Ontario is the most populous Canadian province of the Canada with its 13 million inhabitants, making it a favourite for the game market online. In this province, it is theOntario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), which operates the lottery of the region, casinos, machine rooms slots and bingo. The OLG was created in April 2000 when the Ontario Lottery Corporation has merged with the Ontario Casino Corporation, founded in 1994.
Last year, she wanted to add to its activities offer of online game when she learned that Ontarians spent around 400M$ CAD on other online poker sites. According to her, this figure should be higher in the years to come, especially because more Ontarians will have a decent Internet access and they will make more and more confidence in banking it is possible to do on the Internet.
Even today, many people (especially the generation of 50 years and more) are hesitant to provide their number of credit during an online purchase card, even if the site is also deemed as Amazon for example. According to their estimates, the value of the online games market will be 450 M$ for the first year and obviously more for the first 5 years of marketing.
His first goal would be to launch a sports betting, poker and bingo, then probably diversify its offering. Several companies are shown to respond to the tender of Ontario: penBet, GTech, Dragonfish, Bwin/Party, Intralot, Camelot and SciPlay.
According to estimates to date, negotiations should take about 1 year and the game offer should appear by October 2013. For the moment, there is no reason to think that this project will not see the day.
Quebec, British Colombia and then Ontario. According the information PokerCollectif has received, it is only a matter of time before this project was established.
Let us not forget that Ontario represents a really interesting market and that it could increase considerably the traffic to Espacejeux. Remains the question of whether Ontario followed the steps for the other provinces, which would obviously be a good news for poker enthusiasts? It remains to be seen!
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