The WSOP-C Playground is approaching fast. The festival gets underway in just 38 days, and many players are already working towards a low-cost participation, but some – 10 to be exact – will get to enjoy a no-cost participation! How? Playground Poker Club, in an effort to offer as many players as possible the opportunity to play the iconic circuit, has placed an $11K Freeroll on the tournament schedule, where 10 X $1,100 Main Event seats will be awarded! The way to qualify for this Freeroll is very simple: all you need to do to participate is buy into any Playground tournament with your PP LIVE Dollars, and you’re in! PP LIVE Dollars are a currency that is earned on partypoker, accumulated on My partypoker LIVE, and used to buy into any partypoker LIVE Event, but also any Playground tournament, daily or event. It is a great way to build […]
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The PLO Jackpot hits!
As hot as the temperature has been in the Montreal area, the action on the Pot Limit Omaha tables has been even hotter – and the games reached the white-hot point last night on a $2/$5 PLO table – Table 13, to be precise. The table was made up of a lot of the regular PLO players and the stacks were deep – the scene was set perfectly for some huge action. After the blinds, a player universally known by his screen name – Jon14 – opened the action with a limp of $5. The preflop bet was raised to $25 by Carl D, who found 3 callers including Jon14. The flop was dealt. Flop: Action checked around and the turn was dealt: The deuce spurred some action, as Carl put out a delayed C-bet of $60 and found 2 callers (one player folded). Next up, the often-fateful river card. […]
A $50K Last Longer at the WSOP-C Playground
Everyone loves a good last longer contest, especially if the bounty is $50,000! If you plan to participate in the WSOP-C Main Event, you already visualize the hefty prizes at the top of the payout table. Now, you can also target the $50K prize that awaits the winner of this amazing Last Longer! How do you take part? Very easily! All you need to do is buy into the WSOP-C Main Event using your PPL $$$, but do it soon, because space is limited! The specific satellites that award the PP LIVE $$$ currency are running daily on partypoker, and total over $500,000 a week in guarantees! Packages come in denominations of $200, $1,000 or $5,000. Use them to buy into any Playground tournament to get your Freeroll ticket, but make sure to secure your WSOP-C Main Event seat first! For a complete schedule of PPL $$$ satellites and details […]
Play the WSOP-C Main Event for FREE!
At Playground Poker Club, there is always something new and interesting to help you make the most of your poker dollar. Right now, the big story on everyone’s lips is, of course, the WSOP Circuit coming to Montreal. The WSOP-C Playground is about 2 months out, and the anticipation is palpable. The extra flexibility offered by the new partypoker LIVE $$$ currency can get you in conveniently. Of course, you can use your PP LIVE $$$ to buy into any event at the Festival, but also any daily tournament on the Playground schedule, and we now give you an excellent reason to do so! From June 22nd to August 18th, use your PP LIVE $$$ to buy into ANY Playground tournament and you will automatically qualify for an $11K Freeroll on Sunday, August 19th with 10 X $1,100 WSOP-C Main Event seats up for grabs! Playing the WSOP-C […]
A ton of summer value on partypoker
At partypoker, there is always something new and interesting to help you get the most of your bankroll dollar. Every week, all week, the Power Series brings you exciting tournaments, and changes are made regularly to keep it fresh and aligned with player demand. Power turbos, Daily Majors, and Daily PLO are found every day of the week. Ladies Events are on Saturdays, while Super Sundays are on… well, you can guess it. The Americas are brand new tournaments that are scheduled to fit your time zone! Play in any event that has the suffix “Americas” and earn points towards the Americas Leaderboard with prizes to the top 20 every week and $1,000 to the highest-ranked player! These are all solid events, but the most popular format of all is the Progressive Knockout (PKO) format where you get a cash value bounty for every elimination you orchestrate while beefing up your […]
The KO Series is back!
One of the most popular formats on the Playground Poker Club tournament calendar is the Bounty tournament, and on partypoker, it is so popular that they have an entire series dedicated to this format! The KO Series is back in full force, starting this Sunday, June 3rd and offering an action-packed schedule of 226 Progressive Knockout tournaments that extend to Sunday, June 10th. Buy-ins range from $0.55 to $1,050! For those that are not familiar with this particular format, Progressive Knockout (PKO) means that for every player you eliminate, a portion of their bounty is credited to your account while the other portion is added to your own bounty. The deeper you run, the bigger the bounties you collect… and protect! Of course, an online tournament series is never complete without Championship Events, and partypoker has 4 of them on the KO Series schedule with a massive combined prize pool […]
A second Jackpot today!
