precedent that says bets placed from a location in which betting is illegal are illegal, regardless of where the entity taking the bet is located.
It went dark just as suddenly on the first weekend of December, its plug pulled by a federal judge who rejected the tribe’s argument that a bet made on its site takes place on servers on tribal land, even if that wager was placed from an iPhone in Boca Raton.
The Seminole Tribe’s Hard Rock Sportsbook app opened for business in Florida suddenly at the start of November, without any advance ad campaign or countdown clock, taking its first bets only three days before attorneys would argue whether that was legal or not. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in South Florida is the center of the tribe’s efforts to begin online sports betting.
