{"id":8253,"date":"2014-11-05T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/ontario-to-launch-online-gaming-portal-within-weeks\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:45:49","slug":"ontario-to-launch-online-gaming-portal-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/ontario-to-launch-online-gaming-portal-within-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to launch online gaming portal within weeks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nOntario will soon follow in the footsteps of British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces by offering a regulated online gaming system.<br \/>\n\tThe Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. announced Tuesday that the site, dubbed PlayOLG, will launch \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d<br \/>\n\tNotices were sent to members of OLG\u2019s existing loyalty program members Tuesday morning inviting them to participate in the soft launch of the site.<\/p>\n<p>\tOLG is beginning its phased launch of online gaming site PlayOLG.ca, offering interactive games including single-player poker, roulette and blackjack.<br \/>\n\t\u201cIf they say yes, we will be sending them an invitation in the coming weeks. They\u2019ll get \u2026 early access to PlayOLG,\u201d OLG spokesperson Tony Bitonti told CTV News.<\/p>\n<p>\tAfter that initial testing period, the site will open up to all Ontarians of legal age.<br \/>\n\tThe site will offer the ability to purchase lottery tickets through the internet, as well as online versions of games like blackjack, roulette and single-player poker.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn time, Bitonti said, the site will be expanded to include poker games between multiple users on separate computers.<br \/>\n\tAccording to OLG estimates, 500,000 Ontarians partake in online gambling \u2013 spending as much as $500 million per year on the activity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario will soon follow in the footsteps of British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces by offering a regulated online gaming system. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. announced Tuesday that the site, dubbed PlayOLG, will launch \u201cin the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}