Responsible Gambling

Interac makes depositing effortless: two taps and a fingerprint. That is the whole appeal and it is also the risk. There is no card to find and no number to type, so the small pause that used to sit between the impulse and the deposit is gone.

The operators we list have no connection to any Canadian self-exclusion scheme. If you have self-excluded through PlayNow, OLG or Loto-Québec, these sites will not know and will let you play. That is not a benefit of using them. If it applies to you, close this page.

Depositing to win back what you lost. Sending more than you planned to. Hiding the time or money from people close to you. Borrowing to play, or using money meant for something else. Feeling irritable when you cannot get on.

None of these requires a crisis to be worth acting on. One of them is enough of a reason to talk to somebody.

ConnexOntario answers 24 hours a day on 1-866-531-2600 — free, confidential, and not only for Ontario residents. In British Columbia the Gambling Support Line is 1-888-795-6111. In Alberta dial 211. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Atlantic provinces each run their own problem-gambling helpline, and Gamblers Anonymous holds meetings in most Canadian cities.

Set a deposit limit in the casino's own settings the day you open the account. None of these sites will prompt you to, and several bury the control two levels deep.