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Time-Outs and Help at Gateway Casinos Clinton
A long Sunday of harness racing and slots on Beech Street goes better with a limit fixed before the first race. If the day stops feeling like a day out, help in Ontario answers the phone at any hour.
Produced by the Channel 147 crewChecked October 3, 2026
RUNDOWN
- Set the limit before the first race
- The numbers to call
- How the casino handles a break
- Questions from the booth
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Set the limit before the first race
Two decisions belong at home, before the trip: how much you will spend on the slots and what time you will leave. Put both on paper. Next, build the drive home into the plan and settle who is driving before anyone takes a seat. Those limits come easier at the kitchen table than in front of a machine.
Once that amount is gone, leave the floor, even if the time you picked has not arrived. Going back to the bank machine for more turns a limit into a suggestion. Gateway Casinos Clinton keeps its own clock as well. The slots run from 9 AM to 1 AM every day, so play stops at 1 AM whatever the plan said.
The numbers to call
- Calls about gambling, mental health or addiction reach ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 at any hour, cost nothing and stay confidential. Texting 247247 with the word CONNEX also works, as does the chat at connexontario.ca.
- OLG's Virtual PlaySmart Centre picks up at 1-833-888-2306 between 11 AM and 7 PM, every day of the week. Its responsible gambling site is playsmart.ca.
- My PlayBreak, run by OLG, applies to land-based gaming. A person chooses 3 months, 6 months, or any term from 1 to 5 years, and until it ends no Ontario casino will admit them, with no way to cut it short. Enrolment goes through casino staff or the OLG Support Centre at 1-800-387-0098.
- iGaming Ontario's BetGuard, found at betguard.ca, is one enrolment for stepping away from online gambling, available at 19 and older. It blocks every regulated Ontario site, OLG.ca among them. Term options start at 6 months and include 1 year and 5 years, or a length the person sets, and land-based casinos stay outside its reach.
How the casino handles a break
The Responsible Gambling Council granted RG Check accreditation in January 2014 to the slots at Clinton Raceway, the room now known as Gateway Casinos Clinton. A guest under a trespass order or a self-exclusion, issued here or by another gaming property in Ontario, cannot enter. Staff on the floor can begin a My PlayBreak enrolment for a guest who wants a personal break. The OLG Support Centre at 1-800-387-0098 also enrols people, and a term, once begun, runs its full length.
Questions from the booth
- Can you reach ConnexOntario after midnight?
- Yes, the line at 1-866-531-2600 answers at any hour and costs nothing to call. Texting CONNEX to 247247 or opening a chat at connexontario.ca works as well.
- Can a My PlayBreak be shortened once it starts?
- Once a My PlayBreak term starts, there is no ending it early. Terms of 3 and 6 months exist, as do terms ranging from 1 to 5 years. Every Ontario casino stays off limits for the whole term, so the Channel 147 crew suggests picking the length slowly.
- Is the Virtual PlaySmart Centre open on a Sunday?
- It is, since the centre picks up at 1-833-888-2306 daily, between 11 AM and 7 PM. After those hours, ConnexOntario still answers at 1-866-531-2600.