Mise-o-jeu

Mise-o-jeu is the sports betting brand of Loto-Québec, the province's Crown corporation for lotteries and gambling. It comes in two forms:

• Mise-o-jeu at retail: paper betting slips sold at lottery retailers, like your local dep.
• Mise-o-jeu+: the online version, available through a Loto-Québec account on the website and the app.

The basics

• You need to be 18 or older, live in Quebec and be in the province when you bet online.
• Mise-o-jeu bets have been sold online since March 2012; the online-only Mise-o-jeu+ offer, with better odds, launched in December 2015.
• Single-game bets became possible on 27 August 2021, when federal Bill C-218 took effect. Before that, Canadian law only allowed combos (parlays), so Mise-o-jeu tickets always covered more than one game.
• Odds are decimal, written with a comma.
• Settling a bet early on eligible markets is called encaissement anticipé (see cash out).

Example: reading a Mise-o-jeu+ price

You see the Habs at 2,25. A $20 bet that wins returns 20 × 2.25 = $45, so $25 profit. The implied probability is 1 ÷ 2.25 = 44.4%. In American odds that's +125.

How it fits in

Mise-o-jeu+ is the sports betting option authorised by the province. International sportsbooks you see advertised are licensed elsewhere (some by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission) and are not authorised by Quebec. Compare prices and rules with the same maths, and use the self-exclusion and deposit limit tools wherever you play. Help is available from Jeu: aide et référence at 1 800 461-0140.