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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 stems from our own partnership with the WPA. It is comprised of four $150 + $15 tournaments, each with their own $5,000 guaranteed prize pool, which culminate in the Finals in January. By participating in the Playground Women’s Series, players will… score points toward the …

  The World Poker Tour at Playground From October 20 to November 4, the famous World Poker Tour will bring its poker tournaments back to Playground. The WPT Montreal is the longest-running event at our club, closing the festival year for the eighth time in 2019! The series is comprised of seven tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from $220 (the Ladies event and the Caribbean Poker Party satellite) to $5,300 (High Roller). The CPP satellite guarantees three packages to the Bahamas that include tournament buy-in, expenses and nine nights at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar for two people. A poker vacation in paradise! Of course, the WPT Montreal also features the $3,300 Main Event, a prestigious tournament with a massive $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The winner also takes home WPT Montreal belt. Make sure to come check it out!   Bust the Bank! Every Sunday in …

Last week, we announced the return of the WPT Montreal from October 20 to November 4 and a $3,000,000 guaranteed Main Event. After finalizing the last details of the schedule with the World Poker Tour, we can now officially release the dates, formats and guarantees of all seven events that will make up the WPT Montreal 2019! The festival will kick off with the ever-popular WPT500. This year, the $500 + $50 event presents a $1,066,000 guarantee. The odd number represents one million in cash and twenty $3,300 seats for the Main Event, which will be awarded to the top 20 finishers on top of their prize money. The event is an unlimited re-entry tournament, which means that you can throw in as many bullets as you wish across the five online and eight live starting flights. Following the WPT500 will be the $300 + …

The Omaha Bad Beat Jackpot was hit! Saturday night, eight lucky players shared $54,040. Let’s have a look at the breakdown. The $2/$2 Pot Limit Omaha game was held on table 15, and these events happened just after midnight. After three calls were made, the player on the button raised it to $10. Both blinds and all 3 limpers jumped in, creating a nice healthy pot of $60. All six participants checked the flop. Board on the turn: . Hum. Three checks were announced, followed by a $25 bet, which was called by two spots only – THE two spots. The river came the . Marc, the first caller on the turn, did not want to see that street checked around, and threw in a $125 bet. Hervé, the second caller on the turn, made it $300 to go. The third player thought: “Hey guys. …

  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 in the early days of the event when a Bad Beat Jackpot awarded $305,351 to some lucky NL Hold’em cash game players on the morning of August 25. Add to that the prizes totalling more than $150,000 given away over the course of the WSOP-C …