Welcome offers
Why you will not find a welcome offer on this site
Ontario’s rules are unusually direct about this: an operator may show you its promotional terms on its own gaming site, or in marketing you have actively asked for. A public page like this one may not advertise them at all. Here is what the standards say, why they exist, and how to read a set of terms once you can see them.
Ontario only, 19+. SlotScroll covers the regulated Ontario market. You must be 19 or older and physically located in Ontario to play with an operator registered by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Gambling is adult entertainment with a cost, not a way to make money. Free, confidential help is available 24/7 from ConnexOntario on 1-866-531-2600, or text CONNEX to 247247. The regulator’s own player help page is at iGaming Ontario.
The rule
What Standard 2.05 actually says
The Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming have applied to Ontario’s regulated market since it opened on 4 April 2022. Standard 2.05 restricts the advertising and promotion of gambling inducements, bonuses and credits: they may appear on an operator’s own gaming site, or be sent as direct marketing to a player who has actively consented to receive it, and not in general public advertising. Standard 2.06 prohibits describing anything as “free” or “risk-free” when it is not, which rules out most of the language the wider affiliate industry uses. Standard 2.07 is the consent rule behind the second exception, and Standard 1.19 makes the registered operator answerable for the conduct of anyone marketing on its behalf — including an affiliate like us.
Two more standards shape every page here. Standard 2.08 requires responsible-gambling messaging alongside gaming content, and Standard 2.09 requires the display of a problem-gambling support service, which in Ontario is ConnexOntario. You will find both in the notice above and in the footer of every page. You can read the standards in full on the AGCO’s own site, with the Registrar’s marketing guidance alongside it.
The rule has teeth
These are not theoretical restrictions. The AGCO fined BetMGM Canada C$48,000 in 2022 under the advertising standards and a further C$110,000 in March 2025 for advertising cash to new customers who signed up and deposited. It fined DraftKings’ Ontario entity C$100,000 in June 2022 over broad public gaming inducements across social media and television, and it has penalised Unibet and PointsBet as well. Because Standard 1.19 puts the operator on the hook for its affiliates, a comparison site that publishes offer figures is asking the operator it links to for that risk. We are not willing to be that liability, and an operator that accepts it is telling you something about itself.
What we publish instead
Facts you can check without opening an account: the registered company behind each brand, its AGCO registration and iGaming Ontario agreement, the Ontario-facing URL with the result of our own fetch of it, the year the Ontario product launched, whether a documented affiliate programme exists, and any AGCO monetary penalty on the public record. Where an operator publishes nothing we can cite — game counts, withdrawal timeframes, support hours — the row says so. You can see the whole set on our register of operators.
The arithmetic
How to read a set of terms once you can see them
None of this is a reason to stop asking the obvious question, which is what the operator wants in return. A play-through requirement is a multiple of an amount — sometimes of that amount plus your deposit — that has to be staked before a withdrawal is possible. Hypothetically, and with no operator in mind: an amount of C$100 carrying a 35x requirement implies C$3,500 of qualifying turnover. At 70x it implies C$7,000. The amount has not changed in either case; the volume of play the operator receives has.
Three further terms decide what a multiple really costs, whatever it is:
- Game weighting. Slots usually count the full stake towards a requirement. Table games, video poker and live-dealer tables often count a fraction or nothing at all, which means playing them can leave the requirement untouched.
- Stake caps. A maximum qualifying stake per round prevents a large requirement being cleared quickly and stretches the play out across far more rounds than the headline arithmetic suggests.
- Expiry. Requirements come with a window. An unfinished one typically voids the promotional balance and anything won from it.
Six questions to answer before you accept anything
- What is the multiple, and does it apply to the promotional amount or to that amount plus your deposit?
- What does the game-weighting table say about the games you actually play?
- What is the maximum qualifying stake per round while the requirement is open?
- What is the expiry window, and does it start at registration or at acceptance?
- Is there a cap on what you can withdraw from winnings tied to the promotional balance?
- Is your deposit method excluded?
If the operator’s own terms do not answer all six clearly, that is a transparency problem, and transparency is 20% of our score. Declining a promotion is always available, and it leaves your balance withdrawable at any moment.
Chasing promotions is a losing strategy
Every play-through requirement applies the house edge to the turnover it demands. Accepting one promotion after another does not build an advantage; it increases the total amount staked, and the expected cost rises with it. It also encourages larger deposits than planned and longer sessions than intended, which are two of the clearest markers of gambling harm. If something would lead you to deposit more than you decided to spend, the correct response is to decline it.
Gambling is not a source of income, and nothing an operator offers changes that. If you are worried about your play, ConnexOntario is free, confidential and available 24/7 on 1-866-531-2600 — see our responsible-gambling hub.
Safer gambling commitment
Ten rules we would give a friend
We publish comparison content, which means we are part of the marketing chain, and in Ontario that makes us answerable to the same standards as the operators we list. So: no urgency, no “last chance”, no suggestion that gambling replaces income, and no inducement of any kind on any public page of this site.
- Decide what the evening is worth to you before you deposit, and treat it as the price of entertainment.
- Set a deposit limit in the account settings on day one, before you have a reason to raise it.
- Never gamble with money committed to rent, food, credit repayments or savings.
- Do not chase a loss. Adding money to recover money is the single most reliable route to a bigger loss.
- Keep a time limit as well as a money limit, and use the operator’s reality-check reminders.
- Do not gamble to change how you feel, and never while drinking or using drugs.
- Understand that RTP is a long-run average and that no session, streak or system changes the house edge.
- Take the winnings out. Withdraw rather than recycle, and read any promotional terms on the operator’s own site in full before you accept them.
- Use a timeout or self-exclusion the moment gambling stops feeling like a choice.
- Talk to someone. ConnexOntario, a GP or a friend — free confidential support is available 24/7.
If gambling is causing harm to you or someone close to you, call ConnexOntario on 1-866-531-2600 — free, confidential and 24/7, in more than 170 languages. You can also text CONNEX to 247247, use the service’s web chat, or start from iGaming Ontario’s player help page.