Florida Sports Betting - Legal Status
Hard Rock Bet has actually returned to Florida, with a major state-wide launch occurring on Dec. 5, 2023. Here's a timeline of Florida's sports wagering journey to date:
Nov. 19, 2025: Florida legislators advanced H.B. 189, which would make operating or promoting non-Seminole online sports betting or iGaming a felony and getting involved in it a misdemeanor.
Nov. 12, 2025: Florida legislators are restoring legislation that would make it a felony to place sports bets while knowing the result is repaired.
Oct. 30, 2025: Hard Rock Bet has launched new "Games powered by Past Motor Races" in Florida, letting users wager on results of real previous races in a slot-like style.
Oct. 7, 2025: The NBA's Orlando Magic has actually called Acid rock Bet its official sportsbook in a new multiyear partnership that will begin with the upcoming 2025-26 season.
Aug. 11, 2025: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers revealed a multi-year collaboration with Hard Rock Bet, approving the sports betting operator unique marketing and engagement opportunities.
June 11, 2025: After formerly being a longshot, Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett is now the betting favorite to claim the Conn Smythe Trophy, granted to the MVP of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, at a lot of sportsbooks over reigning winner Connor McDavid and experienced Brad Marchand.
May 6, 2025: Florida lawmakers have withdrawn expenses targeted at limiting sweepstakes casinos and non-tribal sports betting.
April 16, 2025: An expense banning sweepstakes video gaming and increasing illegal gaming penalties passed another vital Senate committee in Florida.
March 26, 2025: A Florida Senate committee passed a costs by an 8-0 vote that proposes penalties for utilizing inside info for sports wagering, as well as engaging in online gambling the state's Seminole Tribe doesn't use.
March 19, 2025: Acid rock Bet reveals its new 'Battle of the Bets' project with a $250K benefit bet pool.
March 3, 2025: The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida has dropped all charges against Lottery.com for deceptive misrepresentation, irresponsible misstatement, conspiracy, and assisting and abetting.
Feb. 27, 2025: Two Florida lawmakers are proposing to make it a felony for somebody to bet on a video game if they have inside information, such as a heads-up about someone preparation to toss a video game or shave points.
Feb. 5, 2025: The Florida gaming commission sent 3 cease-and-desist letters to offshore operators accepting prohibited wagers in the Sunshine State.
Jan. 27, 2025: Lawmakers in Florida briefly rejected a proposition that would have made authorizing any brand-new industrial gambling establishments or mobile sportsbooks logistically difficult. With that, the slim opportunity that Florida makes a sizable business gambling expansion remained.
Jan. 16, 2025: An opening event will be held February 6 to commemorate the opening of Seminole Brighton Bay & Casino which is replacing the existing Seminole Casino Brighton.
Jan. 9, 2025: Florida regulators are examining an unlawful online gambling operation within the state.
Dec. 18, 2024: A Florida wagerer turned a $25 bet on a 14-leg passing TD player prop parlay into simply over $100k with Acid Rock Bet.
Dec. 18, 2024: An illegal gambling crackdown in Jacksonville has resulted in the closure of 10 venues throughout the city, with five people jailed for racketeering.
Nov. 1, 2024: Hard Rock Bet partners with Duffy's Sports Grill to check out several marketing chances.
Oct. 28, 2024: Florida's Seminole Tribe partners with West Flagler, ending its prolonged legal conflict over the people's control of the state's online gambling market.
Oct. 9, 2024: Hard Rock international chairman and Seminole Gaming CEO Jim Allen discusses prospective "tactical relationship" with FanDuel and DraftKings in Florida.
Oct. 1, 2024: FanDuel is being sued for $250 million by a former Jacksonville Jaguars employee who embezzled team funds, claiming that the online sportsbook "exploited" his gambling dependency.
Sept 26, 2024: FanDuel faces tough sports wagering push in the country's most inhabited States, consisting of Florida, California and Texas.
Sept. 3, 2024: 10 individuals are detained and fruit machine are taken following the discovery of an unlawful betting operation at a Tallahassee gas station.
July 30, 2024: The Florida Gaming Control Commission assists close down 11 prohibited casinos in Volusia County.
June 28, 2024: The Supreme Court's decision on legal Florida sports betting does not accelerate California's push, says James Siva, the chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association.
June 17, 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court shoots down Florida's sports betting evaluation demand to overthrow the state's legal wagering status quo.
June 13, 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court could quickly choose whether to review Florida's sports betting case or not.
May 29, 2024: Legal Florida sports betting gets its day in Supreme Court - June 13, 2024.
May 22, 2024: Florida's continuous legal sports betting fight may be chosen by the U.S. Supreme Court after another file associated to the issue was filled on Tuesday.
May 14, 2024: The U.S. Government asks the Supreme Court to close down Florida's sports betting challenge.
