Hello, and welcome to the Blog on gambling in Ontario, Canada. This blog will post essays from time to time on my gambling experiences in Ontario, with advice to both gamblers new and old. I concentrate mostly on table gaming at Ontario's major casinos. So, I hope you enjoy this blog.
My background is that I have a degree in Physics and Astronomy. I gamble alot, and I don't like to lose (who does). My focus is to educate gamblers on my favourite casino games so that you can minimize your losses.
Where to gamble
There are 10 places to gamble on table games in Ontario. I will list these in order of my familiarity with them.
Fallsview Casino Resort (Niagara Falls)
Casino Niagara (Niagara Falls)
Caesars Windsor (Windsor)
Casino Rama (Orillia)
OLG Casino Brantford
Great Blue Heron Casino
OLG Casino Thousand Islands
OLG Casino Thunder Bay
OLG Casino Sault Ste Marie
OLG Casino Point Edward (Sarnia)
All of Ontario's casinos are smoke free. In addition, there are 17 sites to play slots in Ontario (and bet on horses). Plus, there are tens of thousands of lottery retailers in Ontario where you can scratch tickets and bet on sporting events. Not to mention bingo halls, charity raffles, fairs... you get the picture.
Outside of the province, surrounding our fair province, are other casinos... Michigan has 22 casinos (3 in Detroit, and 1 in Sault Ste. Marie). In New York state, there is Seneca Niagara in Niagara Falls and the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino close to Cornwall. Finally, there are Quebec's casinos... Casino Montreal and Casino Lac Leamy (in Hull).
So if you live in Ontario, likely, you don't live far from a Casino. I am going to focus on table games only.
Gambling pitfalls
There is no such thing as a gambling system. Ontario's casino has an unbeatable house edge of between 0.4 and 6% on all of the table games in Ontario. The only way you can get around this house edge is to learn to count cards (difficult) or to take a dice controlling class (expensive). Systems that vary your bets according to previous results only increases your volatility and risk.
You should treat gambling as entertainment. If gambling becomes an anticipated source of income, if it is affecting your relationships or threatening your financial standing in life, then you have a problem. I have a big problem with the Rama commercials where the partner is talking to them (or the car is being repaired) and the person is daydreaming about gambling. Too often, that is what gambling addiction is about... this need to gamble all of the time, and to miss out on everything else that is important in life. If you are at this point, seek help... before it's too late. Too often, people fall into this trap that they are lucky, that you are going to win, that you are smarter than the casino. None of this true. You are subject to the same laws of math as everyone else. The casinos are out to make money while hopefully entertaining you. My opinion is that Ontario does not take gambling addiction seriously at all. Given that the Province of Ontario reaps most of the profits from gambling, it has a social responsibility to provide help to problem gamblers.
So, good luck in and outside of the casinos.
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