Florida Sweepstakes Casinos Still Open: 14 of 15 Rulebooks

Florida sweepstakes casinos are still open two days after the state sued Stake.us and VGW: we re-read the 15 operator rulebooks we can reach on August 21, 2026, none had been edited since the suits were filed, and 14 of the 15 still leave Florida open.

We did this the boring way on August 21, 2026: fifteen operator documents, read in full, each checked for what it says about Florida and when the operator last touched it. The industry has not moved a comma. That matches what we found in the one state where a ban is already signed and dated: eight operators still name Oklahoma as a state they accept, with the ban due on November 1, 2026.

Two kinds of "open" show up in those documents, and the difference is worth holding on to. Nine of the fifteen name Florida in a list of states they accept. Five never mention it at all, and are open to Florida only because Florida is missing from their exclusion list, which is a weaker guarantee and a faster thing to change. The fifteenth, Pulsz Bingo, leaves Florida off both of its lists.

Has any sweepstakes casino stopped taking Florida players?

Not among the operators whose own documents we can read. Every row below is the brand's own rulebook or help-centre article, with the date that document carries.

Crown Coins and Stake.us show their readers only a rounded phrase, "updated over 2 weeks ago" and "updated over a month ago". The exact dates in the table are the machine-readable ones the same pages publish, which is the version we can hold them to.

Stake.us is a defendant in one of the two suits. Its help centre still tells US players the product is open to everyone except twenty named states, and Florida is not one of them.

How do we know none of these documents moved?

Because the platforms date them, and we read the dates rather than the copy, which is the same document-dating method behind how we verify everything on the site.

Eight of the fifteen documents sit in Zendesk help centres, which expose a per-article edited_at field that moves only when the body text changes. The newest body edit anywhere across those eight is August 17, 2026, two days before the lawsuits landed, and no state-list article among them has been edited since July 13. Seven of the eight did show activity today, and we checked every article they touched: all of them moved a metadata timestamp only, and every one carried a body-edit date from before August 19.

Four brands run Intercom. Three of them publish an article sitemap with a per-article last-modified date, and the newest entry in each is August 7 on Stake.us, July 24 on Shuffle.us and July 22 on WOW Vegas. The fourth, Crown Coins, has no public sitemap, so we took the dates from the articles themselves. High 5 Casino publishes a WordPress sitemap, and exactly one page on that domain changed today, the /hp2/ landing page, while its Terms of Use, Sweepstakes Rules and both help-centre state pages still read June 26. Fortune Wins stamps a version on its rules, and it is still Version 4.7 of August 13.

Put in order, the dates make the point on their own:

1. July 13, 2026 - the newest edit to any state-list article across the eight Zendesk help centres.
2. August 13, 2026 - Fortune Wins publishes Sweeps Rules Version 4.7, which is still the live version.
3. August 17, 2026 - the newest body edit anywhere in those eight help centres, two days before the suits.
4. August 19, 2026 - Florida files both lawsuits.
5. August 21, 2026 - we re-read all 15 documents, and the newest date any of them carries is still August 13.

That is the finding. Florida sued two operators over the dual-currency model on August 19, and 48 hours later the sector's paperwork is identical. The law explains why. The attorney general's own announcement says the suits seek "permanent injunctions prohibiting the defendants from operating or soliciting in Florida", along with forfeiture, disgorgement, civil penalties and restitution. A permanent injunction is what a court grants at the end of a case, not on the day of filing, and neither suit asked for the emergency order that would have forced a site to shut a state off this week. The claim with real reach is the forfeiture count, which we broke down in our piece on what the state is asking the court to take, and the five payment companies named alongside the casinos, covered in our report on Worldpay, Trustly and Yodlee.

Why can't we say whether Chumba Casino still takes Florida?

Because its page gave us nothing readable today, and Chumba is one of 18 brands out of the 33 we track that we could not check. The gap matters, because three of them are defendants.

Chumba Casino, Global Poker and LuckyLand Slots are VGW brands, and VGW is the defendant in the larger complaint. Their geo-block pages returned HTTP 200 to us today and then nothing readable: no body text at all on the Chumba and Global Poker pages, and a page title and no more on LuckyLand's. So we cannot tell you what those three currently say about Florida, and we are not going to guess from a blank page. The other fifteen are Cloudflare-protected marketing sites or brands whose help centres carry no state list: Zula, Sportzino, RealPrize, Funrize, NoLimitCoins, TaoFortune, Legendz, Moozi, Chanced, Punt, Coinsback, LoneStar, MetaWin, BigPirate and Dorados. RealPrize is the instructive one. Its help centre loads, and we read all 21 articles in it, but nothing has been edited there since November 11, 2025 and not one article names a state.

Which brands cap Florida redemptions, and at how much?

Florida-specific redemption caps are not new and not rare. Our Florida sweepstakes casino page already lists several brands that cap the state, and our reviews document more, including Crown Coins, Shuffle.us and LoneStar, all at $5,000. What is worth reporting today is that one of those caps sits in a document we re-read this morning and found unchanged. Nine of the fifteen documents name Florida, but eight of those only list it as a state they accept. Fortune Wins is the one that writes a Florida-specific rule: it defines the state as its "Restricted Jurisdiction", and it is blunt about what that means for a big hit.

