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The AGCO ordered $70,000 in monetary penalties against slot supplier Booming Games (Malta) Limited on Aug. 20. Auto-play ran on multiple Booming Games slots offered to Ontario players for several months before it was disabled. Ontario bans slot auto-play because manual spins create a deliberate pause between wagers. Booming Games has 15 days to request … Read more
TORONTO – Woodbine Entertainment will offer $750,000 in guaranteed Pick 5 pools and two mandatory payouts on Saturday’s 167th King’s Plate card, the program that drew more than $17 million in all-sources wagering a year ago. The $1 million race goes at 1 1/4 miles on Woodbine’s main track before a field of 12 drawn … Read more
Century Casinos could sell its two Alberta racinos as one package and its two commercial casinos as another, or all four together. Co-chief executive Peter Hoetzinger said the company should disclose something on at least one package before the end of the year. The Canada segment posted $20.4 million in second-quarter revenue, up 2.2 percent, … Read more
The AGCO ordered $120,000 in penalties after nine people under 19 deposited and gambled on Betty.ca. Fourteen more underage individuals opened accounts without depositing, and those registrations breach the standard on their own. Betty Gaming spotted the flaw itself, and the AGCO learned of it in November 2025. Betty Gaming has 15 days to appeal … Read more
Betsson closed its 64.5 million euro purchase of Rhino Entertainment’s Canadian business on Aug. 3. AGLC’s registrant list carries no Betsson entry; casinodays.com is registered to Golden Nebula Limited through July 13, 2027. Betsson paid 51.25 million euros at closing and owes 13.25 million euros six months later. Golden Nebula also holds Casino Days’ Ontario … Read more
Betty reported US$90.2 million in second-quarter net gaming revenue, up 113% from a year earlier. The Toronto-based casino operator posted US$8.4 million in EBITDA and peaked at 167,000 active Ontario players in June. More than half of Betty’s 53,000 new depositors in the quarter arrived through organic channels rather than paid marketing. The company projects … Read more
Sports Interaction and PartyCasino went live July 23, giving Entain three Alberta brands with its BetMGM joint venture. The Alberta iGaming Corporation lists 24 approved sites, while Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis has registered 36 iGaming operators. Day-one operators must hold an Alberta certificate for every game within 90 days of go-live, an Oct. 11 … Read more
Soft2Bet, the company behind the heavily Canadian-branded, AGCO-licensed ToonieBet, is the subject of an international investigation that links it to scores of blacklisted offshore casinos, one of which reporters say took bets from Ontarians and did not check players’ ages. Ontario’s regulator, which renewed ToonieBet’s licence in March, now says it is reviewing. Soft2Bet denies … Read more
TORONTO – Hard Rock Bet went live in Ontario on July 22 with a sportsbook and online casino, its first market outside the United States and its entry into one of North America’s most saturated regulated fields, where it registers as operator No. 48. A Late Entry Into A Full Field Ontario opened its regulated … Read more
When Alberta’s regulated market opened this month, casino games and sports betting arrived in full, but online poker showed up boxed inside a province of five million. The way out is a shared player pool with Ontario, and, contrary to a common assumption, that deal does not hinge on the Supreme Court case everyone is … Read more