Winning an event during the Playground Poker Fall Classic is about to pay off even more! Every event winner in the Fall Classic will win a seat in an exclusive freeroll tournament to be held during the Playground Winter Festival (Jan/Feb 2017) – in addition to the amazing trophy and their cash prize. The winner of the Champions’ Freeroll will earn a seat in the first ever $3,200 + $300 partypoker.net WPT Playground. With a maximum of just 17 entries, this freeroll is one of the great values in poker!

With the end of the 2016 World Cup of Cards comes the final tally in the festival-long WCC Event Leaderboard race. Congratulations to Charles La Boissonière on a runaway victory! By the end of the festival he had amassed an amazing 1,647.9 points, surpassing Jason Conforti in 2nd place by 255 points! Joey Boczek put up a great battle as well, coming in 3rd with 1,379.1 pt. For his victory, Charles has won a USD $6,000 Caribbean Poker Party prize package, including flights for 2 to Punta Cana, accommodation at the Hard Rock Punta Cana and a USD $2,750 buy-in for the partypoker Million event with $2M guaranteed! The second-place prize goes to Jason Conforti, who has won a “Full Red Bull Experience” package at the 2017 Formula 1 Montreal Grand Prix. The Week 4 Leaderboard winner was Mark Howie, whose 401.8 points in the final week of the WCC have […]

This past Wednesday April 6th was another two-jackpot day at Playground Poker Club! First, the Primary BBJ was won at about 3:30 in the afternoon on Table 5, a $1-$2 table, and later that evening the Secondary BBJ was won as well! As the day begun, the Primary Jackpot sat at $250,000 while the Secondary Jackpot was, as always, fixed at $25,000. The Primary BBJ saw a very rare straight flush over straight flush hand develop as the two players in the hand started with and . The flop gave both players their flush draw: and it was unknown to them but each of them had a draw to a straight flush as well. Both players made their flush on the turn and each player’s stack was wagered at that point. The river was magical – the gave one player his gut shot straight flush while it was also the […]

Starting today (Monday March 7th) and continuing throughout March is an insane new game brought to you by TonyBet. Everyone who deposits at least $50 on TonyBet via the cashier at Playground Poker Club will get entered into a live raffle. A $50 deposit gets you 1 ticket, while a $100 deposit gets you 3! Every Friday throughout the month we’ll draw five names. The lucky five will then return to Playground the following Monday at 7:00pm and play Poker Punchout! Each player will punch 3 slots in the huge Poker Punchout game board and remove the envelopes from within for a total of 3 envelopes. Then we’ll open the envelopes; if the total value of those 3 envelopes is exactly $300, you’ll win the Jackpot for that week! If your total is any other amount – that will be added to your balance on TonyBet! It’s a win-win! On […]

Sunday was Jackpot day at Playground Poker Club as not one but two Bad Beat Jackpots were hit – and one of them was the second-largest Jackpot in the history of the club: $622,242.00! First up was the Secondary BBJ in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The Secondary BBJ is fixed at $25K and only requires that a player (playing both cards) loses with at minimum a full house of Aces over Kings. This was exactly the losing hand in an AA vs KK showdown in which the board ran out with the on the turn giving one player Quad Kings and the river giving his opponent the full house! The loser of the hand won 50% of the jackpot the winner of the hand won 25% and the other players at the same table shared the remaining 25%. Congratulations to those winners! The real fireworks came about 18 […]

The end of December has arrived, and with it comes the end of what has been a fantastic month for Bad Beat Jackpots here at Playground Poker Club. There were a total of 4 BBJ hands in a 10-day period in the middle of the month – two Hold’em Secondary BBJs and two Omaha BBJs – both of those on the same day! Action kicked off in December on the 9th with a Secondary BBJ on a Hold’em table when the 3 that gave the losing player four-of-a-kind also gave his opponent a straight flush. The players split $25,000 – $12,500 to the loser of the hand, $6,250 to the winner of the hand, and another $6,250 split between the remaining players on the table. Next up were the two Omaha BBJs – both of them on December 15th, and both on the same table. In the first hand, the […]

