The state of Texas went to court to shut down two tribal casinos but residents don't have to go far to get their gambling fix.
The Chickasaw Nation, the Choctaw Nation and the Comanche Nation have opened casinos on the Oklahoma-Texas border. The facilities have been steadily drawing Texas gamblers who might have otherwise gone to Louisiana or Mississippi.
The addition of Class III card games is bringing in even more people, and tribes are planning even bigger facilities. That may lead to legalized gambling in Texas, says Bill Thompson, a professor of public administration at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
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Oklahoma casinos grow to bring in a new crowd
(The Fort Worth Star-Telegram 6/20)
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