Dining in Montreal: options by the MILLIONS
Anyone who can find Montreal on a map can probably also tell you of Montreal’s reputation as a restaurant lover’s paradise. For the second consecutive year, four Montreal restaurants have spots in the top ten of Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants. These restaurants – Joe Beef, Toqué!, Le Mousso and Montréal Plaza – have reputations that precede them, but the recently released 2019 edition of the list contains many more Montreal-area restaurants that are waiting to be discovered. In all, 30 restaurants from the 514 made the top 100 list to help reinforce Montreal’s status as an international food destination. This city has delectable dining options for all budgets at any hour of the day, and our guide will help point you in the right direction, no matter what you’re hankering for. Above and beyond any particular restaurant, there are a number of Montreal institutions that will …Read More
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 …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