It’s not as exciting as an over half-million-dollar jackpot like the one awarded in September, but October was still a good month for Jackpots at Playground Poker Club as two Secondary Bad Beat Jackpots and the PLO Bad Beat Jackpot were all won by players during the month. First up was a Secondary BBJ on October 12th. In the hand, pocket Aces confronted pocket Kings on a flop with one of each. The King on the turn changed the hand from a big hand to a jackpot hand and the players at the table shared $25,000! Next came the PLO BBJ on October 15th. In this hand, the flop gave quad Kings to one player while the other flopped a set of Jacks. The Jack on the river brought the player who lost the hand his quads as well, and quads over quads greater than 8 meant that it was […]

As of Monday October 12th at 3am, the Mega Wheel will be taking a vacation. Both wheel promotions, the $10,000 Spin, and High Hand Happy Hour, will be retired, and replaced by something WICKED! Every Wednesday of the month will be a new high hand cash giveaway, and everyone playing on a No Limit Hold’em cash table has a chance to win. It’s called Wicked Wednesdays, and every Wednesday between noon and 8pm, the player with the high hand at the end of the hour at a cash table will instantly win $250! The qualifying high hand resets every time a prize is awarded, in other words, every hour – so any exceptional hand has a good chance of being the winner! The minimum qualifying hand is any full house, and the hand doesn’t even have to go to showdown to win – you simply need to table your cards! […]

After weeks of anticipation, the largest Primary Bad Beat Jackpot in Playground Poker History was finally won in the early hours of September 17th! The jackpot had climbed to $672,202 as players flocked to the tables to try for a share of the huge prize. The jackpot grew even more than usual because it managed to survive the most recent big festival, the successful Montréal Poker Expo. The decisive hand was played at a $1-$2 NL Hold’em table with 7 players seated. Pre-flop action saw a raise to $10 and 6 players saw the flop: . The pre-flop raiser opened to $25 and found only one caller and the turn was dealt: the . On the turn, the players both stayed in the hand on a bet of $55 and the river came out: . On the river, the initial pre-flop raiser check raises all-in to $155 and was instantly […]

Starting on June 1st there are two new promotions for cash game players and they both use the Mega Wheel! The entire day – all 24 hours – are covered by the two promotions, so whether you prefer to play bright and early in the morning, in the evening after work, or if you’d rather grind overnight, there’s something new for you! The first new promo is called The $10,000 Spin. This runs twice a day from noon to 6pm and again from 6pm to 3am and at the end of each of the two sessions, the player in the room who has qualified with the highest hand (minimum AAAJJ) will be invited to spin the Mega Wheel and win cash! Even better, if a spin lands on the Gold slot on the Mega Wheel, then everyone wins a share of $10,000 – $2,500 to the spinner and $7,500 divided […]

It’s no surprise that there were a lot of happy players during the recent Spring Classic after all, we printed over 450 payout coupons for players who cashed in one of the 16 events. The fun wasn’t reserved just for tournament players, however. There were also a lot of extra-happy cash game players during this year’s Spring Classic. On the Bad Beat Jackpot poster, we promote the fact that the Secondary BBJ has Frequent Winners and this has definitely been the case over the past 3 weeks! The Secondary BBJ was hit 3 times during the Spring Classic on April 29th, April 30th, and May 2nd and each time, the players at the table where the hand occurred shared $25,000 in cash! The first jackpot hand was on a $5/$5 table and featured quad fours losing to quad fives. The very next day, quad fours lost again this time to […]

It’s almost as reliable as a clock! When a major festival gets underway at Playground Poker Club, that means there’s a really great chance that a Bad Beat Jackpot is about to be awarded. Almost every major tournament festival we’ve hosted in the past 2 years has been accompanied by at least one Jackpot being hit, and the 2015 edition of the Playground Poker Spring Classic is no exception. This time it was the Omaha BBJ. The jackpot had grown to $25,435 when an Omaha table came together yesterday, and at approximately 10pm the fateful hand was dealt. There were 8 players at the table, which was a $1-$2-$5 Pot Limit Omaha table, this being one of the most popular formats of the game here at Playground. The hand in question saw 6 players go to the flop. The cards were dealt ( ) and action checked around. The fireworks […]