• A: The Kickapoo tribe’s Lucky Eagle Casino is in Eagle Pass, about 2.5 hours southwest of San Antonio. The only Texas casino with an attached hotel, Lucky Eagle is also home to a bingo hall, poker.
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• Year Texas Regulated Gambling: Bingo (1982), Horse racing (1987), Lottery (1991), Kickapoo Casino (1996)
• Estimated Tax Revenue from Gambling: $1.2 billion
• Estimated Gambling Revenue: $4.6 billion
• Texas Gambling Age: 18 for lottery and bingo, 21 for racing and Kickapoo Casino
• Smoking ban: Texas does not have a statewide smoking ban
• Online gambling status: Horse racing is the only form of legal online gambling

Texas casinos and gambling is not very common within its borders. The same cannot be said about its neighbors. Every state that borders Texas offers casinos. Oklahoma stacks casinos along its border with Texas. Lake Charles, Louisiana is just east of the Texas state line. There are also casinos just across the New Mexico border.

Texas has one tribal casino. It is located near the Mexico border on the Kickapoo reservation. The games available are slots, video poker, bingo, electronic table games, and live poker. The only forms of legalized gambling permitted off that reservation are a state lottery, charitable bingo and horse racing, which includes live and off-track betting.

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• Number of B&M Casinos: 1
• Number of Poker Rooms: 1
• Number of Indian Casinos: 1

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Types of Online Texas Gambling Allowed

The only form of online gambling that is legal in Texas is off-track betting on horses. Apps like TVG, TwinSpires, and BetAmerica accept Texans.

Daily fantasy sports sites accept Texans. This goes against the public declaration by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtonthat the games are illegal. The sites that defy this opinion and continue to operate in Texas in what appears to be an illegal market include DraftKings and FanDuel.

Types of Live Texas Gambling

• Slots: Yes
• Blackjack: Yes
• Poker: Yes
• Craps/Roulette: Yes
• Horses: Yes
• Lottery: Yes

There are a few forms of live gambling permitted in Texas. The Kickapoo tribe has a southern Texas casino. It is the only Texas casino in the state. Slots, video poker, electronic table games and live poker are spread. There are about 3,300 machines at the Lucky Eagle Casino on that reservation. There are no other Texas casinos currently operating within its borders. If the Texas gambling laws were to change, this might as well.

The Texas Lottery sells two types of lottery tickets. One is an instant game that involves scratch-off tickets. The other is lotto drawings. Texas is included in the multi-state drawings like Powerball and Mega Millions. It also has in-state drawings like Lotto Texas, Texas Two Step, Texas Triple Chance, All or Nothing, Pick3, Daily4, and Cash5.

Charities may spread bingo for fundraising purposes. These are very popular compared to most other states due to the lack of other Texas casinos and gambling options.

The racing industry also fares better in Texas than other locales. The lack of Texas casinos probably helps the tracks remain active. Live and off-track betting is available at horse and greyhound racing venues in Texas.

Texas Gambling Laws

There are strict Texas gambling laws. The only forms of legalized Texas gambling are ones specifically approved by voters in a constitutional referendum. The only forms of gambling voters have affirmed are charitable bingo, horse racing, and a state lottery. A gaming compact was created between the state and the Kickapoo tribe under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Slots, video poker, electronic table games and a poker room are approved. Table games are not allowed. The Kickapoo tribe has the only reservation recognized by the state for gaming purposes. They are the only Texas casino currently operating.

While Texas bans most forms of betting, its punishments are lenient compared to other states. All gambling crimes that are not handled on a federal level are only misdemeanors.

A bet is defined as “an agreement to win or lose something of value solely or partially by chance”. Daily fantasy sports are illegal in Texas, likely because of this definition. The sites claim to be bona fide contests of skill that fall outside of this definition. The state attorney general and most legal analysts that follow the industry find that to be a laughable position.

The minimum Texas gambling age for lottery players is 18 years old. Live racing and off-track betting has a minimum Texas gambling age of 21 years old. The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino also is required to exclude anyone under 21. Bingo players must be 18 but state law permits minors to play if accompanied by an adult.

