The certified Hall of Famer, all-around poker legend and the voice and face of the WPT for its entire 15-year history has added to his legend and made history at Playground Poker Club by winning this $3,850 NL Hold’em event, now in its 5th year. For his victory, Mike wins $405,880.00 in cash, a US$15,000 entry in the WPT Tournament of Champions, the Playground Poker Champion’s Belt, his name (further) immortalized on the WPT Champions Trophy as well as a gorgeous Hublot watch and a pair of gold Monster 24K headphones! Mike and his opponent, Benny Chen, engaged in a truly epic heads-up battle that lasted 157 hands before a champion could be crowned. Benny proved to be an extremely skilled player and held a large chip advantage for long stretches of the evening, but Mike proved to be up to the challenge and kept on grinding, sometimes with a […]
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Announcing… the Champions’ Freeroll
Winning an event during the Playground Poker Fall Classic is about to pay off even more! Every event winner in the Fall Classic will win a seat in an exclusive freeroll tournament to be held during the Playground Winter Festival (Jan/Feb 2017) – in addition to the amazing trophy and their cash prize. The winner of the Champions’ Freeroll will earn a seat in the first ever $3,200 + $300 partypoker.net WPT Playground. With a maximum of just 17 entries, this freeroll is one of the great values in poker!
WCC Event Leaderboard: Congrats to Charles La Boissonnière
With the end of the 2016 World Cup of Cards comes the final tally in the festival-long WCC Event Leaderboard race. Congratulations to Charles La Boissonière on a runaway victory! By the end of the festival he had amassed an amazing 1,647.9 points, surpassing Jason Conforti in 2nd place by 255 points! Joey Boczek put up a great battle as well, coming in 3rd with 1,379.1 pt. For his victory, Charles has won a USD $6,000 Caribbean Poker Party prize package, including flights for 2 to Punta Cana, accommodation at the Hard Rock Punta Cana and a USD $2,750 buy-in for the partypoker Million event with $2M guaranteed! The second-place prize goes to Jason Conforti, who has won a “Full Red Bull Experience” package at the 2017 Formula 1 Montreal Grand Prix. The Week 4 Leaderboard winner was Mark Howie, whose 401.8 points in the final week of the WCC have […]
Brady Hinnegan wins the CPPT World Cup of Cards
Event 24 in the World Cup of Cards was the $1,500 + $150 NL Hold’em CPPT World Cup of Cards and was a 3-day tournament with 2 Day 1s. There were a total of 359 entries in the event which built up a total prize pool of $522,345.00. The winner was Brady Hinnegan, who defeated Tomas Larivee Magni heads up for the win. The new level was only about 10 minutes old when the final hand was upon the players, though the hand started innocently enough. Tomas had lost a few more chips than he had on the last break and was starting to be quite short-stacked when he limped and Brady checked behind to see a flop. Flop : It was an action flop, but the action went check-check and the dealer laid out the turn . Brady bet 200K and Tomas made the call. The river was an […]
Playground Poker & partypoker form new partnership!
From the inaugural WPT Montreal in 2012 up until the present day, the relationship between Playground Poker Club and partypoker has produced some of the greatest poker events in Canadian history. Playground Poker Club is thrilled to announce that we have formed a new long-term strategic partnership with partypoker – a partnership that will provide Playground visibility on the partypoker client, and enable players to qualify online for a number of our live events. This new partnership is already in effect, as players can now find a Playground tab within the Live Events tournament lobby on partypoker. Wanting to kick things off with a bang, partypoker and Playground Poker Club bring the Grand Prix Poker Tour to Canada for the first time ever! The Canadian Grand Prix is a $500,000 guaranteed tournament that will feature 8 live Day 1 flights on September 2nd and 3rd – but in a unique […]
The World Cup of Cards is coming to Playground Poker Club
August and early September are traditionally pretty quiet times in the global poker calendar. There’s a summer camp is over feeling as players return home from their annual sojourn in Las Vegas and wait for the big mainstream Tours to crank back into action in the fall. At least it was quiet… until now! There’s a new festival on the calendar, as Playground Poker Club is getting ready to welcome the world to the 2016 World Cup of Cards. Running from August 18th through to September 14th, the WCC and its $2,000,000 in Prize Pool Guarantees is definitely a festival you won’t want to miss. The World Cup of Cards is an entirely new entry on the global poker scene. With tournaments representing many different tours and supported by sponsors who have rarely – if ever – worked together in the past, the WCC is focused on giving players what […]
June’s Power Weekend is just around the corner!
