Happy Birthday Playground!
The month of December comes with winter, the excitement of the holidays, and Playground’s Anniversary Series! This year, we’re celebrating nine years of constant growth, from a small poker club to a massive entertainment destination with international poker events, electronic gaming, concerts and more. And what better way to celebrate than to play for it! Join us from December 8 to December 16 for the 9-Year Anniversary Series, a 9-day poker festival offering over $550,000 in guaranteed prize pools. And what’s more, the Grand Prix Canada presented by partypoker LIVE is our Main Event! It is an honour to welcome once again this great multi-day competition, a poker tournament that gives all players the chance to play for a massive prize pool for a minimal buy-in. Guaranteed at $500,000 and priced at $200 + $20, the event offers nineteen starting flights to choose from! Five …
The Omaha BBJ is Hit… Again!
The WPT Montreal may be over, but the Bad Beat Jackpots continue! At 10:14 last night on table 15, with eight players at the table, the $18,059 PLO BBJ went off. The game was $2/$2 PLO and the hand was straddled to $5. Kevin raised it to $20 and two players called the bet: Marco and Arthur. Flop: This flop had a “little bit” for everyone, because when Kevin placed a $50 continuation bet, he found not one, but two calls. And the on the turn (!) was followed by the exact same betting line: a $50 bet by Kevin and two calls. The on the river caused a change in leadership. When Kevin and Marco checked, Arthur went all-in for $90. Kevin went over the top, pushing his own stack valued at $450, but that did not chase Mario away: he called! Kevin: Arthur: …
Over $15,000 in Weekly Cash and Prizes!
All throughout the month of November, Playground will be turning up the heat with a new lineup of EGD promotions. No matter when you take a seat – day or night, weekday or weekend – it might become a Hot Seat! On Fridays and Saturdays, from November 8 to November 23, there will be six sets of Hot Seat draws from 9:00pm to midnight. Each drawing will select 10 active EGD players who will instantly win $20 in free play. But that’s not all! At 12:30am, there will be a special raffle for the Hot Seat drawing winners. There are 15 prizes to be won with a total value of over $5,000, including thousands in cash, VIP tables at one of Playground’s shows and much more! On Happy Mondays, the EGD section is the place to be all day long because Hot Seat drawings will …
WPT Montreal Recap
The 2019 edition of the WPT Montreal , the last major festival of the year, kept up with the WPT’s winning tradition and was a resounding success! The series, which ran from October 20 to November 4, included seven official WPT events as well as four Playground events and a plethora of satellites that allowed many players to take a shot at the big buy-in events for only a fraction of the cost. In all, the official WPT events awarded $5,970,632 in prizes! The $500 + $50 WPT500 brought out an impressive field. This event guaranteed a prize pool of $1,066,000, awarding a million in cash and 20 $3,000 + $300 seats to the Main Event. With such great value on the line, it came as no surprise to see this event collect 2,135 entries throughout its 13 starting flights. When play finally concluded on …
Halloween delivers the PLO BBJ
It was a dark and stormy night. But this Halloween did not bring spooks or chills, it delivered the treat every player hopes for: the Bad Beat Jackpot. Table 39 was playing eight-handed 2/2 PLO, when the action was opened to $10 from early position. The raise picked up four callers, and the five players each checked on the flop. The turn brought the and another line check. The river was the , and there would be no more checking. Peng Peng, the first to act, led at the pot with a bet of $50. Peng’s bet picked up a call before the action got to Chrishan Sivasundaram, who raised to $200. When the action got back to Peng, he quickly moved all in, which chased the initial caller out of the hand, before Sivasundaram made the snap call and triumphantly tabled his hand. He …
Weekly Cash Game Giveaways – The New Lineup
The leaves are changing colour and the days are getting shorter, as part of the annual reminder that the seasons are changing. And Playground’s Sizzling Summer cash game promotions are changing right along with them to provide players a fresh fall lineup. Starting Monday, October 7, the new Weekly Cash Game Giveaways will be bringing players outstanding value and exciting formats across the five weekly promotion days. From Sunday to Thursday, it will pay to play! On Mondays, players will hope to hear their table number called for the hourly Lucky Table drawings because, at the Lucky Table, everyone wins! …
Huge Savings on your CPP Adventure
*Some details of this promo were revised and updated in this article on Friday, September 27 The Caribbean Poker Party (CPP) has grown to become one of the most exciting, luxurious and prestigious events in the poker world. This year’s edition, once again hosted at the luxurious Baha Mar resort, runs from November 15 to 24 with a 17 tournament lineup that features over $15 MILLION in prize pool guarantees. Playground and partypoker want you to go play poker in paradise, so we’re offering 10% off the CPP Lite package! The US$4,000 package includes: $1,100 Mini Main Event entry 9-night …
A Playground Series for Women
Every year, we see more and more women enjoying the great game of poker and the pure competition that comes with. Playground, in collaboration with the Women’s Poker Association, wishes to support that trend by setting up a poker series exclusively for women: the Playground Women’s Series! The Women’s Poker Association, launched in 2018, received a lot of love from the community and expanded very quickly. In 2019, several projects were added to their operations, including the addition of the WPA Player of the Year program and partnerships with many venues. The Playground Women’s Series is the first project that …
The WSOP-C Playground does it again!
The WSOP-C took over Playground from August 22 to September 2 in its second annual edition and was another resounding success! Thousands of players from across the continent descended on Playground to take part in the seven-event series that awarded over $4,000,000 in prize money. Both tournament and cash game tables were packed to capacity throughout this event that saw every tournament surpass its prize pool guarantee and hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded on cash game tables through a combination of the Bad Beat Jackpot and the Sizzling Summer cash game promotions. The action got a major jump-start …