The Playground 200 needs no introduction anymore. The $200 + $20 tournament has been headlining our Power Weekends and supporting major festivals for years. At the WPT Montreal, it acted as a side event, placed right before Event #1, the WPT500. Through one online and five live starting flight, 550 entries were accumulated, just enough to cover the $100,000 guarantee. After three days of tough poker, it all came down to a heads-up match between Jessie Wheatley and George Chow. When the dust settled, Jessie had all the chips and took one down for the women! A money deal had been made, and following Jessie’s win, her net prize was $19,250. As for George, he finished the tournament $15,680 richer. Not too bad for a $220 poker tournament! Jessie joins Marie-Claude Grondin (winner of the WPT Montreal Event #3, the $200 + $20 Ladies) and Crystal Abouhanna (winner of the […]
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She wins a brand new car!
Yesterday, a little after 5:00pm, Lydie Stacey’s name was picked as the 6th of 10 participants to play Trick or Treat. A few pumpkins later, she was the happy winner of a brand new 2019 Buick Envision! The goal of the game is simple. The game board contains twenty-five pumpkins; through a maximum of seven picks, participants need to collect three identical symbols from the game board to win the associated prize. The game started. Lydie picked the first five pumpkins, one by one: A black cat! The symbol for a prize of $750 A car! The symbol for… the car. Another car! What an unbelievable start for Lydie! Another black cat! A ghost! The symbol for a prize of $1,000. Lydie was off to a good start. At this point, she had to choose between ending the game and taking $250 in free play as her prize, or giving […]
A Record-setting Jackpot
Today is a day that Bruno Roy will remember for a very, very long time. He chose the right game at the right time and turned an ordinary Thursday afternoon into one for the record books! He was playing Ramses Gold on Bally’s Power Strike at the time, one of Playground’s more popular EGD titles, when the glorious moment happened. All it took was a single spin on the five-reel, 30-line game. Nine Power Strike symbols fell across the screen and awarded a record-setting number of credits. Thanks to the progressive jackpot that was just unleashed, Bruno’s $1,50 bet returned a $45,393.11 win! This monumental EGD jackpot stands as the largest awarded at Playground, so far, one that Bruno and his wife will be enjoying for quite some time!
The November Power Weekend
November will deliver falling leaves, dropping temperatures, and a Power Weekend! This mini-series will feature seven events, with over $190,000 in total prize pool guarantees. The November edition has not one but two multi-day events: the Playground 500 and the Playground 100. This duo offers the chance for players of all levels to take part in an epic multi-day event at the price point that suits them best. The $500 + $50 Playground 500 has a prize pool guarantee of $100,000. It begins on partypoker on November 17 at 4:00pm with an Online Day 1, before the first of three live starting flights gets going at Playground on November 21. Day 2 will be held on November 23, and a champion will be crowned following the conclusion of play on Day 3, which runs on November 24. The Playground 100 boasts a huge prize pool guarantee for a modest buy-in. […]
Main Event and WPT500 Satellites
Poker players, we have lift-off! The WPT Montreal started on Sunday with three starting flights on partypoker; Online Day 1A of the WPT500, Online Day 1 & 2 off the WPT Montreal Main Event, and Day 1 Online of the Playground 200, a well-known multi-day event. The Main Event and the WPT500 have the largest prize pool guarantees of the series, guaranteeing $3,000,000 and $1,066,000, respectively. In order to help players of all levels take a shot at these whopping prize pools, Playground has a series of satellites in store. Following five online starting flights, the WPT500 will have eight live starting flights at Playground, including two turbo flights. Day 1A will be held on Friday, October 25, and you can try to qualify for as little at $70 + $10 thanks to satellites on October 23 and 24 that guarantee five and ten seats, respectively. These satellites have a […]
The Women’s Series Starts Tomorrow!