List of Texas Casinos and Racetracks

There is only one Texas casino and it is the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass. There are six active racetracks in Texas that have live and off-track betting. Three offers horses while the other three are greyhound tracks.

In addition to the Texas casinos and tracks, there are thousands of lottery retailers in the state where bettors can buy instant game and lotto tickets. There are also more than 100 places to play bingo.

Texas Gambling History

Horse racing dates back to before Texas became a state. Old time bookmakers took bets without any oversight. The industry had its issues with legitimacy before the industry died off in the middle of the 20^th Century. It returned in a regulated state in 1987 to keep bettors from traveling to neighboring states for action. Live horses and greyhounds may be used.

Racing was not the first time gambling was legalized in Texas. Voters approved charitable gambling in 1980. The first bingo license was issued in 1982.

Voters approved the Texas Lottery in November 1991. The first ticket was sold in May 1992.

Texas casino gambling has an interesting past in Texas. The Kickapoo tribe is the only one permitted to hold a gaming pact with the state.

The Tigua tribe was the first to open a casino in Texas. That occurred in 1993. It was done without a gaming compact. Governor Richards refused to enter into one.

The Tigua tribe sued the state and lost in 1994. The 5^th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state could not be compelled to sign a gaming compact. The Tigua casino remained open without a gaming pact. The state sued in 1999 and prevailed to shut the casino down. The casino did not close until 2001 when the Tigua tribe lost its appeals.

The Tigua tribe tried again in 2008 to roll out cash games. It opened a slot parlor but was forced to shut down after enforcement action was brought by Texas officials.

The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino opened in 1996. It is still open today as it holds a gaming pact.

The Alabama-Coushatta tribe opened a casino in 2001. It closed after the Tigua Indians lost its initial court battle.

State law considers any activity that involves partial chance with money on the line to be gambling. Many gaming lawyers assumed that these meant daily fantasy sports were illegal in the state. The companies that operate those contests did not agree and operated in the state. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared the games illegal in January 2016. The sites ignored his opinion as it did not include a demand to leave the market.

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Lottery and bingo players must be at least 18 years old. Racing and casino players must be at least 21.

A bingo patron under 18 is allowed to play for real money if accompanied by an adult.

Yes. There is three horse racing tracks in Texas.

Yes. There are three greyhound tracks in Texas.

Yes. All six tracks have race books. TVG, TwinSpires, and BetAmerica all have mobile racing apps available to Texans.

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There is one. It is Kickapoo’s Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass.

Slots, video poker, live poker and electronic table games are spread at Lucky Eagle Casino.

Sunland Park Race Track and Casino is just across the border in New Mexico from El Paso.

There are dozens of casinos along the Oklahoma state line.

Lake Charles, Louisiana is home to the closest casinos to Houston.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared daily fantasy sports illegal in January 2016. His opinion was ignored by most of the companies that provide the games.

FanDuel and DraftKings are the major daily fantasy sports sites still in the state.

Texas has been going through a lot of changes recently, especially due to the migrant invasion from California- of almost entirely American-born non-Hispanic persons of extreme political persuasions – that as a rat jumping over a shipside having gnawed a hole into the hull and it is now sinking, are scurrying away into Texas. The Texas Tribune now reports that casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson wants to lobby for changes that will let him build a casino.

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Las Vegas Sands, among the world’s largest gaming companies, has set its sights on legalizing casinos in the state with a stable of high-powered lobbyists for the upcoming legislative session — and on Tuesday, a public acknowledgment of its ambitions.

Andy Abboud, Las Vegas Sands’ top lobbyist, said the company was pursuing Texas as one of only a few expansion opportunities, along with places like Japan, Brazil and New York.

“We view Texas as a worldwide destination and one of the top potential markets in the entire world,” Abboud said during a conference hosted by the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association. “Texas is considered the biggest plum still waiting to be out there in the history of hospitality and gaming.”

