PlayNow.com

PlayNow.com
Type of site
Online Gambling Website
Owner British Columbia Lottery Corporation
Website www.playnow.com
Launched 2004

PlayNow.com is an online gambling website that is owned and operated by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC).

About

Net revenues generated by PlayNow.com gambling activities are directed back to the Provincial Governments to go towards essential services, like health care, education and community groups across British Columbia and Manitoba.

PlayNow.com is the only regulated website in both British Columbia and Manitoba for players to legally gamble on.[1]

History

Launched in 2004, PlayNow.com offers a variety of gambling services, including casino, poker, bingo, lottery and sports betting.[2]

In June 2010, PlayNow.com became the very first provincially operated casino website in North America.[3]

In December 2010, a player from Vancouver Island won the largest-ever online prize in Canada with a $7.6 million winning Lotto 6/49 ticket purchased on PlayNow.com.[4]

In February 2011, PlayNow.com began offering peer-to-peer poker in collaboration with Loto-Quebec.[5]

In April 2012, Manitoba Lotteries partnered with BCLC to provide services to conduct and manage an online gambling website for Manitobans through a similar site to PlayNow.com.[6]

In January 2013 Playnow Manitoba launched based on British Columbia’s PlayNow.com business model

Player safety and security

Gambling education and resources are embedded into PlayNow.com,[7] including:

Games

Casino

PlayNow.com offers a variety of popular casino games such as slots, Blackjack, Sic Bo, and Roulette.[8] Specifically, the PlayNow.com Casino offers the following games to players:

Additionally several of these games, including Chain Reactors and Super Cubes, have progressive Jackpots. The casino portfolio at PlayNow.com also includes reactor games.

Poker

In addition, the website offers a wide selection of poker games, and single and multi-table tournaments including a progressive Bad Beat Jackpot.[9] The poker games available on PlayNow.com include:

Each year PlayNow.com offers seats to select poker tournaments, including the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the B.C. Poker Championships and the Roberto Luongo Charity Poker Classic.

Sports

On July 5, 2012, PlayNow.com launched a new sports book feature to replace Sports Action. PlayNow Sports offers a wider variety of sports to bet on and new betting options that include futures and live betting.[10] Sports Action has been discontinued from PlayNow.com but is still offered through physical lotto retailers in B.C.[11]

e-Bingo

PlayNow.com also has an Online Bingo portfolio including various Multi-player and Single player games.[12]

Lottery

PlayNow.com also offers national and provincial lottery games to players.[13] The Lottery Games offered include:

References

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