A look into the top news stories coming out of the Ontario iGaming scene in Canada. Safety, cheating, and a new Rivarly casino platform! (Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels)
We are back in the province that creates the most buzz in the Canadian online casino market. If you are a regular reader, you know precisely which area of the country I am speaking of.
The Ontario casino market is alive and kicking with fines, cheating Craps teams, and yet another new platform joining the army of platforms already available in the province.
Headlines in today’s news include an AGCO fine for a land-based establishment after a Craps table lost so much money; the casino received a fine for not spotting what was to many an obvious scandal. Rivalry is looking to up the ante by increasing its presence on the Ontario iGaming scene. Plus, Casumo Casino is proactively avoiding the possibility of fines we have seen AGCO issue in the past to other casinos hosting games without the proper iGaming Ontario licensing.
Let’s jump right to it!
Casumo Casino Confirms New GeoLocation Partner in Ontario
With the rules of the Ontario iGaming licensing under the province’s Alcohol and Gaming of Ontario (AGCO) authority strict on allowing games only from software providers registered in Ontario, Casumo Casino has decided to seek the technical expertise of Mkodo’s Geolocs.
Recently, LeoVegas Gaming PLC, Bunchberry Limited, and Mobile Incorporated Limited all received fines because the company’s casino websites offered games from software providers not registered in Ontario. The mistake was a slip-up by the operators’ tech teams, but AGCO held up its decision to fine all three companies. The news report was on 20 April 2023 on the AGCO website titled “AGCO issues $70,000 in monetary penalties to three internet gaming operators for offering uncertified slot games”.
Casumo Casino does not want the same issues to happen. Mkodo’s Geolocs is an expert company that monitors and prevents games not allowed under jurisdictions from appearing on casino platforms. In this case, Ontario’s iGaming regulations.
You can learn more about Ontario casinos via the live casino online Canada portal on Livecasinocentral. In the list of live dealer platforms on the page, you will find the Casumo live casino review, too.
Rivalry Opens a Proprietary iOS Platform
To round up the latest Ontario Canada casino headlines, Rivalry Ontario Corp, which operates the Rivalry casino, eSports, and sports betting platform in the province has released a new iOS app version of its site. Plus the company adds more game to its Casino.exe platform, which comes with a series of interesting games such as Bomb Squad, Wheel of Time, Courier Sweeper, and Penalty Shootout!
AGCO Hands Out C$80k Fine After Dealers Scammed Punters
Land-based Casino Woodbine in Toronto, Ontario, has recently been the centre of attention regarding a fine over alleged Craps game fixing. According to some reports, the dealer involved received the fine, while others say the casino received the fine. However, on the AGCO website, its $80,000 penalty related to a dealer cheat scheme news report confirms Ontario Gaming GTA Limited Partnership, the Casino Woodbine operator, received the fine.
According to the AGCO report, the province’s Ontario Provincial Police Investigation and Enforcement Bureau (IEB) found an electronic craps table had substantial losses. Upon further investigations, the AGCO said the casino:
- Failed to investigate the unprecedented losses
- Did not investigate why supervisors were not at the craps table when losses occurred
- Failed to spot CCTB showing the irregularities
- Why a dealer with seven previous warnings was still allowed to work at the casino
Although the AGCO report does not explicitly confirm it, Ryan Rocca of globalnews.ca says the scam involved 5 people. The dealer and 4 players appear to have defrauded the table of C$5,000. Police charged them with breach of fraud, theft, and cheating at play. The dealer also took the charge of breach of trust.
Casino Woodbine has been on the news regularly since it opened with positive and negative news reports. On a positive note, according to a Toronto.com news report titled ‘Hosting Woodbine Casino Nets Toronto yearly payoff of C$24.6M’ on April 21, 2023, the casino netted the City of Toronto C$361 million since its inauguration in 2020.
On a negative note, in May this year, the casino denied entrance to what was allegedly 1,000 employees. The dispute was over a contract offer. A union called the Public Service Alliance of Canada. they picketed the casino over part-time workers’ rights.
Not the first Craps scam to hit the Livecasinocentral news. Back in June this year, a team of players got away with US$ 226,948, reported in the Snake Eyes Dice Sliding Team Cheats news report here.
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