Online play rules near Bear Claw

Saskatchewan has a single legal online gambling site, PlayNow.com. Its operator is SIGA, the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. Only people aged 19 or older may play on it. Private online casino sites also court Saskatchewan players, and the provincial government describes them as illegal platforms.

Gaming in Saskatchewan falls under Lotteries and Gaming Saskatchewan (LGS), which manages it. Regulation rests with SLGA (Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority). The province's nine permanent casinos split seven to SIGA and two to SaskGaming, namely Casino Regina and Casino Moose Jaw.

Self-exclusion is a ban a person sets on their own gambling, at venues or on sites, for a fixed stretch. Game Break, SaskGaming's voluntary program, reaches PlayNow.com and every casino across Saskatchewan, with terms of 6 months up to 5 years. The SIGA Voluntary Self-Exclusion program opens only on the person's own request, either in person at any SIGA casino or through a booked visit to SIGA's Central Office in Saskatoon. Its length, again 6 months up to 5 years, is the person's choice, and entry is refused at all nine Saskatchewan casinos.

No one can enrol another person. Neither program reaches a private online site, including the one behind this guide's paid links.

Carlyle Casino Trip is reading material from the Highway 9 desk: no wager passes through it and no player account opens. Advertising is confined to the Carlyle guide's home page, where every paid link bears the label Ad. That page holds three of them: the menu button, a block set under the first screen of the guide, and one more block toward its lower end. Each of the three sends Carlyle readers to the same privately run gambling website, and that partner pays the Highway 9 desk a commission for the traffic. The desk may later drop that partner in favour of another.

PlayNow.com is not this partner, and Saskatchewan has granted it no licence. Neither SIGA nor Lotteries and Gaming Saskatchewan is linked to it, and the same goes for every casino the Carlyle guide describes, the one near Carlyle included. A self-exclusion arranged under a Saskatchewan program leaves this partner's site outside its reach.