Hollywood Casino Review

Hollywood Casino is the name over more than forty Penn Entertainment gaming and racing properties across the United States, and as of June 2026 it is also the newest casino in Ontario's regulated market, full stop. It arrived as the second storefront on the same Penn licence and platform that carry theScore Casino, which we have reviewed in depth, and the American online version it follows was ranked the second-best igaming product in that country within months of its late-2024 debut. We registered on launch-week, played the Penn-built exclusives, sorted the Canadian banking from the American listings, and wrote the only honest review a days-old casino can receive: one that grades the operator, because the brand has no record yet to grade.

Licensing & Safety

Hollywood Casino is registered with iGaming Ontario under AGCO oversight: our team confirmed licence OPIG1294141, status Active, held by Score Media and Gaming, the Penn company whose registration also carries theScore Casino, with trust scoring at 8.6, fair-rated terms and a complaint file that is blank because the brand is weeks old. The operator-level entry we disclose wherever this licence appears: the C$105,000 AGCO responsible-gambling penalty of October 2025 landed on the sibling theScore brand, a monitoring failure rather than a funds or fairness issue, covered fully in that review and inherited here as context rather than conduct. The platform underneath has run cleanly in Ontario since 2025.

Key Facts at a Glance

Payments

Correct the listings first: the ACH, PayNearMe and paper-cheque menus you may find online belong to the American Hollywood. The Ontario cashier is the Penn-Canada standard, Interac, cards and PayPal in Canadian dollars, with Interac the practical fast lane, the same stack whose behaviour we documented at the sibling. Nothing exotic, everything functional.

Payout Rate (RTP)

No Ontario payout figure exists yet, audited or otherwise, for a casino this young, and borrowing the American number would be exactly the kind of decoration this series refuses. Per-game RTPs from the established studios on the floor are published inside each title; a local site-wide average will come with time, and we will add it when it does.

Games

The launch floor exceeds 1,000 titles with a live-dealer room, leaning on NetEnt, Konami, Greentube and Red Rake, suppliers still being added, and the shelf that matters is the in-house one: Penn Game Studios exclusives like Legendary Larry, playable in this province only on Penn's two doors. A curated, growing catalogue is the honest description, and the American version's rapid build-out suggests the growing part is not hypothetical.

PENN Play, or Why This Door Exists

The sibling question answers itself once you see the loyalty architecture. theScore Casino courts the sports-app audience with Blue Jays felt; Hollywood courts players who know Penn's physical casinos and want PENN Play, the omnichannel rewards program tying online play to those forty-plus US properties. A snowbird who winters near a Hollywood floor in Florida or Nevada has a reason to pick this door that no Ontario-only review metric captures. Same engine, different gravity.

Why Penn Keeps Investing Here

The second door is itself evidence. Penn retired its expensive ESPN Bet experiment in late 2025 and rebranded its American operation under the Toronto-born theScore name, with Ontario standing as its strongest igaming market, and a company in retreat does not launch new storefronts. Hollywood's arrival weeks before Alberta's market opening reads as the same plan seen from another angle: build the multi-brand machine in the province that works, then export it. For an Ontario player weighing a week-old casino, that context matters more than any launch promotion, because it says the operator intends to still be here when the record this review cannot yet cite has finally been written.

The Fine Print

Expect the Penn family terms, including the dormancy clause we flag at every Penn review: balances voidable after a stretch of inactivity, fees earlier, so park nothing here long-term. Welcome wagering behind the Ontario login, verification early, the standing drill.

Mobile

Dedicated iOS and Android apps shipped at launch with PENN Play built in, on the app DNA this operator is known for; our launch-week sessions ran cleanly, which for week-one software is itself a data point.

Support and Player Reputation

In-app chat and email, hours not promised as round-the-clock, worth a day-one check. Reputation is genuinely blank, neither comfort nor warning, and we weight the established operator and platform precisely because the brand cannot yet be weighed.

Responsible Gambling

The provincial toolkit ships complete, and an operator carrying a fresh RG penalty on its sibling has every institutional reason to run these tools properly; set limits at signup regardless.

Who Hollywood Suits

Players who know the Hollywood name from American floors and want PENN Play bridging their online and physical play, completionists who collect the province's exclusives, and early adopters comfortable with week-old software. Everyone else should notice that theScore Casino, with an identical engine and a year of record, covers the same ground one door over; the honest pitch for Hollywood today is the brand and the rewards bridge, and we have written it no larger than that.

Verdict

Hollywood Casino is a polished arrival with nothing to hide and nothing yet to show: a proven Penn engine, real exclusives, a loyalty bridge to forty American floors, and a local record measured in days. We grade what exists, the operator, the platform, the launch build, and all of it passes; the rest is a calendar problem. Check back as the record accrues, or simply use the sibling until this door earns its own paragraph of history.