Users who tried to place bets from other states said that their attempts were blocked Tuesday. The launch was not publicly announced, but was confirmed in a statement from Gary Bitner, a spokesperson for the tribe.įlorida gambling deal with Seminole sports betting passes federal reviewīut the app will work only for those in Florida with early access or in Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and New Jersey, according to the website. I thought they really, for the moment, were prepared to continue not to try to offer mobile sports betting.” “Especially with last week’s announcement that was so careful to only focus on what the compact allowed that was not the subject of the lawsuit. “I’m stunned,” Bob Jarvis, a gambling expert and law professor at Nova Southeastern University, told the Sun Sentinel Tuesday morning following news of the app’s launch. The launch comes as a surprise move in the course of the tribe’s legal battles and to Florida’s gamblers and gambling law experts, only a week after the tribe publicly announced the return of in-person sports betting but said nothing about betting online.
The Seminole Tribe relaunched its mobile sports betting app Tuesday in a “limited” fashion, spokespeople confirmed, despite two ongoing lawsuits that challenge the practice and the gaming compact between the tribe and the state.
