Deposit ladder · C$1 to C$50
THE DOOR, RUNG BY RUNG
Three different minimums sit on every casino account and only one of them is advertised. The deposit floor, the offer threshold and the withdrawal floor. The last one is where small balances get stuck.
The step between C$5 and C$10 is Interac's own floor. Almost nothing in this market opens below the rail it runs on.
The deposit floor is what the cashier accepts. It is the number on the banner and it is the least interesting of the three.
The offer threshold is what triggers the welcome promotion, and it is usually higher. Deposit ten at a site whose offer needs twenty and you get an account without a bonus, which reads as a broken promise and is actually two different numbers in two different documents.
The withdrawal floor is the one that costs people money. A cashier that accepts a C$10 deposit and refuses to release less than C$50 has effectively locked any balance under fifty dollars until it grows or the account closes.
| Rung | Cashiers | Median cashout | Median floor out | Quickest at this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C$1 | 1 | 4 h | C$10 | Jackpot City Casino · 4 h |
| C$5 | 3 | 4 h | C$10 | Betano · 30 min |
| C$10 | 15 | 6 h | C$10 | Betty Casino · 15 min |
| C$20 | 22 | 5 h | C$10 | BitStarz · 10 min |
| C$50 | 23 | 6 h | C$10 | BitStarz · 10 min |
Floor out is the smallest withdrawal each cashier will release, taken across the rails it carries. It is a different number from the deposit floor and it is the one that strands a small balance. 20 casinos sit past the 24 hour rule and are absent from every rung.
Which rung to actually use
C$10 is the practical floor of this market. Fifteen of the cashiers inside our 24 hour rule open there, it matches Interac's own minimum at nearly every one of them, and it is enough to trigger a meaningful share of the offers published.
Below that the ladder thins quickly. Three cashiers open at C$5 or less and one opens at a dollar, which makes those rungs interesting rather than useful.
Above it, C$20 is where the whole listed set is available and where chain rails start to make sense, because a network fee stops being a meaningful share of the transfer.
The rails set the floors
Interac sits at C$10 almost everywhere and that single fact anchors most of the market. Apple Pay and Google Pay occasionally go lower, which is where the C$5 rung comes from.
Cards are usually C$10 to C$20 in and C$50 out, which is the widest gap between the two floors of anything in the cashier.
Chain rails have no floor at the protocol level and a practical one set by the fee. On Bitcoin a small deposit loses a real share of itself to network cost; on Tron it does not.
Asked about deposit minimums
What is the lowest casino deposit in Canada?
One dollar, at a single cashier in our set. Three sites open at C$5 or less and fifteen open at C$10 or less, which is where the usable part of the market starts.
Does a small deposit affect withdrawal speed?
It helps. Release engines approve small amounts without a person reading them, so a modest first cashout tends to land at or under the published median.
Why can't I withdraw my small balance?
Because the withdrawal floor is a separate number from the deposit floor and it is often five times higher. It is written in the cashier rather than in the promotion.