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The legal battle over online sports gambling in Florida is over.
The Seminole Tribe has settled with and a group of businesses that operate racetracks and poker rooms.
The Tribe agreed to a new partnership with West Flagler Associates and the Bonita-Fort Myers Corp to offer jai-alai waging on the tribe’s Hard Rock Bet app.
“Rather than engaging in years of additional litigation, this agreement will allow the parties to work together to promote Jai Alai, which has played an important role in Florida’s gaming landscape for nearly 100 years,” Seminole Gaming CEO Jim Allen said in a statement.
This after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a challenge to an agreement that gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to handle online sports betting in Florida.
The Seminole tribe began its online sports betting operation late last year with the state predicting that the revenue sharing from tribal gambling could add up to $4.4 billion through the end of this decade.