Oklahoma has for a long time been interrelated with Bingo. That’s due to the fact that the American Indian bands of Oklahoma have operated Bingo sessions for generations. Guests from each of the surrounding states load up in trucks and travel into Oklahoma to play Bingo for the weekends.
The 1988 (IGRA) Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was introduced after a precedent setting ruling by The U.S. Supreme Court the year prior. Since that instance, 23 of the 39 Amerindian bands located in Oklahoma have established gaming halls. The Chickasaw were the initial Oklahoma American Indian band to take advantage of the betting restrictions, and today control ten gambling dens of their own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling dens were built on. Electronic games like slot machine games were not approved, because they are thought to lead to gambling addiction at a higher rate than bingo.
In recent years, Oklahoma law have changed to permit large Indian betting gambling dens. You’ll now find American Indian casinos with slots, video poker and vingt-et-un tables. Craps and roulette are not yet legal in the Indian casinos as of yet, although that is just a waiting game. Nobody can say with whether having different games in the bingo parlors will do for the draw of bingo.