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Oklahoma has long been analogous with Bingo. This is owing to the fact that the American Indian bands of Oklahoma have provided Bingo sessions for generations. Guests from many of the surrounding states load up in cars and head over to Oklahoma to play Bingo on the weekends.

The 1988 IGRA became law after a benchmark decision by The U.S. Supreme Court the year prior. From that time, 23 of the thirty nine Indian bands located in Oklahoma have established bingo halls. The Chickasaw were the initial Oklahoma Indian tribes to take advantage of the gambling laws, and today operate ten gambling dens of their own. Bingo was the game on which these gambling dens were founded. automated games like slots weren’t allowed, on the grounds that they are thought to lead to gambling addiction at a higher rate than bingo.

In the past few years, Oklahoma governing edicts have altered to permit massive Native gaming gambling dens. You will now discover Indian casinos with one armed bandits, video poker and blackjack tables. Craps and roulette are still not authorized in the Indian gambling dens as of yet, although this is simply a waiting game. Nobody can determine what having different games in the bingo houses will do for the appeal of bingo.