{"id":409858,"date":"2026-09-25T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:36:16","slug":"seminole-hard-rock-tampa-will-switch-to-temporary-smoke-free-casino-friday-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409858\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminole Hard Rock Tampa will switch to temporary smoke-free casino Friday \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nThursday, September 24, 2026 7:41 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Seminole-Hard-Rock-Tampa-Florida-scaled-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Seminole Hard Rock -&#8230;flickr photo by World Poker Tour shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790300176_978_Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Brenton Burkett, WTSP-TV\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>A new temporary \u201csmoke-free experience\u201d is coming to Tampa\u2019s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino as renovations begin in the casino.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary gaming space, called the Hard Rock Event Center Casino, officially opens Friday, Sept. 25. It features 682 new slot machines and 34 table games.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the slot machines include popular themes such as Lightning 10 Year Storm, Dragon Link, Phoenix Link, Railroad Riches, Monopoly, and Thunder Empire. The table game selection features Blackjack, Ultimate Texas Hold\u2019em, Three Card Poker, Mississippi Stud, and Roulette.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Event Center Casino will be open 24\/7, as will the main casino cage on the primary casino floor.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/seminole-hard-rock-tampa-smoke-free-casino\/67-6c168bf2-e5ae-4b01-98b9-595b1123f6a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on WTSP-TV\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/seminole-hard-rock-tampa-smoke-free-casino\/67-6c168bf2-e5ae-4b01-98b9-595b1123f6a7\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Thursday, September 24, 2026 7:41 PM Photo:\u00a0Seminole Hard Rock -&#8230;flickr photo by World Poker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10339,11685,109998,45880,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-409858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hard-rock","tag-renovation","tag-seminole-tribe","tag-smoking","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}