Confusion reigns in Brazil over whether the Winfil brick-and-mortar casino can or cannot conduct real-money gambling.

On October 19, Spanish casino operator Grupo Pefaco opened its Winfil venue in the city of Porto Alegre. The venue, which features 460 slot machines, claimed that a recent court ruling in the state of Rio Grande do Sul had lifted the longstanding ban on casino gambling.

But the state Public Prosecutor’s office disagreed and obtained a court order blocking Winfil’s real-money gambling efforts. As a result, Winfil reconfigured its slots to work in ‘demonstration’ mode, accepting no cash deposits and using only free-play credits that couldn’t be redeemed for cash.

That situation changed abruptly on Friday, when Judge Viviane de Faria Miranda issued a preliminary injunction barring the authorities from seizing Winfil’s slots. By Saturday afternoon, Winfil announced that it would immediately begin offering real-money gambling “with the fullness of legality.”