of the 39 Indian bands of Oklahoma have opened gambling halls. The Chickasaw were the first Oklahoma Amerindian tribes to take advantage of the wagering restrictions, and today control 10 casinos of their very own. Bingo was the game on which the above-mentioned gambling dens were built on. Electronic games such as slot machine games weren’t allowed, due to the fact that they are believed to lead to gambling dependency at a higher rate than bingo.
In recent years, Oklahoma governing edicts has changed to allow for enormous Native wagering gambling dens. You’ll now see American Indian casinos with slot machine games, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are still not legal in the Indian gambling dens as of yet, but that is simply a waiting game. Nobody can determine what having other games in the bingo parlors will do for the popularity of bingo.