Our new gaming space has already welcomed many players who wished to discover Playground’s brand-new Electronic Gaming Devices, all of whom were pleasantly surprised with the variety of games and level of service provided by our attentive team. Whether you prefer to look your opponent in the eye and call his bluff, or relax by taking a few spins on one of our 332 machines, you can always count on one constant – the Playground experience! What exactly is the Playground experience? Well, it’s the absolute best customer service you’re going to find north of Vegas! Looking to enjoy a drink while you play? Keep your wallet in your pocket (or purse), we’re covering the bill. This is only the beginning. As we’re sure you’ve noticed over the last 8 years, we tend to go BIG! We’ve got plenty of plans currently in the works to help ensure that […]
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The Bounty tournaments of the WCC
Of all formats presented in Playground festivals, bounty tournaments are probably the most popular. Everybody loves a bounty! There is something extremely gratifying in taking a value chip off a player that we just busted, and something very humbling in handing it over. It is the ultimate congratulatory gesture, and throwing it in the pot with a nod and some eye contact is worth a lot more than a simple: “nice hand!” But the chase is what really gets most players! The bounty hunting, the little voice in your head that becomes louder when you’re playing a pot with a player who has fewer chips than you do. The World Cup of Cards has 4 such events on the schedule. Let’s take a look at the list: Event #4: $100 + $20 + $100 6-Max 50/50 Bounty Monday January 21 The 6-Max format calls for extra-aggressive play. Bounties are sure […]
Event #3 is in the books
After a little more than eight hours of play, we have a winner in today’s tournament, Event #3 in the 8-Year Anniversary series, a $100 + $10 + $25 Bounty tournament. Congratulations to Benjamin Mathieu-Comptois on a tournament well played. After battling through a field of 121 entries (which included 30 re-entries), and collecting a whopping twelve $25 Bounties over the course of the day, Benjamin earned a prize of $2,126 plus those bounty chips. Well done! Event #3 Champion: Benjamin Mathieu-Comptois, $2,126 (plus bounties) Final hand of play The winner, along with the other five remaining final table players at the time, agreed on an ICM Chop, meaning that the purse was divided according to the players’ stack size at the time. They continued to play for bragging rights and a final prize of $241 after the deal was struck.
Playground: Still About Poker
As you may have heard by now, our new electronic gaming space is open to the public. Playground is very excited about exploring this new avenue, and about welcoming a completely new clientele into the complex. The Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs) were arranged on the first floor of a newly erected building, accessible from the Poker Tournament Hall, but seperate from it. We view and treat this new floor purely as an addition to our existing poker space. Playground was founded by poker players. Poker has always been and forever will be the subject of our main focus. From top to bottom, the passion for poker is present in our organization, and we share the players’ hopes that the new addition to the Playground Complex brings new faces to the great game that inspired and powered our 8-year evolution. So come take a spin on the new floor. Check out […]
Patrick Filteau wins Event #1!
Patrick Filteau has emerged as the winner of the first event in the 8-Year Anniversary Series! Today’s NL Short Deck Hold’em tournament attracted 49 entries and played out over 7.25 hours in the Tournament Hall here at Playground. Patrick won $1,083 for his efforts – the amount agreed to in a 4-way deal (see below) plus the $143 that was reserved for the winner. Play had gotten down to 4-way action when the players inquired about making a deal, and after counting each of the players’ stacks at the time, ICM chop calculations were made while leaving something for the eventual winner. The chip leader at the time was Roy Rochette, and he was just as eager as anyone to conclude an agreement. The numbers came back and the players had secured the following payouts: Roy Rochette – $1,110 Matthew Willard – $920 Dylan Thibault – $800 Patrick Filteau – […]
Electronic Gaming Devices are ready for you to enjoy!
We are very happy to announce that on Thursday, December 13 at 9:00AM (tomorrow!), the first phase of Playground’s newest expansion will be ready to welcome our clientele, old and new. There was much anticipation over the last few months, but our Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs) are finally ready for you to enjoy! Eight years ago, Playground Poker Club, on its opening day, dealt its first poker hand. The opening was a smashing success, and after eight years of constant growth and evolution – almost to the day – another opening takes place: the electronic gaming space! Thursday morning at 9:00AM. Come take a spin!
The 8-Year Anniversary weekend is around the corner!
