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Gambling self-exclusion in Florida

Self-exclusion in Florida: the one program on record can enroll you. Florida: Seminole Tribe casinos and Hard Rock Bet only, run by the Seminole Tribal Gaming Commission. First step: Take the signed form to a Seminole casino Security office. A fixed term ends on its own at the end of the term; a lifetime term continues until you request removal. This is not everything in Florida.

Reviewed 2026-09-24 against official sources. Every fact below links to the agency that published it. How we check facts.

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Self-exclusion programs in Florida 1

Compare what each program blocks and how to sign up. Click any program name for the full step-by-step instructions, official forms, and sources.

Asking a program for a form or an answer does not enroll you.

Self-exclusion programs in Florida
ProgramHow you enrollWhat it blocksHow long it lastsSources
Getting inBettingCredit, compsOnlineMail
Florida: Seminole Tribe casinos and Hard Rock Bet onlyTribal gaming commission Run by Seminole Tribal Gaming Commission.By mail In person

Take the signed form to a Seminole casino Security office.

Official form (No printed revision or effective date on the form.) Program page

ConfirmedConfirmedNot confirmedConfirmedNot confirmedDepends on the term you pick

Sign up for the longest exclusion time you can. Future you will thank you.

Before you count on it. This program covers Seminole Tribe of Florida properties. Enrolling does not exclude you from gambling in Florida generally. Every non-Seminole cardroom, pari-mutuel facility and slot facility stays open to you, along with the Florida Lottery and the Miccosukee Tribe's separate casino, and Florida has no statewide list that would close them. Whether the Miccosukee Tribe runs a program of its own is unresolved: its casino site blocked every attempt to read it. Mailing the form requires a notary, copies of valid federal or state ID, and a current photo; the form does not say whether an in-person submission also has to be notarized. No processing timeframe is published and no confirmation mechanism beyond the countersigned form is described, so completing or delivering the form does not by itself mean you are excluded. Keep a copy of the form and write down the date. Whether people who live outside Florida may enroll is not established. One-year and five-year terms expire automatically, with no appeal process described; a lifetime term comes off only after a written request to the Seminole Tribal Gaming Commission, Attn: Executive Director, 6300 Stirling Rd., Hollywood, FL 33024, submitted after five years have passed, and no source says who decides that request. While you are on the list, returning to a Seminole property counts as a violation and can lead to ejection and arrest by the Seminole Police Department, winnings from wagers you place cannot be collected, and losses cannot be recovered. The one address the form prints — Seminole Tribal Gaming Commission, Attn: Executive Director, 6300 Stirling Rd., Hollywood, FL 33024 — is for lifetime-removal requests, not for enrolling. The mail route for enrolling has no published address at all, so no address is confirmed. Look up the casino's own address before you post a notarized form and copies of your ID, or take the form to its Security office in person. The form also prints 1-833-PLAYWISE, Florida's problem-gambling helpline; it is a helpline rather than the Gaming Commission's own program line, and calling it does not enroll you.

Gambling types in Florida

One self-exclusion list rarely blocks every kind of gambling. Here is what we found for each type of gambling in this state.

What we found for each gambling type in Florida
Gambling typeWhat we foundSources
commercial casino — land-based commercial casinos (pari-mutuel cardroom/slot facilities)Official sources don't settle it
6 sources
online casino / iGamingOfficial sources don't settle it
3 sources
lotteryOfficial sources don't settle it
1 source
fantasy/prediction — fantasy sportsOfficial sources don't settle it
3 sources
racing/pari-mutuel — racing / pari-mutuel (horse racing, greyhound racing, jai alai)Official sources don't settle it
2 sources
charitable/bingo — charitable gaming (bingo, raffles)Official sources don't settle it
1 source
skill games / VGTsNo program foundWhat we checked: The Florida Gaming Control Commission’s own published statement, read 2026-10-09, that legal slot machines exist only at eight licensed pari-mutuel facilities and certain Seminole Tribe facilities, together with F.S. §849.16’s definition reaching skill-based payout devices. Not a statement about non-cash-prize amusement or redemption games.
Why

Checked 2026-10-09. Florida closed the skill-game exemption other states still carry: F.S. §849.16 defines "slot machine or device" to include any device that pays out "whether by application of skill or by reason of any element of chance or any other outcome unpredictable by the user" — unlike California Penal Code §330b(f), nothing in Florida’s current text exempts a predominantly-skill machine. "The term ‘slot machine or device’ includes, but is not limited to, devices regulated as slot machines pursuant to chapter 551," the statute licensing slot machines at the eight pari-mutuel facilities. The Florida Gaming Control Commission says so directly in its own December 30, 2025 press release: "Gambling machines are permitted only in legal gaming facilities, and legal slot machines are available in eight licensed pari-mutuel facilities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, as well as at certain facilities operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is against the law to offer slot machine gaming or any unauthorized gambling at any unlicensed facility in Florida." The Commission reports seizing 6,725 "illegal slot machines" and $14,474,336 from unlicensed gambling operations in 2025 alone (up from 1,287 machines and $7,110,613 in 2024), which is how arcade and so-called "skill game" parlors operating outside the eight facilities and the Seminole compact are actually treated. There is no independent, licensed VGT or skill-game cash-payout product in Florida for a self-exclusion mechanism to attach to. Limit: this does not cover a non-cash-prize amusement redemption game (a claw machine or arcade ticket game), which is a different, non-gambling product this category is not about.

2 sources
tribal casinos — Miccosukee TribeOfficial sources don't settle it
3 sources
How we checked

These are the kinds of gambling we checked, and the list may not include every way to gamble in the state. On October 9, 2026 we also checked fantasy sports, skill games and charitable gaming. Skill games are ruled out: Florida law treats a skill-game machine as a slot machine, and the Gaming Control Commission says legal slot machines exist only at eight pari-mutuel facilities and under the Seminole compact. Fantasy sports stays unknown, because the only official reading we found is a non-binding 1991 Attorney General opinion that predates daily fantasy sports. Charitable gaming also stays unknown: the bingo law says nothing about exclusion, and no dedicated state regulator oversees it.

Florida has no state-run voluntary self-exclusion program. The one confirmed way to exclude yourself is the Seminole Tribe of Florida's own program, run by the Seminole Tribal Gaming Commission and published through PlayersEdge, Hard Rock's responsible-gaming site. It covers Seminole casinos and the tribe's Hard Rock Bet mobile sportsbook, and nothing else. The Florida Gaming Control Commission publishes an "Exclusion List" of people it has excluded, shown by case number. No source describes it as voluntary, and the Commission's forms index has no self-exclusion form of any kind. Florida's laws on cardrooms and slot machine gaming create no exclusion mechanism. Its racing law (horse racing, greyhound racing and jai alai) has no patron self-exclusion provision either. The Florida Lottery's Play Responsibly page offers no exclusion or account-closure option. The Miccosukee Tribe runs a separate casino under federal jurisdiction, outside the Seminole compact. We found no responsible-gaming or self-exclusion information on its site, so we don't know whether it has a program. We don't know whether people from outside Florida may enroll in the Seminole program. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every gambling option in the state.

Official Florida links and forms

These are the primary sources this page is built from: agency program pages, statutes, regulations and the forms themselves. How we check facts explains what each label means.

If you also gamble outside Florida

State lists stop at the state line. Some casino companies' own bans reach their properties elsewhere, and each program above says what it covers. If you also travel to nearby states to gamble, check their pages too: