One of the innovative elements in the 2018 MILLIONS Main Event is the partnership with Calgary’s Deerfoot Inn & Casino. Not only did Deerfoot run several satellites for the $5,300 Main Event, they’re also hosting a Day 1 and Day 2 in the tournament. Day 1 kicked off today at 12:00pm (MDT) and will continue through 8 levels today, just like any other Day 1 in the tournament. Of course all of the rules and structure are identical at Deerfoot to those in place for the rest of the Main Event at Playground, which means that late registration continues throughout Day 1 and will remain open through the first 4 levels of play on Day 2. So far, there are 20 entries with 19 currently remaining at the tables. Today’s field includes at least 1 Player to Watch – Thomas “Sandy” Taylor. Taylor has been one of the more prolific […]

Playground Poker Club and partypoker LIVE have today released an updated satellite schedule for the MILLIONS Main Event. New satellites and increased guarantees have been added every day from April 21st to April 26th, further ensuring that every player who wants to join the event will have a great chance to do so with a satellite ticket! There are now a total of 118 guaranteed seats for the Main Event being offered in Step 2 Satellites during the MILLIONS North America, which is an increase of 53 seats compared with the initial published schedule! Considering that guaranteed seats are a minimum for these satellites, it’s clear that the new Main Event satellite schedule will funnel a massive number of entries into the $10,000,000 guaranteed event! Live satellites for the Main Event have been running since late 2017 using a two-step format. Step 1 Satellites feature a $120 buy-in and award […]

Montreal will soon welcome a new high-profile poker tour to the area as WPT DeepStacks has announced the second half of their Season V schedule, which will get started with the $1,650 WPT DeepStacks Montreal. This is the first event to officially be announced for the 2018 World Cup of Cards! The WCC has picked up traction over the past two years as a series featuring high value tournaments at accessible buy-ins, and the WPT DeepStacks will fit in perfectly. “We are thrilled to increase the WPTDeepStacks schedule for Season V [including] the tour’s first-ever trips to Montreal and Texas,” said WPTDeepStacks Executive Director Chris Torina. “Together with our incredible casino partners, we look forward to providing the premier mid-major offering that poker players want and deserve.” The new stop at Playground Poker Club will increase the tour’s profile in Canada, which already hosts an annual event in Edmonton plus […]

WPT Montreal starts on November 10th Coming up from October 29th to November 16th is the 2017 Playground Poker Fall Classic including the WPT Montreal. With over $3,300,000 in guaranteed prize pools across 17 events, this year’s edition of the Fall Classic could be the best one yet! The Fall Classic kicks off with the $100,000 Guaranteed $160 Re-entry event, in which the $25 tournament fee goes to the “Strangers in the Night” charity initiative. This is followed by the $200,000 Guaranteed $250 Frenzy, a $225 + $25 Re-entry event. New in this Fall Classic is the daytime Crazy $80, a $70 + $10 Re-entry event. All three tournaments promise Big Event poker for a small buy-in – these are can’t miss tournaments! In addition, the Fall Classic sees the return of the massive $1,100 50/50 Bounty tournament, a $550 PLO event, and the $1,650 Second Chance NL Hold’em event […]

The World Cup of Cards is back for its second year, and this year’s edition promises to be bigger and better than ever! Running from August 13th to September 13th, the WCC features over $6,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools in events designed to appeal to players of all experience levels. With tournaments of all sizes spread out throughout the month, the World Cup of Cards is all about giving players what they want – fun events, variety, huge guarantees, and a ton of value for their poker-playing dollar. For the second year in a row, one of the highlights of the WCC is the number of non-Hold’em events on the schedule. Of the 36 events in this 2nd edition of the WCC, 11 will be played in “other” games, including PLO8, Crazy Pineapple, and the popular “Roll the Dice” 6-game mixed tournament. There are also several alternative NL Hold’em formats […]

