As of today adult Quebec residents can legally play 8 online kinds of poker table games like Baccarat Sic Bo and Red Dogand a variety of Blackjack and Roulette games aroundtheclock. As of the beginning of 2011 Quebec poker fans will also beable to compete with players from British Columbia in either French or English. Later on other games including sports lotteriesand bingo will round out the Espacejeux offering.
&8220;LotoQuebec has succeeded in adding to the performance standards achieved by Espacejeux a range of responsible gaming controland prevention measures that are among the most innovative in the industry&8221; declared LotoQuebec President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer Alain Cousineau. This is also the conclusion reached by professor Richard Wood the worldrenowned consultant andresearcher who was mandated by LotoQuebec to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the espacejeux.com Web site and suggestways of improving it. He concluded that the Espacejeux gaming environment is a &8220;more responsible online gambling environmentthan currently exists for Quebec residents who already play (or may want to play) games of chance on the Internet.&8221; His analysiswas made public when the site was launched on November 19.
Among some fifty preventive measures on the Espacejeux site are stringent age and identity checks to ensure that players are18 years of age or older a selfexclusion program and a gaming behaviour selftest as well as personal timeofplay depositand expense limits.
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LotoQuebec&8217;s mission is to responsibly manage games of chance in a controlled and measured fashion in the interest of allQuebecers.