After more than nine hours of poker action, a winner was crowned in the Roll the Dice event. Congratulations to Antoine Sankari, who earned a first place prize of $4,689 in his win. Antoine won the tournament while playing Pot Limit Omaha. The winning hand is pictured below. And let’s not forget the 2nd place finisher, Mr. Siamak S., who’s 2nd place prize will net him a healthy and well-deserved $3,300. Congratulations to you as well sir on a good game. Well done!
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Samuel Miranda is the Grand Prix Canada Champion
The heads up battle had been epic, and stacks were roughly even for a long stretch of time – but eventually, and slowly, Samuel began to expand – and maintain – his lead. When blinds reached 4M/8M in level 53, however, a 100M stack was no longer much to rely on. Breyer Calvert – who had played an amazing tournament all day today – started to feel the blinds pressure and shoved 4 out of 6 hands in a row – seemingly willing to bring the matter to a conclusion. Samuel, for his part, was patient and didn’t fall rise to the provocation… until the final hand of the night. Samuel was on the button and just limped, and Breyer went all in. Samuel made the call. Breyer: Samuel: Things looked bad for Samuel on the flop of , and the turn didn’t alter the recipe at all… but then, […]
Event #10 Champion: Karim Abdelhamid
Event #10 of the World Cup of Cards, the $300 + $30 6-Max Re-entry, brought out a huge field that contributed 181 entries, allowing this event to more than double its prize pool guarantee of $25,000. The early stages of play were surprisingly prudent, however, that dynamic changed dramatically following the first break of the day. Following the first break, the players shifted into another gear as three-bets and big pots became the norm. This change in the action brought along with it a a big uptick in the number of re-entries, which reached into the thirties before the end of the re-entry period. Following the end of late registrations and re-entries, there was a huge disparity between the big and small stacks in the field. The chip leaders were consistently playing stacks that approached triple the chip average while many others clung to their tournament lives with stacks of […]
Nghi Van Tran is our winner
A champion has been declared in the $150 + $15 Shootout Turbo Event #9 in the World Cup of Cards. After less than five hands of heads up play, Nghi Van Tran (also known as Henry) bettered Sherif Saad. Nghi Van went all in with and Sherif bet everything on . The community cards came down . As runner up, Sherif’s share of the prize pool was $2690! But the grand prize of $3,400 and a champion’s bragging rights go to Nghi Van, who played dominant poker throughout the event!
Changes to the MILLIONS format
The 2019 MILLIONS Tour, coming to Playground in May, has undergone a few alterations. After analyzing player feedback, collected live at major events and through various polls, partypoker LIVE has added a Day 1 to the Main Event schedule, set from May 21 to May 26. With an extra starting flight, players will be able to fire 2 bullets in the event, but on two separate days. This change is a happy medium, allowing travelling poker players to have a second chance in case they hit an unavoidable wall on Day 1A, while still ensuring that no one will be able to fire multiple bullets on the same day. The precious value of your initial stack remains, keeping all players on the same level, regardless of their bankroll. Here are the revised specs: Buy-in: $10,300 Two Day 1s A $5,000,000 guarantee Format: Next-day Re-entry The amended format will likely encourage […]
Over 150 Jackpot Winners!
