Texas is widely regarded as the most lucrative untapped gaming market in the nation. And Dallas-Fort Worth might well be the crown jewel — the nation’s most opportune area for a Las Vegas-style casino resort.
A growing number of interests are pushing hard to expand gambling in Texas, including business leaders, developers, local government officials and some local and state lawmakers — who all see economic and employment boosts — and gambling enthusiasts who desire a thrill closer to home.
Perhaps no one is pushing more strategically than the Native American tribes in Oklahoma.
For decades, those tribes, as well as the three federally recognized tribes in Texas, have been growing in political clout and trying to position themselves to open Texas’ first Las Vegas casino if and when the state broadly expands gambling.
