GTA Live Poker // Wpodbine

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As some of you may know, Great Canadian Gaming has chosen to remove poker permanently from the Great Blue Heron Casino in Port Perry, effective Monday June 25th. This is in addition to them having removed poker from Woodbine the day they took over 6 months back.

A friend of mine heard back from the General Manager at Woodbine, where he stated poker is not in the plans for any of GCG's Toronto area properties. I believe GCG hates poker, and they will not be spreading it at any of their casinos. Land in Port Perry costs nothing. For them to remove it from that casino is a very, very, very bad sign.

Accordingly, I've come to the conclusion that it's now time to launch a PR campaign against GCG, with the intended effect of making them adhere to their commitments to the OLG when they were granted the license for the GTA casinos, which includes, among other things, diversifying the offerings, and lowering their customer age demographic (ie more poker, less slots).

So I put a petition up here --
https://www.change.org/p/doug-ford-l...ker-in-the-gta

Any comments you make will be emailed to the following people:
Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario
Michael Ford, Councillor Ward 2, which contains Woodbine Casino
John Tory, Mayor of Toronto
and last but definitely not least...
Stephen Rigby, President OLG

Please sign it, send it to all your friends, post it on social media, etc. I want to force GCG to honour their commitments, and bring a big live poker room to Toronto!

After the petition has sufficient numbers if I don't see a satisfactory response I'll be taking the campaign to the media.

GTA Poker

Might be taken more seriously if you spell the title correctly

moose

Damn I thought GTA was back and selling action....

GTA Poker

moose;409766 wroteDamn I thought GTA was back and selling action....

hoping to go play some LATB this year will keep you posted;)

compuease

Petition is well worded and thought out, signed and commented on... Not that I think our governments ever pay any attention to us anyways..:(

GTA Poker

compuease;409769 wrotePetition is well worded and thought out, signed and commented on... Not that I think our governments ever pay any attention to us anyways..:(

Petitions are a waste of time, I had a hunger strike from 1130am until 215pm today for this cause

compuease

GTA Poker;409776 wrotePetitions are a waste of time, I had a hunger strike from 1130am until 215pm today for this cause

Didn't work...

roketinpoket

CNE Casino will be starting on July 28th this year.

Joel Wortzman

I was at Woodbine today to finally cash out the money that was in my poker account there. The woman at the counter told me that Woodbine would be having poker with dealers starting around mid-August. She also thought that there would still be a few virtual poker tables in play but was not sure. The location of the new poker room would be on the second floor. She could not tell me what games would be offered or if there are going to be any tournaments...

payperview

Heard Aug 14th is the day woodbine is opening 40 gaming tables. Sorry no poker immediately.

payperview

2nd floor gaming room is now open. 100 etables and 50 live dealer tables.
Unfortunately no poker.

marban

there is space on the 3rd floor that is under reno...poker there maybe?