After 16 days of non-stop poker action, the Playground Poker Spring Classic has come to a close. From April 25th through May 10th, poker players from around the world gathered at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, just outside of Montreal, to play the game they love and compete for huge prizes! The first event in this year’s Spring Classic was the first of three partypoker LIVE events – the $200 + $20 Grand Prix Canada. With a total of 28 starting Day 1s that began on February 12th on partypoker, this $500,000 Guaranteed event managed to attract a massive 2,570 entries! The Grand Prix Canada Champion was Cassidy Battikha, who took home $84,050.00 for his efforts in the tournament. With the Grand Prix Canada completed, the other side events in the Spring Classic got underway, including 5 events with $220 to $330 buy-ins in several formats: PLO, Bounty, Survivor, and 5-Card […]

August and early September are traditionally pretty quiet times in the global poker calendar. There’s a summer camp is over feeling as players return home from their annual sojourn in Las Vegas and wait for the big mainstream Tours to crank back into action in the fall. At least it was quiet… until now! There’s a new festival on the calendar, as Playground Poker Club is getting ready to welcome the world to the 2016 World Cup of Cards. Running from August 18th through to September 14th, the WCC and its $2,000,000 in Prize Pool Guarantees is definitely a festival you won’t want to miss. The World Cup of Cards is an entirely new entry on the global poker scene. With tournaments representing many different tours and supported by sponsors who have rarely – if ever – worked together in the past, the WCC is focused on giving players what […]

There are some great new events on the calendar as the Playground Power Weekend returns from June 15th to 21st. With 5 tournaments on the schedule, there’s something for everyone! Kicking off the weekend will be the All-Stars for Starlight event. The event, hosted by hockey legend Larry Robinson, is a $135 + $25 NL Hold’em Re-entry tournament with a massive $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool! It features 4 starting flights on June 15th, 16th and 17th at 7:00pm plus one additional flight on Friday June 17th at 11:00am. The $25 tournament fee will be given as a charitable contribution to the Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada. Visit the Power Weekend mini-site for more information. There are three additional events before (and during) the Power Weekend Main Event. Wednesday June 15th at 12:00pm: The ever-popular $70 + $10 NL Hold’em Win the Button. Thursday June 16th at 12:00pm: A $90 + $10 […]

Join us at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake for the 2016 Playground Poker Spring Classic, presented by partypoker.net. The Spring Classic, now in its 4th year, features 17 events including the $3200 + $300 WPT Canadian Spring Championship. Action gets underway April 17th and continues until May 5th. This year’s WPT Canadian Spring Championship is a $3,200 + $300 5-Day tournament with 3 Day 1s. For the second year in a row, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is the first event of the new World Poker Tour Season, Main Tour Season XV. The Spring Classic will get underway with the legendary Wild $150 ($135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry), with a $100,000 prize pool guarantee! Everything about The Wild $150 is managed exactly like a marquee, world-class event – except that with a buy-in of only $150, it’s accessible to everyone. Other highlights of the Spring Classic schedule: The $250 […]

Event 1 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic presented by Partypoker.net has just concluded with a victory for Jean-Hugo Robitaille over Anesti Kocini for a first prize of $32,557 – and the Champion’s trophy! The first event in this year’s Fall Classic was the traditional starting event at Playground Poker Classic festivals – The Wild $150. This is a $135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry tournament with 4 Day 1s. Players were permitted to enter each Day 1 just once (no same-day re-entry) as they tried to qualify for Day 2 on Wednesday November 4th. This time the event attracted 1439 entries, which meant that the $100,000 guarantee on the tournament was dwarfed by the actual prize pool of $188,437. The money bubble was pierced just after halfway through Day 2 as the first of 135 players were paid, and by the end of the evening there were 31 players […]

September has come and with it comes the end of the first Montréal Poker Expo, after 13 days of spectacular poker action at Canada’s premier poker destination, Playground Poker Club. Over the course of the 14 Montréal Poker Expo events over $1 Million in prizes were awarded! The kickoff event for the Expo was the Strike Out Cancer Charity Event, a $135 + $25 NL Hold’em re-entry event that saw 1186 entrants all contribute to a $29,710 donation that has been made to the Jodi Taiger Lazarus Fund for Hereditary Breast Cancer Research. The winner of the 3-day event was Mark Wells, who took home a handsome $24,440 for his victory. Attention then turned to the Montréal Poker Expo Main Event, a $1,000 + $100 NL Hold’em Re-entry event with three Day 1s. There were a solid 647 entries in the event, adding up to a massive prize pool of […]