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Tribes hail bingo rules' demise
Casinos: Proposed regulations would have changed how state profits from different machines

 
By Tony Thornton    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: September 26, 2008

Oklahoma tribal casino officials on Thursday cheered a federal agency's withdrawal of proposed regulations that some said would have crippled the state's $2.4 billion-a-year industry.

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BACKGROUND
Oklahoma impact
In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved a modified version of Las Vegas-style gambling. In return, tribes pay the state a share of the revenue.

Tribes gradually have replaced their bingo-based machines with Class III machines since then. One recent report says Oklahoma's 52,000 machines are almost evenly split between Class II and Class III.

Class II machines' future
A study prepared for the National Indian Gaming Commission suggests that despite further reductions, Oklahoma's tribal casinos will always have a Class II presence.

Prediction of Class II machines by year:

•2008: 18,200

•2009: 10,300

•2010: 7,500

•2011: 7,500

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