Sunday on partypoker saw another huge milestone passed as 1,112 entries joined Day C in MILLIONS Online, taking the overall number of entries past the 3K mark to 3,170 so far in this huge $20M Guaranteed tournament. There’s still a way to go before the guarantee is reached, but the tournament is definitely on track to not only match but to surpass the $20,000,000 – which will make this the largest tournament in poker history by a wide margin! The chip leader at the end of Day 1C was Carlos “carlitos350” Camargo, who managed to accumulate 19,285,021 chips through the end of the 20 levels played on Day 1. This puts him in 6th place overall, as no one has been able to catch up to the leaders from Day 1A last week. There’s another player among the leaders on Day 1C who should be on everyone’s radar moving forward: […]
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Share your Celebration for a chance at MILLIONS!
As you probably already know our 8-Year Anniversary is coming up very soon and we want to give 10 lucky winners a reason to celebrate! Here’s what you need to do: create a short video – nothing complicated, there’s no need to hire a film crew, just use your cell phone – and tell us what you’re celebrating or what you’re grateful for. You can, for example, wish your friends or family happy holidays. Be creative (but keep it positive and sincere), it’s entirely up to YOU. This holiday season, try to put a smile on someone’s face, or better yet, make them laugh. It’s a celebration after all. Spread joy! Once you’ve made your video, upload it here. Apply the frame, fill out the entry form, then share it with your friends on Social Media and include the hashtag #ShareyourCelebration. That’s it. Easy peasy! The contest starts now and […]
MILLIONS Online Day 1B: The cup is (more than) half full
The second of 5 starting flights in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Online event was held last night on partypoker.com and with 484 entries joining the tourney, the total number of buy-ins has now reached 2,058 – more than half of the number required to hit the massive $20M Guarantee in the tournament! Pundits and commentators have been impressed with the player numbers so far, which looks to be on track to match and surpass the huge guarantee. The tournament is already the largest in partypoker history and one of the largest in online poker history overall! The chip leader to the end of Day 1B was Argentinian “patrondelmal” (21,904,963 chips), and there are two Canadians in the top 10, Troy “good player” Quenneville (15,442,304 chips) and Shyam “S_dot111” Srinivasan (13,678,675 chips). There are several other players we have gotten to know here at Playground that were able to make their […]
Your first STEP to becoming a Millionaire!
The $10,000 + $300 MILLIONS North America Main Event is the largest tournament on our annual calendar, and starting in December, everyone who plays live here at Playground will have a great opportunity to play their way into this global event via Steps satellites. The Step system features satellites at 3 different buy-in levels to appeal to players no matter what their bankroll or experience level. Step 1 satellites award seats into the next scheduled Step 2 satellite, which in turn awards seats to a $1,500 + $150 Step 3 satellite – and once you’re there, you’ll be playing for a $10,300 seat in the MILLIONS Main Event in May! $80 + $10: Step 1 Satellite $400 + $40: Step 2 Satellite $1,500 + $150: Step 3 Satellite Players may start with the Step 1 and play their way through all of the steps, or may choose to start directly […]
MILLIONS Online is underway
2018 has been a huge year in the poker world, and the year is concluding with a bang with MILLIONS Online on partypoker! We previewed the $5,300 MTT last week, and with Sunday’s Day 1A now in the books, it’s becoming clear that the event is delivering on its promise to be the largest single online MTT in history! Day 1A ran on Sunday November 25th and featured a total of 1,574 entries, which got the tournament off to a great start by contributing almost $8M to the prize pool. There’s still a long way to go to reach the ambitious $20,000,000 Guarantee, but with the amazing feeders and Mega satellites underway every day, there’s plenty of opportunity left for players to join the event for much less than the $5,300 buy-in amount. Through the 18 levels of play on Day 1A, the 1,574 entries were whittled down to just […]
MILLIONS NA starts at Playground’s 8-Year Anniversary!
Playground is celebrating its 8th anniversary in December, and we have put together a series that is sure to make heads turn, with $400,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The focus will be placed on the next Playground Poker milestone: the 2019 MILLIONS North America! The 2019 MILLIONS festival will include Playground’s first-ever $10,300 Main Event, and to help players get in the Event for less, there will be a 3-Step satellite tree through which players may qualify beginning on Sunday, December 2, date of the first of twelve $80 + $10 Step 1 satellites in December. All three Steps will come into focus during the 8-Year Anniversary Series, which will feature 5 Step 1s. These will all feed into one Step 2 satellite, which in turn will feed a huge Step 3 satellite event. Each of these satellites features mind-blowingly generous guarantees. See for yourself: From Thursday December 13 to […]
Introducing… the WCC Tag Team event!
