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Choctaw Gaming Center is a $2-million, 1,000-seat entertainment facility located four miles south of Durant, Oklahoma, on Choctaw Road. The facility opened its doors December 5, 1987, as Choctaw Indian Bingo Palace.
Today, Choctaw Gaming Center has eight other locations across the state at Idabel, Grant, Broken Bow, Stringtown, McAlester, Pocola, Sallisaw, and Durant with a new gaming facility opening in spring of 2006. Choctaw Gaming Centers are owned by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Since its opening in 1987, Choctaw Gaming Center in Durant has been setting the standard for high stakes bingo halls nationwide. And in the past few years, the addition of electronic bingo gaming machines has increased interest and profits at all eight Choctaw Gaming Center locations.
Choctaw Bingo Palace made history May 29, 1990, when Ruby Jean Allen of Arlington, Texas, won $1 million playing MegaBingo's checkerboard bingo via satellite. Customers continue to win thousands weekly on MegaBingo's Million Dollar game played nightly.
Choctaw Gaming Center set another standard in the gaming industry in 1989 by being the first in the gaming industry to introduce the Electrobingo handset. Choctaw Gaming Center has maintained its commitment to providing customers with cutting-edge technology with innovative bingo equipment and gaming machines including GameTech International¹s handheld laptop, and fixed-based units as well as T.E.D. (The Electronic Dauber) handsets.
Pick-8 customers can choose the traditional method or use the Melange electronic quick pick.
On May 2, 1998, Choctaw Gaming Centers opened simulcast horse racing facilities at three locations. Choctaw Downs provides yet another entertainment option for gaming enthusiasts as well as a convenient wagering outlet for horseracing fans.
Tour buses flock the Gaming Center in Durant each weekend with "bingo-holics" from across Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri to experience Indian high stakes bingo at its best. Once a month, a high roller bingo session is offered with payouts of $100,000 being given away in one day.
One hundred percent revenues from the gaming centers are used by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to fund social programs, provide college scholarships, and increase economic development. In 1998, Choctaw Gaming Center helped send 1,000 Choctaw students to college. Also, in 1998, gaming profits purchased two 55-passenger MCI motorcoaches. The gaming center now owns seven of its own motorcoaches. In 1999, groundbreaking took place for a new hotel completion scheduled for January 2000.
Since its opening in 1987, Choctaw Gaming Center has earned the reputation as one of the premier bingo and gaming centers in the area. That is a reputation of which everyone at Choctaw Gaming Center is proud and committed to maintain. Janie Dillard is the Director of Gaming since opening in 1987 and Tammye Gwin is Assistant General Manager. Both are members of the Choctaw Indian tribe. For more information, call 1-800-788-2464.
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