Jul 152007
[ English ]

Oklahoma has for a long time been interrelated with Bingo. That is owing to the fact that the Amerindian tribes of Oklahoma have provided Bingo games for many years. Patrons from many of the nearby states pile in vehicles and head over to Oklahoma to play Bingo for the weekends.

The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) followed a landmark decree by The U.S. Supreme Court just the year prior. Since that instance, twenty three of the thirty nine Indian tribes of Oklahoma have established gambling halls. The Chickasaw were the first Oklahoma American Indian band to take advantage of the gambling rules, and at this time control 10 gambling halls of their very own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling halls were built on. automated games such as slot machines weren’t permitted, owing to the fact that they are thought to lead to gambling addiction at a higher rate than bingo.

In recent years, Oklahoma governing edicts have altered to permit gigantic Native gambling gambling dens. You’ll now discover Amerindian gambling dens with slots, video poker and twenty-one tables. Craps and roulette are still not authorized in the Native gambling dens yet, but that is simply a waiting game. Nobody can say what having other gambling hall games in the bingo houses will do for the appeal of bingo.

Jul 122007

New Mexico has a stormy gaming past. When the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was passed by Congress in Nineteen Eighty Nine, it seemed like New Mexico might be one of the states to cash in on the Amerindian casino craze. Politics guaranteed that would not be the situation.

The New Mexico governor Bruce King appointed a panel in 1990 to create a compact with New Mexico Amerindian bands. When the task force came to an accord with two big local bands a year later, the Governor refused to sign the bargain. He held up a deal until 1994.

When a new governor took over in 1995, it seemed that Amerindian wagering in New Mexico was a certainty. But when Governor Gary Johnson signed the contract with the Native bands, anti-wagering groups were able to hold the deal up in courts. A New Mexico court found that Governor Johnson had out stepped his bounds in signing the deal, thereby denying the state of New Mexico many hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing revenues over the next several years.

It required the Compact Negotiation Act, signed by the New Mexico legislature, to get the process moving on a full contract amongst the State of New Mexico and its Native tribes. A decade had been burned for gaming in New Mexico, which includes Indian casino Bingo.

The nonprofit Bingo industry has gotten bigger since 1999. That year, New Mexico charity game providers brought in only $3,048 in revenues. That climbed to $725,150 in 2000, and passed a million dollars in revenues in 2001. Nonprofit Bingo revenues have increased steadily since that time. Two Thousand and Five witnessed the greatest year, with $1,233,289 earned by the owners.

Bingo is categorically popular in New Mexico. All types of operators try for a bit of the action. With hope, the politicos are through batting around gaming as a hot button factor like they did in the 90’s. That’s probably wishful thinking.

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