There are over 55,000 museums in 202 countries, and Montreal has more than its fair share of beautiful and educational places for you to visit. A museum is a great place to unwind and bring some inner peace to your poker-playing mind. Not to mention that a museum provides plenty of food for conversation, whether at dinner, over drinks, or at the poker table. So get inspired, surround yourself with greatness, and prepare to achieve it yourself at the MILLIONS North America. If art is your thing, then the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts should be the number one stop on your list. It numbers over 41,000 works from Antiquity to today, making it unique in Canada. And it doesn’t hurt being just around the corner from the Loews Hotel Vogue where you can score preferential rates by using promotional code: Playground Poker. We also highly recommend taking the time […]
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Top 10 reasons to travel to Montreal for the MILLIONS North America!
Thousands of poker players are preparing to descend on Playground Poker Club from April 21st to May 2nd. The reason is simple: the MILLIONS North America and a chance at winning a share of the $15,000,000 in Guaranteed Prize Pools; including the MILLIONS Main Event with $10,000,000 Guaranteed. Now, we realize many of you will be visiting our city, our province and even our country for the very first time. So with that in mind, we will be, for the next 10 weeks counting down to the MILLIONS North America, share with you a Top 10 of must-see attractions and must-do activities in and around one of the oldest and most unique cities in North America; Montreal. By the time we reach number 1 on our list, you’ll probably want to move here… or at the very least come back for the World Cup of Cards later this year. #10 […]
Playground Poker & the 4th American Poker Awards
The 4th Annual American Poker Awards nominees were announced today, and Playground Poker Club figures prominently among the 54 total awards and nominees. The American Poker Awards will be presented on Thursday, February 22nd in Los Angeles. Our most prominent nomination is in the Event of the Year category. The four final nominees include the partypoker MILLION North America – the only nominated event that was held outside of Las Vegas. This tournament ran from May 5th to 10th, 2017 and was a $5,300 NL Hold’em event that generated a total prize pool of $5,709,750.00 and included both Online (on partypoker) and Live elements in an innovative tournament format. Playground Poker Club was also the site of one of the 4 nominations for Poker Moment of the Year: “Ema Zajmovic becomes the first female player to win an open event on the World Poker Tour.” This occurred in the WPT […]
New and Improved Client Software available now from partypoker
In the past few days, partypoker has released upgrades to its desktop and mobile clients. The lobby and game play interfaces have both been improved in this first round of updates – making it more of a pleasure than ever to play on partypoker! The changes were made after gathering feedback from a wide range of players. The thing that stands out the most about both the lobby and table updates is the darker colour scheme, which will be easier on the eyes for players and big improvement for those playing long sessions. As well, the simplified one-click lobby has been removed and all of the attention now goes to the traditional lobby view. Very few players were reported to have used the simplified lobby – and now, improving the traditional view will be the focus of continuing development. In this update, filters have been made collapsible to provide more […]
Winter in the Bahamas
One of the ways Montrealers combat the winter blues is to travel south, and as usual there were a lot of players well known to Playground Poker Club in the Bahamas at the beginning of January for the annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure the PCA! The first major tournament series of the year, there is a long tradition of Montreal- and Quebec-based players who achieve success there, and this year was no exception. The top result by a local player came from Jonathan Duhamel, who won a $5K NL Hold’em tourney towards the end of this year’s event. Players Club member Jean-Philippe Piquette was also a winner at the PCA, taking down a $1.1K Crazy Pineapple event. Other local players who had success at the PCA include Marco Caza (2nd in a $5K event), Marc Etienne McLaughlin (3rd in a $5K Turbo event), and Adam Coviensky, who placed 4th in a […]
News from the 2014 WSOP Main Event
