The Oklahoma side of the Red River holds the casinos that serve Dallas–Fort Worth, where Texas law permits almost no casino gaming. Thackerville sits immediately over the state line on Interstate 35, and Durant is an hour further east on US 69.
Both are tribal properties of resort scale, with hotel towers, conference space and concert venues aimed at a metropolitan catchment of more than seven million people driving north. The gaming floors are among the largest in the world by machine count, a direct consequence of the border geography.