The state didn’t stop the parimutuels, however, and the tribe stopped its agreement in 2019, cutting off the roughly $250 million the tribe paid the state each year under the terms of the compact.
That’s because the state’s failure to police illegal card games at parimutuels led to the tribe canceling its gaming agreement, known as a compact, with the state in the first place.įor years, the tribe warned Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which regulates parimutuels, that the facilities were offering card games that were prohibited under the state’s 2010 agreement with the tribe. Although the new commission will have a limited role, its mission is crucial to the state’s new agreement with the Seminole Tribe, according to Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and chairman of Hard Rock International.
