pandemic-stricken 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhile full-year 2021 Indian GGR has not yet been tallied and released publicly, the industry’s major tribes reported a considerable rebound last year. That would follow a similar trend experienced in 2021 from major commercial casino markets.<\/p>\n
The American Gaming Association — the commercial casino industry’s chief lobbying trade group — said GGR hit a record $53 billion last year. However, a substantial portion of the record income was derived through online channels through iGaming and mobile sports betting.<\/p>\n
Still, the AGA said 23 of the 34 states with commercial casinos experienced all-time revenue highs in 2021. All 34 reported increases from 2020, and 15 recorded gaming revenue better than their 2019 numbers.<\/p>\n
Indian Gaming<\/b><\/h2>\n
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), a federal law signed by President Ronald Reagan in October 1988, allows federally recognized tribes to conduct Class I and II gaming on their sovereign lands. Class I and II gaming includes bingo-based games, punch and pull tabs, and non-house-banked card games like poker.<\/p>\n
Tribes must reach Class III gaming compacts with their home state governments for slot machines and banked games such as blackjack and roulette. Most states have agreed to allow such gaming for their federal tribes. But there are exceptions.<\/strong><\/p>\nState governments that continue to block federal tribes from operating Las Vegas-style slots and table games include Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, and Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Indian Gaming Association — long stylized NIGA — is dropping “National” from its name for seemingly obvious reasons. Known simply as the Indian Gaming Association (IGA) moving forward, the group’s mission is to protect and preserve the general welfare of sovereign tribes conducting gaming operations to assure their self-sufficiency. IGA is also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":210456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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