About 36 hours after the opening of our electronic gaming space, the first EGD Jackpot has been hit! Last night, as the Friday buzz was coming over Playground, Danièle Brodeur was casually playing Quick Hit Platinum Plus, a 5-reel 30-line game. Suddenly, Quick Hit symbols stormed the screen, and she became our first EGD jackpot winner! Danièle was hand-paid $12,011.66 by one of our staff members, and just like that, her holiday shopping had become a lot more pleasant to think of! Congratulations!
Author: Jôle Simard
EGDs – respecting the bar
Our new gaming space has already welcomed many players who wished to discover Playground’s brand-new Electronic Gaming Devices, all of whom were pleasantly surprised with the variety of games and level of service provided by our attentive team. Whether you prefer to look your opponent in the eye and call his bluff, or relax by taking a few spins on one of our 332 machines, you can always count on one constant – the Playground experience! What exactly is the Playground experience? Well, it’s the absolute best customer service you’re going to find north of Vegas! Looking to enjoy a drink while you play? Keep your wallet in your pocket (or purse), we’re covering the bill. This is only the beginning. As we’re sure you’ve noticed over the last 8 years, we tend to go BIG! We’ve got plenty of plans currently in the works to help ensure that […]
The Bounty tournaments of the WCC
Of all formats presented in Playground festivals, bounty tournaments are probably the most popular. Everybody loves a bounty! There is something extremely gratifying in taking a value chip off a player that we just busted, and something very humbling in handing it over. It is the ultimate congratulatory gesture, and throwing it in the pot with a nod and some eye contact is worth a lot more than a simple: “nice hand!” But the chase is what really gets most players! The bounty hunting, the little voice in your head that becomes louder when you’re playing a pot with a player who has fewer chips than you do. The World Cup of Cards has 4 such events on the schedule. Let’s take a look at the list: Event #4: $100 + $20 + $100 6-Max 50/50 Bounty Monday January 21 The 6-Max format calls for extra-aggressive play. Bounties are sure […]
Playground: Still About Poker
As you may have heard by now, our new electronic gaming space is open to the public. Playground is very excited about exploring this new avenue, and about welcoming a completely new clientele into the complex. The Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs) were arranged on the first floor of a newly erected building, accessible from the Poker Tournament Hall, but seperate from it. We view and treat this new floor purely as an addition to our existing poker space. Playground was founded by poker players. Poker has always been and forever will be the subject of our main focus. From top to bottom, the passion for poker is present in our organization, and we share the players’ hopes that the new addition to the Playground Complex brings new faces to the great game that inspired and powered our 8-year evolution. So come take a spin on the new floor. Check out […]
Electronic Gaming Devices are ready for you to enjoy!
We are very happy to announce that on Thursday, December 13 at 9:00AM (tomorrow!), the first phase of Playground’s newest expansion will be ready to welcome our clientele, old and new. There was much anticipation over the last few months, but our Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs) are finally ready for you to enjoy! Eight years ago, Playground Poker Club, on its opening day, dealt its first poker hand. The opening was a smashing success, and after eight years of constant growth and evolution – almost to the day – another opening takes place: the electronic gaming space! Thursday morning at 9:00AM. Come take a spin!
The 8-Year Anniversary weekend is around the corner!
The first MILLIONS seats will be won this weekend! Have you made your schedule? Eight years ago, on December 17, 2010, Playground Poker Club first opened its doors to the public, and after eight years of constant evolution, we are now paving the way to MILLIONS North America, our first $10,300 buy-in Main Event! MILLIONS, set to take place in May 2019, is an unbelievable milestone, and what better way to celebrate eight years of existence than to boost all of our MILLIONS Step Satellites with unbelievable guarantees across the Anniversary weekend! On the Anniversary schedule, you will find 7 events, including the Playground 200. The strong multi-day event comes back with 4 live starting flights instead of its usual 3. Players will get 4 chances to add their name to the list of qualifiers from last Sunday’s online flight. You can also find on the schedule some Short Deck, Bounty, […]
The TLB: a new path to MILLIONS!
