Card House Port Saint Lucie (Florida)

There are tons of legal poker rooms in FL that aren't tribal. If you have a racebook (horse track, dog track, jai alai), you can open up a poker room as well. I hadn't heard of this one before, but it is presumably one of those. Most likely it is very legit.

This is correct, there used to be a Ft. Pierce Jai Alai , the Jai Alai fronton was demolished and Card House Port St. Lucie replaced it, Another example would be the Palm Beach Kennel Club. Dog racing was banned in Florida a couple of years ago but the tracks stayed open as OTB parlors and poker rooms. Throughout the state there are a number of old dog tracks and frontons which now operate poker rooms and OTB parlors.

The Hard Rock/Seminole Tribe of Florida has an exclusive on sports wagering in Florida, however, they have a number of places that operate as satellite locations and take sports bets. The Palm Beach Kennel Club would be an example of this.

To the best of my knowledge all of the rooms are fully licensed by the state government and do not have any of problems that some of the Texas establishments have.

My understanding is that these places got grandfathered in. I'm pretty sure no new non-tribal gaming licenses are being granted in Florida, but historic dog tracks (maybe jai alai venues too) are allowed to offer poker.

Agree probably no new licenses. But

Several former dog tracks though greyhound racing was retired few years ago including at least PBKC, Pensacola greyhound and others I am sure with poker rooms. I expect every dog track got a license before racing was sd.

JainAlai too but few active frontons still playing. Only one I know of, and even it may have closed, is Dania beach. Though again many former JaiAlai sites are poker rooms only now.

Similar for horse Tracks. I know of tracks still running, like Gulf Stream park. Seminole may have monopoly on sports book but many maybe all horse tracks have simulcast with betting.

Also note that many of these sites not only have poker, they are casinos with slots @nd electronic tables. There was an agreement with Seminoles to allow table games of at least BJ and carnival games but this involved state wide sports book with servers on tribal lands. But a last minute law suit ruled against this loophole.

So Seminole pulled out of the agreement to allow live tables at non tribal casinos. Some casinos stuck with electronic versions. Some use a California model where the casino sells an option for a “player, not associated with the casino” to put up the money and be the house. I believe Harrah Pompano does this. Some poker rooms might be able to have house “poker” games like 3-card poker, UTH,etc.

TLDR. FL has a wide spectrum of casino games from simple Poker Rooms with maybe simulcast betting (eg Pensacola dog track) to full fledged tribal casinos that are almost like LV casinos (the new compact might be in effect now allowing roulette, craps, and sports betting. Have not been for awhile).

On non tribal land there are limits on what table games can run but many niw use electronic versions. Not perfect but better than the now gone OK rule of only cards so craps was played with cards representing the sux sides of a die. That sucked worse.