After 11 years operating Connecticut’s off-track-betting outlets, Sportech has been on the outside looking in at the high-stakes negotiations over the future of sports betting and online-casino gambling between the Lamont administration and the two tribal nations that run the casinos.

“We’re not done,” an exasperated Sportech President Ted Taylor of Milford said Friday. “We’ve got to fight. Ultimately we believe we have certain rights and we deserve a seat at the table. We have employees, investments and standing. We want to survive and thrive.”

The long-stalled negotiations on the lucrative next generation of gambling experiences seem close to a conclusion after a tentative deal between the state, the Mohegan Tribal Nation and the CT Lottery Corp. A group of eastern Connecticut senators and state representatives reminded Gov. Ned Lamont that the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation must be part of any deal that would decide the future sports and online casino gaming.