Oklahoma tribes shared $2.3 million with the state under new Class III gaming compacts, The Oklahoman reports.

The figure is far less than what state officials expected. Between $7 million and $8 million was expected under new Class III table games and electronic casino machines.

Tribes have started the table games but have been slow to add the machines. Six tribes, out of the nearly two dozen with compacts, have put the machines in play.

Of the tribes, the Cherokee Nation made the largest payment to the state, of $1,095,305 since February. The Oklahoman reported the other payments as:

Chickasaw Nation, $524,151; Choctaw Nation, $164,301; Absentee Shawnee Tribe, $118,608; Quapaw Tribe, $102,898; Seneca- Cayuga Tribe, $79,097; Comanche Nation, $58,443; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, $46,825; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, $37,042; Peoria Tribe, $26,714; Eastern Shawnee Tribe, $21,869; Kickapoo Tribe, $11,518; and Kaw Nation, $4,587.

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