BRITISH COLUMBIA

The British Columbia Gaming Commission sets policy, issues licenses, and sets terms and conditions of casino gaming in the province.Casinos exist for charities to raise funds.The private casino operators must pay 50% of the gross proceeds to licensed charity organizations.Permitted casino games include blackjack, red dog, roulette sic bo and wheels of fortune.Dice games are illegal; therefore sic bo is played with three balls thrown into a roulette style wheel with 36 dice combinations instead of 36 numbers.British Columbia is the only province to license social club "card clubs".Social clubs play a variety of poker games.Pai gow, maj jony and gin rummy are also quite common in social clubs.