Florida Lottery Blackjack

• Year Florida Regulated Gambling: Racing (1931), Bingo (1970), Lottery (1986), Poker (1994), Casinos (2004)
• Estimated Tax Revenue from Gambling: $1.7 billion
• Estimated Gambling Revenue: $7 billion
• Florida Gambling Age: 18 for lottery and bingo, 21 for casinos and racing
• Smoking ban: Florida does not permit smoking in card clubs but the ban does not apply to casinos.
• Florida Online gambling: Horseracing is only form of legal online gambling

Florida was a pioneer in several forms of gambling in the South. It was the first to legalize horse and greyhound racing. Its state lottery was the first in the region. Florida casinos were launched third in the southeast, only after Mississippi and Louisiana. It is the only state in the South with card clubs.

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HERE'S HOW TO PLAY. Beat the DEALER’S HAND without going over 21 on 3 or more of your HANDS, win a prize. Odds of winning the Progressive Jackpot are 1 in 300,000! $5 Blackjack pays 50% of the Progressive Jackpot. Florida Lottery Scratch-Off games are fun to play, and best of all, they give you a chance to win lots of cash instantly! Scratch-Off games offer top prizes ranging from $50 to more than $1 million, with many other prize levels on each ticket, too. With our wide variety of games to choose from, you could play a different game every day.

Florida gambling has always been a hotly debated subject. Referendums related to gambling expansion failed time and time again from the Great Depression era until a lottery passed in 1986. A poker referendum only passed in one county in 1994 before receiving more widespread support two years later. These days, Florida is known as one of the healthiest poker markets in the world. There are also over thirty Florida casinos, with plenty of other poker rooms and Indian casinos.

November 2018 Update

During the midterm elections of 2018, Floridians voted on two pieces of legislation affecting gambling.

• Amendment 3: Voters approved the measure that will now make it more difficult for gaming companies to build new casinos in the state. Many online betting sites are worried that the changes will affect previously authorized gambling sites in the region.
• Amendment 13: The people of Florida approved banning greyhound racing in the state. Eleven tracks are currently in operation and will have to phase out their services by the end of 2020.

Paying Gambling Taxes in Florida

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Florida Casinos Map & Guide

• BestBet Jacksonville
• Daytona Beach Poker
• Seminole Hard Rock

• Number of B&M Casinos: 32
• Number of Poker Rooms: 29
• Number of Indian Casinos: 7

Types of Online Florida Gambling Allowed

The only form of legal Florida online gambling is off-track betting on horses and greyhounds. Sites like TVG and TwinSpires accept this action.

Daily fantasy sports sites claim exemption under Florida’s skill gaming law. This opinion is debatable. A 1991 opinion from then-Attorney General Robert Butterworthdeclared fantasy sports to be illegal in Florida. A federal grand jury is hearing evidence about whether the activity is legal in the state.

The Florida Legislature banned sweepstakes cafes that use the Internet to award prizes in 2013. This forced subscription poker sites out of the state. Any online gambling site outside of the racing industry is unlicensed and most likely illegal in Florida.

Types of Live Florida Gambling

• Slots: Yes
• Blackjack: Yes
• Poker: Yes
• Craps/Roulette: No
• Horses: Yes
• Lottery: Yes

Florida gambling offers a wide variety of options. Florida is one if just six states left where greyhound tracks operate. Horseracing is also legal under the same statute. Tracks may operate race books on simulcasts. Jai Alai is also legal, although its popularity deteriorated with the legalization of other forms of gambling. Florida racetracks may offer live poker and card games.

There is a Florida Lottery that operates within the state. It sells scratch-off tickets and lotto entries.

The Seminole Tribe offers seven casinos in Florida. Its gaming pact permits a monopoly on blackjack and similar house-banked games. Slots and video poker are also spread at these Seminole Florida casinos. These are operated under the Hard Rock brand in major cities.

Dade and Broward Counties have an unusual setup. These two counties may offer slots, video poker and electronic table games.

Florida Gambling Laws

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While it is a gaming-friendly state, Florida gambling laws are strict and have many anti-gambling statutes on the books. These parts of the codified law remain in effect even as Florida gambling policy is liberal. Many of the anti-gambling aspects of the law pertain to masquerading charitable gaming as commercial. For instance, bingo must have a prize pool no higher than $100. It also forbids several forms of Florida online gambling, including daily fantasy sports, according to a previous attorney general opinion. This has not kept sites like FanDuel and DraftKings out of the state.

Florida Lottery Jackpot Amounts

The main gaming attraction are the Florida casinos owned by the Seminole Tribe. This is where gamblers will find slots, video poker, blackjack, baccarat, and other house-banked card games. The Seminoles hope to expand that to craps and roulette in the next gaming compact. Those games are currently illegal in Florida at any venue except cruise ships that do not open tables until in international waters.

