Online Play and South Beach Casino

In Manitoba, gaming is regulated by the Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority, or LGCA. Provincial gaming is conducted and managed by Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries. At a First Nations casino, that corporation is responsible for conducting and managing the games inside premises belonging to a licensed gaming operator.

The province also runs its own site for online play. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries operates PlayNow.com, which Manitoba's regulator describes as the sole gambling site holding a Manitoba licence. In Manitoba, a person under 18 counts as a minor and cannot take part in gaming. Anyone who looks underage has to show ID to prove their age.

The regulator's caution to Manitobans is plain: most gambling sites shown to them in advertising sit outside Manitoba regulation. It also says it has no way to make such a site follow Manitoba law. Seeing an advertisement does not make a gambling site legal. That warning applies equally to this guide's home-page Ad links, described below.

For a site with a Manitoba licence, the regulator's answer is PlayNow.com.

This guide carries paid links only on its home page. The Ad label appears on each of them. You will see a button in the header plus two blocks: one directly below the first screen, the other close to where the page ends. All three take you to one privately run online casino, a business that pays this guide a commission. In time, another casino could replace it as that destination.

That partner holds no Manitoba licence, and it is not PlayNow.com. Nor is it connected to South Beach Casino & Resort or to the resort's Ocean Club.