The Tournament Leaderboard evolves
The Tournament Leaderboard is the oldest promotion at Playground. Around since 2011, it allows tournament players to compete at a higher level than just the tournament at hand by creating an interesting monthly metagame. In the recent past, the top 40 players on the monthly Leaderboard received a ticket to one of our various MILLIONS North America STEP satellites, but with that event upon us, it is time to give the grandfather of Playground promotions an evolutionary boost and renew the prize structure! Starting in May, players will compete for 40 instant prizes paid out in Playground Tournament Dollars! What are Playground T$? A currency that you can use to buy into any Playground tournament, no exception. The month of May is extremely event-heavy with a Power Weekend and MILLIONS, and counts only 12 days of regular schedule, which represents too few tournaments to create …Read More
Local player shines overseas
Local player wins at the Irish Open We always feel great pride when a Canadian player has success abroad. Brigitte Métivier, a regular at Playground, took down early this morning the €250 Ladies’ Event at the 2019 Irish Open. There were 70 runners in the tournament, but in the end, only Métivier was left, and she was able to scoop the Ladies’ Event trophy and the €4,610 first prize. Well done! The Lotus grants a 5-figure Jackpot Last Monday, Carmen N. came to Playground with her husband for some late-night fun on the Electronic Gaming Devices. She was …Read More
Road to MILLIONS – Episode 5
This week’s STEP qualifier did not have to invest a single dollar to earn his seat at MILLIONS North America. He mostly plays tournaments, and won a STEP 2 seat by placing in the top 15 of the monthly Tournament Leaderboard. A couple of tournaments later, he’s on the list of qualifiers for the $10,300 Main Event in May! He tells us about his road to MILLIONS and the toys (cars) he would buy if he wins big next month. Introducing… Ivan the Terrible. (More great content coming up on Playground’s official YouTube channel. Please subscribe!)Read More
More additions to MILLIONS North America
MILLIONS North America is less than a month away, and the poker community’s chatter is all about the event! partypoker LIVE and Playground keep an open ear, and player feedback sparked a few last-minute changes to the MILLIONS schedule. A Caribbean Poker Party satellite The famous Caribbean Poker Party will once again host the Grand Finale of the 2019 MILLIONS tour with MILLIONS World. At Playground, home of MILLIONS North America, we are happy to add a Caribbean Poker Party satellite at the heart of the festival! The tournament presents a guarantee of two packages worth $16,000 USD each. …Read More
Mondial de la bière… it means Beerfest!
The Mondial de la bière, founded in Montreal in 1994, is a full-fledged international beer festival. The unique weekend-long tasting event provides a pathway from the art of local and international brewers to the taste buds of passionate and casual beer drinkers, and the 26th edition of the festival is held during MILLIONS North America, allowing all players to discover new and exciting concoctions! The event is once again held at Windsor Station in downtown Montreal (near metro stations Lucien-L’Allier, Bonaventure and Peel). It will be open to festival-goers from 11:00AM to 11:00PM, May 22 to May 25 – Wednesday …Read More
partypoker closes 277 “bot” accounts
Last week, partypoker confirmed 277 bot account closures and $734,852.15 in redistributed funds between December 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019. The operation is conducted by partypoker’s Poker Fraud Team, said partypoker representatives, which is essentially “a collection of former poker professionals who are equipped with the necessary knowledge and expertise to investigate suspicious activity and aid partypoker in ridding the site of unscrupulous accounts.” The team works diligently to detect any suspicious activity on the tables, as well as investigate any suspecting player report. Suspicious activity can arise in the form of collusion between two or more players, or …Read More
Road to MILLIONS – Episode 4
This week’s featured player is Playground’s very first tournament winner! He won the first tournament ever held in our club, 8 years ago. It was a $100 event, but he is no stranger to $10K buy-ins either. His first major was in 2009: he played a WPT event at Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario. He has yet to make a big score in one of these monster tournaments, and hopes that MILLIONS North America will be it! He jumped in a STEP 1 satellite following a casual invitation from our tournament director. He couldn’t turn down such attractive overlay! The …Read More
Coal-fired action
A walk in the park! Michel Hiron came to Playground on Saturday with a whole entourage. The party of 5 came for a night of entertainment, and entertainment they found! Michel was mixing it up on one of our multi-game EGDs. He went into free game mode, and at exactly 11:08PM, his machine prompted him to call an attendant: he had just won $3,691.06! When posing for the camera, moments after his big hit, Michel gave us this amazing look as if to say: “That was easy!” Sevens a-blazin’! Wednesday night, Sylvain Groulx was playing a variation of …Read More
Juggling fruits with a glass of sangria
Snow never fails to fall in spring, but that’s behind us now. Nice weather is here, and as we let the sunshine in, our drinks evolve… and what concoction screams nice weather louder than sangria? Today, we wish to present you with the first of our EGD/drink pairing series! Sangria is traditionally prepared with red wine, soda, juice and fresh fruits. Most linguists attribute the name’s origin to the Spanish word sangre, which means blood, referencing the colour of the drink. Little is known about the origins of the drink itself, but much is known about the different ways to …Read More