Horse and greyhound racing is the oldest form of Florida gambling. These establishments hit hard times when racing fell out of popularity. Florida permits tracks to operate card clubs. While there were once bet limits in Florida, those are no longer in effect. True no limit games are legal at all card clubs and casinos.

The Seminoles have an exclusivity agreement with the state on house-banked card games, but are currently in dispute. The tribe guaranteed $1 billion to the state. The tax rate is 12% for a net win up to $2 billion. It goes up to 15% for income between $2 billion and $3 billion. This is the highest Seminole table game revenue has ever achieved. Tax rates go up 2.5% for every $500 million, should table game revenue ever reach those limits.

The minimum gambling age in Florida is 18 years for the lottery and bingo, and 21 years for those betting in casinos or the racing tracks.

List of Florida Casinos

With nearly 40 locations, there are plenty of Florida casinos to visit and play at. Below you will find a detailed list of the casinos in Florida, including their locations and websites. You can always use our Florida casinos map to guide you to the nearest location.

History of Florida Gambling

Racing won approval in the state legislature in 1931 by just one vote. The Florida Legislature eventually overrode Governor Doyle Carlton’s veto to legalize horse and greyhound racing in Florida. It was the first form of regulated betting in the state after a decade of attempts.

Jai Alai was added four years later. Slot machines were briefly legal between 1935 and 1937 before being repealed by the state legislature.

Florida legalized bingo and other charity games of chance in 1970. No minimum age was introduced making it so that anybody may play bingo in Florida, although most establishments to not admit minors.

The Seminoles were considered a nonprofit organization and were permitted to offer bingo. The largest prize pool for a bingo organizer is $100. The Seminoles decided that this did not pertain to them. The tribe opened high-stakes bingo. They were challenged by Attorney General Bob Butterworth. The Seminoles prevailed after the case made its way all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. This opened the door for more tribal bingo halls in Florida.

Florida voters approved a lottery in 1986. This same ballot initiative saw casinos fail in a landslide.

Poker was approved in 1994 in Broward County and throughout the state in 1996. It took until 2004, after many failed attempts, to legalize casinos on Seminole land. Florida casinos eventually spread to Dade and Broward Counties. The county casinos can only offer slots, video poker, and electronic table games. The Seminole casinos in Florida may offer house-banked table games in addition to these games.

Poker once had a pot limit of $10. This was raised to a $100 buy-in in 2008. All bet limits were dropped in Florida poker rooms in 2010.

A 1991 attorney general opinion stated that fantasy sports were illegal in Florida. Daily fantasy sports sites ignore this opinion. A federal grand jury is investigating the daily fantasy sports industry in the state.

Florida Gambling FAQ

Gambling and casinos are completely legal in Florida.

The minimum Florida gambling age is 18 years for lottery and bingo, and 21 years for casinos and racing.

Off-track betting on horses and greyhounds is the only form of legal online gambling in Florida.

Not according to a 1991 opinion from the state attorney general, but the daily fantasy sites dispute this finding.

Tracks operate live horse and greyhound racing.

Yes, there are tracks that spread Jai Alai.

Yes. Tracks and Seminole casinos throughout Florida offer live poker.

There are no bet limits in Florida.

July 1, 2010. This opened up an extensive market, and Florida has quickly become a great place to play poker.

Voters approved these casinos in separate referendums. State law permits local jurisdictions to approve slots at racetracks. Voters in all other counties rejected the measures.

For just $2, you could win Florida's original jackpot game, FLORIDA LOTTO^®! Jackpots start at $1 million and roll until there is a winner, with drawings held twice a week. Plus, every ticket purchased includes a randomly generated 'multiplier' number that automatically increases non-jackpot cash prizes by two, three, four, five, or ten times!

Players also have the option to 'add-on' features to their FLORIDA LOTTO purchase for $1 more per play including Double Play^™ for the chance to win cash prizes of up to $250,000 in an additional drawing and/or EZmatch^™ for the chance to win instant cash prizes of up to $500!

To play, visit any Florida Lottery retail location and either use a new FLORIDA LOTTO digital or paper playslip to choose your numbers, Quick Pick, or make other play selections, or tell the retailer. Each playslip contains 10 panels (A-J). In each panel played:

1. Select six numbers from 1 through 53 or mark the QP (Quick Pick) box in the panel and let the terminal randomly pick some or all of your numbers.
2. For a chance to win cash prizes in an additional drawing held immediately after the FLORIDA LOTTO drawing, using the same numbers played on your FLORIDA LOTTO ticket, select the Double Play box. Double Play costs $1 more per play.
3. For a chance to win cash instantly, select the EZmatch box in a panel for $1 more per play.
4. To play the same numbers for more than one draw, simply tell the retailer how many advance draws you wish to play or select the number of draws in the Advance Play section of your playslip.
5. Mark the JACKPOT COMBO box for a $2 POWERBALL^®, a $2 FLORIDA LOTTO^®, and a $2 MEGA MILLIONS^® Quick Pick ticket for the next available draw date.
6. Give your completed playslip and payment to the retailer. You will receive a ticket printed with your numbers, draw date(s) and the total cost of the ticket. For each panel with EZmatch selected, you will receive a separate ticket with your FLORIDA LOTTO and EZmatch numbers. FLORIDA LOTTO tickets cannot be canceled. Please check your ticket(s) before you leave the store. You are responsible for the accuracy of your ticket(s).
7. Check the official drawing results to see if you're a winner! Draw results are available on this website, at authorized Florida Lottery retailers and by calling (850) 921-PLAY (7529). You may also watch the drawings online.

