The World Cup of Cards is in full swing and the upcoming weekend will be a riot. As the action unfolds in the tournament hall, we look forward to the next event on Playground’s schedule: the February Power Weekend. The mini-series, scheduled from February 27 to March 2, presents six events with a total of $141,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The headliner is none other than the Playground 200, one of our club’s most popular tournaments. The multi-day event allows players to shoot for a huge $100,000 guaranteed prize pool for a buy-in of only $200 + $20. Of course, you can go at it more heavily if you wish, as it has an unlimited re-entry format. Throw in as many bullets as needed to send a strong stack to Day 2! This Power Weekend also presents a handful of nice single-day events with buy-ins ranging from $110 to $220, […]
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The Women’s Series Is Back In 2020
The Women’s Series Event #4 and Final Event are coming up this weekend, wrapping up a truly successful series that brought together women from here, neighbouring provinces and even the United States. Today, by popular demand, Playground and the Women’s Poker Association announce Women’s Series 2020, our second series exclusively for women. The new and improved edition presents five open events, one more than the inaugural series, and will span the whole calendar year. Each one has a $150 + $15 buy-in – of which $10 will go to the Championship Event prize pool – and a $5,000 guaranteed prize pool. Start each one with 25,000 chips, play your best, and finish in the top 40% of the field to earn leaderboard points. Climb up the leaderboard and finish the series in the top 30, the only way to earn a seat at the Championship. Once there, your starting stack […]
Introducing… The Seniors’ Series
For many years, Playground has included Seniors’ Events in poker festivals and mini-series, each of these events attracting a good number of players, eager to compete between them and have loads of fun… and they did without fault. Today, we are announcing the Seniors’ Series, a competition made up of five open events and culminating with a Championship Event, exclusively for players who are at least 50 years young! The series schedule features an open event every other month, the first one being on Sunday, February 23. Each tournament starts at 12:00pm and is held on a Sunday. The modest $200 + $20 buy-in and the $10,000 guarantee ensures that players enjoy a great ratio each time. View the full schedule here. Throughout the series, players will accumulate leaderboard points by placing in the top 40% of the field and try to finish the race in the top 30 on […]
Announcing the World Cup of Cards
At Playground, the November Power Weekend is in full swing and the exciting 9-Year Anniversary series is not too far, but we are also looking at our next full-length festival, the World Cup of Cards with over $1,200,000 in guaranteed prize pools! The 2020 WCC will be held from January 19 to February 5, opening the year with 22 affordable events. Buy-ins range from $110 to $1,100, allowing everybody to shoot for a trophy, a title and of course, a pile of cash! It is a great opportunity for players of all bankrolls to play in the big league. This festival is known for offering friendly price points, but also for allowing players to indulge in original poker formats that you don’t get to enjoy very often. The schedule presents tournaments like the Shootout, Short Deck, Roll the Dice and Crazy Pineapple, all variants that will take you out of […]
Start Your Power Weekend on partypoker
The November Power Weekend features seven exciting events with over $190,000 in guaranteed prize pools. In addition to a variety of affordable single-day tournaments, this Power Weekend will be showcasing two value-laden multi-day events; the Playground 500 and the Playground 100. Thanks to starting flights and satellites on partypoker, this Sunday is your first chance to get in on the action. Players can take part in the $100 + $10 Playground 100 through any one (or more) of its seven starting flights. Thanks to its $50,000 prize pool guarantee, many players are sure to fire multiple bullets to take advantage of the unlimited re-entry format. Players are permitted unlimited re-entries until the end of the late registration period at the beginning of level 7 on each Day 1 and can enter multiple starting flights. Players who qualify more than once for Day 2 will resume play with their largest qualifying […]
Happy Birthday Playground!
The month of December comes with winter, the excitement of the holidays, and Playground’s Anniversary Series! This year, we’re celebrating nine years of constant growth, from a small poker club to a massive entertainment destination with international poker events, electronic gaming, concerts and more. And what better way to celebrate than to play for it! Join us from December 8 to December 16 for the 9-Year Anniversary Series, a 9-day poker festival offering over $550,000 in guaranteed prize pools. And what’s more, the Grand Prix Canada presented by partypoker LIVE is our Main Event! It is an honour to welcome once again this great multi-day competition, a poker tournament that gives all players the chance to play for a massive prize pool for a minimal buy-in. Guaranteed at $500,000 and priced at $200 + $20, the event offers nineteen starting flights to choose from! Five online flights and fourteen live […]
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 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 […]
A Playground Series for Women
Every year, we see more and more women enjoying the great game of poker and the pure competition that comes with. Playground, in collaboration with the Women’s Poker Association, wishes to support that trend by setting up a poker series exclusively for women: the Playground Women’s Series! The Women’s Poker Association, launched in 2018, received a lot of love from the community and expanded very quickly. In 2019, several projects were added to their operations, including the addition of the WPA Player of the Year program and partnerships with many venues. The Playground Women’s Series is the first project that stems from our own partnership with the WPA. It is comprised of four $150 + $15 tournaments, each with their own $5,000 guaranteed prize pool, which culminate in the Finals in January. By participating in the Playground Women’s Series, players will… score points toward the Women’s Poker Association Player of […]
WPT Montreal – The Full Schedule
Last week, we announced the return of the WPT Montreal from October 20 to November 4 and a $3,000,000 guaranteed Main Event. After finalizing the last details of the schedule with the World Poker Tour, we can now officially release the dates, formats and guarantees of all seven events that will make up the WPT Montreal 2019! The festival will kick off with the ever-popular WPT500. This year, the $500 + $50 event presents a $1,066,000 guarantee. The odd number represents one million in cash and twenty $3,300 seats for the Main Event, which will be awarded to the top 20 finishers on top of their prize money. The event is an unlimited re-entry tournament, which means that you can throw in as many bullets as you wish across the five online and eight live starting flights. Following the WPT500 will be the $300 + $30 Freeze, the $200 + […]
A Five-day Power Weekend
The September Power Weekend will be held from September 26 to September 30. Eight exciting events and a WPT Montreal Main Event satellite are on the schedule, totalling over $190,000 in guaranteed prize pools! The variety of tournament formats provided by the mini-series offers something for everyone. The Playground 200 returns with its usual format which features four live starting flights as well as an online starting flight on partypoker and a $100,000 prize pool guarantee. Our Pot Limit Omaha players are taken care of with a bounty tournament that allows unlimited re-entries. Combining 4-card poker with bounty action has always been a success, because bringing two good things together can’t be bad! The Women’s Event will deliver a fun-filled evening of deepstack poker with a $4,000 prize pool guarantee – for ladies only! The Tag Team event returns with a guaranteed prize pool of $20,000. This event does not […]