The first MILLIONS seats will be won this weekend! Have you made your schedule? Eight years ago, on December 17, 2010, Playground Poker Club first opened its doors to the public, and after eight years of constant evolution, we are now paving the way to MILLIONS North America, our first $10,300 buy-in Main Event! MILLIONS, set to take place in May 2019, is an unbelievable milestone, and what better way to celebrate eight years of existence than to boost all of our MILLIONS Step Satellites with unbelievable guarantees across the Anniversary weekend! On the Anniversary schedule, you will find 7 events, including the Playground 200. The strong multi-day event comes back with 4 live starting flights instead of its usual 3. Players will get 4 chances to add their name to the list of qualifiers from last Sunday’s online flight. You can also find on the schedule some Short Deck, Bounty, […]
Welcome to the new playground.ca
By now, everyone who has visited the Playground Complex has noticed the huge changes that are underway. Those changes extend online as well – today, we launched a new and improved Playground website. The biggest changes in the new site are under the hood – but there are a few things players will notice as well. The most significant changes are the expanded menus, available from the top corners of the site. On the left there’s a new site menu, with an enhanced look and direct access to all parts of the website. On the right is the My Playground menu, which is all about you. Here you’ll be able to sign in to your account, register for a Player’s Card (if you don’t already have one), see your list of Shopping Cart items, and access a language switcher you can use to select the language you want to use […]
The TLB: a new path to MILLIONS!
-THIS STORY WAS EDITED WITH ADDED PRIZES! TOP 40 GET PAID! The Tournament Leaderboard, or TLB, has been around since the beginning. The core principle has always been the same: players finishing in the top 40% of every regular tournament held at Playground earn TLB points, and the best accumulators of every month are rewarded. Starting in December, and until further notice, our frequent achievers no longer compete for a spot in a freeroll, but for INSTANT PRIZES! The MILLIONS North America is approaching, and we want everybody to reap the amazing value offered by our massively guaranteed Step Satellites! Have a look at the MILLIONS satellite tree: STEP 1 $80 + $10 Turbo Re-entry STEP 2 $400 + $40 Turbo Re-entry STEP 3 $1,500 + $150 Re-entry Now, here is what our TLB top 40 will win: Top 3 TLB point earners: One(1) MILLIONS North America Main Event Satellite […]
MILLIONS Online comes to a close!
The MILLIONS Online has come to a close, and after smashing the $20,000,000 guarantee on Tuesday, play resumed on Wednesday with just 29 players left competing for the biggest prizes. When the dust settled, there was a chop between the first and second place players, with Manual “Sherparentao” Ruivo in 1st for $2,329,944 and Pim “ForMatherRussia” de Goede in 2nd for $2,309,995. One of the biggest stories of MILLIONS Online was the player who finished in 3rd place for $1,364,688, Slovenia’s “Scarmak3r”. He started his journey by winning a $5.50 satellite, and then played his way through the rest of the satellite tree to a Main Event ticket – and then rode that all the way to a huge 7-figure score! Playground’s heartiest congratulations are reserved for frequent Playground tournament player William Blais, who came in 6th place for $655,050! William has been playing here as long as anyone […]
MILLIONS Online cruises past the $20M Guarantee!
MILLIONS Online is the Online version of the MILLIONS poker series presented by partypoker LIVE, and when they announced that the guarantee of the event was going up from $5M (2017) to $20M (2018), people all around the poker world were skeptical, to say the least. Now, with late registration closed in Day 1E, it is clear that partypoker has managed to beat the guarantee by a healthy margin. The final prize pool in the event is more than $21.5M, which sets the new record for largest poker tournament by prize pool in history! Day 2 in the event gets underway at 2:00pm. Through the first 4 starting flights there were 568 players qualified, and Day 1E is set to add another 110+ players to the mix. Day 2 will play through 18 levels with blinds starting at 80K/160K and an ante of 20K. The chip average to start the […]
The WCC “Big 3”
The World Cup of Cards, the first poker festival to be held in 2019, is great for players who wish to chase an official title at a reasonable price. On the updated schedule, there is a total of 26 events and 15 satellites with buy-ins ranging from $110 to $1,650, and a wide variety of formats to please all players. Let’s take a look at our 3 most handsome guarantees: the World Cup of Cards “Big 3.” Event 8 – $200 + $20 Grand Prix Canada The Grand Prix Canada returns to Playground for the 4th time. This tournament presents an unbelievable buy-in/guarantee ratio. For $220, you have access to a half-a-million-dollar guarantee! Five online Day 1s and 12 live Day 1s all feed to a single Day 2 (January 27). The event concludes on Day 3 (January 28). Event 17 – $1,500 + $150 WPTDeepStacks The WPTDeepStacks, […]