PlayNow.com
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Type of site
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Online Gambling Website |
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| Owner | British Columbia Lottery Corporation |
| Website | www |
| Launched | 2004 |
PlayNow.com is an online gambling website that is owned and operated by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC).
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.
Launched in 2004, PlayNow.com offers a variety of gambling services, including casino, poker, bingo, lottery and sports betting.
In June 2010, PlayNow.com became the very first provincially operated casino website in North America.
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.
In February 2011, PlayNow.com began offering peer-to-peer poker in collaboration with Loto-Quebec.
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.
In January 2013 Playnow Manitoba launched based on British Columbia’s PlayNow.com business model
Gambling education and resources are embedded into PlayNow.com, including:
PlayNow.com offers a variety of popular casino games such as slots, Blackjack, Sic Bo, and Roulette. 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.
In addition, the website offers a wide selection of poker games, and single and multi-table tournaments including a progressive Bad Beat Jackpot. 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.
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