April 24, 2024: Hard Rock Bet presents 'SGP Max' feature in Florida, allowing gamblers to combine multiple same-game parlays on one ticket.
April 22, 2024: Daily dream sports return to Florida with peer-to-peer video games offered by PrizePicks.
April 10, 2024: Hard Rock Bet and the Florida Panthers form a multi-year collaboration.
April 1, 2024: West Flagler submits a brand-new sports betting quick to the U.S. Supreme Court. West Flagler claims that the Florida Supreme Court rejected its petition by improperly ruling that the Florida gaming compact legalized online betting.
March 21, 2024: The Florida Supreme Court rejects a sports betting petition to revoke the state's online sports wagering law on constitutional grounds.
March 12, 2024: A former Jacksonville Jaguars financial manager is sentenced to 78 months in jail for stealing $22 million from the company.
March 9, 2024: An ex-Jacksonville Jaguars staff member speaks in court following an embezzling scandal. Amit Patel is implicated of taking over $20 million from the organization throughout a five-year span.
Feb. 26, 2024: Daily dream sports (DFS) operator PrizePicks will pause its service in Florida on March 1, 2024, after receiving a second cease-and-desist letter for running unlawfully.
Feb. 21, 2024: Florida lawyer Daniel Wallach's brand-new amicus quick urges the Supreme Court to take a Florida sports wagering case, supporting West Flagler's efforts to stop Florida's existing sports wagering structure
Feb. 16, 2024: Several states, including Florida, sent out cease-and-desist letters to daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators Underdog, Betr, and PrizePicks.
Feb. 13, 2024: The Florida Supreme Court is asked to stop the state's "unlawful" sports wagering approach.
Feb. 3, 2024: Jacksonville Jaguars ask FanDuel to return $20 million from Amit Patel scandal, but the sports betting operator hesitates to pay the group.
Jan. 29, 2024: Florida dream sports bills advance in the middle of debates after being received positively by the state chamber's committee on controlled markets. Senate Bills 1566 and 1568 lay out the legal framework and licensing structure of dream sports contests in the Sunshine State.
Dec. 26, 2023: West Flagler Associates continues to challenge the legality of Florida sports betting, arguing Florida voters must have the right to approve any gambling establishment betting growth under Amendment 3.
Dec. 5, 2023: Hard Rock Bet opens its sportsbook app to all Florida gamblers for the very first time in 2 years.
Dec. 1, 2023: Gov. Ron DeSantis and two other legislators unsurprisingly reject a Florida sports wagering difficulty.
Nov. 17, 2023: The Supreme Court of Florida unanimously turns down a movement proposed by two gaming companies to shut down the state's restricted version of online sports wagering.
Nov. 7, 2023: Hard relaunches in Florida after pausing online operations for almost two years, giving minimal access to existing consumers.
Nov. 1, 2023: In-person sports betting will go back to Florida at 3 casinos run by the Seminole Tribe on Dec. 7.
Oct. 25, 2023: The Supreme Court rebuffed an emergency situation quote to block a contract in between Florida and the Seminole Tribe, setting the phase for the return of legal Florida sports betting.
Oct. 18, 2023: There's no need to remain a lower court judgment that could see legal Florida sportsbooks return, according to the Department of the Interior.
Oct. 12, 2023: Chief Justice John Roberts goes into an order remembering and staying the Florida sports betting appeal required.
Oct. 6, 2023: Covers' Geoff Zochodne goes over the drawbacks of Florida's gaming compact.
Sept. 26, 2023: The Department of the Interior declares sports wagering need to resume in Florida. West Flagler and Bonita Springs turn to the Supreme Court of Florida to keep Acid rock Bet from returning, citing betting expansion without citizen approval and gaming off of tribal lands as major offenses of state law.
Sept. 18, 2023: Uncertainty surrounds Florida sports wagering and its return amid a last-minute court filing.
Sept. 11, 2023: The U.S. Court of Appeals turns down a rehearing demand by 2 gambling establishments for the Florida-Seminole sports wagering case. This opens the door for a possible return of Hard Rock Bet in the state as early as Sept. 19.
Sept
. 1, 2023: The federal government announces that there is no requirement for a rehearing in the Florida-Seminole sports wagering case.
Aug. 14, 2023: West Flagler Associates looks for a rehearing in its case against Florida's Seminole Tribe. The gambling establishment operator intends to thwart the Seminole's effort to bring Hard Rock Bet back to the Sunshine State.
July 17, 2023: Acid rock Sportsbook rebrands as Hard Rock Bet after Hard Rock Digital partners with Simplebet. The new-look app boasts a brand-new rewards program and flex parlay feature. Hard Rock Bet could go back to Florida quickly.
June 30, 2023: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a lower-court judgment that overruled a 2021 compact in between the state of Florida and its Seminole Tribe.
May 24, 2023: The Florida Panthers advance to the NHL Stanley Cup Final for the very first time given that 1996.