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For over a half hour Tuesday, Abboud made a robust pitch for legalizing casino gambling in Texas, putting a clarifying exclamation point on recent speculation that Las Vegas Sands was targeting the state. He proposed a “limited number of destination resorts in Texas,” in or near big cities, that would not aim to replicate Las Vegas but would “blend into existing infrastructure.” He said a “strict regulatory environment” would be an “absolute requirement.” And he urged lawmakers to require bidders to make a “minimum investment of 1 or 2 or 3 billion dollars so that you absolutely only get the best companies bidding and they are forced by law to build an incredible facility.”

Las Vegas Sands’ interest in Texas is coming to light after a November election in which Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson, ranked among the top donors to Republicans’ successful battle to preserve their majority in the state House. The couple donated $4.5 million in September to a Texas account affiliated with the Republican State Leadership Committee, the top national GOP group involved in state legislative races.

Previous efforts to legalize casino gambling in Texas have not taken off, though the appetite could be different this session, when lawmakers are faced with a $4.6 billion budget shortfall. That has generated speculation about new revenue sources, including “sin taxes” such as legalizing casino gambling and marijuana.

“They are job creators, they hire a lot of additional employees, they have tremendous purchasing power,” Abboud said of casinos. “But they are also tremendous generators of tax revenue.” (source)

All I can say to this is: Goodbye, Texas. At least, from what she used to be.

It is bad enough to see the migrant invasion into Texas- the American-born non-Hispanic one I should clearly note -because they are driving most of the change. As the recent election results show, it is not one’s “everyday Jose” who is causing trouble, and in fact it is he who now given that he is voting for the political right in record numbers may actually upend the historic Democrat lock on the Hispanic bloc and help the Republican party shape their message and stance back to the classical position of her being a party for the working man and the Democrats as the party of the ‘elite’ and disconnected. It is the political left, overwhelming dominated by non-hispanic whites and Jews, who is driving the push to the far left by pouring into Texas cities and they trying to remake the city in the same mould of that which they fled from but without regard to how the problems that happened in the places they fled from started.

A casino in Texas, while in theory a “money maker”, would be a final “nail in the coffin” for Texas because casinos are inseparable from crime. This is not to say that all casinos are evil, or people who go to casinos are evil, but that the casino industry in the US has always been directly tied to criminal activities. The famous casinos of Las Vegas, for example, was primarily built and controlled by Jewish criminal interests and their associates such as Morris Dalitz, Gus Greenbaum, “Dandy Phil” Kastel, Meyer Lansky, Morris Rosen, Harry Rothberg, and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. Likewise, one must never overlook the directly overlapping influence of the Sicilian “cosa nostra” families such as the Genoveses, Gambinos, Bonnanos, and other families that began under Salvatore “Lucky” Luciano following has assassination of Salvatore Maranzano as a part of the 1931 Castellammarese War in New York. It was the unholy union of “cosa nostra” and “kosher nostra” that created the casino industry and, to a large extent remains today as owners or involved in them.

This brief history lesson serves as a lesson for today, that regardless of who the ethnicity of a person is- as such is never the matter in question -that the reality of crime and casinos in the US cannot be separated. Above is just the open violence and corruption. This does not speak of the fact the same casinos directly encourage and attract prostitution, drug abuse, alcoholism, money laundering, and ever shade of crime between blue and white.

Adelson is jumping ship because he knows the future. He is most likely going to Texas not because he cares about the people, for while I do not know the man, his personal feelings, or would dare to assume such, it is highly unlikely he is there for charitable reasons save his own. He sees a fresh market, as do all of those involved in the business, they want to exploit, after having exploited, dried up, and left for dead California and possibly Nevada. Indeed, such behavior is more akin to that of a vampire sucking its victims blood for its gain and leaving the remains behind.

But what is Texas to do? With the California domestic migrants bleeding her dry, stressing state functions, and causing social changes- as all changes come from people and not by accident -she may turn to the casino as a possible “economic lifeline” to “create jobs”. It is good for a man to have a job, but such jobs should build up society, not tear it down in the name of profit through obtuse exploitation that eventually leads to collapse and destruction for many.

It will be interesting to see where this goes, but so far as the state of Texas is concerned, the trends do not look good for her, and she just may be on her way to becoming the very state- California -that she has so criticized.

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