July’s edition of the Playground Power Weekend wrapped up on Sunday with the conclusion of the $50K GTD $150 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry tournament. This topped off a fantastic weekend of poker that began on Thursday night, during which over $170K in total prizes were distributed. The festivities got started on Thursday night with a $200 + $20 NL Hold’em Freeze that attracted 172 players. That meant a prize pool valued at $33,368 that was paid out to a total of 20 players, and by the time there were 8 players left they decided to do an ICM chop. The remaining prize pool was divided and Patrick Tardif ended in first place, taking home $4,703.00 for his efforts on the night. On Friday at noon, attention shifted to the $200 + $30 + $100 NL Hold’em Bounty tournament. Each player had a huge $100 bounty on their head, so […]
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The MegaWheel promos at 6 weeks
On June 1st we introduced two new promotions for cash game players The $10000 Spin and High Hand Happy Hour which, taken together, give players 24 hours a day of promotions using the MegaWheel! The first 6 weeks have brought with them a fantastic promo windfall: players have taken home over thirty thousand dollars between the two promotions. The $10000 Spin has paid out $18635 including a huge Jackpot spin on June 30th! In that case the spinner took home $2500 while every other cash player at the tables at the time found themselves with an additional $160 in their bankroll! For its part, the High Hand Happy Hour has paid out $11705 and counting… There have been several $500 spins. We re still waiting for the first $1000 spin for Happy Hour maybe it will be you? For more details and full promo rules, please check out the Promotions […]
The Playground Power Weekend is back!
The Playground Power Weekend is back! The next edition will be held from Thursday July 23rd to Sunday July 26th and will feature an all-new tournament program with something for everyone! The weekend will kick off with a $200 + $20 Freeze on Thursday July 23rd at 7:00pm. Players will start with 20000 tournament chips and the structure will use an earlier ante format to guarantee lots of play and a deep structure for a single night tourney. On Friday July 24th there will be a $200 + $30 + $100 Bounty tournament beginning at 12:00pm. The early start allows for 30-minute levels and players will start with 25000 in chips plus a $100 Bounty chip. Not only will this event have a huge prize pool, but the bounty pool gives every player an additional opportunity to win! The final event of July’s Power Weekend will be a massive 2-day, […]
Power Weekend Wrapup
The Playground Power Weekend wrapped up early Monday morning (at 5:30am!) with the conclusion of the $270 + $30 Tag Team event. This was the 10th edition of this popular tournament, and after a very long day of poker, Adam Cader and Olivier Courcelle-Doire emerged as champions. To win the event they had to navigate through a field that started with 172 2-person teams a huge field! The other tournaments that made up the Power Weekend were equally successful. On Friday there was a $300 + $30 Deepstack Freeze that attracted 162 players who built a $47,142.00 prize pool. At the end of the event, three players decided on a chip chop to end the tournament with Diana Shamshoum in the #1 position, followed by Denis Quirion and Stephane Gosselin. Saturday’s tournament was the $135 + $15 Mix Max event. Mix Max means that as the tournament progressed, the number […]
One Wheel, two great new promos!
Starting on June 1st there are two new promotions for cash game players and they both use the Mega Wheel! The entire day – all 24 hours – are covered by the two promotions, so whether you prefer to play bright and early in the morning, in the evening after work, or if you’d rather grind overnight, there’s something new for you! The first new promo is called The $10,000 Spin. This runs twice a day from noon to 6pm and again from 6pm to 3am and at the end of each of the two sessions, the player in the room who has qualified with the highest hand (minimum AAAJJ) will be invited to spin the Mega Wheel and win cash! Even better, if a spin lands on the Gold slot on the Mega Wheel, then everyone wins a share of $10,000 – $2,500 to the spinner and $7,500 divided […]
Playground Power Weekend June 12th to 14th!
From Friday June 12th to Sunday June 14th, we’re hosting the Playground Power Weekend. The Festival will be a short one, but the action will undoubtedly be worth clearing your schedule for. First up will be a $300 + $30 Deepstack Freeze, which starts on Friday June 12th at noon. Blind levels will be 30 minutes in length and players will start with 25K in chips. This has proven to be an extremely popular format in the past – in January, the prize pool climbed over $100000! Saturday’s event is a format we haven’t seen in a while: it’s a $135 + $15 Mix Max. This is a really fun format that starts as a normal 10-handed tournament. As the field shrinks, so does the number of players at each table. When there are 80 players remaining, there will be a maximum of 8 players per table, then 6 players […]
It’s a Jackpot Frenzy!
