Oklahoma has long been analogous with Bingo. This is because the Amerindian bands of Oklahoma have provided Bingo sessions for many years. Guests from many of the surrounding states load up in vans and travel to Oklahoma to gamble on Bingo over the weekends.

The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was introduced after a precedent setting decree by The U.S. Supreme Court just the year before. Since that instance, twenty three of the thirty nine Amerindian bands located in Oklahoma have opened bingo halls. The Chickasaw were the 1st Oklahoma Amerindian tribes to take advantage of the gaming laws, and at this time control ten gambling dens of their own. Bingo is the game on which these gambling dens were built on. Electronic games such as slot machine games were not allowed, owing to the fact that they are believed to lead to gambling addiction more than bingo.

In the past few years, Oklahoma rules has altered to permit big American Indian betting casinos. You will now find Amerindian casinos with one armed bandits, video poker and blackjack tables. Craps and roulette are not yet approved in the American Indian gambling halls yet, although this is just a matter of time. No one can say what having different gambling hall games in the bingo houses will do for the draw of bingo.