The Seminole Tribe of Florida have relaunched a limited version of its Hard Rock Bet sports betting site, known as Early Access.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Seminole Tribe of Florida have relaunched a limited version of its Hard Rock Bet sports betting site for existing customers, known as Early Access.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n After years of litigation in state and federal courts, Florida residents are once again able to make legal online sports wagers.\u00a0<\/p>\n The site is now open to players who previously bet on Hard Rock in the one month the sportsbook was live during Autumn 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n Customers who signed up to the Unity by Hard Rock loyalty scheme prior to 6 November 2023 are also able to access to the relaunched site.\u00a0<\/p>\n The news follows the tribe\u2019s announcement last week that it would make retail sports betting live across their six Florida casinos.\u00a0<\/p>\n Today\u2019s wagers are the first legal online sports bets placed in the Sunshine State since the Seminoles shut down the site back in December 2021.<\/p>\n The tribe agreed a gaming compact with the state of Florida in April of that year, granting them exclusive rights to offer state-wide online sports betting.<\/p>\n This was done through the so-called \u201chub-and-spoke\u201d model, in which wagers placed off-reservation are still routed through servers on tribal land.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, a suit filed by two Florida parimutuel betting operators (West Flagler Associates and Bonita-Fort Myers Corp) which challenged the federal authorisation of the compact proved successful in December 2021, driving the site offline.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the suit, the operators argued the compact violated the constitution and a suite of federal laws by effectively expanding gaming beyond tribal lands.\u00a0<\/p>\n The government though proved successful on appeal, convincing a three-judge panel in the DC Circuit that the Department of the Interior had the authority to approve the compact.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/span> The Seminole Tribe of Florida have relaunched a limited version of its Hard Rock Bet sports betting site, known as Early Access.\u00a0 The Seminole Tribe of Florida have relaunched a limited version of its Hard Rock Bet sports betting site for existing customers, known as Early Access.\u00a0 After years of litigation in state and federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[111,130,13,131,29],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","category-questbeam","tag-florida","tag-hard-rock-bet","tag-sports-betting","tag-the-seminole-tribe-of-florida","tag-us-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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