After 2 full days of poker, almost 3 hours of final table action and a little over 10 minutes of heads-up play, Hassan Salha was crowned Champion of the Playground 200, a natural outcome that resulted from unbelievable play. Salha was hands down the fiercest competitor. Since early in Day 2, his well-calculated aggressiveness served him extremely well. This type of play got him a lot of free pots, and also a lot of value from players who just could not bring themselves to believe him anymore. The Playground 200 attracted 607 players spread on 4 Day 1s – 1 online and 3 live. 126 players managed to send a stack to Day 2. On that Day, Hassan Salha was either 1st or 2nd in chips on ALL leaderboards, a very rare thing. He also had a partypoker LIVE patch on him, and as the Champion, he was incidentally the […]

The 2017 WPT Montreal has come to a close with Montreal’s own Maxime Heroux emerging as the Champion. Along with a massive $384,150 payout, the title comes with the Playground Poker Fall Classic Champion’s Belt, a spot on the WPT Champion’s Trophy, a US$15,000 seat to the WPT Tournament of Champions, a stunning Hublot watch, and of course poker immortality as a WPT Champion. Past champions in this event have been Mike Sexton (2016), Jared Mahoney (2015), Jonathan Jaffe (2014), Derrick Rosenbarger (2013), and Jonathan Roy (2012), and the event has also seen historic runs by players like Ema Zajmovic (final table 2016), Rainer Kempe (first big tournament score in North America), and Mukul Pahuja (back to back final tables), among others. This WPT Main Tour stop was a $3,500 + $350 NL Hold’em event featuring three Day 1s next-day re-entry and a huge $2,000,000 prize pool guarantee. It featured […]

After more than 4 weeks of tournaments and 75 unique “scoring events” in the 2017 World Cup of Cards, we have our top 10 in the Leaderboard Challenge! The top prize this year was impressive – a $10,000 Caribbean Poker Party package. In addition to this, and the weekly PowerFest prizes, the next 9 players on the Leaderboard Challenge final standings page will receive prizes as outlined below. Without any further delay – the results: 1st place: William Blais – 1,472.60 points – $10,000 Caribbean Poker Party package 2nd place: Jonathan Patrick Marrie – 1,350.36 points – $1,050 Caribbean Poker Party Final seat 3rd place: Paul Scott – 1,085.08 points – $1,050 Caribbean Poker Party Final seats 4th place: Shawn Daigle – 1,042.24 points – $109 Caribbean Poker Party Semi-Final seat 5th place: Matthew Wilkins – 989.94 points – $109 Caribbean Poker Party Semi-Final seat 6th place: Andrew Watt – […]

The Canadian Poker Championships has come to a close after an exhilarating journey, in which players from all over the world and of all calibers of play gathered together to compete for the lion’s share of a $2,000,000 prize pool. Part of the World Cup of Cards at Playground Poker Club, this $2,000 + $200 NL Hold’em Re-entry event was composed of a healthy mix of recreational and professional players. With so many Phase 1 feeders, for which players were able to satellite into for as little as $2.20 on partypoker, this tournament gave the opportunity for any player to join the field and play for life-changing money, regardless of their bankroll. Over 336 entries were booked into Day 1 for $220 or less (spawning from 2,801 Phase 1 buy-ins), and an additional 563 direct buy-ins were made, bringing the total number of entries up to 899. The money bubble […]

The Playground 1000 was the 20th event in the World Cup of Cards, and a total of 867 entries took place for this tournament which boasted a $1,000,000 guarantee. Starting flights were available online at partypoker and live at Playground Poker Club, with all qualifiers reunited on Monday evening for Day 2. The top 100 players secured themselves a payout, with a staggering $200,000 top prize set aside for the eventual winner. Once Day 3 was complete, 24 players were still in the race and they returned to the felts for Day 4 to play down to a winner. As play neared the final table, it was Donghai Lu who was leading the way with a considerable chip lead. Alexander Puchalski (9th – $10,000) and Aaron Czaja (8th – $15,000) were eliminated in the first few orbits of the final table, and shortly after Jason Mandanici-Turcot stormed up the leaderboard […]

History has been made once again at Playground Poker Club! After 34 levels of play spread across 4 action-packed days, Ema Zajmovic plowed through a field of 380 entries and joined an elite group of players by claiming the title of Champion at the partypoker.net WPT Playground. Ema has also just become the first woman to have won a WPT title in an open championship event, securing nearly a quarter million in earnings along the way. The World Poker Tour Main Tour returned to Playground Poker Club for the third time this season in its 20 stop program. This time the structure was a little different compared to previous visits to Kahnawake, as there were only 2 starting flights to the $3,200 + $300 NLHE event. However a single same-day re-entry was permitted on top of the usual next-day re-entry formula. A combined total of 380 entries joined the event, […]

