Recent Posts Tagged With 'Gambling'

• Florida House speaker to feds: Shut down table games, slots at Seminole casinos

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 12:33 in Gambling

  Florida House speaker Larry Cretul sent a letter to federal regulators today declaring an “impasse” in the gambling compact talks with the Seminole Tribe “that can only be remedied with your intervention.” Cretul asked the National Indian Ga...

• Is "virtual blackjack" real blackjack?

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 08:48 in Gambling

  Virtual blackjack machines will soon be coming to South Florida racinos, a development reported earlier this week by colleague Nick Sortal. In his story, he quotes Mark Pilarski, a syndicated blackjack columnist, as saying it’s “real blackjack.�...

• Federal judge: Beware of contracts with Seminoles

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 11:04 in Gambling

  As the state’s gambling compact with the Seminoles continues to sputter and stall, another contract dispute should serve as a reminder about the perils of doing business with the sovereign tribe. It involves the Seminoles’ abrupt July 2008 lease...

• New Seminole compact: Too many escapes

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 07:49 in Gambling

  My first reaction to reading the latest gambling agreement between the Seminoles and Governor Charlie Crist: Uh-oh. Here we go again. Just like the 2007 original, this version gives too much to the Seminoles, and doesn’t leave enough flexibility f...

• 18 or 21? Time for Florida to pick consistent gambling age

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 11:58 in Gambling

  Can you imagine if Florida had two different drinking ages -- 18 for beer and wine, 21 for hard spirits? Or if there were two different voting ages -- 18 for local and state races, 21 for federal offices like president? Pretty absurd, right? Well, ...

• Seminole compact: Bad deal gets worse

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 in Gambling

  So, the Seminoles and Gov. Charlie Crist have fired back with an updated version of the gambling compact in a bid to get Legislative approval. After reading the new proposal, my reaction is a bad deal for the state has gotten worse. Much worse. Th...

• House gambling plan: Lots of hot air

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 09:51 in Gambling

  The Florida House has released its latest gambling plan. The good news: It has budged on restrictions on poker limits and hours, and would lower local racinos’ tax rate on slot machines (while guaranteeing the current level of tax payment). The ba...

• Seminoles expand blackjack to Tampa

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 07:59 in Gambling

  Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, the Seminole Tribe quietly launched blackjack and other table games at its Tampa Hard Rock location on Thursday. The tribe expanded table games to a second location despite an ongoing legal battle over the validi...

• Miami dice? Don't bet on it

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 in Gambling

  There’s been a lot of noise coming from our south lately about full-blown casinos in downtown Miami and at the revamped Fountainbleu Hotel on Miami Beach. The Miami Herald has reported that developers of the proposed Miami Worldcenter project are...