As if the Secondary Bad Beat Jackpot wasn’t enough, the PLO Bad Beat Jackpot has now been hit as well – that makes two jackpots in a single day! The hand was played at about 5:00pm this afternoon on a $5-$5 PLO table – the (locally) famous Table 13. The Jackpot amount at the time of the hand was $43,486, which will be divided as follows: 40% to the loser of the hand (Jackpot winner), 20% to the winner of the hand (plus the pot), 20% shared between the other players at the table, and a final 20% shared between all other PLO players in the room at the time. The dealer button was on Seat 8 and there were the two blinds plus a straddle to $10 by the players in Seats 1 to 3. The player in Seat 6 opened the action with a raise to $30. Seat […]
Festival time is also BBJ time!
It’s almost a cliché that when a major festival arrives at Playground, jackpots start to hit. Once again, however, this has proven to be true! The Secondary Bad Beat Jackpot was won this afternoon at 1:40pm on Table 23 in the cash game section of the Tournament Hall. Table 23 was full (9 players) when the fateful hand was dealt. With the dealer button on Seat 6 and a straddle to $5 from the player in Seat 9, Caterina M, in Seat 1, was the first to act preflop and she chose to raise to $15. The player to her immediate left, Eric M, thought for a while and then re-raised enough to chase everyone, including the player who straddled, from the hand. With action back on her, Caterina chose to go all-in for $101 total, and Eric instantly made the call – it was only about a third of […]
A record-breaking Omaha Jackpot!
On table 13, the true home of PLO, just before 8pm the largest Omaha BBJ in Playground Poker Club history was just won! The last time the Omaha jackpot hit was a long time ago – the 27th of October. Since then, the jackpot amount continued to climb to an incredible $220,122! The hand began quite modestly, with few chips invested, and both players hit the flop so hard that they looked to play the hand slowly. It was only on the river that the fireworks began. Pinto, a regular in the Omaha games at the club, made a small bet – only to face an all-in re-raise from Maxime Boulais. Pinto looked once again at his cards, and said, “I really hope that you have quad Nines!” and called the bet. The rest is best represented by the following photos: Jackpot Payouts Loser of the hand: $104,558 Winner of […]
Evenings on partypoker are now tailor-made for Canadians!
As you may already know, partypoker recently launched a new and improved Power Series tournament schedule with weekly guarantees doubling to $10,000,000. Well, part of that extra money has been added to the evening schedule, which is great news for Canadians! Starting each night at 6:00pm with their 6-Max Turbos, every hour features some juicy guarantees as high as $20,000 with very affordable buy-ins ranging from $1.10 to $109. Following the daily themes, the Late Editions at 7:00pm are a great option for east coast players with $10,000 guaranteed with a buy-in of only $55. And right now, for a limited time, if you win the Late Edition $10K Guarantee you also win a FREE $530 satellite ticket for the MILLIONS North America. You must have a “my partypoker LIVE” account before winning the tournament, be a Canadian resident, and must claim your free ticket in the My PP LIVE […]
The $1.22M Jackpot has been won!
One of the elements that was responsible for a ton of the buzz at Playground Poker Club as the World Cup of Cards began was the huge Bad Beat Jackpot. The Primary BBJ had grown to over $1.22M over the past several months of cash game play… until August 17th at about 5:30pm, when the huge jackpot was finally hit as a runner runner straight flush in spades to the Queen beat Quad Jacks. The Primary BBJ at Playground Poker Club is a progressive jackpot that starts at $250,000. The minimum qualifying hand starts at Quad Aces and goes down every 4 weeks to a minimum of Quad 8s. The qualifying hand had been at that lowest qualifying hand level for many weeks and the Jackpot kept growing. According to the players, the hand was played pretty slowly. Preflop, there was a raise and two calls, so three players saw […]
Golden Ticket Fridays – over $50,000 in Prizes up for Grabs!
There’s a new promotion at Playground Poker Club running every Friday from July 28th to September 1st from 12:00pm to 12:00am – Golden Ticket Fridays! The concept is simple: every player that makes the designated hand* will be given the opportunity to select one of 10 gift boxes – the contents of the box the player chooses will be his or her prize! Once the selection has been made, we’ll spin the wheel once more to determine the next qualifying hand!** It’s that easy! What can you win?*** A World Cup of Cards partypoker Passport worth $3,520 Canadian Poker Championship Phase 1 Seats Grand Prix Canada Day 1 Seats Caribbean Poker Party Semi-Final Seats And much, much more! In addition, there’s an amazing Grand Prize – A $10,000 Caribbean Poker Party Package! To win the Grand Prize, a player must collect one each of the three Golden Tickets in the […]