Pascal Lefrançois has won the $10,000 + $400 NL Hold’em High Roller event in the 2016 Playground Poker Fall Classic presented by partypoker.net! Lefrançois secured the victory by beating Mark Radoja in heads up play after the two of them had dispatched the 39 other players vying for the title. For his victory. Lefrançois won $128,000, the winner’s share after a deal had been concluded with 2 players remaining. Pascal Lefrançois and Mark Radoja played heads-up for about a half-hour. For those two to end up playing heads-up was a natural outcome, as they had played a lot of hands together since the formation of the final table. They were constantly testing each other in a variety of different scenarios, as if to prepare for the match to come. They started the heads-up match with even stacks, and were playing for $8,000.00, having split the rest of the pool evenly. […]

The certified Hall of Famer, all-around poker legend and the voice and face of the WPT for its entire 15-year history has added to his legend and made history at Playground Poker Club by winning this $3,850 NL Hold’em event, now in its 5th year. For his victory, Mike wins $405,880.00 in cash, a US$15,000 entry in the WPT Tournament of Champions, the Playground Poker Champion’s Belt, his name (further) immortalized on the WPT Champions Trophy as well as a gorgeous Hublot watch and a pair of gold Monster 24K headphones! Mike and his opponent, Benny Chen, engaged in a truly epic heads-up battle that lasted 157 hands before a champion could be crowned. Benny proved to be an extremely skilled player and held a large chip advantage for long stretches of the evening, but Mike proved to be up to the challenge and kept on grinding, sometimes with a […]

Event 24 in the World Cup of Cards was the $1,500 + $150 NL Hold’em CPPT World Cup of Cards and was a 3-day tournament with 2 Day 1s. There were a total of 359 entries in the event which built up a total prize pool of $522,345.00. The winner was Brady Hinnegan, who defeated Tomas Larivee Magni heads up for the win. The new level was only about 10 minutes old when the final hand was upon the players, though the hand started innocently enough. Tomas had lost a few more chips than he had on the last break and was starting to be quite short-stacked when he limped and Brady checked behind to see a flop. Flop : It was an action flop, but the action went check-check and the dealer laid out the turn . Brady bet 200K and Tomas made the call. The river was an […]

After about 43 hands of heads up play between competitors that saw the lead swing one way and then the other, Seth Davies has defeated Ruben Perceval to emerge victorious in the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship! After a long stretch of play during which the players had relatively even stacks, Ruben slowly started to accumulate chips until at one point he was the clear leader in the tournament only to have the stacks return to about even when Seth hit a on the river to make bottom pair and take a big pot. They exchanged the lead a couple of times after that but the general trend was in Seth’s favour and eventually Seth had a 3-1 advantage and the clear momentum in the tournament. On the final hand of play Seth raised to 275K and Ruben defended his blind the players went to the flop. Flop: Ruben was […]

The TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event has just come to a close, and local hero Jiachen Gong was able to overcome a field of 520 players over 4 days of poker to emerge as the tournament champion! Jiachen, better known as Jack here amongst friends at Playground Poker Club, came into this final 6-handed table as the chip leader, and although he gave up the lead to Jessie Wheatley in the early stages of the day, he jumped right back into the driver’s seat in no time. He delivered the knockout blow to both 6th place Danny Kalpakis and 5th place Jessie Wheatley, although in both cases most of the leg work was done beforehand, and then chipped his way up the leaderboard throughout 4-handed action. After the elimination of Maxime Lejeune Hebert in 4th place, Jack became the overwhelming chip leader, and never looked back after that. Once he […]

Jared Mahoney has won the 2015 Partypoker.net WPT Montreal! After an epic 6-handed Final Table that continued for almost 200 hands of poker, a good many of these part of a huge 3-way battle, followed by a tense heads-up battle with Darryll Fish that saw very little between the two players, Jared emerged victorious. For his victory, Jared has won $433,410.00, the Playground Poker Club Champion’s Belt, his name etched permanently on the WPT Champion’s trophy, an entry in the World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions, and last (but most definitely not least) a beautiful Hublot Oceanographic watch! An experienced player both online and live, Jared had never cashed for more than $32K in a live poker tournament. He has (published) cashes dating back to 2007, however, and a solid online resume to boot. This victory was clearly a long time coming for a talented player who took care of […]