Oklahoma has long been interrelated with Bingo. That’s because the Indian bands of Oklahoma have run Bingo sessions for many years. Patrons from each of the nearby states get in autos and visit Oklahoma to wager on Bingo on the weekends.
The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) followed a precedent setting determination by The U.S. Supreme Court the year prior. From that time, twenty three of the thirty nine Native tribes located in Oklahoma have opened bingo halls. The Chickasaw were the first Oklahoma Amerindian band to take advantage of the gaming restrictions, and at this time operate 10 casinos of their own. Bingo was the game on which these gambling dens were built on. Electronic games like slot machine games weren’t approved, owing to the fact that they are believed to lead to gambling addiction at a higher rate than bingo.
In the past few years, Oklahoma law have changed to allow for gigantic American Indian wagering casinos. You will now find Native gambling dens with one armed bandits, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are still not legal in the Indian casinos as of yet, but that is only a waiting game. Nobody can say with whether having different gambling hall games in the bingo parlors will do for the appeal of bingo.