The Playground Poker Fall Classic is just around the corner, and for the third year in a row, Playground Poker Club will be hosting the WPT Montreal! Players from around the world are set to return to the Montreal area – and one of them will join Jonathan Roy and Derrick Rosenbarger among the winners of the prestigious poker tournament. The full event schedule is now available on our Fall Classic and WPT Montreal Mini-site. The schedule has something to offer everyone, from the top touring professional all the way to the recreational player who wants to give big-time poker a try. As has become tradition during a Playground series, the Fall Classic kicks off with a low buy-in, multi-day tournament boasting an impressive $100,000 guarantee which is now dubbed The Wild $150 . This will be followed up by an amazing 6 Day-1 event called The $250 Frenzy which […]

The 2014 PokerStars Canada Cup has wrapped up in historic fashion at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, QC. The series, held from May 16th to 28th, offered poker players 12 events, including the $3,300 Main Event, the $10,400 High Roller, and the always huge $150 Re-entry kickoff event that got the ball rolling over two weeks ago. Overall, the PokerStars Canada Cup was a big success as over 3,200 players competed for over $2.8M in prizes over the course of the 13-day series. The biggest surprise in the whole series came at the end of the Main Event. Play on the final table started quickly, with the first elimination of the day coming just 4 hands into the day, and it proceeded quickly enough through eliminations in 9th through 5th place. When play got down to 4 players, though, things slowed to a crawl as two players Robert Notkin and Vincent […]

The 2014 Playground Poker Spring Classic including the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is just around the corner, and this week we found some footage on YouTube that should whet your appetite for our next big event! Although there is no official archive of the Live Stream of last November’s WPT Montreal, a friendly robot found that an archive had been recorded nonetheless. We’ve made it available in 5 parts on our Event Page for last year’s event: 2013 Playground Poker Fall Classic including the WPT Montreal. Enjoy!

Exactly 800 entries joined one of the 3 starting flights in the partypoker Mega Overlay which wrapped up on Sunday afternoon. Of the 800 who started, 206 came back for Day 2, and of that number, 97 were guaranteed entries in the $1M Guarantee partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship. The 97 seats includes an amazing 25 seats that were ADDED to the prize pool by partypoker! The action was quick at the outset of Day 2, but slowed down considerably as the bubble approached. By the end of the action, blinds had risen to 6K/12K with a 1K ante. When play dropped to 101 players the tournament moved to hand-for-hand action, but with more than 10 tables still active, things continued to move relatively briskly. After just a couple of hands there were two players who busted on the same hand to share the first $400 bubble prize and just […]

Playground Poker Club is thrilled to introduce a new series on the global poker calendar, the PokerStars Canada Cup, which is slated to run between May 16th and May 28th, 2014. The Main Event will be a 5-day, $3000 + $300 tournament with three starting flights (next-day re-entry) and a $2 Million Guarantee! In addition to the Main Event, the PokerStars Canada Cup will include a $10000 + $400 High Roller event and ten more side events for a total of 12 events over 13 days. The PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event winner will take home the top share of a $2 Million guaranteed prize pool! Other events in the PokerStars Canada Cup include the kickoff event, a $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em Re-entry event with 4 entry flights and a huge $100000 guaranteed prize pool; a $300 + $30 Pot Limit Omaha/No Limit Hold’em mixed event, and a […]

Playground Poker Club is pleased to announce the second partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship, which will be held from March 27th to April 1st, 2014. This year’s event will be a 4-day $1000 + $100 tournament with a $1 Million guaranteed prize pool! The event features three starting flights and next-day re-entry is permitted for all players. The event will be part of the Playground Poker Spring Classic featuring 10 additional events for players of all experience levels. The winner of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship will walk away with the top share of what is sure to be a $1M guaranteed prize pool and the WPT Crystal Trophy! In addition, the winner will become the 2014 WPT Canadian Spring Champion and will strap the coveted Playground Poker Champion’s belt around his (or her) waist! The partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship will be a live-streamed event hosted by the […]

