If one is looking for casino gambling in Alaska, the term 'few and far between' fits nicely. Doesn't it seem to you that a state whose coast line is 33, 904 miles long - 11 times the distance between New York and California - would have at least one cruise ship that offers casino gambling? Well, it doesn't.

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There are casinos, a few anyway, scattered around America's largest state. There is one called the Atka-Ira Council in Atka, Ak. This town has a population of 92, and offers bingo for 30 people at a time. The casino contains four hotel rooms. You have to be very careful if you go there though, because the town is in the Aleutian Islands, and more than 27 miles of it is water. From Atka to Anchorage is 1100 air miles: about the same distance as the famed Iditarod.

Pull Tabs are closed until further notice. Win cash when you tear into our pull tabs! We offer six (6) different games ranging from $1 to $2 tickets. Alaska has legal pull tab casinos and the news is that any town in Alaska with population over 150,000 can have a casino!

However, there are gambling casinos in other parts of Alaska that are easier to get to. In Juneau, there's the Tlingit and Haida Indians of CBJ Bingo. It will seat 200 players at a time but doesn't list any restaurants or motel rooms.

Want some variety in your gambling life? You can always pay a visit to the Klawack IRA Pull Tab Shoppe. There you can buy pull-tab tickets. If the symbols on your ticket match the symbols on the board, or the screen, you win. There are no accommodations in Klawack. Nevertheless, there is no need to worry; there are some motels and restaurants 56 miles away in Ketchikan. There are other bingo casinos in such places as Metlakatla, Shoonagac, where the game is played on slots, Sitka Tribal Bingo in Sitka and The Village of Kake.

When you tire of gambling, there are other tourist attractions. For instance, there's the North Pole, whose slogan is, 'Where the spirit of Christmas lives year round.' If you bring your Christmas cards, it is good place to mail them so they get the 'North Pole' stamp. Or, in Barrow, there is the Will Rogers/Wiley Post Memorial. Will Rogers, 'Who never met a man he didn't like' and Wiley Post the aviator was killed there in a plane crash on August 25, 1935. Last but not least, In Talkeetna, AK, the town is famous for its moose droppings festival, complete with a moose-dropping toss. It might be fun to visit.

For Native Americans, who are home, but who can never really go home again, the progress is very slow. The Alaska House has voted to legalize card rooms where gamblers can wager against one another on poker and other games. All it has to do now is clear the Senate. Then there's another proposal passed by the House that would allow cities of 150,000 or more to establish legalized casino gambling. But some politicians, who voted for the original bill, are now voting 'no' on the second bill. Check out this page of Alaska gambling information

In short, the state of Alaska offers a number of fantastic tourist attractions and can prove to be an unusual and exciting vacation spot. The Aurora lights alone make the state of Alaska a unique attraction and you may find that you like the state so much, that you remain!

Pull Tab Games (Breakopens, Instant Bingo, Pickles)

Pull tab games can be casually described as a paper slot machine. It is a specially printed card about the size of a business card with slot type symbols printed on the inside (bars, bells, 7’s, cherries). It is similar to a lottery scratch off ticket. Pull tabs, or just “tabs or tickets,” are opened by pulling perforated tabs (hence the name) on the back of the card. The opening created by pulling the tab open is called the “window.” The pull tab may have one large tab (one window ticket) or as many as 6 individual tabs (6 window ticket).The front of each tab will show the price, the symbols required to match in order to win, and the quantity of winners for each prize. A winning pull tab, for example, may require three 7’s in a window to be a winning ticket. Nearly all manufacturers identify winners by putting a line through all the symbols and print the cash prize amount in the window.

The different names listed above are common and are actually descriptive. The term break open or rip-offs describes the act of literally breaking open the ticket or ripping the tabs. Instant bingo describes the act of winning instantly after opening the tabs. The term pickles originated from games that displayed pull tabs in large pickle jars.

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Pull tab games are manufactured in a very specific quantity called a “deal” (4000 tickets for example). Each deal has a different serial number similar to, and for the same reasons mentioned earlier for bingo paper. A deal of 4000 tickets may contain 500 – 1000 winning tickets or more. There are several top and intermediate prize amounts and usually hundreds of small winners. Current manufacturing processes make it impossible to identify which tickets are winners or where they are located in each deal. Manufacturers also use varied techniques to randomize the winning tabs within each deal.

Pull tab games are sold at bingo games in a variety of ways. Some games may have a sales area or pull tab counter offering a wide variety of different tabs. This variety of tabs may include several different tabs for each common denomination or selling price of $.10, $.25, $.50 or $1.00. Other games use selling agents that push a custom designed cart throughout the playing area or simply carry them in trays or aprons. Posters, called flare cards, are usually on display in the playing area for each tab. These flare cards show the same information that is on the front of each ticket (price, prize amount, and total number of winners of each prize amount).

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Prizes for pull tab games increase as the price per ticket increases. A $.25 ticket may have a top prize of $135 but a $1.00 ticket can be as much as $500 or more.