Florida Casino Gambling News
Florida Casino Gambling Pact Brings Strange Allies TogetherEven a negotiated deal can't stop the endless changing of the casino gambling drama taking place in the Florida legislature....
Just when it looked like talks over gambling rights for the Seminole Tribe in the state of Florida were resolved, key lawmakers are stirring up controversy....
Florida Governor Charlie Crist may take advantage of a legislative special session to nail down a Seminole gambling compact....
New Hampshire has decided its large cut of lottery sales isn't enough, and now taxes gambling winnings an additional ten percent....
PokerStars, the largest online poker operator, announced it would sponsor the all-women's High Heels Poker Tour and the tour's academy for female poker players....
While state and tribal authorities negotiate, Seminole tribal casinos are paying gambling revenues to an escrow account, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars available to Florida if a compact is reached....
A local paper says resolving the differences over Florida's proposed tribal gambling pact would benefit both the state and Seminole tribal gaming....
A looming deadline in the casino gambling talks between Florida and the Seminoles may force changes in the gaming landscape....
County officials are exploring putting a racetrack on premises so as to qualify for casino gambling....
Negotiations to finalize a casino gambling compact between Florida and the Seminole Tribe have reached a deadlock over future conditions....
Online sports betting at Internet casinos is heating up, with college football trailing only NFL action for annual US wagering....
More calls at problem gambling help lines do not mean a spread of compulsive gambling, but a response to campaigns by casinos to make help easier to find for problem gamblers....
Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment announced it would work with two Austrian companies to develop Europe's largest casino and gambling facility in Hungary....
California and Florida were both sites of police raids of Internet cafes thought to be conducting illegal gambling operations....
The governor of Florida signed a bill setting up terms for expanded gambling at Seminole casinos....
A representative for the Seminole Tribe of Florida says the casino gambling bill passed by the state legislature is not acceptable to the tribe....
Florida gaming officials are planning to install scratch-off vending machines in groceries to boost lottery sales....
The head of Seminole gambling operations says casino gambling will be in Miami within a decade....
A compromise between the two houses of the Florida legislature may result in Seminole casinos in South Florida retaining blackjack rights....
Florida state Representatives rejected testimony by a noted casino gaming opponent, saying his statements were unsupported....
The Florida Senate passed a bill changing the age to gamble at casinos to eighteen, and increasing the games available....
A new poll shows voters approve of the casino gambling compact between Florida Governor Crist and the Seminole Tribe, despite legislative resistance....
A gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe could generate hundreds of millions for the Florida budget, but the state's Attorney General is trying to stop the casino gambling....
Cruise ships in Florida may seek to operate in port as anchored casinos to compete with online gambling sites....
Internet gambling may still be under a failed federal ban, but Florida entrepreneurs are using the Internet to make their gambling operations comply with the law....
Internet sportsbook BetOnline.com thinks Florida will win the NCAA college football championship, but its oddsmakers say USC would win it all in a playoff....
Despite a state Supreme Court ruling against them, the Seminole Tribe of Florida is continuing to add blackjack tables to its casinos throughout the state....
An online gambling investigation found a Florida basketball player had played online poker but committed no NCAA violations, while his coach said gambling was controlled by the NCAA working with the mob....
Even though the Florida Supreme Court found the compact allowing Seminole casinos to offer blackjack and other table games invalid, the tribe has kept the games in place at their Hollywood casino, and as of today, installed them in the Tampa casino....
The Seminole Tribe gave $300,000 to a Florida program helping problem gamblers, providing funding for the best options for treatment....
A Miami paper uncovered a plan by local developers to seek legal changes which would allow full-service casinos at racetracks and certain Miami locations....
The Seminole casino in Coconut Creek, Florida, has another wild and innovative gambling promotion courtesy of general manager Steve Bonner....
A woman who was arrested for leaving her grandkids abandoned in a car during a storm while she gambled has been banned for life by the casino....
A woman who won $13 million in a lottery drawing is broke and going to jail for tax evasion after blowing her gambling winnings....
A judge denied a motion by a racino to stop blackjack play at a Seminole casino, deciding the court had no jurisdiction on the Indian land....
In an incredible display of foolishness, the Florida Supreme Court struck down the compact between Governor Crist and the Seminole Tribe allowing Class III gambling at Indian casinos....
Dirty politics did not help the cruise ship industry from losing its gambling exclusivity in Florida to land venues....
Sunday is the first day of legal blackjack in the state of Florida....
Donald Trump jettisoned his least successful Atlantic City casino, selling the Trump Plaza for $316 million....
A Florida casino has put up reservations on a future trip to outer space as the top prize in a promotion....
A state record for a slots jackpot was hit by a Florida nurse....
A stingray leaping from the water struck a woman in a boat in Florida, killing her for the second such occurence in eighteen months....
Florida Governor Crist has embraced gambling, using it as a source of wealth for his state....
The Florida legislature is attempting to establish its own relevancy by challenging a compact before the State Supreme Court in a move that may cost the state dearly....
Sun Cruz has made their business in the gambling business, but after eleven years, one of their ships will no longer sail....
A woman is in jail today, arrested for a mobile house money scheme that was allegedly started to support her gambling habits....
The Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida plans to develop 44 acres in Coconut Creek to expand their Broward casino, but neighboring cities are worried....
Florida's Seminole Indian Tribal members receive huge benefits from gambling operations in the state, some of those benefits may be illegal....
Marco Rubio, House Spearker in Florida has asked the State Supreme Court to intervene in gambling compact...
The Florida Seminoles last week signed a gambling compact at its seven locations, this week the Parimutuals in Broward County will file suit. ...
