Eight More Alberta Online Casinos Approved For July Launch

By Steven Sandor | Jun 08, 2026, 10:38am

Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis announced eight more conditionally approved online casino brands on Friday.

There are now 43 apps that have been given the conditional go-ahead for the July 13 launch of regulated sportsbooks and online casinos in Alberta.

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Apollo adds more brands

Apollo Entertainment, which had its Luxury Casino approved the previous week, adds three more apps to the Alberta portfolio.

The first, Captain Cooks Casino, offers a variety of celebrity-themed slot games, with licensing deals with UFC and legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather.

The second, Casino Classic, offers exactly what the name suggests. There are online variations of table favorites such as blackjack and roulette, plus poker and progressive jackpots in the millions.

Finally, Golden Tiger Casino, has themed slots and the traditional Vegas-style table games, but adds an international feel with European favorites like baccarat and Asian staples like sic bo and Andar Bahar.

Skill on Net launching four Alberta online casinos

Skill on Net, based in Malta, had four gaming platforms approved.

The most familiar to Canadians is Play Ojo, which is aggressively promoted through television advertising aimed at Ontario players who can already legally use regulated iGaming sites. Alberta will be just the second province to launch licensed iGaming outside of lotteries, though the unregulated market likely sees hundreds of millions worth of business from Canadians every year.

Play Ojo has live table games and slots, but its selling points are the lack of wagering requirements and the refusal to impose maximum win limits.

Skill on Net is also introducing Megacasino, Slots Magic and Spin Genie to the Alberta market. Megacasino will have live table games, live game shows and slots. Slots Magic focuses on the slots demographic but also includes links to table games.

Spin Genie offers slots along with a variety of roulette and blackjack options.

Trillium aiming for Canadian feel

The final approval of the week went to Trillium Ventures’ Powerplay app.

Though Trillium is headquartered in Malta, it advertises Powerplay as a platform that is uniquely targeted towards Canadian users.

It has sports betting as its main feature, with a wide ranger of options from the MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL to international sailing races and water polo. There are slots and table games, as well.

Steven Sandor

With more than 30 years of experience as a writer and editor, [Name] has built a career covering sports and culture across multiple platforms. His 11th book, Leveling the Ice: Confronting Racism in Hockey, was published by Beacon Press in 2025. He has covered the NHL for decades and also worked within the Edmonton Oilers organization, bringing both journalistic and firsthand industry insight to his work. In addition, he has worked as a soccer commentator for Sportsnet, OneSoccer, TSN, and CBC. A lifelong sports fan, hockey has always been a major passion, but his connection to sports extends well beyond the rink. Baseball and soccer were central parts of his family life, and his father played high-level soccer in Hungary before escaping to Canada with his wife during the 1956 uprising. That deep family connection to sport continues to shape his perspective and storytelling today. Outside of hockey and soccer, he is an avid Formula 1 fan with a particular appreciation for the technical side of the sport, from aerodynamics and tire strategy to the finer details of race engineering.