It’s no surprise that there were a lot of happy players during the recent Spring Classic after all, we printed over 450 payout coupons for players who cashed in one of the 16 events. The fun wasn’t reserved just for tournament players, however. There were also a lot of extra-happy cash game players during this year’s Spring Classic. On the Bad Beat Jackpot poster, we promote the fact that the Secondary BBJ has Frequent Winners and this has definitely been the case over the past 3 weeks! The Secondary BBJ was hit 3 times during the Spring Classic on April 29th, April 30th, and May 2nd and each time, the players at the table where the hand occurred shared $25,000 in cash! The first jackpot hand was on a $5/$5 table and featured quad fours losing to quad fives. The very next day, quad fours lost again this time to […]
That’s a wrap!
The Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net has come to a close and over the 18 days of (almost) non-stop poker tournament action, more than $2.1M in prizes was awarded to players from all over North America and around the world! This year’s edition of the Spring Classic was the first time partypoker.net became the sponsor for the entire festival, and with their support there were 4302 total entries in the 16 events we hosted, starting with The Wild $150 on Sunday April 19th all the way through the WPT Canadian Spring Championship to the closing event, the $200 + $30 + $100 Bounty event! The cornerstone event of the Spring Classic was the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship, which saw 370 entries compete for a top prize valued at over a quarter million dollars! At the end of the 5-day event, Sheraz Nasir emerged victorious, edging out Lu […]
The first Spring Classic bracelets have been awarded
The Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net is in full swing. The first three bracelets have been awarded in Event 1, Event 2 and Event 4; with Event 3 (The $250 Frenzy), set to conclude tonight. The Wild $150 was a blockbuster event attracting 1188 entries over 4 starting flights. On the final day of play, 24 hopefuls returned, each with the same goal in mind winning the top prize of $28,780.00. The last 3 tables were made up of a who’s who of the Montreal poker scene, with Rick Shamshoum edging out his competition to take home the first bracelet of the 2015 Spring Classic. Event 2 was next on the agenda, a $200 + $20 Freeze. After 9 hours of poker, the 148 player starting field was whittled down to 6, at which point the remaining prize money was restructured at their request. When it was all […]
Omaha BBJ Hits!
It’s almost as reliable as a clock! When a major festival gets underway at Playground Poker Club, that means there’s a really great chance that a Bad Beat Jackpot is about to be awarded. Almost every major tournament festival we’ve hosted in the past 2 years has been accompanied by at least one Jackpot being hit, and the 2015 edition of the Playground Poker Spring Classic is no exception. This time it was the Omaha BBJ. The jackpot had grown to $25,435 when an Omaha table came together yesterday, and at approximately 10pm the fateful hand was dealt. There were 8 players at the table, which was a $1-$2-$5 Pot Limit Omaha table, this being one of the most popular formats of the game here at Playground. The hand in question saw 6 players go to the flop. The cards were dealt ( ) and action checked around. The fireworks […]
Just 10 Days to the Spring Classic!
As we say in the Montreal area, a tough winter just makes springtime that much sweeter! Temperatures are rising, the snow is almost gone and in 10 days, the spring will reach its apex as the Playground Poker Spring Classic, presented by partypoker.net, gets underway. Judging by the number of satellite entries, it’s shaping up to be a great event! There have already been 36 seats awarded, a number that got a huge bump last night (Wednesday April 8th) as the partypoker.net Mega Overlay satellite event wrapped up. This edition of the Mega Overlay added 17 entries into the event. In addition, there are at LEAST another 32 entries yet to be awarded in live satellites and that’s just counting the guaranteed seats yet to come. Online poker is another important way for people to win their way into big events. Satellites have been running on partypoker for several weeks, […]
Lucky Day – the Secondary BBJ hits again
Friday the 13th has a fearsome reputation for bad luck, but at least for 9 players at Playground Poker Club this morning, it turned out to be a pretty lucky day! It happened just before noon on Table 5, which was a $1/$2 table. The table was full (9 players), the button was on seat 8, meaning that seat 9 was the small blind and seat 1 was the big blind. Before the flop, the player in seat 5 raised to $13 and found callers in seat 6, seat 8, and seat 1 (bb). Four players went to the flop, which was dealt: . Action was on seat 1, who checked, and seat 5 continued with a bet of $30. Again, seats 6 and 8 both called, as did seat 1. The turn was the , and again, the first player to act in seat 1 checked, seat 5 bet […]