Playing in Canada is great.

You can win as much as you want without paying taxes! The only thing that happens is if you cash out more than 10K they track your info - mostly to do with money laundering and anti-terror efforts.

We just had our largest ever jackpot - $54 million won. Tax free, lump sum. It was shared by 17 people, all co-workers. I'd hate to own the company where they worked. The guy who held the ticket was sitting at the morning meeting when the boss joked that nobody must have won - they were all at work. The ticket holder then asked his co-workers "who was in on the lotto draw?" and he told them that they had won - they immediately all quit.

It was announced on the AM news that it was won here in Alberta, and when I heard that on the news... then my wife told me it wasn't us and that I should get my asp out of bed.

Anyway.... play in Canada. All of our casinos are charity and the money won by the house is split with charitable groups - but that is another post if anyone is interested.

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