Over the years, Tag Team events have become a staple of the Playground tournament scene. They typically appear every second Power Weekend or so, and invariably attract a huge number of players, eager to partner up to play a game that is normally a purely individual pursuit. The World Cup of Cards 2019, running from January 20 to February 6, opens with Event #1: $400 + $40 Tag Team and its $50,000 guarantee. Having proved its popularity time and again in several Power Weekends, the Tag Team format has been promoted to the World Cup of Cards. Special Tag Team Rules The first 6 levels are played individually – each team member starts with a 25,000 chip stack. Following a seating redraw after level 6, individual stacks are merged (if there are 2 left) to form the team stack and players alternate at the table from level to level. So […]
MILLIONS Online is upon us
MILLIONS Online, carrying the biggest single online MTT guarantee in history, starts this weekend on Sunday, November 25 and ends on Wednesday, December 5. This year, MILLIONS Online boasts a guarantee of 20 MILLION DOLLARS and crowns 4 MILLIONAIRES; a guaranteed $2.5M prize is reserved for 1st place! The buy-in is $5,300, but there are a number of ways to satellite your way in. For MILLIONS Online, the satellite scene is filled with amazing guarantees and some great added value, making it realistic for players of all bankrolls to play for astronomical prizes. Added Value Satellites A full-scale satellite tree. 6 buy-in levels, from $0.01 to $530. Huge numbers of added seats to every single level. A full 6-level tree grows every day from 6:55AM. Blown out added value on Sundays. $109 Phase Satellites Multiple Phase-1 satellites every day. Survive 38 levels and make the finals. Finals are held on […]
Action in the Caribbean at the CPP
The partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party is in full swing at the Baha Mar Resort in the Bahamas. There are two huge events underway this afternoon, and players that we know well at Playground are involved in both. First up is the final day of the $25,500 MILLIONS World event, and with just 9 players left and a $250,000 min-cash today, Charles La Boissonnière is among the final group. Charles is very well known as a terror at the tables here at Playground, and though he’s not a regular in $25K tournaments, his $900,000 in lifetime earnings just in events held at Playground is a testament to his superior abilities on the felt. Action is underway now and you can watch a live stream via partypokerlive.com. It’s also Day 2a in the $5,300 CPP Main Event, and with 465 players slated to play today in addition to new Day 2 […]
Super Sunday: a monster promotion!
As big as the prizes may get throughout the week, they will be dwarfed by the biggest cash game promotion Playground has ever held: Super Sunday! The first Sunday of every month will be a day to circle on your calendar because Super Sunday will be a day full of huge cash giveaways and high hand bonuses. From 10am until midnight, we will be drawing one seated No Limit Hold’em player at random every hour to test their luck with the raffle drum as they try to draw the top prize of $5,000! If that weren’t enough, it will also be a day full of high hand bonuses, where the best hand will be awarded $500 every 30 minutes! That’s over $30,000 up for grabs on Super Sunday; this is one you won’t want to miss! This concludes our new set of cash game promos: Hot Seat Mondays, Cash Splash Tuesdays, […]
A very progressive Thursday promotion!
Instead of going Full Throttle out of the gate, the new Thursday promotion steadily accelerates all day long to reach a frantic pace of big cash giveaways! Progressive Thursdays offers a dynamic twist on a traditional promotion: High Hand payouts that grow throughout the day! The prizes and qualifying hands start small, but get bigger with every 30-minute period. As the strength of the qualifying hand increases, so does the cash prize. There’s more: any unclaimed prizes will be rolled over into the next time period. This promotion is set to award some huge prizes! Even though the Really Wicked Weekdays have all been replaced by new cash game promotions, High Hands still have a big place in the weekly rollout… and the best is yet to come! Our new, varied, and exciting cash game promos start on Monday, November 12th. On that day, we will also announce the biggest […]
The untouchable High Hand Wednesdays!
After Hot Seat Mondays and Cash Splash Tuesdays, Wednesday’s cash promotion will have a very familiar feel… Given the legacy of Wicked Wednesdays, we wanted to remain loyal to the high hand promotion that our players have embraced over the years, so High Hand Wednesdays will give players more of what they want: high hand payouts every 30 minutes! Throughout the promotion period, at 30-minute intervals, the highest tabled hand from our No Limit Hold’em tables will be awarded $200, and the prizes will be bumped up to $500 during the last hour of the afternoon and evening sessions, putting $500 up for grabs, twice between 2pm and 3pm, and again between 2am and 3am! High Hand Wednesdays has all the hallmarks of the Playground classic. Stay tuned to learn what will replace Full Throttle Thursdays!