The highly anticipated opening of Kahnawake’s newest poker club attracted nearly 300 people when it officially opened its doors this month. “We were very happy with the success of our opening weekend,” said Playground Poker Club’s chief of operations David Montour. “During our first three nights, we had an unlimited rebuy tournament, but the first buy-in was free, he said. We also guaranteed a prize pool. If we got 100 players and none of them did a buy-in, the prize pool would be zero, but we guaranteed $10,000, just in case no one re-bought,” Montour said. “But it so happened that on Friday night, we met the $10,000, Saturday we didn t, but we did it again on Sunday.” Montour hopes that the popularity of the club since its opening is a sign of things to come. “Right now, we’ve been operating for about 14 days and business has been […]