As some of you know by now, The Chickasaw Nation, operating as Global Gaming Solutions, LLC, has purchased Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas for $47.8 million dollars on October 28th of this year. The Chickasaw Nation, which owns casinos throughout Oklahoma, including Winstar Casino, just north of the Texas border, bought Lone Star Park with the intention of opening a casino in Grand Prairie. At least that's how it started.

On August 21st of this year, The Chickasaw Nation Legislature, in General Resolution #GR 26-071, approved the formation of Global Gaming Solutions, "....formed under the laws of the state of Texas......for the purpose of operating a horse racing track and casino in Grand Prairie, Texas".

Whoops!! Can't have a "casino" in Texas, so on October 19th, there was an emergency session of the Chickasaw Nation Legislature called, and in General Resolution, #GR 27-004, they amended the language "casino" to "pari-mutual betting operation". Yeah, that will work. Nobody will notice that.

I guess I shouldn't be saying anything. I think that if the Chickasaw Nation put a casino down here in Grand Prairie, I would finally get the poker room that I have been trying get. Some poker friends of mine believe that a poker room is practically guaranteed. But I know that at the Winstar, the poker room takes up probably an eighth of the floorspace; the rest of the mile long casino is filled with slot machines. And if Global Gaming is shooting for profits, the slot machines will be the first things to be set up. Which is bad for poker. I think most of the uptight people (outspoken close-minded conservative Christians) will try to block the slot machines, and the poker room will suffer collateral damage.

What we need to do is follow the money. Let's watch the 2011 Texas Legislative session. A year and half until then is a long time for the Chickasaw Nation to make "donations" to your neighborhood senator or representative.