Elements Casino Brantford formerly known as OLG Casino Brantford, and the Brantford Charity Casino, is a charity
casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertai ...
located in
Brantford
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independ ...
,
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
.
Summary
Since its opening in 1999, the casino has drawn a small number of tourists into this city, though far fewer than was first predicted since numerous other casinos have been opened nearby and slot machines have been added to area racetracks.
A small portion of the
profits from this, and
other Ontario charity casinos, goes to the Trillium Foundation which metes out the funds to qualified charities. A small portion of the profits from the
slot machine
A slot machine (American English), fruit machine (British English) or poker machine (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers. Slot machines are also known pejoratively a ...
s go to the City of Brantford as the facility's host. Casino Brantford has 55 table games including
blackjack,
baccarat
Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score ...
,
Let It Ride,
Sic Bo,
Three card poker,
Spanish 21
Spanish 21 is a blackjack variant owned by Masque Publishing Inc., a gaming publishing company based in Colorado. Unlicensed, but equivalent, versions may be called Spanish blackjack. In Australia and Malaysia, an unlicensed version of the game, wi ...
,
roulette, and
craps
Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice. Players can wager money against each other (playing "street craps") or against a bank ("casino craps"). Because it requires little equipment, "street ...
. The casino also has numerous slot machines, and a 14-table
Texas Hold 'Em
Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, and holdem) is one of the most popular variants of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five community cards are dealt fa ...
poker room.
It is located near the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, an upscale
theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
.
In May 2018 management of the casino was taken over by
Great Canadian Gaming
Great Canadian Gaming is a Canadian gaming, entertainment and hospitality company. Prior to its acquisition by Apollo Global Management in September 2021, the company was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and was part of the S&P/TSX Composite ...
and the name was changed to Elements Casino Brantford.
See also
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List of casinos in Canada
This is an incomplete list of casinos in Canada as of around 2011:
Type:
Resort (R)
Destination (D)
Community (C)
Racing entertainment centre (REC)
Ownership:
Government owned (GO)
First Nations (FN)
Private facility (PF)
Privately operated ( ...
References
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Casinos in Ontario
1999 establishments in Ontario
Buildings and structures in Brantford
Tourist attractions in the County of Brant
Casinos completed in 1999