Drawings are held Wednesday and Saturday nights at 11:15 p.m., Eastern Time. Tickets can be purchased until 10:40 p.m., Eastern Time, on the night of the draw. Tickets purchased after 10:40 p.m. will be for the next draw.

If you claim a prize on a winning Advance Play ticket before all of the draws on the ticket have occurred, you will be issued a continuation ticket for the remaining draws with the same play numbers as the original ticket.

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The advertised jackpot prize will be paid in annual payments over 25 years, or as a single cash payment of a lesser amount. See game rules.

All non-jackpot prizes are set prize amounts.

Base Prize amounts for matching 3 of 6, 4 of 6, or 5 of 6 cannot be won and are shown as a starting point of reference for the calculated value of the multiplied prizes.

Free FLORIDA LOTTO Quick Pick ticket for the next available draw.

Double Play allows players the chance to win up to $250,000 in an additional drawing held immediately following the FLORIDA LOTTO drawing, using the same numbers and multiplier played on their FLORIDA LOTTO ticket. Double Play tickets cost an additional $1 per play.

All prizes are set prize amounts.

Base Prize amounts for matching 3 of 6, 4 of 6, or 5 of 6 cannot be won and are shown as a starting point of reference for the calculated value of the multiplied prizes.

Free FLORIDA LOTTO with Double Play Quick Pick ticket for the next available draw.

With EZmatch^™, you can add instant fun to FLORIDA LOTTO! Just choose the EZmatch play option, for an additional $1 per play for a chance to win cash instantly.

Sample FLORIDA LOTTO Ticket with EZmatch

In this example, your ticket costs
$4 ($2 for FLORIDA LOTTO, $1
for Double Play and $1 for EZmatch)
EZmatch on a FLORIDA LOTTO
Advance Play will add $1 to the
cost of the ticket

• Match any of your EZmatch numbers with any of your FLORIDA LOTTO numbers, and win the amount shown instantly
• You can win EZmatch up to 6 times on each ticket
• In this example, you matched 07, 15, 25, 36, 38 and 42 and won a total of $500

When you select EZmatch, six EZmatch numbers and instant prize amounts will print below the FLORIDA LOTTO numbers on your ticket. Match any EZmatch number with any FLORIDA LOTTO number on your ticket, and win the prize amount shown instantly. You can win up to six times on a single FLORIDA LOTTO with EZmatch ticket.

The Florida Lottery will hold official FLORIDA LOTTO drawings in which six out of 53 numbers will be drawn at random. If your six numbers match the six winning numbers drawn in the official FLORIDA LOTTO drawing for the date played, you win the jackpot. Match three, four, or five of the winning numbers to win other cash prizes that are automatically multiplied by the multiplier number printed on the ticket. Players who match just two numbers win a free FLORIDA LOTTO Quick Pick ticket for the next available drawing.

The multiplier number is generated at random, from two, three, four, five, or ten. If a FLORIDA LOTTO player matches three, four, or five winning numbers, he/she wins an amount equal to the original prize amount multiplied by the multiplier that was generated on their ticket. If the player matches just two winning numbers, he/she wins a free FLORIDA LOTTO Quick Pick ticket for the next available draw.

Florida Lottery Jackpot Rules

FLORIDA LOTTO with Double Play players who match the six winning numbers in the Double Play drawing win the $250,000 top prize. Those who match five, four, or three winning numbers win other great cash prizes that are automatically multiplied by the multiplier number printed on the ticket. FLORIDA LOTTO with Double Play players who match just two winning numbers win a free FLORIDA LOTTO with Double Play Quick Pick ticket for the next available draw.

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Players may choose to receive their portion of the FLORIDA LOTTO jackpots in a one-time Cash Option payment or in 30 annual payments. The Cash Option payment is the amount required on the day of the drawing (or if the drawing is held on a Saturday or holiday, the business day prior to the drawing) to fund the applicable jackpot prize paid over 30 years, less applicable taxes. FLORIDA LOTTO jackpot winners who want to receive a single Cash Option payment must claim their prizes within the first 60 days of the 180-day redemption period. Applicable federal income taxes will be withheld from both Cash Option and annual payments at the time payments are made. Read more about claiming Lottery prizes.