Less than five days apart, cash game players at Playground Poker Club reaped the benefits of not one, but two Bad Beat Jackpots hitting, awarding players over $231000 in cash. The term ‘bad beat’ in poker can be best described when a player, who has what appears to be a strong hand, inevitably loses to an opponent who held a weaker hand but made it stronger, even though the odds were against him. The term can also used when an incredibly powerful hand loses to an even stronger one, for example, four aces losing to a straight flush. Bad Beat Jackpots have been put in place by poker rooms and casinos all over the world and were specifically designed to reward those unlucky players who lose a hand (and typically a large amount of chips) due to a bad beat. According to players all across Canada, Playground Poker Club has […]

The Bad Beat Jackpot had climbed up to over $131000 at Playground Poker Club and hit at approximately 12:45PM on the afternoon of February 16th, 2012. Seated a 1/2 NLHE cash table, Manouane Gascon and Murray Kurtz went head to head, with what ended up being two monster hands. The story goes like this: Kurtz is on the button with . Gascon is BB with . The hand is straddled, no raise pre flop. Flop is . Gascon leads out after hitting her straight and another player calls. Kurtz raises with his set of 5’s and Gascon shoves with the other player folding. Kurtz calls … The Turn comes , giving Kurtz quad 5’s and triggers the BBJ against Gascon’s now straight flush. River comes, its a now giving Gascon a higher straight flush. Final hand is vs straight flush. Murray Kurtz, with the losing hand, walked away with $52,457 […]

Playground Poker Club, Canada’s leading poker destination, has announced a star-studded lineup for their 2011 Legends Banquet event & poker tournament honoring the 102nd anniversary of Montreal’s greatest hockey team, and featuring some of the biggest names in hockey history, including Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and many more, all for a great cause. Playground Poker Club is following up the popular NLH Faceoff Event this past summer with another unique experience combining poker and hockey with a few new twists at the 2011 Legends Banquet on December 4th, 2011 at Playground Poker Club’s five star restaurant, The Rail Coal Fire Bistro. The banquet will run from 12 PM EST until 2 PM EST and is being hosted by some of the most iconic names in hockey history, including Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and Henri Richard and many other great players from hockey’s past. The poker tournament portion of […]

For those of us that play poker often enough, we all catch a bad beat from time to time and walk away with nothing more than a story to tell, that nobody truly believes anyway. Last week at Playground, club member Sam Mashtoub found himself in a most unusual hand with a loaded board in front of him. Playground Poker Club offers a Bad Beat Jackpot in hold’em where any player that has Aces full of Kings or better beaten by a higher-ranking hand is awarded the cumulative Bad Beat Jackpot. Playground officially opened its doors on December 17th, which is when the first ever Bad Beat Jackpot was born and climbed to over $57,000 in just under eight weeks. Sam’s good friend was headed to the club on Tuesday, February 15th and invited him to come along for a firsthand look at the place. It was Sam’s first night […]