The prospect of legalized sports betting in Florida took another hit on Monday as the owners of one of the state’s oldest pari-mutuel facilities filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court, asking the court to invalidate the gaming agreement between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe claiming it illegally expands gambling in Florida.

In a victory for the Seminole Tribe of Florida that could upend gambling in the state,a federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Department of Interior to reinstate theagreement that gave the tribe and its Hard Rock casinos a monopoly on sportsbetting in Florida.

A new poll commissioned by No Casinos shows 76% of likely Florida voters say they should have the final say in the gambling agreement with the Seminole Tribe.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida April 23 that guarantees $6 billion in 10 years. The Legislature will meet in a special session May 17 to consider its approval.

Has time run out for a gambling deal this session? For weeks, negotiators for the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis worked on an agreement for a gaming compact. Then, late Monday, the governor made what was likely a final offer: Florida would become the largest state in the nation to legalize sports betting, and the Tribe would control it. The Tribe would not stand in the way if legislators were to allow Miami Beach to become home to a controversial new casino. And the Seminole Tribe would give the state hundreds of millions of dollars in annual payments.

Miami Beach real estate mogul Jeff Soffer used his superyacht, and his friendship with Tom Brady, to get renewed attention from Florida legislators to his long-sought bid for a Miami Beach casino.

It may be the ultimate legislative session wild card, but House and Senate leaders confirmed Monday they are engaged in an effort to reach a deal with the governor that would update Florida’s gambling laws by allowing organized sports betting and bring in new revenue from the Seminole Tribe.

The annual push to update a gaming compact between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida has begun but this year there are some key new developments.

A collection of gambling stories from the Miami Herald as posted on the Naked Politics blog, which stopped publishing in 2018.

With a constitutional amendment looming, the Florida House revived legislation to prevent any expansion of gambling in Florida for the next 20 years, force the shutdown of some card games, secure the Seminole Tribe’s monopoly in the state, and ice out any casino expansion in South Florida. It didn't pass.

As federal regulators handed out indictments to operators of illegal slot machines, we looked at the campaign contributions they made to legislators who let them avoid regulation.

Blackjack will continue uninterrupted at casinos run by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, parimutuels will be ordered to stop offering controversial competing card games, and the State of Florida will have access to more than $340 million in new money, under a settlement agreement reached late Wednesday between the tribe and state regulators.

As a member of the state House when Florida rewrote its constitution in 1968, former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham believes a lot of people are missing the point in the current gaming debate. Graham filed a friend of the court brief on Monday in the case involving Gretna Racing LLC, arguing that the Legislature, Gov. Rick Scott's administration and the company that is trying to get a slots permit in the rural community, have misread the Florida Constitution. His argument: there is no authority

Days after a judge ruled last month that the barrel races held at a fledgling North Florida racino were not a legitimate parimutuel sport, state regulators crafted a license, the first of its kind, to allow ” flag-drop” races to replace them. In the past two years, the same regulators have allowed slot machine operators to run electronic roulette and craps games in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, allowed a dormant jai alai permit to be used to expand the number of slot machines at Magic City Casino, and allowed Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream racetrack in Hallandale Beach to run a one-time race in June so they could offer thoroughbred races via simulcast year-round.

We highlight the cozy relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists in this story about the chairman of a Florida Senate committee that oversees gambling who relies on the plane owned by a gaming lobbyist for travel to Tallahassee and his Naples home.

A proposal to bring resort casinos to Florida emerged with all the force and fury the industry could muster in early 2012. We broke down the odds and explained it to readers.

It is a lazy, rainy day in Tallahassee and Colin Au, the president of Genting Americas, has arrived in town on a mission - to meet with every one of the state's 160 legislators to explain why Miami needs a "destination resort" with one of the world's biggest casinos. As the top U.S. executive for one of the globe's largest casino developers, Au is prepared to lobby "24/7 for 100 days,'' he said - or as long as it takes for a legislative vote on a bill to bring resort casinos to Miami-Dade and Broward. "I'm stationed here,'' he said Tuesday, in between meetings.