Florida’s Seminole Casinos to Begin Offering Twenty-Four Hour Poker
The Seminole tribe’s Florida casinos will begin offer all-day table poker games beginning on July 1. This new opening was made possible by a legislation that was passed by the Florida Legislature and the Seminole Tribal Council.
The six casinos that the tribe owns, including the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino locations in Tampa and Hollywood, have had poker tables for years. However, the hours for these tables were limited. On July 1 the poker tables at these locations along with the second Hollywood casino and the ones in Brighton, Coconut Creek and Immokalee will be open all day long.
A series of new poker table rules were also introduced as a means of increasing the stakes of games. The original $100 maximum buy-in that was used for no-limit poker games has been removed. The maximum bet of $5 per round in a limit game has also been removed. All buy-ins for poker tournaments at these casinos will not have to deal with any limits either. The limit of $1000 for a buy-in for a tournament will be removed.
The Seminole tribe states that this twenty-four hour poker service will be open on all 1,360 poker table seats that it has at all six of its casinos.
