EGDs – the biggest Jackpot week to date!
Last weekend was by far the busiest since our Electronic Gaming space opened its doors to the public. Playground welcomed and signed up hundreds of new guests. News of the best customer service north of Vegas and the highest payout rate in Canada travels fast! Playground’s Electronic Gaming Devices have been rather generous this week, giving out a total of $133,349 in Jackpots alone! Since last Friday, 44 Jackpots were hit, including our biggest to date, worth $30,222.70! A few other notable Jackpots: On Saturday the 12th, Normand Turenne was betting $4 a spin on 50 Mega Clover, a 5-reel game with 50 fixed lines, when he hit a $4,242.40 Jackpot! The very next day, Dominic Tremblay was paid out a cool $10,000 sum, the second biggest of the week. He was playing Fruits ‘n Royals at the far end of the room. Last …Read More
The WCC starts Sunday!
We are just a few weeks into the new year, and it’s time for Playground to host Winter’s Hottest Festival: the World Cup of Cards! The WCC, with its combined guarantees of over $2,000,000, is the very definition of variety. Tournament buy-ins range from $110 to $1650 with a blend of rarely seen formats, high-value satellites, and, of course, 3 marquee events with huge guarantees: Event #8: Grand Prix Canada The Grand Prix Canada is a $220 buy-in tournament with a guarantee of $500,000! There are 17 Day 1s, including 5 online on partypoker. The online flights are …Read More
Our biggest Jackpot to date!
Last night, early in the evening, Luigi B. was casually playing one of our Quick Hit Platinum Plus games, when his session suddenly took a sharp turn: Luigi hit a HUGE $30,222.70 Jackpot! At exactly 7:25PM our winner-to-be was spinning at 300 credits a pop, or $6, which is the game’s maximum bet. He got himself a few free spins, and one of them unlocked our biggest Jackpot to date! Luigi and his wife were each handed a glass of champagne (along with a nice chunk of change) to celebrate the win, and the rest of the bottle was shared …Read More
The next Super Sunday is announced!
Super Sunday, the pinnacle of cash game promotions, happens on the first Sunday of every month. February, however, presents an exception: the next edition will be held on February 10. The first two were incredibly popular, drawing huge crowds and generating tons of excitement. The word of the Super Sunday giveaways totalling over $30,000 has continued to spread, and we expect the next one to be the biggest to date. Meanwhile, it just so happens that Sunday, February 3 is the day of the Super Bowl, the most popular North American sporting event of the year. It is also a …Read More
The Satellites of the WCC
The World Cup of Cards is approaching, with its multitude of fun tournaments and all the formats you love. Within the series, you will also find an abundance of satellite tournaments for the WPTDeepStacks, the CPPT, and the MILLIONS Main Event. Six (6) WPTDeepStacks Satellites – $165 + $15 The WPTDeepStacks is the World Cup of Cards Main Event. The buy-in is $1,500 + $150, but you will find many opportunities to claim one of the 29 guaranteed seats and play the tournament for one tenth of the price. With a $750,000 guarantee, this tournament is sure to create some …Read More
Gavin Smith passes away in his sleep
Gavin Smith, Canadian poker legend and former Playground Player’s Club member, passed away in his sleep last night, in his Houston home. He was 50 years old. Gavin had his poker breakthrough in 2005 when he won a $2,000 event at the Mirage Poker Showdown for $155,880. One week later, he won the WPT main event of that festival for $1,153,778. After adding 2 more final table appearances that year, he was named WPT Player of the Year. He followed up with a prolific career, collecting 6-figure cashes throughout the next decade, including a WSOP bracelet and the associated $268,238 …Read More
It’s payday for the Bad Beat winners!
One week ago today, at the wee hours of the morning, the Primary Bad Beat Jackpot was hit. Our two big winners did not waste any time to pick up their winnings; both of them showed up this afternoon, all smiles, about 15 minutes apart. On Monday, January 7, Amirhossein Shemshaki flopped quad jacks. After that, all it took to break the bank was for him to slow play his monster to the end, letting Darrell Brown catch up with runner runner straight flush. Click here to see the full play-by-play. Both players posed today with their big cheque, just …Read More
Fruits ‘n Royals gives hard coin
Playground’s Electronic Gaming Devices have never been busier! A ton of games awarded Jackpots this last weekend, including Fruits ‘n Royals – a real gaming treat! – which paid out a cool $10,000 pot. This happened on Sunday, midafternoon. Dominic Tremblay was calmly playing the fruit game in the far corner of the room when the device started buzzing with the very distinctive sound of money won. $10,000. Not the worst Sunday afternoon!Read More
Another plentiful week in the Electronic Gaming space
Our EGDs keep on spinning! Last weekend was especially busy, especially on the Quick Hit games. On Saturday, Constatin Costelotos’ machine showed 8 Quick Hit symbols, worth a cool $3,000. On Sunday, it was Diane Paquette’s turn to accumulate 8 Quick Hit symbols, but on a different version of the game called Quick Hit Platinum Plus. Her pot was $4,002.08! The biggest Jackpot of the week came on Monday – 11 088,75$ – and was detailed in the linked article, and a lot of other guests went home very happy since then. 29 Jackpots were hit in the week, for …Read More