-THIS STORY WAS EDITED WITH ADDED PRIZES! TOP 40 GET PAID! The Tournament Leaderboard, or TLB, has been around since the beginning. The core principle has always been the same: players finishing in the top 40% of every regular tournament held at Playground earn TLB points, and the best accumulators of every month are rewarded. Starting in December, and until further notice, our frequent achievers no longer compete for a spot in a freeroll, but for INSTANT PRIZES! The MILLIONS North America is approaching, and we want everybody to reap the amazing value offered by our massively guaranteed Step Satellites! Have a look at the MILLIONS satellite tree: STEP 1 $80 + $10 Turbo Re-entry STEP 2 $400 + $40 Turbo Re-entry STEP 3 $1,500 + $150 Re-entry Now, here is what our TLB top 40 will win: Top 3 TLB point earners: One(1) MILLIONS North America Main Event Satellite […]
The WCC “Big 3”
The World Cup of Cards, the first poker festival to be held in 2019, is great for players who wish to chase an official title at a reasonable price. On the updated schedule, there is a total of 26 events and 15 satellites with buy-ins ranging from $110 to $1,650, and a wide variety of formats to please all players. Let’s take a look at our 3 most handsome guarantees: the World Cup of Cards “Big 3.” Event 8 – $200 + $20 Grand Prix Canada The Grand Prix Canada returns to Playground for the 4th time. This tournament presents an unbelievable buy-in/guarantee ratio. For $220, you have access to a half-a-million-dollar guarantee! Five online Day 1s and 12 live Day 1s all feed to a single Day 2 (January 27). The event concludes on Day 3 (January 28). Event 17 – $1,500 + $150 WPTDeepStacks The WPTDeepStacks, […]
MILLIONS NA starts at Playground’s 8-Year Anniversary!
Playground is celebrating its 8th anniversary in December, and we have put together a series that is sure to make heads turn, with $400,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The focus will be placed on the next Playground Poker milestone: the 2019 MILLIONS North America! The 2019 MILLIONS festival will include Playground’s first-ever $10,300 Main Event, and to help players get in the Event for less, there will be a 3-Step satellite tree through which players may qualify beginning on Sunday, December 2, date of the first of twelve $80 + $10 Step 1 satellites in December. All three Steps will come into focus during the 8-Year Anniversary Series, which will feature 5 Step 1s. These will all feed into one Step 2 satellite, which in turn will feed a huge Step 3 satellite event. Each of these satellites features mind-blowingly generous guarantees. See for yourself: From Thursday December 13 to […]
Introducing… the WCC Tag Team event!
Over the years, Tag Team events have become a staple of the Playground tournament scene. They typically appear every second Power Weekend or so, and invariably attract a huge number of players, eager to partner up to play a game that is normally a purely individual pursuit. The World Cup of Cards 2019, running from January 20 to February 6, opens with Event #1: $400 + $40 Tag Team and its $50,000 guarantee. Having proved its popularity time and again in several Power Weekends, the Tag Team format has been promoted to the World Cup of Cards. Special Tag Team Rules The first 6 levels are played individually – each team member starts with a 25,000 chip stack. Following a seating redraw after level 6, individual stacks are merged (if there are 2 left) to form the team stack and players alternate at the table from level to level. So […]
MILLIONS Online is upon us
MILLIONS Online, carrying the biggest single online MTT guarantee in history, starts this weekend on Sunday, November 25 and ends on Wednesday, December 5. This year, MILLIONS Online boasts a guarantee of 20 MILLION DOLLARS and crowns 4 MILLIONAIRES; a guaranteed $2.5M prize is reserved for 1st place! The buy-in is $5,300, but there are a number of ways to satellite your way in. For MILLIONS Online, the satellite scene is filled with amazing guarantees and some great added value, making it realistic for players of all bankrolls to play for astronomical prizes. Added Value Satellites A full-scale satellite tree. 6 buy-in levels, from $0.01 to $530. Huge numbers of added seats to every single level. A full 6-level tree grows every day from 6:55AM. Blown out added value on Sundays. $109 Phase Satellites Multiple Phase-1 satellites every day. Survive 38 levels and make the finals. Finals are held on […]
Super Sunday: a monster promotion!
As big as the prizes may get throughout the week, they will be dwarfed by the biggest cash game promotion Playground has ever held: Super Sunday! The first Sunday of every month will be a day to circle on your calendar because Super Sunday will be a day full of huge cash giveaways and high hand bonuses. From 10am until midnight, we will be drawing one seated No Limit Hold’em player at random every hour to test their luck with the raffle drum as they try to draw the top prize of $5,000! If that weren’t enough, it will also be a day full of high hand bonuses, where the best hand will be awarded $500 every 30 minutes! That’s over $30,000 up for grabs on Super Sunday; this is one you won’t want to miss! This concludes our new set of cash game promos: Hot Seat Mondays, Cash Splash Tuesdays, […]