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Seminole Hard Rock turns on slots

TAMPA, Florida -- As reported by St. Petersburg Times: "A little slice of Vegas arrived in the Tampa Bay area Tuesday. But quietly.

"The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino switched on 56 Las Vegas-style slots, the only legal ones in the state outside South Florida, to the delight and surprise of gamblers like Sue Kinch of Englewood.

"...Casino executives postponed advertising the new slots until the initial 725 machines were ready for the official debut May 1, worried customers would be unhappy with long lines. Most players Tuesday weren't expecting to find the small cluster of slots among 3,000 bingo-based machines.

"Those older machines look like Vegas-style slots but play too slowly for Sharon Collins, a visitor from New York City. In a hour, she'd won $300 on a rapid-fire game called Wolf Run. Some 1,675 of the slots, just over half of the casino's total machines, will be running by the end of May..."

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