Specialty Betting Archive

Online Gambling Ontario: What iGaming Regulation Means to You Ontarians have been gambling over the internet for the last 25 years. A lot has changed in that time. It’s not just about the quantity and quality of games anymore. The most significant changes have come by way of regulatory action. In the late 1990s,...

Ontario Casino Games Licenses Won’t Reach Offshore Brands this Year Online gambling has been big business in some parts of Canada for years now. British Columbia has been raking in the profits longer than any other province, following the 2004 launch of BCLC’s Playnow.com. Ontario was slow to the game, launching PlayOLG in January...

Learn which casino games you can beat in the long term. Most people seem to think there is just one, maybe two casino games that can be beaten. In reality, there are three of them. But it’s probably not what you’re thinking. The two games most commonly believed to be beatable are blackjack and...

SG scores propitious acquisition of Sidepaly eInstant games studio. Scientific Games is a company built on a foundation of mergers and acquisitions. It began as a small manufacturing unit, producing the world’s first instant lottery ticket in 1974. In 2000, that company was the subject of an acquisition by the near century-old Aututote Corporation....

A propitious start for one-wager sports betting in Ontario. Sports fans all over Canada have always believed sports betting shouldn’t be limited to multi-pick parlays. It took nearly a decade for a majority of the nation’s lawmakers to agree. In June, it finally happened. Single-event betting was made legal via the passage of Bill...

Popularity still rising for mobile gambling in Canada in 2021. Throughout history, we’ve experienced a plethora of fads and social crazes. They’ve impacted our lives in everything from fashion, to entertainment, to socialization. As you surely know, a fad is not a long-term thing. It is something that comes along, enjoys a brief spike...

Can You Really Learn Winning Casino Strategies from an eBook? The progression of technology has always been focused on getting things done faster, more efficiently, and with more profitability to come. This idea has become more of a modern-day mindset. We want the greatest reward, for the least amount of effort, with the ultimate...

Senates Passes C-218: Legal Mobile Sportsbooks to Compete in Canada. It’s all-but official. The Canadian government is moments away from legalizing single-event sports betting. Not only will we be able to bet on single game results, we’ll be able to do it with a variety of competing bookmakers, online and on land. It’s truly...

Only two weeks left to pass Canada single game betting bill. For nearly a decade, Canada’s appurtenant politicians have been working to amend federal laws as they pertain to gambling on sporting events. The act is not illegal, mind you. Current laws provide for a sports lottery, in which bettors can select multiple outcomes;...

Canada’s Bragg Gaming acquires Spin Games for instant foothold in US. M&As continue to shake up the interactive gaming market from one side of the world to the other. The fast-paced expansion of iGaming in the United States has a lot to do with it. The world’s largest online gambling corporations are operating in...