This poker player’s career beginnings are straight out of a movie: he played his first poker tournament on a cruise ship, after asking the dealer to explain the Texas Hold’em rules! Twelve years later, he qualified for a STEP 1 satellite through the Tournament Leaderboard, and made his way to MILLIONS North America in one 3-STEP stride! The third STEP was quite laborious though. Let’s hear it! Introducing… Marc Saddik. (More great content coming up on Playground’s official YouTube channel. Please subscribe!)
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Dining in Montreal: options by the MILLIONS
Anyone who can find Montreal on a map can probably also tell you of Montreal’s reputation as a restaurant lover’s paradise. For the second consecutive year, four Montreal restaurants have spots in the top ten of Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants. These restaurants – Joe Beef, Toqué!, Le Mousso and Montréal Plaza – have reputations that precede them, but the recently released 2019 edition of the list contains many more Montreal-area restaurants that are waiting to be discovered. In all, 30 restaurants from the 514 made the top 100 list to help reinforce Montreal’s status as an international food destination. This city has delectable dining options for all budgets at any hour of the day, and our guide will help point you in the right direction, no matter what you’re hankering for. Above and beyond any particular restaurant, there are a number of Montreal institutions that will get people to line up […]
Road to MILLIONS – Episode 5
This week’s STEP qualifier did not have to invest a single dollar to earn his seat at MILLIONS North America. He mostly plays tournaments, and won a STEP 2 seat by placing in the top 15 of the monthly Tournament Leaderboard. A couple of tournaments later, he’s on the list of qualifiers for the $10,300 Main Event in May! He tells us about his road to MILLIONS and the toys (cars) he would buy if he wins big next month. Introducing… Ivan the Terrible. (More great content coming up on Playground’s official YouTube channel. Please subscribe!)
More additions to MILLIONS North America
MILLIONS North America is less than a month away, and the poker community’s chatter is all about the event! partypoker LIVE and Playground keep an open ear, and player feedback sparked a few last-minute changes to the MILLIONS schedule. A Caribbean Poker Party satellite The famous Caribbean Poker Party will once again host the Grand Finale of the 2019 MILLIONS tour with MILLIONS World. At Playground, home of MILLIONS North America, we are happy to add a Caribbean Poker Party satellite at the heart of the festival! The tournament presents a guarantee of two packages worth $16,000 USD each. For a buy-in of $250 + $25, you could win the trip of a lifetime. The package includes a $10,300 buy-in to MILLIONS World with $10,000,000 guaranteed (Nov. 16-21), plus travel and accommodation. What does it look like over there? Click here for a quick preview! Shot clocks! MILLIONS […]
Mondial de la bière… it means Beerfest!
The Mondial de la bière, founded in Montreal in 1994, is a full-fledged international beer festival. The unique weekend-long tasting event provides a pathway from the art of local and international brewers to the taste buds of passionate and casual beer drinkers, and the 26th edition of the festival is held during MILLIONS North America, allowing all players to discover new and exciting concoctions! The event is once again held at Windsor Station in downtown Montreal (near metro stations Lucien-L’Allier, Bonaventure and Peel). It will be open to festival-goers from 11:00AM to 11:00PM, May 22 to May 25 – Wednesday to Friday. Admission is free, but to indulge in the main activity, you will need to buy a tasting glass and some coupons – they come in various packages, depending on how much discovery you plan to make. The festival bets on breweries that are not necessarily well-known, but have […]
Road to MILLIONS – Episode 4
This week’s featured player is Playground’s very first tournament winner! He won the first tournament ever held in our club, 8 years ago. It was a $100 event, but he is no stranger to $10K buy-ins either. His first major was in 2009: he played a WPT event at Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario. He has yet to make a big score in one of these monster tournaments, and hopes that MILLIONS North America will be it! He jumped in a STEP 1 satellite following a casual invitation from our tournament director. He couldn’t turn down such attractive overlay! The very same night, he played the STEP 2, got through, and played the STEP 3 satellite on the following day. He is here now, qualified, pumped up for MILLIONS in May! Introducing… Carlo Nini. (More great content coming up on Playground’s official YouTube channel. Please subscribe!)
