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Gateway Casinos Innisfil and Online Casinos
Gateway Casinos Innisfil is a building on 5th Side Road, with its own doors and its own rules for getting in. Online casino play in Ontario is a separate thing with separate rules, and this page sets them out in plain words.
By the Question DeskChecked October 2026
Who is allowed to bet online in Ontario?
Online casino play in Ontario is open to people aged 19 or older. That is the same age that applies at the door of the casino. There is a second rule, about place.
A person has to be physically inside Ontario at the moment a bet is made. An account, meaning the personal file a website keeps for each player, can be opened from somewhere else. Bets only count when they are placed from inside the province.
Which websites may run casino games here?
A private online casino is legal in Ontario only when two things are true. The AGCO, the regulator, must have registered it. It must also hold an operating agreement, a signed contract, with iGaming Ontario, known as iGO. The official list of sites that meet both conditions is the iGO directory at igamingontario.ca, and that is the list to check before using any site.
OLG.ca works differently from the private sites. It is the online casino that the Government of Ontario runs through OLG.
How can a person block online gambling sites?
BetGuard, at betguard.ca, is a self-exclusion tool run by iGaming Ontario. Self-exclusion means asking to be kept out. A person aged 19 or older can use it to block every regulated online gambling site in Ontario at once, OLG.ca included. The term can be 6 months, 1 year, 5 years or a custom length.
The casino building is outside its reach. For that, OLG's My PlayBreak program keeps a person out of every Ontario casino for 3 or 6 months, or 1 to 5 years.
Does this guide carry paid links?
Only the home page of this guide carries paid links, and every one of them bears the label Ad. They come in three forms: a menu button, a block under the first screen and a block close to the end. Each leads to a single private online casino partner that pays the guide a commission. That partner goes unnamed, may change, and carries no endorsement from the guide. Readers can look up any site, the partner included, in the iGO directory at igamingontario.ca.
Small questions, short answers
- If an Ontario resident travels out of the province, do their online bets still count?
- They do not, because bets only count when the person is physically inside Ontario. An account can be opened from elsewhere, but betting has to wait until they are back in the province.
- Is OLG.ca run by the government?
- Yes, OLG.ca is the online casino that the Government of Ontario runs through OLG.
- Will a BetGuard block keep someone out of the casino building in Innisfil?
- It will not, because BetGuard covers online sites only. Staying out of the casino in Innisfil, and every other Ontario casino, is done through My PlayBreak. To enrol, call the OLG Support Centre at 1-800-387-0098, ask a staff member at a casino, or visit a PlaySmart Centre. Once a PlayBreak term starts, it cannot be changed.