In Florida, the maximum redemption value of a FC Prize won on any single spin or single play is 490,000 FC. Any Prize winning in excess of 490,000 FC will not be allocated or paid.

The same document sets the rate: "Each 100 FC won through eligible gameplay can be redeemed at a Prize value of $1 USD." That makes the ceiling $4,900 on any one spin. Land a $12,000 prize in Florida and you are paid $4,900.

Two details in that rulebook are worth having in front of you. The definitions clause never states the cap as a figure at all: clause 1.1.13 says only that a Florida win is "restricted to less than 500,000 FC", and you have to reach clause 5.14, forty-odd clauses later, to find the actual number. And clause 4.15 caps total wins at 15,000,000 FC in any 48 hours "Except for the Restricted Jurisdiction and Excluded Territories", so Florida is carved out of the ceiling that covers everyone else. None of this appears in the brand's Terms and Conditions, which run to roughly 48,000 characters and do not contain the word Florida once. Read only the terms and you never learn the cap exists.

The $5,000 shape is not invented. Florida Statute 849.094 requires a game promotion to file its rules and prize list with the state when the total announced prize value tops $5,000, which is the figure several operators borrowed, and our Florida sweepstakes legality page sets out the statutory background. Fortune Wins lands $100 under that line. For how caps like this interact with what you actually keep, see our guide to sweepstakes redemption limits and taxes.

What did we get wrong about Shuffle.us and Florida?

Our brand database marks Shuffle.us as excluding Florida. Its own help centre, dated July 20, 2026, does not: Florida appears in the accepted-states list, alongside Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland and Virginia, four more states we currently record as excluded. Our Shuffle.us review already flagged that brand's state lists as contradictory across its own documents, and already says Florida is available there, so the error is in the database rather than in the reporting. The help-centre article settles it in the player's favour.

Two corrections follow, and we would rather print them than let them sit. The Shuffle.us exclusion list needs re-cutting against that article. And our Florida page opens by saying that twenty-nine of the 30 brands we rank accept the state, a sentence written when we tracked 30 brands rather than the 33 we track now.

What should a Florida player do this week?

Not panic-cash-out into a redemption queue. No court has ordered anything and no brand has changed a rule.

What has changed is the risk that one eventually will, so stop carrying a large idle balance rather than abandoning an account. The reason to act now rather than later is the size of the warning you would get: when VGW pulled out of four states, the cash-out windows ran from 57 days down to 14, and the deadline was set by the operator, not by the statute. Our guide to how Sweeps Coins redemption actually works covers the play-through step people discover only when they try to empty an account in a hurry. For the legal argument operators are running against Florida's reading, see whether sweepstakes casinos are legal; our ranked sweepstakes casinos list compares the brands still running the model on redemption terms rather than on headlines, and our highest-payout sweepstakes casinos page ranks them on what they actually pay out.

Sources & documents

• Fortune Wins Sweeps Rules, Version 4.7, dated August 13, 2026 - the source of clauses 1.1.13, 4.4, 4.15 and 5.14 and of every Fortune Wins quotation above, read in full on August 21, 2026
• Fortune Wins Terms and Conditions - read the same day and searched for "Florida", which does not appear
• Restricted States on Shuffle.us, the article's own date is July 20, 2026
• WOW Vegas, Which states and territories are excluded?, dated July 14, 2026
• Stake.us help centre, Stake.us - Social Casino, showing "updated over a month ago" to readers and July 23, 2026 in the page's own machine-readable date, and listing twenty excluded states, Florida not among them
• Intercom article sitemaps for Stake.us, Shuffle.us and WOW Vegas - the source of the per-article last-modified dates. Crown Coins runs Intercom too but returns 404 on the same path
• Crown Coins help centre, How to solve location restrictions and Social Mode Only States, both carrying their own date of August 3, 2026, and neither naming Florida
• High 5 Casino Terms of Use, Version 45.0 dated June 26, 2026, clause 3.1.4 and the site's page sitemap, 69 URLs, which carries the last-modified dates quoted above
• Spree Terms of Service, Version 1.8.1 dated 2 June 2026, clause 3.4
• RealPrize help-centre article inventory - 21 articles, newest body edit November 11, 2025, no state list
• Zendesk help-centre article inventories, read through each brand's public API, for McLuck, Hello Millions, SpinBlitz, Mega Bonanza, PlayFame, Jackpota, Pulsz and Pulsz Bingo - each article's edited_at field is the body-change timestamp
• Florida Attorney General's news release on the two lawsuits, dated August 19, 2026 - the source of the "permanent injunctions" wording and of the list of relief the state is asking for
• Florida Statute 849.094, game promotions - subsection (3) sets the $5,000 total-prize-value threshold and the seven-day filing requirement

Every document above was fetched and read on August 21, 2026. Where a document is described as unreadable, it returned a successful response with no extractable text, which is not the same as the brand having removed it. Nothing here alleges wrongdoing by any operator: these are their own published rules and their own timestamps. Florida's allegations against Stake.us and VGW are allegations, filed by the state and untested in court, and neither company had responded on any public docket when we checked.

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