Big changes are coming to the Playground Poker Tournament Leaderboard sponsored by partypoker, on January 1st, 2018. The most significant change is the modification of the prizes for the monthly TLB Freeroll. The First Place finisher in the monthly tournament will now win a seat to the MILLIONS North America – a $5,300 value. This brings the total of all of the prizes to over $16,000 per month! Finishers from 2nd to 10th will each win $1000 on partypoker, and players who finish from 11th to 30th will win a $109USD partypoker tournament ticket. All payouts will continue to be made on partypoker. The other major change is that starting on January 1st, online tournaments will no longer qualify for TLB points. The TLB will return to it’s “classic” formula – rewarding players at Playground Poker for their performance and participation in Live tournaments here at the Club. Be sure […]

As 2017 comes to a close, it’s fun to look back at the year that was and remember all of the great moments since last January, from Ema Zajmovic’s victory in the WPT Playground all the way through to the 7 Year Anniversary Series. To help us determine the year’s biggest moment, we turned to you. Poker players are full of opinions, and the Story of the Year was no exception. We narrowed it down to 7 choices and let you guys tell us which was the biggest! The results are now in, and the Record-Setting Bad Beat Jackpot was the story of the year! Of the 536 valid responses, this choice received a whopping 35% of the votes. In second place: Ema Zajmovic wins the WPT Playground with 26%. The record-setting $1,210,989 Bad Beat Jackpot (190 votes) Ema Zajmovic wins the WPT Playground, becoming the first woman to win […]

In the past year, something new has been taking the tournament world by storm – the Button Ante. Playground Poker Club is no exception – we used this format in a few major tournaments during the 2017 World Cup of Cards, and the response from customers was overwhelmingly positive. The concept is simple: instead of asking every player at a tournament table to contribute an ante each hand, the player on the button pays a larger ante once per table orbit. To keep it simple, the amount of the Button Ante is the equivalent of the big blind – as the big blind grows, so does the Button Ante amount. This Button Ante is pulled into the pot before the deal, and the small and big blinds are added as usual by the two players to the left of the button. There are several benefits to the Button Ante format, […]

For several years now, Thursday and Sunday evenings have been set aside for satellite tournaments that give players the opportunity to play their way into major events for a relatively small buy-in amount. These satellites have been a huge success, and hundreds of seats to major events such as the WPT® Montreal have been awarded via satellite tournaments. Recently, however, some have pointed out that satellites do not start at their advertised time, as many players opt to wait until the end of the late registration period to jump in. Few players buy-in early, but are then forced to wait for 30, 60, or even 90 minutes before the tournament can start. This is due to the fact that we would delay the tourney by up to 2 x 15 minute periods if we did not have the minimum amount of runners present at the scheduled start time (# of […]