RELATED: The province has officially launched its new online gaming market, iGaming Ontario. Some are placing their bets on this new system, while others say it’s not worth the gamble. Sean O’Shea has more – Apr 4, 2022Ontario’s regulated internet gaming market has been live now for two years, and it is attracting increasing activity from the province’s online gamblers, a new study suggests, with blackjack and basketball among the favourite wagers.
“Participants named over 350 unregulated websites they have used, which highlights how many illicit betting options can be accessed by Ontarians and the importance of continued efforts to shift players to Ontario’s safer and legal gaming options,” the AGCO wrote in a press release.The province established iGaming Ontario in April 2022 and, according to the agency’s third-quarter report, its most recent fiscal update, it was regulating 49 operators that run 72 gaming websites. People placed $17.
Blackjack was the biggest table game this past year, with 27 per cent of the category’s wagers, followed by roulette and baccarat at nine and eight per cent, respectively.‘Treating people like adults’: Ford dismisses raising drinking age to 21 in Ontario Peer-to-peer poker is the smallest category, iGaming Ontario said, though it still saw more than $1.5 billion in total wagering in this past year.