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Zodiac Casino: twenty million paid to one Canadian player, and what that proves
A jackpot of twenty million Canadian dollars was paid here in January 2019, and it is the largest documented win among the brands on this site. A documented win is a fact about a network, not a forecast about an account.
- Licence on the recordMalta Gaming Authority and Kahnawake Gaming Commission ·Apollo Entertainment Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteinternational page only
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial siteOntario and Alberta
- PlatformCasino Rewards group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
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A number large enough to distort a page
Twenty million fifty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-seven Canadian dollars (20,059,287, to be exact about it) were paid out at this brand in January 2019, on the "Mega Moolah" progressive network, and it is the largest documented "documented win" among all the casinos indexed on this site (four of them, across fourteen brands). A figure of that size is the reason jackpot pages exist, and it is also the reason they are usually dishonest.
What the figure establishes is narrower than its size suggests, and the word "documented" is carrying most of the weight. It establishes that the "network" pays, that the payment was made in Canadian dollars to a player in Canada, and that the operator was able to settle a liability of that size (which is more than can be said for several brands that have advertised similar prizes). It establishes nothing whatever about the probability of the next one.
A page that puts that number above the fold is selling a lottery ticket (and charging nothing for it, which is the trick). This one puts it in the first section because it is the most interesting fact about the brand, and then spends the rest of the page on the things that decide what an ordinary account is worth.
How a progressive "pool" actually prices a spin
The prize is funded by a slice of every stake placed on the network (a fraction of each one, held back), which has a consequence most readers are never told: the published "return to player" of the game is lower while the "pool" is small and rises as the pool grows (a price that moves, on a game that does not). A player who sits down the day after a jackpot has fallen is buying the same spin at a worse price than a player who sits down when the pool is near its historical maximum.
That is not a system and it is not a strategy, because the spin remains random in either case and no sequence of spins is owed to anybody, and nobody should read it as one. It is a price, and a price is the kind of thing a reader can check before playing (the pool is displayed in the "lobby" (in figures) and it updates continuously).
Read the pool before the paytable, and the single most expensive habit available on a progressive game is already behind you!
One thing "documented" does not mean, and it is worth a sentence of its own, is that a regulator has recorded the payment. No authority on this file publishes win records at all, so what stands behind the figure is the operator's own announcement and the trade press that repeated it in January 2019, which is a weaker source than a register and a stronger one than a screenshot. We publish it with that label attached rather than without one.
What we have not verified about this operator
Nobody at this site has opened an account at Zodiac, and the honest place for that sentence is here, above the description, rather than at the foot of the page where a reader has already made up his mind. Our own button on this page hands a reader to a routing service rather than to an address (the programme issues one "iredirect.net" link for every country and sorts the traffic at its own end), which means that where a click from here lands is chosen by machinery nobody at this desk operates (a "geo-redirect", set up somewhere we cannot watch it).
No current multiplier is published in the programme's panel for this brand at all, and the panel's own page of "offer terms" carries a notice conceding that it has not been kept up to date (its words, not ours). A figure of two hundred times circulates in reviews and we have not been able to confirm it against the operator's terms, so it does not appear on this page.
That same silence is why three boxes on the card above carry a question mark instead of a figure: which currency the "balance" is held in, how long a "withdrawal" takes and which routes a Canadian account can use. The "cashier" page settles all three in about two minutes.
The licence, and the three authorities behind one name
Apollo Entertainment Limited holds the licences, and the arrangement is unusual in our index because there are three of them in three jurisdictions: Malta for the international site, a Kahnawake "permit" beside it, and an Ontario registration for the provincial one. Alberta, unlike five of its siblings, does not carry this brand at all.
Which of the three a complaint should go to depends on where the player lives, and we have set that out in full on the licences page (sources and dates included) rather than three times over here. For this brand the practical answer is short: a player in Ontario writes to the provincial regulator, and everybody else writes to Malta.
