Pure Casino Edmonton is the biggest building in the Pure chain: more than 72,000 square feet on Argyll Road in the city's southeast. It runs 24 hours a day and holds a 4.0 rating from nearly 2,400 Google reviewers.
Size is the honest headline. This is a large, comfortable, unfussy room, and the extra floor space shows up as elbow room rather than as extra attractions.
The floor
Over 850 slot machines, 18 video lottery terminals, and 30 live-action table games, with an exclusive high-limit room for bigger play.
The VLT count is worth explaining if you are visiting from outside Alberta. VLTs are the provincially regulated machine set found in bars and lounges across the province; a casino carrying both VLTs and a full slot floor gives you two different machine experiences under one roof, and the 18 here are a small, separate bank rather than the main event.
The poker room has its own entrance
The 24-hour poker room runs around the clock with a separate entrance from the main floor.
That entrance is the detail regulars care about. You can arrive, play and leave without walking the length of a slot floor, which over a few hundred sessions is the difference between a poker room and a poker room attached to a casino.
Owned from 4,000 kilometres east
In December 2024 the Pure chain passed to Indigenous Gaming Partners, a company formed by five Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw First Nations with Sonco Gaming, which bought it from Onex's private equity arm.
It is one of the stranger ownership maps in Canadian gaming: Alberta's second-largest casino group, run out of Edmonton, owned by Nations on the Atlantic coast. The day-to-day operation did not change, and most regulars never noticed.
Getting there
7055 Argyll Road NW, southeast Edmonton, just off the Whitemud and Argyll. Free parking, straightforward access, and away from the congestion around West Edmonton Mall.
Where the money goes
Alberta runs the only charitable gaming model in Canada where licensed non-profits conduct the casino events themselves — a structure the province adopted in 2003 and has reviewed repeatedly since.
The scale is easy to underestimate. The Pure group alone reports hosting over 725 local charities a year and returning more than $52 million annually to community organisations. A single two-day casino event can fund a community league's entire operating year.
Worth it?
For poker, this is arguably the best room in Edmonton — 24 hours, its own door, and none of the mall traffic you fight at Starlight.
For everything else, Starlight is the stronger property: more tables, a bigger slot floor, six places to eat and the Replay Arena. Pure Edmonton has no hotel, no showroom and no comedy club, and it is not trying to have them.
Choose it for space and cards. Choose Starlight for a night out.
FAQ
How big is Pure Casino Edmonton?
More than 72,000 square feet, the largest of the four Pure properties by floor area.
How many slots and tables are there?
Over 850 slot machines, 18 video lottery terminals and 30 live-action table games, plus a high-limit room.
Does Pure Casino Edmonton have poker?
Yes, a 24-hour poker room with its own separate entrance.
Is it open 24 hours?
Yes, seven days a week.
Who owns it?
Indigenous Gaming Partners, formed by five Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw First Nations with Sonco Gaming, which acquired PURE Canadian Gaming in December 2024.
Where is it?
7055 Argyll Road NW in southeast Edmonton, with free parking.
Comparing Edmonton rooms? See our Edmonton casinos guide, Starlight Casino Edmonton and all 30 Alberta land casinos.
Updated September 2026 · Details verified against the operator's site and AGLC published information. Floor counts and hours change. Confirm before you go.