Since the Playground Electronic Gaming space opened on December 13, over $625K were paid in Jackpots alone. In just six weeks, over 150 guests were hand-paid a sum of at least $1,000, including Luigi B, winner of our biggest Jackpot to date: $30,222.70! This week, our 3 biggest Jackpots were hit within a 24-hour period. On Tuesday night, Guylaine Gregory was playing Quick Hit Platinum Plus, betting $6 per spin. At 9:24PM, her screen showed 8 Quick Hits and filled with golden coins. Moments later, she was hand-paid $4,382.82! The following afternoon, a gentleman by the name of Pierre was also spinning Quick Hit Platinum Plus, the same version of the Quick Hit game that paid Guylaine a handsome amount. He was also max-betting at $6 a pop, and at 4:24PM, became the proud winner of $4,380.20. A few hours before that, a young man named Jonathan Boulay was playing […]
partypoker presents: the Canada Team Challenge
For Canadian players only partypoker constantly finds new and exciting ways to throw value at Canadian players. Its newest promotion, only for account holders from Canada, is a one-month-long Team Challenge with a $25,000 Prize Pool, plus MILLIONS North America Main Event seats for all members of the winning team! What you need to do: Form a team of 2 to 4 players and designate a Team Captain. The Team Captain will then submit a registration form on behalf of the team, and must do it before 5:00pm ET on January 31. Registration is free! From February 1 to February 28, Team Members need to accumulate points by playing specific daily tournaments, namely: -Deepstacks ($3.30 / $11 / $33) -Mix-Max Turbos ($3.30 / $33 / $11) Earn at least 250,000 points to participate in the Final on March 3, where a $25,000 prize pool up awaits qualified Teams. Be the […]
Tonight’s WPTDeepStacks satellite is in the books
Tonight was the first of 5 scheduled satellites for the $1,500 + $150 WPTDeepStacks event to be held during the WCC. The WPTDeepStacks event is the Main event in this year’s World Cup of Cards. There were 25 entries tonight including 3 re-entries, meaning that there was a small overlay on the guaranteed 3 seats that were awarded – in other words, “Value City”. Tonight’s satellite awarded the guaranteed 3 seats in the target event, and there ore another 4 $165 + $15 WPTDeepStacks satellites left on the WCC Schedule (3 on January 31 and 1 on February 1). Set a reminder now to return to Playground and play in a WPTDeepStacks satellite. The big event begins with Day 1A on February 1. Here is a photo of tonight’s winners
Win a FREE $12K package to MILLIONS South America
The Golden Chip is back! partypoker LIVE has announced a great promotion for Event #8 of the World Cup of Cards: the Grand Prix Canada. Buy into the event through partypoker, go on to win it, and you’ll also win an amazing $12K package to MILLIONS South America! This package includes a $10,300 Main Event ticket and $1,700 in cash for flight and accommodation. You’ll experience first-hand the world-famous Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio, Brazil, while vying for your share of the $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Free value! There are 3 ways in which you can enter the promotion: Play an Online Day 1 for the Grand Prix Canada on partypoker Buy in with PP Live Dollars Buy in with your partypoker balance at Playground Buying in using one of these methods will get you into the promotion, whether you have played a previous flight or not; even a […]
Baker’s dozen crowned Survivor champs
Once the group had been reduced to a total of fifteen players, the true game began. The game of patience. For over an hour, everyone popped the clutch and coasted in neutral, playing as conservatively as possible, folding around and around as the blinds were shuffled from player to player. Almost no preflop shove was challenged, and any that were didn’t knock anyone out. Everyone wanted to be in on the payout reserved for only 12 players, but no one wanted to fight for it. Indeed, at times it felt like the tournament would never end. And yet, whenever a deal was floated tentatively it was rejected by one player over and over, a non-starter. However, like all things do, this too came to an end. Unfortunately for Jessica Comeau and Vladislav Gulli it ended just a little too soon. The two to bubble today’s $100 + $10 Survivor were left […]
And our champion is Robert Turcotte
A champion has been declared in the $100 + $10 Megastack Turbo, Event #5 in the World Cup of Cards. After Robert Turcotte knocked out Nizar T when he hit a jack on the river, to pair up, and beat Nizar’s pair of eights, Robert and David Bonneau were left to battle it out alone. The duo engaged in an hour of back-and-forth heads up action where, initially, David looked dead in the water. When both players went all in, early on, David’s pocket fives did not appear strong enough to beat Robert’s pair of sevens, but when he hit the on the turn, he lived to fight another hand. But Robert had lady luck on his side, and even though David took a substantial lead at one point, Robert remained cool and poised, grinding his way to victory. When the final hand came down, David went all in […]
The PLO 50/50 Bounty champ is Jazz Smith!
Congratulations to Jazz Smith for winning Event #7 in the World Cup of Cards! It was a hard-fought contest between the two players, one with quite a few exciting back-and-forths. The lead passed between Andrew and Jazz more than once, but in the end it came down to one hand that determined the outcome of the tournament. Andrew: Jazz: Board: Jazz takes home the 1st place prize, the trophy, $2,522 and the glory! But a big shout-out goes to his very worthy opponent Andrew Dick, who was a hair away from winning the tournament more than once during heads up play. Andrew collected 8 bounties, so along with his 2nd place prize of $2,000 it was a very good day for both players. Well done gentlemen, we’ll see you next time.