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Before the ban, however, gambling was a prevalent pastime, and casinos were big businesses that pulled in celebrities worldwide. The ban, introduced in 1946, came from President Eurico Gaspar Dutra; a man heavily influenced by his wife, who was a devout Catholic, and thought poorly of games of chance.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Brian Christopher is a gaming influencer with massive followings on his YouTube channel and Facebook page. When Gaming Arts, a gaming machine manufacturer, reached out to Brian to design his own slot machine, he couldn't pass up the offer.

Since then, NSUS has changed the registered domain of WSOP Ontario from wsop.ca to ggpoker.ca. The site has also shed the WSOP Powered by GGPoker  moniker and has been rebranded as WSOP @ GGPoker.  But while GG and WSOP were among the first to be awarded a license, they were the last to go live in Ontario.

With a population of around 211 million people, Brazil is the sixth most populous country in the world. That makes it a massive market to tap for online poker sites  and more have continued to do so in recent years. The country has some interesting gambling laws, however. Gambling has been largely illegal since 1941.