The first ever Playground Women’s Series, presented in partnership with the Women’s Poker Association (WPA), is almost here! The consistently large fields seen in ladies tournaments during recent events bode well for this inaugural series so expect a big turnout. The first open tournament in this hotly anticipated series runs this Saturday, October 19 at 12:00pm, with late registration available until 2:15pm. The WPA is a global membership-based, all-volunteer, professional organization formed to promote, develop, and professionalize the advancement of women in poker by heightening the exposure of current women poker players while encouraging and developing new women players. Playground is proud to help the WPA further its goal of elevating the poker experience for women. The Women’s Series features four $150 + $15 single re-entry tournaments, each with a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000, where players will compete for not only a piece of the prize pool but also […]
The WPT Montreal Starts This Sunday!
The WPT Montreal is one of the most anticipated events of the year, and it is just around the corner! Players have already started qualifying for the $3,000 + $300 WPT Montreal Main Event on partypoker, through feeders and satellites that will put at least 40 qualifiers into the race for part of the $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. This Sunday at 4:00pm on partypoker, all online qualifiers will come together to square off against each other and the direct buy-ins when the online action begins. The Main Event will start with the Online Day 1 & 2, a flight that will combine two days of play into one so qualifying players can join the live action with a cash already secured. The Online Day 1 & 2 allows players one entry and one re-entry. The Main Event is a multiple re-entry event so players can enter multiple Day 1s even […]
The Playground 200 and Other Side Events
Everyone’s attention is on the WPT Montreal, but Playground has a lot more in store in the weeks ahead! There has been a great deal of focus on the Main Event, the WPT500 and the WPTDeepStacks, but players will have plenty of playing options, thanks to not only the $200 + $20 Playground 200 but also the single-day tournaments at the end of the series. The Playground 200 is well known to Playground’s regular players, but its merits are worth revisiting. This three-day event features six starting flights including an online flight and a turbo flight, an unlimited re-entry format and a prize pool guarantee of $100,000. The modest price point, huge guarantee and player-friendly structure have made the Playground 200 a consistently popular tournament, one that makes a great warm-up for multi-day events like the WPT500 and the Main Event. The first starting flight for this edition of the […]
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! Every hour on the hour from 11:00am to 1:00am, one active cash game table will be randomly selected. Every player at that table will be given one card, and the high card wins the Main Prize of $300, and every other player gets $50. At 11:00am and 1:00am, the Main […]
A Big BBJ for a Big Game
The first day of October has produced the first Bad Beat Jackpot of the Fall! In the early hours of the morning on October 1, the jackpot hand was dealt at a $10/$25 auto straddle table. It started with a raise from the button to $325 from Naspie W. Malibu, a well-known high stakes player, put in a raise to $925 from the small blind. The action folded around to Williams who made the call. Following the flop, Malibu checked and Williams put out a bet of $500, which Malibu called. On the turn, Malibu took the same line with a check-call, calling Williams’ $1,500 bet. And once again on the river, Malibu checked and Williams made a hefty bet, this time for $3,900. But there was no calling on this street. After a little while in the tank, Malibu raised all in for roughly $10,000, which was met with […]
October will take your breath away
All throughout October, Playground will make the most of the spookiest time of the year to provide players a spellbinding experience. In the lead up to Halloween, Playground will be rolling out a month of hair-raising games, gifts and entertainment that is sure to give players goosebumps! Trick or Treat You don’t have to wait for Halloween to Trick or Treat! All throughout the month of October, players will be lining up in the EGD section, hoping to pick the right pumpkins and fill their bags with prizes! Trick or Treat is the latest game where EGD players can win amazing prizes like $10,000 in cash, a trip to Transylvania including a four-day tour on the Legend of Dracula or a new car – the 2019 Buick Envision! Players can win the chance to play Trick or Treat through a series of draws, which will be held every […]
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 hotel stay for two at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar $600 room credit There are two ways to get the discount on this package: Email the discount code Playground@CPP to millions@mypartypokerlive.com and request to have the price of the package deducted from your partypoker account balance. The transaction will then […]