The WSOP Main Event is well underway in Las Vegas, and Playground Poker Club would like to extend a hearty Good Luck to a few of our friends. Our list includes Players Club members as well as a few other players we have built relationships with over the years – some of them went deep in a big event we’ve thrown, or they come to all of our big events, or they’re regulars or staff at the club. Good luck to everyone! Day 2AB: Players Club – Antonio Esfandiari, Chanracy Khun, Jeff Gross, Valerie Ross. Other friends – Mukul Pahuja, Tony Dunst, Samuel Chartier, Michael Malm, Laurence Grondin, Yann Dion, Vincent Jacques, Tim Reilly, Alim Perales, Sorel Mizzi, Ryan Rivers, Mike Linster, Eric Afriat, John Pentefountas, and Gaya Louali. Day 2C: Players Club – Jonathan Roy, Gavin Smith. Other friends – Jonathan Duhamel, Jay Kastner, Derek Lerner, Carter Swidler, Jeff […]
Premier League VII broadcasts begin… in the UK
We received word today that the broadcast of Premier League season VII – which was filmed here at Playground in November – is going to start on March 4 on Sky Sports in the UK. You can be sure that as soon as we have the information about Canadian broadcast dates we’ll share it with you! For now, here’s a preview… Premier League VII Special Preview
Playground Players at the World Series (Part 2)
The 44th World Series of Poker has been running since the end of May in Las Vegas and so far Canadian players and Montreal-based players ‘-and members of our Players Club ‘-have continued to do very well in the annual tournament series. After a great start to the series, the biggest news of the summer (so far) for Quebec poker was Jason Duval’s bracelet in Event #28, a $1500 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Jason is well known at Playground after his fantastic performances in events here, including final tables of two of the three biggest events in the Playground Poker Spring Classic in May. Amazingly enough, Duval followed up his bracelet win with another strong finish in Event #34, the WSOP’s first-ever Turbo tournament. Players Club member Greg ‘FBT’ Mueller has continued to post great results ‘-during the second half of the WSOP he notched a 3rd place in Event […]
Playground Players at the World Series
The 44th World Series of Poker has been running since the end of May in Las Vegas and so far Canadian players and Montreal-based players ‘-and members of our Players Club ‘-have been doing extremely well! The Series started with a solid performance by frequent Playground player Garen who came 28th in Event #2. Another frequent player here, Ami Alibay, followed this up with a fantastic 8th place finish in Event #4. The Millionaire Maker (Event #6) didn’t see any new Playground millionaires, but two regular tournament players here managed to cash in the humongous tournament ‘-Eric Afriat and Carlo Nini. Congratulations to everyone ‘-although we know that each of you (like all poker players) would have preferred an even better result! Players Club members have also had a strong Series so far. Greg ‘FBT’ Mueller nabbed a 3rd place finish in Event #8 (8-Game Mix) and Gavin Smith placed […]
Poker News Top Ten Canadian Poker-Playing Sports Stars
Poker News has published a two-part article naming the top ten Canadian sports legends that also love to play poker. Two of Playground Poker’s Players Club members-Guy Carbonneau and Vincent Damphousse-made the list in 6th and 4th place respectively. Read the articles at Poker News: Canadian Sports Heroes That Love Poker ep.1 Canadian Sports Heroes That Love Poker ep.2 “
Jonathan Roy Finishes 3rd at the WPT World Championship!
Playground Poker’s Players Club member Jonathan Roy has snagged third place in the World Poker Tour World Championship. The winner of the first ever WPT Montreal last November, Jonathan navigated a very tough field of 146 players over the course of 5 days to make it to the 6-handed Final Table. Action on the Final Table got underway at 4pm PDT with Jonathan in third place by chip count (1.9M) and playing in Seat 1, to the left of massive chip leader David “Chino” Rheem (5.495M). Also on the final table were David Peters (1.085M), Erick Lindgren (3.355M), Brandon Steven (1.21M), and Matt Hyman (1.56M). Some of the star power had left the tournament when Daniel Negreanu finished on the Final Table bubble, but the remaining 6 players were all experienced players with resumes to match. With his third place finish, Jonathan won US$421,800. As well, the 1100 WPT Player […]
Playground Poker’s WPT Champions among the leaders at the WPT World Championship
When a poker player wins a WPT Championship, the prize package includes an entry in the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The World Championship is underway this week, and going into Day 4 of the 7 day event, the two champions of WPT events held at Playground Poker are both among the leaders with just 24 players left in the field. Amir Babakhani, the winner of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship earlier this month, is the current chip leader with 1,220000 chips (122 big blinds). Playground Poker Players Club member Jonathan Roy, the winner of the inaugural WPT Montreal in November 2012, is sixth with 824000 chips (82 bb). The remaining field is very strong, as usual for this event. Jonathan will start the day on table 33 along with such players as Andrew Lichtenberger (aka luckychewy), Chino Rheem, Jake Cody, and Andy Frankenberger. Amir starts […]