Alberta is the fourth largest province in Canada and is a land- locked region located in western Canada and shares a boundary with British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, Northwest Territories to the north, and the US state of Montana to the south.
Alberta’s gambling sector is managed by Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC), a Crown commercial enterprise of the government of Alberta, and operates under the Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Act.
Legal gambling activities in Alberta include charitable gaming licences plus provincial gaming with table games, bingo, VLTs, slot machines, lottery, raffles and pull tickets and online gaming via
playalberta.ca. Tere are 5,500 licensed restaurants, bars and lounges.
Total net gaming revenue for 2021/22 amounted to $1.8bn compared to $1.18bn the year before. Total net gaming income was $1.3bn for 2021/22.
CASINOS - Tere are 24 casinos in Alberta - 19 traditional casinos and five Host First Nation casinos – which between them operate just over 13,000 slots and 426 VLTs.
Traditional casinos saw $545m in net sales in 2021/22, First Nation casinos $261.9m and RECs $64.7m (total $871.1m).
Te five Host First Nation casinos are Stoney Nakoda Resort and Casino, Eagle River Casino and Travel Plaza, Grey Eagle Resort and Casino, Casino Dene and River Cree Resort and Casino.
LEGAL GAMBLING ACTIVITIES IN
ALBERTA INCLUDE
CHARITABLE GAMING LICENCES PLUS
PROVINCIAL GAMING WITH TABLE GAMES, BINGO, VLTS, SLOT
MACHINES, LOTTERY, RAFFLES AND PULL TICKETS AND ONLINE GAMING VIA
PLAYALBERTA.CA. THERE ARE 5,500 LICENSED
RESTAURANTS, BARS AND LOUNGES.
Resorts Management holds a 66.6 per cent interest in Casinos Poland.
VLTS - Tere are some 770 VLT retail locations operating 5,854 VLTs. Net sales in 2021/22 amounted to $367.4m (network) and $32.6m (casinos) with a total of $400m.
LOTTERY - Alberta is a member of the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. WCLC develops lottery products whilst AGLC delivers the products and maintains the services to the public through 2,856 retailers in Alberta. Tey offer national draw- based games, regional games, scratch tickets and Sports Select. Net lottery sales in 2022 amounted to $973.7m.
RACING ENTERTAINMENT CENTRES - Tere are four RECs - Evergreen Park in Grande Prairie, Rocky Mountain Turf Club in Lethbridge, Century Downs (Balzac/Calgary) and Century Mile in Edmonton, which opened in 2019 to replace Northlands Park. Te four Racing Entertainment Centres operate 1,462 slots and 36 VLTs.
Century Mile is fully owned by Century Casinos which operates casinos in Alberta and also casinos and racetracks in the USA. Its Austrian subsidiary Century
ONLINE GAMING - Until 2020 there was no legal online gaming until PlayAlberta was launched, the province’s only regulated online gambling website offering single event sports betting. AGLC withdrew from online cannabis sales and this online gambling site was designed to provide new revenue opportunities and to help combat illegal online gambling.
PlayAlberta offers five gaming options for players – casino, instants, live dealer, lottery, and sports betting. A total of $3.6bn in bets were placed across all games in 2022. Net sales amounted to $135.4m in 2021/22 compared to $37m in 2020/21.
Tere are talks about how to overhaul and open up online sports betting and online casino gaming in Alberta with Ontario as their showcase, but progress is slow and the monopoly continues.
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