Online gambling for Painted Hand readers

Saskatchewan's sole legal online gambling site is PlayNow.com. SIGA operates it, the same body that runs Painted Hand Casino on Broadway Street West. Players must be 19 or older. That age matches the provincial gambling age, and anyone under 19 at a SIGA casino is treated as a prohibited individual and cannot collect winnings. The cut-off at 19 is identical online and at the casino door.

Private online casinos cannot get a licence in Saskatchewan, so none of them operates under one here. The provincial government goes further and calls the sites that compete with PlayNow illegal platforms. Oversight in the province sits with two bodies. Lotteries and Gaming Saskatchewan, a Crown corporation, oversees lotteries and gaming, and the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority is the regulator.

Game Break is run by Casino Regina and Casino Moose Jaw and bars entry to PlayNow.com and to every casino in Saskatchewan. The chosen term lasts between 6 months and 5 years. After it comes into effect, nobody can shorten or lift it.

The province's nine casinos all fall under SIGA Voluntary Self-Exclusion, with a length picked between 6 months and 5 years. Enrolment happens at Painted Hand or any other SIGA casino, or else after booking a visit to SIGA's Central Office, 103 Aspen Place, Saskatoon. Nobody can arrange it for someone else. Neither programme reaches a private online site.

Tessera keeps paid links to its home page, and each one bears an Ad tag. Three spots hold them: the menu button, a box near the end, and a strip placed below the opening tool. Whichever is clicked, the reader reaches a single private online casino business, unnamed here, and that business pays Tessera a commission. That business can be replaced.

It holds no Saskatchewan licence. It has no connection with Painted Hand Casino, SIGA, PlayNow.com or any agency of the province. Self-exclusion through SIGA or Game Break does not apply on it.