Re: Seminole Casino\'s
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My contact with the Seminoles told me that there is nothing to stop the Seminoles from offering high stakes poker in Florida and that it should be in place "soon."
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The laws that are currently being discussed are applicable to card rooms located OFF of Federal land, namely those at the pari-mutuals around the state. Once those facilities are permitted to host higher stakes games, the Indian casinos are inherently allowed to do anything so long as it maintains fair competition with their surrounding competitors. They are not allowed to simply introduce any game of their liking. They are required by the Indian Gaming Commission, the federal agency that oversees them, to maintain fair competition with state and local gaming businesses wherever gaming is allowed by law, which is where their hands are tied with regard to raising the table stakes in their card rooms in Florida.
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