Tag: Florida
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Seminole Tribe, West Flagler Reach Deal to End Litigation
The Seminole Tribe of Florida removed the largest potential legal obstacle to its mobile sports betting operation in the Sunshine State on Monday after reaching an agreement with the West Flagler Parties regarding future litigation. The Seminole Tribe, which does business as Hard Rock, has conducted full-scale mobile wagering in Florida via Hard Rock Bet…
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Woman Turns $25 Bet Into $1 Million Slot Machine Jackpot
One woman’s bank account is headed north after hitting it big down south. The lucky woman is only being identified by her first name, Liz, and did not have to travel far to hit it big. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and won over $1 million at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa. She…
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Hurricane Milton Affecting Florida’s Casino Industry
Hurricane warnings across Florida are closing airports, schools and colleges across the state as Hurricane Milton closes in. The storm is expected to cut a path through Tampa Bay, Orlando and Melbourne beginning Wednesday before heading back out to sea later this week. The casino industry stands to take a financial hit because of the…
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Florida Online Sports Betting Re-Launches 2 Years After Shutdown
After an arduous two-year journey, online Florida sports betting has returned. The only online book available in the state — Hard Rock, owned by the Seminole Tribe — has begun taking online bets as of Tuesday morning for select users who already had accounts on the platform. Only those part of Hard Rock’s loyalty programs…
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Florida Retail Sports Betting Expected to Launch in December
Florida sports betting is taking yet another turn after a surprise announcement Wednesday. The Seminole Tribe of Florida announced plans to launch in-person sports betting at three of its casinos on Dec. 7. Additional locations are expected to immediately follow on Dec. 8 and Dec. 11. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Seminole…
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Florida Sports Betting: Good News, Bad News for Future of Online Wagering
Floridians itching to bet on sports got a bit of good news/bad news Wednesday in a ruling handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Sports Handle’s Jill R. Dorson reports that the highest court in the land denied West Flagler and Associates (WFA) request to stay a lower-court ruling allowing the Seminole Tribe to…
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Florida Sports Betting Faces New Hurdle With Latest Court Filing
The fight over legal sports betting in Florida took yet another turn Tuesday as two parimutuels have taken their legalization battle against the Seminole Tribe to the Florida Supreme Court. In a “writ quo warranto” filing, West Flagler and Associates are seeking a declaration that Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature exceeded their authority…
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Hard Rock Bet Could Launch in Florida as Early as September 19
Hard Rock Bet could go live with its sports betting platform in Florida, possibly as early as Sept. 19, after the latest twist in a winding court case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday denied West Flagler and Associates’ request for an en banc rehearing of its case against…
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Status of Florida Mobile Sports Betting Inches Toward U.S. Supreme Court
A ruling by an appellate court on Friday inches the status of mobile sports betting in Florida closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hard Rock — owned by the Seminole Tribe — had the only mobile sports betting app in Florida for three weeks in Nov. 2021 before a judge ruled the compact created between…
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Florida Sports Betting Delayed Until At Least 2023
Sports betting in the state of Florida looks like it’ll have to wait until at least 2023. The D.C. Circuit announced the briefing schedule for the tribal compact sports betting case Tuesday afternoon, listing opening briefs in mid-August and additional replies and oral arguments late in the fall. Due to the lengthy itinerary tying up…
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Florida Sports Betting Still in Limbo After Federal Court Denies Appeal
Florida‘s legal betting timeline remains an enigma after a federal court denied one of several appeals to its online gaming lawsuit. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted the Department of Justice’s motion to voluntarily dismiss its appeal to one of several lawsuits that shut down online sports betting in…
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Florida Sports Betting Ballot Initiative Fails, So What’s Next?
Online sports betting will not be coming to Florida after a campaign to get the issue on the 2022 ballot fell short. The ballot initiative needed to reach 891,589 signatures by Feb. 1 to be included on the 2022 ballot. However, with just 477,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon, the initiative was called off. DraftKings…
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Florida Sports Betting Compact With Seminoles Struck Down
Sports gambling in Florida has come to a halt in just three weeks after a judge ruled that the compact forged between the state and the Seminole Tribe was illegal. In a decision rendered late Monday, federal judge Dabney Friedrich agreed with plaintiff West Flagler Associates, which owns casinos in the state, that the decision…
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Sports Betting Launches: Connecticut, Florida, 2 Other States Take Steps Forward
Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and Maryland took steps toward their respective sports betting launches this week. Here’s the latest on each: _PromoID=[3995, 5577] Connecticut Online Betting: Oct. 7 Retail Betting: Sometime on or before online Approved/Likely Sportsbooks: DraftKings, FanDuel, Rush Street Interactive (SugarHouse) The state’s online sportsbooks will open Oct. 7, state officials confirmed with the…
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Florida Sports Betting: Outlining Key Dates for In-Person, Online Betting in the Sunshine State
Florida politicians and the state’s Seminole Tribe struck a groundbreaking compact agreement earlier this year that could open up the nation’s largest legal sports betting market. With a month-and-a-half before the scheduled go-live date for the state’s first online and retail sportsbooks, the actual launch timeline — for at least possible digital options — is…
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Legal Online Sports Betting Update: Busy Week for California, New York, Texas & Florida
This week, the nation’s four most-populated states all made steps toward legal online sports betting. Here’s where things stand in California, Texas, Florida and New York: California The state’s card rooms, horse tracks and professional sports teams introduced a proposed 2022 voter referendum that could bring statewide mobile wagering by 2023. Key Details: The referendum…
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Florida Online Sports Betting Plan Approved by Feds
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information comes available Federal officials approved online sports betting provisions of a proposed Florida Native American gaming compact, bringing at least one legal mobile sportsbook to the Sunshine State. The Federal Department of the Interior allowed the compact to take effect Friday, which will…
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Florida Sports Betting Decision Looms with Nationwide Consequences
Federal officials will rule on a groundbreaking sports betting deal in the coming days, potentially opening the nation’s largest legal online wagering market. The Seminole Tribe of Florida and the state’s elected officials struck a gaming compact deal earlier this year that will permit the tribe to open retail and online sportsbooks. By law, all…
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April Legal Sports Betting Breakdown: The Key Details In Florida, New York, Arizona & Maryland
April will go down as the most consequential month for legal sports U.S. sports betting since the Supreme Court struck down the federal wagering ban almost exactly three years ago. Florida and New York, the nation’s third- and fourth-most populated states, cleared the major logistical and political hurdle to their respective sports betting legalizations. Both…
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2020 Democratic Primary Picks & Predictions: How Arizona, Florida & Illinois Will Play Out on Tuesday
Super Tuesday was anything but that for Bernie Sanders in his battle with Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Vermont senator lost five of six primary contests last week, with the state of Washington most recently going to Biden late Monday with 95% of precincts reporting. That put Biden, whose campaign was on…
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Legal Sports Betting Predictions for 2020: When Will New York, Florida and California Make the Jump?
When it came time for our sports betting predictions for 2020, we could only think of one person to help us through it — Daniel Wallach of Wallach Legal. Wallach is the nation’s foremost specialist on gaming law and arguably knows more about the status of sports gambling within each state than perhaps anybody else…