British Columbia Online Casino Back Online

August 24, 2010 | News Category: Online Casinos

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The British Columbia online casino shut down almost as soon as it had begun. The online casino had announced at the time that there were some technical glitches, and they would be back up soon. Since the first launch of the online casino, PlayNow.com, it has been offline for over a month, which is a long time for those who had already signed up and deposited funds with the new online casino.

The British Columbia online casino seems to be back online, and the casino claims to have sorted out all their glitches. On Thursday, players had attempted to go back and play at the site, but it was not yet up and running, although it has been online since Friday, so perhaps all will be good this time.

The site has come back online after Deloitte, an independent consulting firm reviewed it. During this first week that the site is operating, Deloitte will be performing a second review to ensure that the online casino is running as it should be.

The President and Chief Executive Officer of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Michael Graydon, noted that the 33 days that the new online casino was down, cost the company about five million Canadian dollars, which is equivalent to roughly 3.76 million Euros. Graydon feels that the online casino will begin to recoup its losses now that all the glitches have been fixed, and their customers' confidence would be regained.

One does wonder, with all the excellent online casino software companies available out there, who already have working online casino software, why the British Columbia Lottery Corporation decided to create and run their own new online casino, Play Now.

The site was originally launched on July 15th, and was shut down when the information of 134 players was being shared incorrectly. In fact, private information was being shared. At the time that this occurred, there were already around 140,000 players that had signed up with the new online casino site.

Of the original 140,000 players, most have chosen to stay with the site, although they were given the option to close their accounts, and receive their balances back. There were some players who did avail themselves of this option.

There are other provinces in Canada that are now considering hosting their own online casinos, just as British Columbia has done. There are currently large numbers of Canadians who are playing at offshore online casinos.