March 29, 2023: Florida sports wagering welcomes the launch of DraftKings' horse-racing app, as the Kentucky Derby nears.
Dec. 14, 2022: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on Florida sports betting, with an official judgment on its previous dismissal anticipated in 2023.
July 11, 2022: The DC Circuit releases a briefing schedule in the Florida tribal compact sports wagering case that indicates a ruling will not happen till at some point in 2023.
June 1, 2022: Caesars and NYRA Bets release the Caesars Racebook app in Florida and Ohio.
April 27, 2022: The Florida Seminole tribe stops making revenue-sharing payments to Florida. With the 2021 Florida-Seminole Compact on ice, the tribe will instead pay into escrow till the lawsuits is dealt with.
March 7, 2022: Atlanta Falcons Wide Receiver Calvin Ridley is suspended for the 2022 NFL season after banking on NFL games in 2021 with Florida's Hard Rock Sportsbook.
Feb. 18, 2022: DraftKings CEO Jason Robbins exposes that the sports wagering operator didn't get enough signatures in time to position a proposed constitutional modification on the state's 2022 election ballot.
Jan. 28, 2022: Florida Education Champions' effort, backed by DraftKings and FanDuel, concedes defeat with less than 500,000 confirmed signatures gathered.
Jan. 20, 2022: The DraftKings-FanDuel initiative approaches 400,000 signatures.
Jan. 11, 2022: With simply over 295,000 signatures, the FanDuel and DraftKings-backed effort has actually gathered just a third of the signatures needed to reach the November 2022 tally. The due date to reach 891,589 signatures is Feb. 1, 2022.
Dec. 4, 2021: Thirty-five days after launching, the Acid rock Sportsbook agrees to "temporarily suspend" all operations in Florida. Legal Florida sports wagering has actually come to an end.
Dec. 1, 2021: A group of Las Vegas Sands-aligned groups files a suit versus 7 celebrations acting on behalf of the Seminole Tribe. The groups allege the Seminole Tribe has been settling petition collectors to avoid them from gathering signatures for a Las Vegas Sands 2022 tally step.
Nov. 25, 2021: After the Seminole Tribe's motion for a stay pending appeal is rejected, an emergency situation movement for a stay pending appeal is filed with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, the Acid Rock Sportsbook is still functional.
Nov. 23, 2021: The Seminole Tribe files a notification of appeal and movement for a stay pending appeal with the DC federal court just one day after Judge Friedrich got rid of the Florida-Seminole Compact. The Tribe looks for to continue taking sports bets throughout the appeal process.
Nov. 22, 2021: Judge Dabney Friedrich tosses out Florida's sports betting compact, putting an end to legal sports betting and the Seminole Tribe's video gaming growth strategies. The judge ruled both federal (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act) and state (Amendment 3) laws were broken.
Nov. 1, 2021: The Seminole Tribe of Florida goes deal with an "early access launch" of its Acid Rock Sportsbook, in spite of a minimum of two lawsuits challenging the state's design of legal sports wagering still working their method through federal court.
Oct. 19, 2021: Florida District Judge Allen Winsor dismisses the very first of the Magic City-Bonita Springs claims.
Oct. 15, 2021: October 15 arrives, but legal Florida sports betting does not.
Sept. 27, 2021: Two Florida business people and the anti-gambling group No Casinos submit the 3rd suit - the 2nd in D.C. The movement declares no gaming growth can take place in Florida without voter approval, citing Amendment 3.
Sept. 27, 2021: Magic City Casino and Bonita Springs Poker Room submit their 2nd claim - this time, in D.C. The claim declares online Florida sports betting would breach a number of federal laws.
Aug. 17, 2021: Magic City Casino and Bonita Springs Poker Room file a suit versus the Department of the Interior and Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, challenging the credibility of their Seminole Tribe Compact approval.
Aug. 6, 2021: Florida's pact with the Seminole Tribe passes its 45-day approval period. By neither approving nor denying the Seminole-Florida Gaming Compact, the U.S. Department of the Interior gives Florida the OK to progress with its proposed October 15, 2021, launch date.
May 25, 2021: Gov. DeSantis quietly signs a brand-new tribal compact. The agreement would permit the Seminole Tribe to expand its gaming library and offer retail and online sports betting. Pari-mutuel centers would likewise be permitted to run Florida wagering sites through servers found on tribal lands.
May 2019: Gov. DeSantis declines to sign off on an arrangement reached between Sen. Wilton Simpson and the Seminole Tribe. The pact would have enabled tribal gambling establishments and racetracks to provide legal Florida sports betting.
Nov. 6, 2018: Voters pass Amendment 3, efficiently restricting the Florida Legislature from passing new gambling expansions without the approval of the Seminole Tribe.
May 14, 2018: SCOTUS overturns the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). Individual states are now permitted to legislate and regulate sports wagering.