The director of Florida’s Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering Ken Lawson sent a letter to the Seminole Tribe on Monday asking how it planned to shut down its table games.

The Seminole’s gambling compact with Florida has the tribe pay about $250m a year for the exclusive right to deal house-banked table games such as blackjack and baccarat at its seven casinos including Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Seminole Classic in Hollywood. Terms of the agreement state that the tribe will have to fold up the tables and put away the cards within 90 days of the compact’s expiration on July 31.

“The letter was actually expected and is just another part of the process,” said Seminoles spokesman Gary Bitner.

Seminoles maintain that the state has already breached the compact by allowing racinos in South Florida to operate electronic versions of the games that the Tribe operates with live dealers, therefore, the tribe will continue to deal the games as the efforts to get a compact extension go into mediation and probably a federal court suit.