Event #2, $150 + $20 + $50 PLO Bounty Re-entry tournament was a fun filled tournament, with plenty of action for the usual suspects who love to play poker with four cards in their hand. When late registration came to a close, there were 44 entries (including 10 re-entries), allowing the prize pool to go way above the original $6,000 guarantee. Ron G. loves to play PLO, however when he started on the final table, he had the second lowest stack. He knows the game well and was able to start to build up his stack, as he watched the eliminations on the table take place. After losing Alphonsus Kiwook Yoon in third place, play went heads-up between Arthur W. and Ron G., and with both players having almost the identical chip stacks they asked the floor to pause the clock to allow them to discuss a deal. Ron G. […]
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Huge Savings on your CPP Adventure
*Some details of this promo were revised and updated in this article on Friday, September 27 The Caribbean Poker Party (CPP) has grown to become one of the most exciting, luxurious and prestigious events in the poker world. This year’s edition, once again hosted at the luxurious Baha Mar resort, runs from November 15 to 24 with a 17 tournament lineup that features over $15 MILLION in prize pool guarantees. Playground and partypoker want you to go play poker in paradise, so we’re offering 10% off the CPP Lite package! The US$4,000 package includes: $1,100 Mini Main Event entry 9-night hotel stay for two at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar $600 room credit There are two ways to get the discount on this package: Email the discount code Playground@CPP to millions@mypartypokerlive.com and request to have the price of the package deducted from your partypoker account balance. The transaction will then […]
The Last Day of Summer Delivers the PLO BBJ!
The last day of summer will be a memorable one for a lucky group of PLO players, thanks to a $13K BBJ! It went down on table 13, which was playing 2/5 PLO, when the action started with a series of calls before a raise from the small blind in seat 8 made it $40 to go. The raise picked up four callers and led to a five-way pot. Flop: The pre-flop raiser led out with a pot-sized bet of $200. Prosper, in Seat 1, went over the top, raising to $587. Ludovick, in Seat 2, followed suit with an all-in raise of his own for $610. All this action chased the rest of the players from the pot, except for the pre-flop aggressor, who made the call. The three players involved in this monster pot opted to run the turn and river twice, but the first run would be […]
A Playground Series for Women
Every year, we see more and more women enjoying the great game of poker and the pure competition that comes with. Playground, in collaboration with the Women’s Poker Association, wishes to support that trend by setting up a poker series exclusively for women: the Playground Women’s Series! The Women’s Poker Association, launched in 2018, received a lot of love from the community and expanded very quickly. In 2019, several projects were added to their operations, including the addition of the WPA Player of the Year program and partnerships with many venues. The Playground Women’s Series is the first project that stems from our own partnership with the WPA. It is comprised of four $150 + $15 tournaments, each with their own $5,000 guaranteed prize pool, which culminate in the Finals in January. By participating in the Playground Women’s Series, players will… score points toward the Women’s Poker Association Player of […]
WPT Montreal – The Full Schedule
Last week, we announced the return of the WPT Montreal from October 20 to November 4 and a $3,000,000 guaranteed Main Event. After finalizing the last details of the schedule with the World Poker Tour, we can now officially release the dates, formats and guarantees of all seven events that will make up the WPT Montreal 2019! The festival will kick off with the ever-popular WPT500. This year, the $500 + $50 event presents a $1,066,000 guarantee. The odd number represents one million in cash and twenty $3,300 seats for the Main Event, which will be awarded to the top 20 finishers on top of their prize money. The event is an unlimited re-entry tournament, which means that you can throw in as many bullets as you wish across the five online and eight live starting flights. Following the WPT500 will be the $300 + $30 Freeze, the $200 + […]
A good night for 15 PLO players
The Omaha Bad Beat Jackpot was hit! Saturday night, eight lucky players shared $54,040. Let’s have a look at the breakdown. The $2/$2 Pot Limit Omaha game was held on table 15, and these events happened just after midnight. After three calls were made, the player on the button raised it to $10. Both blinds and all 3 limpers jumped in, creating a nice healthy pot of $60. All six participants checked the flop. Board on the turn: . Hum. Three checks were announced, followed by a $25 bet, which was called by two spots only – THE two spots. The river came the . Marc, the first caller on the turn, did not want to see that street checked around, and threw in a $125 bet. Hervé, the second caller on the turn, made it $300 to go. The third player thought: “Hey guys. Hiding much?” He mucked. An […]
The WSOP-C Playground does it again!
