Ontario’s legal iGaming market just celebrated its one-year anniversary after opening on April 4, 2022, and in that time has delivered roughly C$35.6bn ($26.41bn) in total wagers and approximately C$1.4bn ($1.04bn) in total gaming revenue, positioning the province among the top five jurisdictions in North America.
That, considering the less than stellar figures in iGaming Ontario’s (iGO) first public report of market performance, where on 31 gaming websites, 18 regulated operators generated just shy of C$4.1bn ($3.1bn) from April 2022 through June 2022 and total gaming revenue came in at C$162m ($124m). There are now more than 70 websites offering sports betting, casino games, and poker in Ontario.
Ontario’s Regulated Online Gaming Market
Bordering the U.S. and the Great Lakes, the province in east-central Canada, where there are now safe and legit online casinos to play at, was the very first to launch an open, regulated iGaming market where a number of private operators of online casinos and sportsbooks were allowed to legally take bets, after years of activity by “grey” operators – regulated and licensed outside the country.
That, considering the less than stellar figures in iGaming Ontario’s (iGO) first public report of market performance, where on 31 gaming websites, 18 regulated operators generated just shy of C$4.1bn ($3.1bn) from April 2022 through June 2022 and total gaming revenue came in at C$162m ($124m). There are now more than 70 websites offering sports betting, casino games, and poker in Ontario.
Ontario’s Regulated Online Gaming Market
Bordering the U.S. and the Great Lakes, the province in east-central Canada, where there are now safe and legit online casinos to play at, was the very first to launch an open, regulated iGaming market where a number of private operators of online casinos and sportsbooks were allowed to legally take bets, after years of activity by “grey” operators – regulated and licensed outside the country.
