Esports betting in Ontario
Updated By the Ontario.gg Editorial Team
Esports betting is part of Ontario's regulated market. iGaming Ontario counts esports in its definition of betting, alongside sports, proposition and novelty bets and exchange betting.
The same 15 requirements
Standard 4.34 doesn't single out esports, so an esports bet has to pass the same 15 requirements as any other: most competitors 18 or older across the event or league, safeguards against match-fixing and cheating, a result that can be documented and verified. A tournament that can't show those has no place on a regulated board. The whole list, sorted into what is allowed and what never is, sits on the betting law page.
Players and the ad rules
The advertising rules count esports players as athletes. AGCO guidance from February 2024 puts esports inside the athlete ban of Standard 2.03, which stops operators from using athletes they have deals with in their ads, except to promote responsible gambling. Ontario.gg goes further and shows no players or streamers at all.
Which sportsbooks take esports bets
The catalogue doesn't say which of the 34 sites take esports bets, or on which games. We will check that site by site and date it in each review, using the method on How we rate.