Which of the three protects a reader depends entirely on where he is sitting (a province, a country, neither), and that is precisely the question the footer of a casino never answers.
Two provinces, and a name that does not change
Apollo Entertainment Ltd appears on the Ontario register with seven brands, and this is one of them; the provincial site sits at its own address instead of on the international domain. Alberta carries it too (under the same company) and the figures are on the provinces page.
A detail of the Alberta listing is worth a sentence, because it will confuse a reader who notices it. Five of the seven sibling brands appear there with an "Alberta" prefix in their names, and Zodiac appears under its own; the prefix is how the register writes them and not a different product, and we have kept the register's spelling on our provincial pages for exactly that reason.
What remains unproven on our side is the route itself, and the gap is structural rather than careless: the programme supplies a geo-directed link (an "iredirect.net" address) rather than a provincial one, so that a reader in Ontario should arrive at the Ontario site, and confirming that from inside the province requires a connection we do not have. Until somebody does it with a connection from there, it is a declared expectation rather than a tested fact.
The dollar, and the one claim we can make for it
The win of January 2019 was paid in Canadian dollars, and that is the strongest single piece of evidence in our files that this brand holds Canadian accounts in Canadian money, though it is indirect evidence, and we would rather offer indirect evidence labelled as such than a confident sentence with nothing behind it at all.
What stayed shut to us is the deposit form, because the general link is geo-directed and its Canadian end does not open from here. The group states that accounts can be kept in Canadian dollars, which is the claim that matters most and the one we could not test; what a dollar account saves is worked out on a page given over to Canadian dollar accounts.
The field that names the currency of the account sits on the first screen of the "cashier", ahead of any form that asks for a name, and it answers in one word (three letters, in fact), which is the whole of the check and the reason it belongs to the reader rather than to us.
The engine (the loyalty scheme) and the thing that is genuinely shared
This lobby is the "Apricot" platform with a catalogue from Games Global, and the group names "eCOGRA" as its testing house. The win above is the reason to look at this brand rather than at its siblings: a "progressive pool" pays once (in one place) and the record of it is the only thing on the page nobody could have written in advance.
That last arrangement is the only one in our files that makes a group of brands behave as one product rather than as a dozen, and it cuts both ways: the scheme is genuinely useful to a player who stays inside it, and it is also the mechanism by which a group keeps him there.
Three things are worth doing before depositing, then, and all three are quicker than reading a page like this one. Find out whether your own province keeps a "register" at all, because this brand sits on two of them (Ontario and Alberta) and on neither of the others. Read the pool before the paytable, because the pool is the price. And read the currency on the cashier page, because it decides what your deposit is actually worth.
A note on method is owed here, since this page rests on two documents rather than on an account, and a reader is entitled to know which document carried which claim. The programme's "panel" supplies the links and the brand's own material supplies the licences, and neither of those is a reading of the site itself (nobody here has seen the lobby, the "wallet" or the terms). Where the two disagree we print both with their dates; where both are silent, as on the currency of the account, you will find a question mark rather than a sentence!
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Questions readers ask
Did somebody really win twenty million here?
A Mega Moolah jackpot of twenty million fifty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-seven Canadian dollars was paid in January 2019, and it is documented rather than advertised. It is the largest win among the brands on this site, and it says nothing about what a new account is likely to do.
Is Zodiac registered in Ontario?
Yes, under Apollo Entertainment Ltd, which appears on the register of iGaming Ontario (the subsidiary that contracts with the operators) with seven brands. The Ontario site is a separate address, and the register is the place to check rather than the footer.
Does it appear on the Alberta register too?
Yes, and under its own name rather than with the "Alberta" prefix that five of its sibling brands carry there. The Alberta register listed fifty-one sites on the day we read it.
What is the "wagering requirement"?
The programme's panel does not publish one for this brand, and a figure circulating in reviews is not confirmed by the operator. We have therefore published none, and the terms on the day you register are the ones that bind you.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