The WSOP-C took over Playground from August 22 to September 2 in its second annual edition and was another resounding success! Thousands of players from across the continent descended on Playground to take part in the seven-event series that awarded over $4,000,000 in prize money. Both tournament and cash game tables were packed to capacity throughout this event that saw every tournament surpass its prize pool guarantee and hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded on cash game tables through a combination of the Bad Beat Jackpot and the Sizzling Summer cash game promotions. The action got a major jump-start in the early days of the event when a Bad Beat Jackpot awarded $305,351 to some lucky NL Hold’em cash game players on the morning of August 25. Add to that the prizes totalling more than $150,000 given away over the course of the WSOP-C Playground as part of the […]
A Five-day Power Weekend
The September Power Weekend will be held from September 26 to September 30. Eight exciting events and a WPT Montreal Main Event satellite are on the schedule, totalling over $190,000 in guaranteed prize pools! The variety of tournament formats provided by the mini-series offers something for everyone. The Playground 200 returns with its usual format which features four live starting flights as well as an online starting flight on partypoker and a $100,000 prize pool guarantee. Our Pot Limit Omaha players are taken care of with a bounty tournament that allows unlimited re-entries. Combining 4-card poker with bounty action has always been a success, because bringing two good things together can’t be bad! The Women’s Event will deliver a fun-filled evening of deepstack poker with a $4,000 prize pool guarantee – for ladies only! The Tag Team event returns with a guaranteed prize pool of $20,000. This event does not […]
Pot Limit Omaha champion: Jason Hallee
The final event of the WSOP-C Playground, the $500 + $50 Pot Limit Omaha, was an action-packed affair that brought out fans of four-card poker in droves. The field was small when the action began at noon, but new players and re-entries kept rolling in until the end of the late registration period to bring the total number of entries to 213, enough to more than double the $50,000 prize pool guarantee. The huge turnout created a six-figure prize pool to be awarded to the top 31 finishers, with an impressive $22,500 up top for the eventual winner. The pace of play was extremely fast in the early levels. Many players were happy to take their chances with a wide range, knowing that unlimited re-entries were available. The result was a lot of multi-way all in pots that created some monster stacks in the early going. But the blinds catch […]
Alexander Allison takes down the Closer!
The $300 + $30 Closer was a hell of an event, but it has finally come to an end. After bringing in 1,091 total entries over the course of four Day 1s, Day 2 was an action-packed event from start to finish. Over the course of almost 14 hours of play, our Day 2 qualifying field of 220 players reduced itself down to just two: Alexander Allison and and Abram Logasy. In the end, Alexander ended up taking it down, earning himself a fantastic prize, bragging rights, and of course the very cool WSOP-C Playground championship ring. Congratulations Alex, aka “Cheese9”! You are the 2019 $300 + $30 Closer champ! $300 + $30 Closer Champion: Alexander Allison, $50,000 Last Hand of Play The heads up match between the last two players didn’t last as long as it took to go from three players to two, but it still took well […]
The Main Event Champion: Joe Pellegrino!
Joe Pellegrino, on his first live tournament ever, managed to overcome a shark-infested final table and claimed the WSOP-C Playground Main Event title! The amazingly popular series was, again this year, a tremendous success. The Main Event itself was no exception. It presented four starting flights, including an online flight that featured a novelty: the Online Day 1 & 2. Those who played it went through both Day 1 and Day 2 in a single flight, allowing them to secure a prize before making the trip to Playground, an excellent proposal for out-of-towners. Players from Days 1A, 1B and 1C merged into one of two Day 2s: Day 2A and Day 2B. Finally, on Day 3, the whole field was brought together in our club to play until the final table, or the end of level 27, whichever came first. The huge number of total entries made it easy to […]
The WPT Montreal is finally announced
At Playground, the WSOP-C continues apace with the Main Event Day 2A filling up our rooms. Your last chance to join the Main Event will be tomorrow between 12:00PM and 2:15PM before the third level of Day 2B starts, and tonight’s satellite could put you in at a fraction of the price. At 6:00PM tonight, the $300 + $30 Closer enters the mix with Day 1A. The guarantee for that event is $300,000! As the club pulses with WSOP action, we look forward to the next landmark on the 2019 calendar: the WPT Montreal. Click the image below for more info!