WPT® Back in Canada and Scheduled to Land at Playground Poker Club After a multi-year absence from the Canadian market, the World Poker Tour® (WPT®) is returning to Canada with an official Main Event tour stop scheduled for November 2012 at Playground Poker Club just outside of Montreal, Quebec. The growing popularity of the Playground Poker Classic has created serious demand from the poker playing community for Playground to offer not one, but two, annual tournament series. And Playground has, once again, stepped up to fulfill those player demands through a partnership with the WPT. WPT Montreal is slated in for November 23rd ‘-26th and will be the Main Event of Playground’s newest two-week tournament series, The Playground Poker Fall Classic. ‘The opportunity to welcome the World Poker Tour to Playground wasn’t something we could pass up,’ said Playground COO David Montour. WPT Montreal at Playground Poker Club sponsored by […]

November 9th 2011, Montreal, Quebec – Playground Poker Club continues to live up to their ‘for players, by players’ motto with the recent announcement of the launch of the ‘Playground Players Club,’ an elite group of celebrities from the poker and sports worlds who have been dominant in their fields, including hockey legend Guy Carbonneau and many more. ‘Guy Carbonneau is the last player to take the Montreal to the Promised Land by captaining them to a championship in 1993,’ said Playground COO David Montour. ‘He’s a born leader and a natural choice to be the first hockey player named to the Playground Players Club.’ Playground hosted the inaugural Faceoff event in September 2011 and the it was a big hit, combining celebrities from the poker and hockey worlds for a charity tournament with appearances from hockey legends like Guy Lafleur, Mike Bossy and Guy Carbonneau and current players like […]

CP: Are you pleased with the turnout for the PPC? BD: I am very pleased, locally the guys who said they were going to show up did show up as well as players from out of town. Every night has been busy throughout the series. Our first tournament in the PPC attracted over 320 players and that set the momentum for the remainder of the events. CP: It’s certainly not easy to pull-off a $3000 buy-in tournament in today’s poker climate and especially in Montreal where it’s very rare to see anything more than $1000 buy-ins, especially without the help of online poker satellites. Were you worried about not getting adequate numbers? BD: Not at all. We ve got a crack marketing team including Jay Kastner and Justin Kelly of Full Tilt and 888 fame as well as Quebec’s Martin Roy. We also have an unbelievable crew on hand. From […]

The highly anticipated opening of Kahnawake’s newest poker club attracted nearly 300 people when it officially opened its doors this month. “We were very happy with the success of our opening weekend,” said Playground Poker Club’s chief of operations David Montour. “During our first three nights, we had an unlimited rebuy tournament, but the first buy-in was free, he said. We also guaranteed a prize pool. If we got 100 players and none of them did a buy-in, the prize pool would be zero, but we guaranteed $10,000, just in case no one re-bought,” Montour said. “But it so happened that on Friday night, we met the $10,000, Saturday we didn t, but we did it again on Sunday.” Montour hopes that the popularity of the club since its opening is a sign of things to come. “Right now, we’ve been operating for about 14 days and business has been […]