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No matter what type of gambler you are, it's critical that you maintain a tight budget on your wagering expenses. ...

Ostensibility Rating: Top 5 list of Canadas favorite gambling games. Gambling is a part of Canadian history, dating back to the days of explorers, pioneers and an assimilation of native tribal culture. We’ve been placing wagers on everything from card games to athletic competitions since long before it was legal to do so. Now...

Easy and effective strategies to win at sports betting. Sports betting is a lot like baking. Some people have a skillful knack for it, and others do not. Mostly, it’s those who truly enjoy the outcome, and are willing to work hard and follow the right recipe to get it, who enjoy the most...

Evolution to launch live dealer casino games in Quebec. It’s been nearly a decade since Quebec’s gaming regulators, Loto-Quebec, made the bold move to launch a provincial online gambling website. Espacejeux.com went live in 2010, and had been an ideological ‘work in progress’ ever since. From its humble beginnings, the website was already operating...

Microgaming lends its best online bingo platform to Betsson Group. For years, Microgaming has been lauded as the provider of the best online casino, poker, bingo, sports and other digitized wager-capable platforms. The company’s reputation is unparalleled, having pioneered almost every technology in the online gambling space since its inception in the mid-1990s. With...

Holy Grail Technology’s new Intelligent Table Management system to eliminate stealing casino chips. Who do you think the highest paid employees of land-based casinos are (aside from the big-wig executives, of course)? I’d be willing to bet members of the security team are very high on the list. It’s their job to protect the...

Betting online nowhere near cannibalizing the land-based market in 2018. For years, a lot of land-based casino operators—especially in North America and Australia—have feared that online gambling will inevitably cannibalize the real-world casino industry. The games are too convenient. The slot machines pay way better RTPs. Why wouldn’t they be afraid? Canada refuses to...

What is the casino house edge and why does it hate me? Why is it they call the casino a ‘house‘? No one lives there. Yet the moniker has derived so many relevant terms over the years; house rules, house advantage, beat the house, etc. There’s actually a simple reason for it, and it’s...

It’s official! Supreme Court rules Quebec’s IP block of online gambling sites unconstitutional. For two very long years, the people of Quebec have been waiting to find out if their access to offshore internet gambling sites will become restricted. Last week, an official answer was given. The Quebec Superior Court has decided that a...

The three potential risks of real money gambling online (and how to avoid them all!) If I were to tell you there are risks in gambling, you’d probably laugh at me. Of course there are risks. The risk of losing money! But that’s only the most obvious of three potential risks everyone takes when...