Gambling in Manitoba

Manitoba - The age limit is 18 years old. The province has casinos, lotteries and horse races; Manitoba passed the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation Act in 1993 and the Gaming Control Act in 1996.

Now, the province legalizes the different high-risk operations like Gaming and liquor. Gambling there is fully legal as long as a casino presents the license from https://lgcamb.ca/.

History of the gambling in Manitoba

In 1970 Manitoba holds its first lottery.

In 1986, the first permanent Winnipeg based casino opens. The new Casino at the Centre is

located in the Winnipeg Convention Centre.

The first large casino that was opened in Manitoba was The Crystal Casino. It was opened in 1990 and replaces the 1986 casino, and has a license from Manitoba Lottery Foundation. It is situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In 1991, Video lottery terminals (VLTs) are introduced.

In 1993, Club Regent and McPhillips Street Station open. The new facilities replace Government owned bingo facilities.

How to choose the right casino in Manitoba?

• Possibility 1 – Choose the casino according to the game choice offered there. Please be attentive that some games might be missing from the offer.

• Possibility 2 – Some hotels will have an offer to visit a casino nearby or even have the casino attached to it. This is very convenient.

• Possibility 3 – If you visit Manitoba for just a few days, choose a casino close to the airport. Sometimes, there is a direct transfer to the casino. You can check the casinos near Winnipeg Richardson International Airport.

Casino Games in Manitoba

What games can you expect in Manitoba? It has a total of 8 casinos in which you'll find more than 2,912 slots and gaming machines. There are a total of 53 table games.

Table Games

Here you can play the most popular table games and their variations like Blackjack, Texas Hold’em Poker, Roulette, Baccarat, Pai Gow poker, Texas Shootout.

There are special poker rooms available with different bet limits.

Slots

There are all different kinds of video slots available in Manitoba casinos. Every casino offers around 800 or 900 different slot machines, and they are pretty popular.

Bingo

Some casinos specialize only in Bingo games. For example, there is Kinsmen Jackpot Bingo is a Bingo gaming facility located in the centre of Winnipeg.

Horse Race

There is a special commission that is responsible for the horse races in Manitoba - Manitoba Horse Racing Commission.

There is an Assiniboia Downs horse racetrack that is famous for watching the horses racing. Assiniboia Downs installed a state-of-the-art "tote" machine at the new racing venue which displayed betting information in real-time.

Responsible Gambling in Manitoba

Manitoba exercise the same GameSense control that can be found in other provinces. The full responsible gaming site can be found here: https://www.mbll.ca/content/gambling.

Also, there is a phone number you can use to contact the organisation: The Problem Gambling Helpline provides help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: 1-800-463-1554.

What tools are the players offered here?

Voluntary Self-Exclusion - you basically have a chance to exclude yourself from an gambling activity. The VSE program respects your decision to take a break from gaming at premises owned or operated by Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries, on PlayNow.com, or both.

You can exclude yourself up to 3 years. To enrol in person at Club Regent Casino or McPhillips Station Casino visit the GameSense Info Centre, speak to Casino Security or a Casino Operations Manager. To enrol off-site call 204-957-2500 ext. 8468.

Complaint

If you need to file any complaint against a casino, or you think a land-based casino offers some illegal services, cheats on the players or does some other dubious practices, you can contact the Manitoba Commission:

Inspections Department at 204-927-5300 or toll-free 1-800-782-0363 to submit a complaint or question.

What to do in Manitoba?

There are plenty of beautiful places you can see except from casinos.

• Ellesmere Island is located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and is the northernmost Canadian island that is part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

• Deer Lake is one of the largest Canadian bodies of water, which belongs to the network of glacial lakes.

• Wapusk National Park was founded in 1996 in Canada on the coast of Hudson Bay, in the province of Manitoba.

• The Museum of the Development of Canada, also called Fort la Rhine, is located in the east of Portage la Prairie in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

• The population of the province is ethnically diverse: the indigenous people are Indians (Ojibuei, Cree, Dakotas and Athabascans), descendants of the British, Scots, Ukrainians, Germans, French and Dutch.
  

• Manitoba is the only Canadian province in which the majority of the population - more than 55% - lives in one city (Winnipeg).

• The name of the city comes from the name of the lake of the same name, located 20 km north of the city and which in the language of the Cree Indians is called “Win nipeе”, which can be translated as “dirty water”.