Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino will celebrate its first anniversary with concerts and promotions lasting from the end of January into March.

Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino opened its doors on February 6, 2025, and became the first four-star resort in the Lake Okeechobee region. It replaced Seminole Casino Brighton, which opened in 1980. 

“We’re excited about all the forthcoming celebratory activities,” said Marty Johns, General Manager. “It’s hard to believe that we have already been open for a year. We remain committed to offering our guests the best possible experience when it comes to gaming, dining, and entertainment, while enhancing tourism and community growth.”

The anniversary celebration will kick off on Saturday, January 31 at 8 p.m. with a concert by Aaron Lewis and the Stateliners. Tickets start at $63 and are available via Ticketmaster. Additional fees may apply. Guests must be 21 and older to attend.

A Tribute to Freddie Mercury featuring Fernando Castro is scheduled for Friday, February 6 at 8 p.m. The show is free and guests must be 21 and older to attend. Castro is the first ever Freddie Mercury tribute artist to headline on the Las Vegas Strip. Widely regarded and acclaimed as the only tribute act with the gift of Mercury’s voice, Castro embraces this blessing as a responsibility to preserve his legacy and keep his spirit and music alive.

In addition to the concerts, Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino will offer a handful of anniversary-related promotions:

$75,000 CELEBRATION DRAWINGS
Friday, February 6 & Every Friday through March 6 – noon to 9 p.m.
Every Friday, February 6 through March 6, every hour, noon to 9 p.m., the casino will be giving away $1,000 Free Play to a lucky winner and at 10 p.m. one winner will get $5,000 cash. That’s $15,000 every Friday. The journey to the winner’s circle begins on January 25. For every 25 Tier Credits earned, players will receive one entry into the casino’s anniversary celebration drawings. There is no limit to how many entries one can earn – players can increase their odds by playing their favorite games. Earn up to 100x your entries. Each day you play from Monday, February 2 through Thursday, February 5, you can earn 25x more entries than the day before. Entries multiply more each day that you play.

$400,000 SEMINOLE HI LO
Saturday, February 7 and Every Saturday in February – 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Every Saturday in February, the casino is giving 10 guests the chance to turn a simple guess into $10,000 cash. Get drawn and guess the cards correctly. Climb the prize ladder – each correct guess increases the prize.

SPECIAL BINGO SESSION -- $330,000 UP FOR GRABS
Saturday, February 7 – 2 p.m.
Buy in is $205 with 20 regular games paying $1,199 each. There will be two $5,000 jackpot games. Additionally, “U Pick’em” 20 numbers or less ($150,000) with consolation paying out $10,000. Cover all jackpot 49 numbers or less ($150,000) with consolation paying out $10,000. Guests should RSVP now via TicketWeb.com (search Seminole Brighton Bay for available sessions to reserve).

BIG GAME WATCH PARTY
Sunday, February 8 – 5 p.m. to midnight
The Event Center will be turned into the ultimate fan zone. Admission is free and a $20 Tailgate Buffet will be available (wings, nachos, chili, and more). There will be a cash bar as well. Additionally, there will be drawings for official football merchandise.

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About Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino

The new resort, which replaced Seminole Casino Brighton (first opened in 1980), includes a casino with a total of nearly 38,000 square feet, including space for a total of 640 slot machines and 18 tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other house-banked card games, along with high-stakes bingo action. Included in the totals are a smoke-free gaming space with 104 slot machines and a high-limit gaming area with 42 slot machines and four table games. Dining options include EE-TO-LEET-KE GRILL with 126 seats, a steak house (Josiah Steakhouse) with 62 seats and a fast-service and carry-out cafe offering a combination of items from a coffee bar (Constant Grind) and pizza kitchen (Slice). The resort also boasts an indoor event space with 400 seats for banquet events or bingo games, or 900 seats set up as a performance hall. In a first for any Seminole Casino, the new resort offers a ten-lane bowling alley (Brighton Bay Bowling) of 7,044 square feet. The complex includes the first hotel to be built on the Brighton Seminole Reservation, featuring 100 guest rooms on four stories, totaling 72,000 square feet. Guest rooms include a mixture of rooms with either one king bed or two queen beds, plus three suites and a fitness center. The resort’s name salutes popular sportfishing sites of nearby Lake Okeechobee, where Fisheating Bay is a little more than two miles from the resort. Fisheating Bay and Fisheating Creek get their name from the Seminole name recorded on a military map of 1839, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, translated as “the river where fish are eaten.”