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Caesars Sportsbook Ontario Review 2024 - Is Caesars Sportsbook legal in Ontario?
Yes, Caesars Sportsbook is a legal Ontario online betting provider. Caesars Entertainment Inc, runs many bricks & mortar casinos in the US. They even run one in Windsor, Ontario. However, Caesars had no online betting presence or technology whatsoever, until recently. To ensure they could enter various North American regulated markets that were about to open, they needed to acquire the necessary technology and know-how. Thus in 2020, Caesars bought William Hill for $3.7 billion.
Soon after, in a hotly-contested auction, Caesars sold the non-US William Hill assets to 888 for $3 billion. With all of this corporate M&A action, for the purposes of absolute clarity, know that in Ontario, Caesars Sportsbook is not related to William Hill at all, but Caesars Sportsbook is now one within of a wide array of legal Ontario betting sites & online casino providers.
Who can play at Caesars Sportsbook in Canada?
Caesars Sportsbook is only available to players that are physically located in Ontario. So if you were hoping to play at Caesars, whether in their online sportsbook or casino from BC, AB, SK, MB, QC, the Atlantic provinces or the Territories, Caesars Canada is not available to you for play. For the most reputable online sportsbook options outside Ontario, read our Canada betting site reviews. If you are looking for slots or table games, see our recommended online casinos for Canadians outside Ontario. All the brands listed there are licensed in Ontario, but still serve players across Canada, from their "off shore" gaming jurisdictions, with CAD accounts & payment methods like Interac & Instadebit. They are all top-tier operators. Don't take the risk of playing at shady betting sites or casinos that advertise on TV via "dot-net" ads or within European soccer matches - they are likely based in Russia, Eastern Europe or Central America and may never actually payout if you win big.
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Caesars Sportsbook Ontario payment methods
In Ontario, Caesars has essentially carried over their menu of US payment options, that include PayPal, credit cards (which come with big cash advance fees and interest rates) as well as online bank payments. Perhaps surprisingly they do not support e-transfers, so they cannot be considered among the main group of available Ontario Interac betting sites.
Caesars Sportsbook Ontario look & feel
Caesars is one of the rare online sportsbooks that uses a fully white / light background. This makes for a super clean experience from your computer, tablet or mobile. A look and feel that we really like. From your computer, the browsing is super-quick. We experienced no lag time at all moving from page to page, or in added bets to the bet slip.
Caesars Sportsbook Ontario mobile betting - app only
While they do offer a betting site when accessed via computer - if you try to access their site on your tablet or mobile phone, Caesars will forward you directly to the appropriate app store. You cannot simply play from your mobile through your Internet browser. Given the data privacy issues associated with mobile apps of any kind, we like to see sportsbooks that offer their users a choice in this regard.
They should offer both a mobile betting app and a mobile betting site as accessed through an Internet browser. There is no reason to force the former, except that the company can get better access to your valuable data through an app. Betting sites are far more private in comparison, so we will only ever recommend Ontario licensed sportsbooks that offer both. With that said, like their betting site from a computer, we do like the layout & quickness of the platform.
How are the odds margins at Caesars Sportsbook Ontario?
When it comes to the leagues and betting markets that are typically most popular in Ontario, Caesars has competitive odds margins. For example, when we look at NBA point spreads, we find odds of 1.91/1.91 or -110/-110. This reflects a margin of just under 5%. This will be fairly consistent when we look at the main handicap markets, totals and money lines for NHL, MLB and NFL betting.
As we examine the odds margins for top soccer leagues, the margins appear to be between 5% and 6%. These soccer odds margins are about average. Several Ontario providers will have margins that are significantly more competitive, at 4% or less. Remember, a sportsbook with a margin of 6% is 50% higher than one that uses a margin of 4%. Don't think that a percentage point here or there does not matter. So if you want competitive EPL betting value, or within other top leagues, look elsewhere.
'Big 4' event coverage at Caesars Sportsbook Ontario
If you are a person that almost exclusively bets on the so-called 'Big Four' leagues of the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB, Caesars has solid betting market menu for you. You can find a nearly endless array of ways to bet within a game, from various handicap alternatives, period or quarter-based results and lots of player props. If this is your area of focus, Caesars Ontario does well for you.
Caesars Sportsbook Ontario coverage of 'international sports'
Given that Caesars Sportsbook has purely been an American online and mobile sportsbook, it is perhaps unsurprising that they have fairly Spartan international sports coverage - pun intended. Some might even call it poor coverage. What do we mean?
Let's start with soccer. Caesars only covers the most popular leagues. This means the top five leagues in Europe, plus the UEFA club competitions, MLS and Mexican leagues. We did not find coverage of European leagues outside the traditional top five. No Portuguese Primeira, Polish Ekstraklasa, Dutch Eredivisie, and so on. So if you are big into all kinds of soccer, Caesars Ontario will most probably let you down.
When it comes to Rugby Union, while they have navigation links that show they cover it, when we look to see the events, we can see that almost none are available for betting. So if you care about Premiership Rugby or Top14 for example, we can't be sure you will be able to bet on it at all. If it is made available, we would doubt there is any more than the basic match winner market.
This is what we see for Rugby League. Here, Caesars covers the NRL and Super League matches, but only with the main 3-way match result betting market - that's it. Cricket, Handball and Cycling also get minimal coverage in terms of available events and betting markets. So if you love the Indian Premier League and are looking for IPL betting coverage, again, you will get very few available betting markets. Our top iGaming Ontario recommendations for Ontario, like bet365, Betway and BetVictor all have 'international' heritage, so they cover these events in a comprehensive manner.
We also found very limited Formula 1 betting, with only Grand Prix winner odds, nothing more broad than that, which is disappointing given how much more Canadians watch F1 than Americans. (We watch it at a rate per capita of about 10 to 1 more than they do.)
On the positive side of things, while it is exclusively a North American sport rather than 'international', Caesars Ontario is one of the few sportsbooks that offers some level of Lacrosse coverage - as they offer NLL betting markets.
Does Caesars Sportsbook Ontario cover esports?
In our examination of Caesars Sportsbook Ontario, we found no coverage of it at all - not even an "Esports" link in the navigation. So if you have any interest in esports betting from Ontario, Caesars will disappoint you in this respect. Several Ontario licensed betting sites will cover esports.
Does Caesars Ontario have an online Casino?
Yes, they do. We can see that Caesars Sportsbook offers RNG and live dealer casino games. While iCasino is available, the array of games appears limited compared to those operators that will offer the top Interac casino sites for Ontario.
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Caesars Sportsbook Ontario bottom line
We can't recommend Caesars Sportsbook due to their app-only approach to mobile betting. This is a non-starter for us. A mobile betting site is so easy to provide and is available at all our recommended Ontario providers for those players that might have data privacy concerns.
With this said, they have one of the nicest interfaces that we have come across. If you don't care about app data privacy and your sporting focus is almost purely on the 'big four' sports, Caesars could be a solid option for you.
From our perspective though, you get these positive points and none of the negatives if you look at our top ranked Ontario sportsbooks. All our recommended iGaming Ontario sportsbooks offer, mobile betting sites in addition to mobile apps. They all cover soccer, international sports and esports in a comprehensive way with odds value that is on par, or better.
In the end, Caesars Sportsbook Ontario is somewhat of a very 'American' option for you. If you are fully aligned that way, it might be right for you. If you have any international flavour at all to your sporting interest, in our opinion, it might let you down.
