Tulalip Bingo every second and last Wednesday of the month. Breakfast at 8:00 AM with bingo to follow. Lunch is also served. Breakfast/Lunch at Senior Center at 6:45 AM and 11:30 AM; Breakfast/Lunch deliveries available for the disabled. Eligibility Requirements: Must be Tulalip Tribal Senior/Elder 50 years and up. The Tulalip Tribes were already in the process of developing a plan for closure to protect the health of our guests, tribal members, team members and our community at large. The Tulalip Gaming Organization (Tulalip Resort Casino, Quil Ceda Creek Casino and Tulalip Bingo & Slots) has made the.

On July 20, 1992, the Tulalip Casino opens with 23 gambling stations for blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker. A maximum wager at 13 tables is set at $10 and at the remaining tables $15. Slot machines are prohibited. The Tulalips are the second tribe in Washington state to open a casino following the 1988 federal ruling allowing reservation gambling.

A New Direction

When the Tulalip Tribes called their first letters and numbers at the Tulalip Bingo parlor in June 1983, few would have expected their modest dreams to grow into big casino riches. But when a federal law was passed in 1988 permitting the same types of gambling on reservations as was permitted elsewhere in the state, Tulalip leaders were quick to develop plans for a casino.

For generations regional tribes had been fishing people, but by the 1960s most were leaving the reservations in search of work. By the 1990s, competition in the fishing business left most Indians struggling to survive. It was not uncommon for a tribal fisherman to clear under $3,000 in yearly profit. Before the casino opened, 60 percent of Tulalips were on welfare.

The casino business gave tribes a chance to create reservation jobs at decent wages and to begin developing a middle class. In the long haul, the wealth was great enough to spread to the neighboring community of Marysville and to county nonprofit groups through the Tribes' charitable giving program.

The Lummi Tribe opened its casino in February 1992, beating the Tulalips by five months. Five years later there were 10 reservation casinos in Washington state. But a Gambling Commission report in 1997 picked only two as having large revenues -- the Muckleshoots and the Tulalips. Although many of the smaller casinos provide jobs for their members, most make only marginal profits.

Tulalip Casino Riches

The Tulalip Tribes used their new wealth to build buildings, expand education, medical and dental services, and to grow their investments. They also began purchasing back 4,000 acres of reservation land that they had sold over past decades. The Tribes presently own more than half of their 22,086-acre reservation. Their charitable giving program began, offering grants to county non-profit organizations.

Fears that gambling would bring organized crime to the Res did not materialize, since the Tulalip Tribes fully own and maintain their operation. In 1994 convictions of cheating led to misdemeanor charges for seven blackjack dealers. The dealers were fired and the public was assured that security systems do not allow that kind of thing to happen for long.

When the casino opened in 1992, Stan Jones (1926-2019), Tribal Chairman at that time, told the media, “The Casino was really a godsend. Without the casino, we would have been starving” (TheSeattle Times, June 3, 1992).

TULALIP, WA –Tulalip Bingo & Slots will reopen to the public on Wednesday, July 22, at noon after a four-month closure.

Temporary hours of operation will be noon to midnight daily, with bingo sessions at 1 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. In addition to bingo, Tulalip Bingo & Slots offers slot machine games, and the deli will be open with safeguards to ensure proper social distancing and safety protocols.

Each bingo session will be limited to 300 players, and participants will be requested to leave six feet between players unless the individual is from the same household.

As with Tulalip Resort Casino and Quil Ceda Creek Casino, both of which reopened May 26, guests will be required to wear properly-worn face masks, and no-touch temperature checks will be conducted as they enter the property. Tulalip Bingo & Slots has also instituted comprehensive enhanced deep cleaning and hospital-grade sanitizing, new safety features and physical distancing guidelines.

The property will continue to follow recommended protocols by national health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Located at 2911 Quil Ceda Way in Tulalip, WA, Tulalip Bingo & Slots joins the Tulalip Resort Casino and Quil Ceda Creek Casino to provide ONE club members with special offers, rewards and benefits. New, similar offers will be available, members’ club tiers remain the same, birthday offers are honored, and any Free Play and comps that would have expired during the closure will be extended.

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For more information, visit www.tulalipbingo.com or call 360-716-2100 (toll free 800-631-3313).