Ontario’s online gambling market keeps finding new ways to surprise people. Just when it looks as though growth might be starting to level off, another big month arrives. June did exactly that, and Toronto’s gaming industry had plenty of reasons to smile.
The headline number was hard to miss. Players wagered $9.46 billion through Ontario’s regulated online gambling market in June, more than 30% higher than the same month last year and only a whisker away from the all-time monthly record of $9.59 billion in March 2026.
Revenue keeps rolling in
Handle is impressive, but operators tend to care just as much about revenue, and that climbed sharply too. Gross gaming revenue hit $400.6 million in June, marking year-on-year growth of over 30%. What is interesting about this figure is the amount of consistency. Online casino and sportsbook operators have managed to hit the $400 million mark in six out of the last eight months. This is not a fluke. It shows the market is developing some form of flow.
For the Ontario government, this flow has a real monetary value. The province’s revenue-sharing deal means that June alone generated an estimated $80 million for the government in taxes. Since the launch of the controlled market in April 2022, the total amount of tax revenue has surpassed $2.5 billion.
That is a serious contribution to provincial coffers.
World Cup fever arrives in Ontario
Football was largely the reason for the surge in June. The opening of the FIFA World Cup kicked off a renewed interest in betting within Ontario.
Through sports betting, operators brought in $1.03 billion in bets for June. This was the fourth time in six months that sports betting had surpassed the billion-dollar mark. June betting activity increased by 34.5% compared to 2025, which had no World Cup.
Sports betting operators made $78.6 million in revenue off this activity, which represented an increase of 34.4% from last year.
Casinos still do the heavy lifting
The online casinos have continued to show their dominance in the gaming market of Ontario, even amidst the World Cup frenzy. All in all, the total handle of casinos reached $8.30 billion, ranking as the third-largest total ever recorded in Ontario. The revenue generated from online casino games is $316.8 million, contributing almost 79% of the total gaming revenue.
This amount was slightly lower than the record-breaking month coming in May but still higher than last year’s June values by more than 30%. Slots and table games remain extremely popular in Ontario gaming sector.
Poker remains a tiny slice
Online poker barely moved the needle, contributing only about 1% of both handle and revenue. It remains a niche product compared with the enormous scale of casino gaming and sports betting in Ontario.
The bigger picture
Perhaps the most striking thing about June is that both major verticals, casino and sports betting, performed at historically strong levels at the same time. Ontario now has 48 licensed operators running 82 regulated sites, and the market looks increasingly mature rather than speculative.
Toronto may not have a physical casino on every corner, but in the digital world the province is seeing plenty of green, and the latest numbers suggest the momentum is still very much alive.
