Online gambling in Saskatchewan

Online gambling in Saskatchewan has a single legal address: PlayNow.com. The site is operated by SIGA, the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority, which also runs Dakota Dunes Casino. It launched in the province in November 2022. Players must be 19 or older, the same age that applies on the casino floor south of Saskatoon.

Private online casinos have no route to a licence in Saskatchewan. No licence for them exists, and the provincial government describes the sites competing with PlayNow.com as illegal platforms. That holds however familiar a site may look on a phone screen. For a player in the province, the legal option online is one site, run by the same operator as seven casinos here.

Saskatchewan has two self-exclusion programs, and both stop at the edge of the licensed system. Game Break is voluntary and confidential, covering all casinos in the province and PlayNow.com for 6 months to 5 years. Enrolment happens through Customer Service or Security at a casino, or by appointment with GameSense staff at 306-787-2122. Once in effect, it cannot be shortened or removed. SIGA Voluntary Self-Exclusion bans a person from all nine casinos in Saskatchewan for a chosen 6 months to 5 years.

Neither program blocks private online sites. The Saskatchewan Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-306-6789 still answers, for free, 24 hours a day, with trained counsellors on the line. Families can call too, and calls are confidential.

This site is an independent guide, not a casino, and it takes no bets. Its home page carries three paid links, each marked Ad. One sits in the menu, one in a block just below the first screen, and one near the end. All three lead to the same private online casino partner, and no other page carries paid links.

The guide earns a commission from that partner, and the partner can change. It holds no Saskatchewan licence, because no private online casino is licensed in the province. No casino in Saskatchewan has any tie to it.