Online Casino Play for People in Manitoba
Club Regent Casino and McPhillips Station Casino offer no online gaming. So where does someone in Manitoba play online, and what is the paid button on this guide's home page? This page answers both, then lists a few habits worth keeping on a long winter night indoors.
PlayNow, the provincial site
PlayNow.com is Manitoba's official online gambling site. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries operates it, with BCLC as service provider, and the LGCA regulates it. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries calls it the only legal and regulated multi-product gambling website in the province. To play, you must be a Manitoba resident, 18 or older, and physically located in Manitoba. The link here earns this guide nothing.
Neither Winnipeg room has an online side. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries states that Club Regent Casino and McPhillips Station Casino offer no mobile app and no online gaming. It also warned of a fraudulent Club Regent app advertised on Facebook. If an app carries a casino's name, treat it with suspicion.
The one paid button on this guide
The home page carries one button marked Ad. It leads to an online casino run by a partner, not by this site, not PlayNow and not the province. That partner can change over time. When readers use that button, this guide earns a commission.
Nothing on this site says the partner is licensed, regulated or approved in Manitoba. The editors found no LGCA statement on licensing private online casinos. This page carries no paid button at all. To report unlicensed gaming, call the LGCA at 204-927-5300 or toll-free at 1-800-782-0363.
Habits worth keeping online
- Set a deposit limit before the first bet, not after the third.
- Play only with money set aside for entertainment, the same as a movie or a hockey ticket.
- Take regular breaks away from the screen. Check whether the driveway needs shovelling again.
- If it stops being fun, call Manitoba's Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-463-1554, available 24 hours a day.