There are some great new events on the calendar as the Playground Power Weekend returns from June 15th to 21st. With 5 tournaments on the schedule, there’s something for everyone! Kicking off the weekend will be the All-Stars for Starlight event. The event, hosted by hockey legend Larry Robinson, is a $135 + $25 NL Hold’em Re-entry tournament with a massive $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool! It features 4 starting flights on June 15th, 16th and 17th at 7:00pm plus one additional flight on Friday June 17th at 11:00am. The $25 tournament fee will be given as a charitable contribution to the Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada. Visit the Power Weekend mini-site for more information. There are three additional events before (and during) the Power Weekend Main Event. Wednesday June 15th at 12:00pm: The ever-popular $70 + $10 NL Hold’em Win the Button. Thursday June 16th at 12:00pm: A $90 + $10 […]
The 2016 WPT Canadian Spring Champion: Seth Davies!
After about 43 hands of heads up play between competitors that saw the lead swing one way and then the other, Seth Davies has defeated Ruben Perceval to emerge victorious in the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship! After a long stretch of play during which the players had relatively even stacks, Ruben slowly started to accumulate chips until at one point he was the clear leader in the tournament only to have the stacks return to about even when Seth hit a on the river to make bottom pair and take a big pot. They exchanged the lead a couple of times after that but the general trend was in Seth’s favour and eventually Seth had a 3-1 advantage and the clear momentum in the tournament. On the final hand of play Seth raised to 275K and Ruben defended his blind the players went to the flop. Flop: Ruben was […]
Another Two Jackpots!
This past Wednesday April 6th was another two-jackpot day at Playground Poker Club! First, the Primary BBJ was won at about 3:30 in the afternoon on Table 5, a $1-$2 table, and later that evening the Secondary BBJ was won as well! As the day begun, the Primary Jackpot sat at $250,000 while the Secondary Jackpot was, as always, fixed at $25,000. The Primary BBJ saw a very rare straight flush over straight flush hand develop as the two players in the hand started with and . The flop gave both players their flush draw: and it was unknown to them but each of them had a draw to a straight flush as well. Both players made their flush on the turn and each player’s stack was wagered at that point. The river was magical – the gave one player his gut shot straight flush while it was also the […]
Next: the 2016 Playground Poker Spring Classic
Join us at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake for the 2016 Playground Poker Spring Classic, presented by partypoker.net. The Spring Classic, now in its 4th year, features 17 events including the $3200 + $300 WPT Canadian Spring Championship. Action gets underway April 17th and continues until May 5th. This year’s WPT Canadian Spring Championship is a $3,200 + $300 5-Day tournament with 3 Day 1s. For the second year in a row, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is the first event of the new World Poker Tour Season, Main Tour Season XV. The Spring Classic will get underway with the legendary Wild $150 ($135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry), with a $100,000 prize pool guarantee! Everything about The Wild $150 is managed exactly like a marquee, world-class event – except that with a buy-in of only $150, it’s accessible to everyone. Other highlights of the Spring Classic schedule: The $250 […]
Introducing… the $100,000 Poker Punchout!
Starting today (Monday March 7th) and continuing throughout March is an insane new game brought to you by TonyBet. Everyone who deposits at least $50 on TonyBet via the cashier at Playground Poker Club will get entered into a live raffle. A $50 deposit gets you 1 ticket, while a $100 deposit gets you 3! Every Friday throughout the month we’ll draw five names. The lucky five will then return to Playground the following Monday at 7:00pm and play Poker Punchout! Each player will punch 3 slots in the huge Poker Punchout game board and remove the envelopes from within for a total of 3 envelopes. Then we’ll open the envelopes; if the total value of those 3 envelopes is exactly $300, you’ll win the Jackpot for that week! If your total is any other amount – that will be added to your balance on TonyBet! It’s a win-win! On […]
Jackpot Sunday!
Sunday was Jackpot day at Playground Poker Club as not one but two Bad Beat Jackpots were hit – and one of them was the second-largest Jackpot in the history of the club: $622,242.00! First up was the Secondary BBJ in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The Secondary BBJ is fixed at $25K and only requires that a player (playing both cards) loses with at minimum a full house of Aces over Kings. This was exactly the losing hand in an AA vs KK showdown in which the board ran out with the on the turn giving one player Quad Kings and the river giving his opponent the full house! The loser of the hand won 50% of the jackpot the winner of the hand won 25% and the other players at the same table shared the remaining 25%. Congratulations to those winners! The real fireworks came about 18 […]