MILLIONS of Beats
Montreal, a tourism hot spot, is one of North America’s most visited cities. Harbouring countless festivals (nearly 100 multi-day events each year!), serving delicious food from all over the world, and offering a vibrant cultural and music scene, Montreal has it all. Our snow is melting fast, and come MILLIONS North America in May, the city will be ready for all poker players’ extracurricular activities! Today, for our visitors coming to town for MILLIONS and locals looking for something different, we serve a selection of two options, catered for EDM enthusiasts, but easy to appreciate by anyone. It was extremely hard to slim down our recommendations, but these two fully deserve their nomination. Velvet Speakeasy In the Old Port, in the basement of an old Montreal inn, there is a large room with stone walls that has existed since 1754. Today, it is home to the Velvet Speakeasy, a […]
Get into MILLIONS shape at the May Power Weekend
The Power Weekend, running from May 2 to May 6, is the last mini-series before the MILLIONS train comes to town. It is also your last chance to book a $10,300 seat to MILLIONS North America through STEP satellites. Your last satellite tree: STEP 1s – Fridays and Sundays through April, as well as May 2 and 3 STEP 2 – May 4 at 8:00PM STEP 3 – May 5 at 7:00PM The series, boasting over $240,000 in total guarantees, presents ten tournaments with cash guarantees ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. Strangers in the Night makes its way back to the Playground felts with three Day 1s, a $50,000 guarantee, and the great feeling of doing your part to make the world a better place! The $25 tournament fee goes entirely to the Strangers in the Night charity initiative, which benefits three non-profit organizations: Miriam Foundation, Lymphoma Canada, and The […]
$25K Super High Roller Added to the MILLIONS North America Schedule
Playground and partypoker LIVE have announced a key addition to the 2019 MILLIONS North America schedule: a $25,000 + $300 Super High Roller event. Action will get underway at 3:00PM on May 25 and will continue with a restart at 12:00PM on May 26. As usual participants of this class of tournament have become accustomed to, play will be 8-handed throughout, and it will feature 40-minute blind levels. Registration will be open throughout Day 1 and through the first 4 levels of play on Day 2. This will be a reprise of the successful $25K SHR that was part of last year’s MILLIONS North America. That event saw a star-studded field take to the felts including a rare appearance by Viktor Blom. Joining him from the other side of the Atlantic were Niall Farrell, Toby Lewis, Manig Loeser, Marc Macdonnell, and Roberto Romanello. There were plenty of Americans in the […]
A Journey That Begins with a Single STEP
The premier event of the year, the MILLIONS North America, is on the horizon and the anticipation is building far and wide. Players from around the world are waiting impatiently for the May event to arrive, but none more so than the players who have already qualified for the Main Event at a fraction of the buy-in cost. Follow the qualifiers We look forward to bringing you the stories of a number of players who qualified early for MILLIONS North America through the STEP satellite system and sharing their excitement. There will be a series of features on early qualifiers rolled out in the coming weeks to let the poker community follow their journeys on the path to a chance at a life-changing score. Many qualifiers have advanced through the STEPs for as little as $90 and some are even free rolling! STEP by STEP The STEP satellites allow players […]
15 Main Event Seats Added!
MILLIONS North America, partypoker LIVE’s premier poker tournament series, is around the corner. Players are scrutinizing the schedule, making travel plans, and getting into MILLIONS shape! The first big guarantee comes with Event #2, the $1,100 Montreal Open. As if $1,000,000 in cash wasn’t enough of a guarantee, it was boosted with 15 MILLIONS North America seats, worth $10,300 each! $1,154,500 Guaranteed In that strange number lies the possibility of a true poker breakthrough. Finish in the top 15, and you will not only pocket a handsome cash prize, but you will also get a seat for Day 1B of the festival’s Main Event, taking place the following day! Care to play a major tournament with the kind of confidence that only a recent big score provides? Satellite Your Way In The Montreal Open offers seven starting flights, including a turbo flight. Unlimited same-day and next-day re-entries are permitted, giving […]
The Playground Power Weekend, reinvented
March brings its own edition of the Playground Power Weekend, presenting an amazing blend of value-laden STEP Satellites and cash prize pools you will not want to miss, with over $275,000 in total guarantees! MILLIONS STEP Satellites If you haven’t secured a seat to the $10,300 MILLIONS North America yet, don’t delay any longer, because the festival is approaching faster than you think! The March Power Weekend comes with two more STEP 1 Satellites, each with 10 STEP 2 Seats guaranteed. Last month, these tournaments presented so much value that winning a STEP 2 seat was like shooting fish in a barrel. Your turn to claim an easy ticket! $400 + $40 STEP 2 – Saturday March 23 at 8:00PM $1,500 + $150 STEP 3 – Sunday March 24 at 7:00PM The Playground 500 An uncommon variation of our famous flagship event, the Playground 500 offers four Day […]