After 13 events, 8 WPT satellites, 1 High Roller satellite, about a dozen single-table sit n’ go satellites and countless hands of cash game action on the side, the 2013 edition of the Playground Poker Fall Classic has come to a close. Overall, this year’s Fall Classic awarded over $4.3 Million in prize money including an impressive $517,049 to the WPT Montreal Champion Derrick Rosenbarger. Over the whole of the Fall Classic events, almost 450 players cashed in at least one event! The player with the highest number of events in which he showed a profit was Vince Dwyer, who (not coincidentally) was the winner of the MVP Belt as the overall top performer in the Fall Classic. Vince cashed in 4 events including impressive 2nd and 9th place finishes in Events 12 and 13 to take home the belt. Many Playground regulars had a successful Fall Classic, but four […]

PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event Champion: Derrick Rosenbarger The PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event has come to a close after 5 days of action packed poker, and of the 862 entries that we saw come and go, it was Derrick Rosenbarger that was the last one standing! After coming in to the final table as one of the shorter stacks, Derrick managed to build some momentum progressively throughout the night, and went on to defeat poker pro Mukul Pahuja in a heated heads-up battle to emerge as the champion. His victory earned him a $517,049 prize, as well as a $15,400 seat to the WPT World Championship, a beautiful WPT Montreal Belt, and an eternal spot engraved amongst the past WPT Champions on the WPT Trophy! On the last hand, Derrick put in a minimum raise from the small blind, and quickly called when Mukul moved in over the top. […]

Partypoker’s Premier League VII has come to an end and Canadian Sorel Mizzi is the champion! The high-roller specialist won by outlasting 5 other players on the final table to take the title. At the end of the 6 heats, the top point-getters of the 12 players who started the Premier League were Dan Colman and Jeff Gross with 37 points each followed by Sorel (33 pts) and Brian Rast (31 pts). Koon and Seiver joined them in the final by beating out Daniel Cates and Jonathan Duhamel respectively. In the final, Brian was the first to go out followed by Jason a few orbits of the table later. Just two hands after Koon hit the showers, Seiver was also eliminated, making this a 3-way tournament after just the 61st hand of the night. At this point Sorel was already the big chip leader, and after Dan went out in […]

As if the Fall Classic and the second WPT Montreal weren’t enough, this week we’re also hosting the taping of the Premier League VII which starts today in the massive set that has been built in the Tournament Hall. The Premier League is one of the greatest TV poker formats ever invented. Take a huge buy-in, a small roster of star players and a series of one-table tournaments and put them together and you get an amazing event with a huge prize pool guaranteed to entertain. This year’s roster includes a few greats we know well at Playground: our friends (and Players Club members) Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Brian Rast and Jeff Gross are all in the lineup and ready to play for the championship. There are also some legendary players we haven’t seen before: Vanessa Selbst, Scott Seiver, and Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates, each of whom brings their best every […]

Playground Poker Club and Full Tilt Poker have aligned to bring players a poker festival featuring huge overlays, massive guarantees and a 13-day schedule that offers something for players of all levels. The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival, featuring a Main Event with a whopping Million Dollar guaranteed prize pool, is set to begin on Saturday, September 21st 2013. Full Tilt Poker and Playground Poker Club have put together an impressive schedule including a $135 + $15 NLHE Re-entry event with a $100000 guarantee to kick off the festival, with the showstopper being the $1000 + $100 Main Event with a $1000000 guarantee. If the guarantees aren’t juicy enough, the weeks leading up to the festival will be jam-packed with satellites and overlays that will give the Canadian attendance record for an event over $1000 a good run for its money. Every Saturday in August, Playground Poker Club will be […]

Poker players from all over Canada and well into the United States have been planning a trip to Montreal for weeks now in anticipation of the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic. The wait is finally over and Day 1a and 1b of the $135+$15 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry Event #1 at Playground Poker Club have already completed, with Day 1c starting tonight at 7:30PM. The two-week series will bring along with it massive prize pools, 9 bracelets and 2 championship belts. And in case you’re a poker player who’s been living in a cave for the past two months, we’ll remind you that the series will be capped off with the C$3000 + C$300 WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event. Based on the overwhelming success of the WPT Montreal in November of 2012, Playground decided to add a Day 1 to this year’s Main Event in anticipation of hitting big […]