Red Shores and play on a screen

On Prince Edward Island, casino games online have one provincially regulated home: alc.ca. Atlantic Lottery handles its operation, acting for the PEI Lotteries Commission, which is the provincial body in charge of gaming. The same company, held jointly by the four Atlantic provinces, also runs both Red Shores halls that Island Ticker covers. Atlantic Lottery sets 19 as the youngest age to buy, play or cash in any of its products, so alc.ca players must be at least that old.

No licence or registration of any kind exists on Prince Edward Island for private online casinos. The province's 2023 to 2028 gambling strategy states that offshore online casinos have no power to run gaming on PEI. Atlantic Lottery's position is stricter still. It says an outside gambling site cannot lawfully operate, or even place advertising, anywhere across Atlantic Canada, and holding a foreign licence does not alter that.

Only the Island Ticker home page carries paid links, three in total, each with the Ad tag. Each of the three takes you to the same online casino, a private business, and that operator pays Island Ticker when a reader opens an account with it. The partner could be swapped at some point. It is a company apart from alc.ca, and Red Shores, Atlantic Lottery and the Lotteries Commission play no role in it.

Going by the provincial position above, a private site of that kind holds no authority in PEI. Whether to use it is your call, made knowing that. Each game carries a built-in house edge, so across many plays the players as a group hand back more than they carry home. Play responsibly, at Red Shores or anywhere else.

Breaks on alc.ca work separately from the halls. A short break can last between 1 and 90 days, and long breaks come as 36, 24, 12 or 6 months. Neither type can be cut short once chosen. The alc.ca wager screens include a Take a Break button as well.

Break in Play is what Red Shores calls its self-exclusion, and it covers the gaming floors in both Charlottetown and Summerside; alc.ca keeps its own breaks, listed above. Short versions last 30, 60 or 90 days, while long ones stretch to 6, 12, 24 or 36 months. To talk one through, the PlayWise Advisors answer at 902-620-4267.