The MILLIONS Online has come to a close, and after smashing the $20,000,000 guarantee on Tuesday, play resumed on Wednesday with just 29 players left competing for the biggest prizes. When the dust settled, there was a chop between the first and second place players, with Manual “Sherparentao” Ruivo in 1st for $2,329,944 and Pim “ForMatherRussia” de Goede in 2nd for $2,309,995. One of the biggest stories of MILLIONS Online was the player who finished in 3rd place for $1,364,688, Slovenia’s “Scarmak3r”. He started his journey by winning a $5.50 satellite, and then played his way through the rest of the satellite tree to a Main Event ticket – and then rode that all the way to a huge 7-figure score! Playground’s heartiest congratulations are reserved for frequent Playground tournament player William Blais, who came in 6th place for $655,050! William has been playing here as long as anyone […]
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MILLIONS Online cruises past the $20M Guarantee!
MILLIONS Online is the Online version of the MILLIONS poker series presented by partypoker LIVE, and when they announced that the guarantee of the event was going up from $5M (2017) to $20M (2018), people all around the poker world were skeptical, to say the least. Now, with late registration closed in Day 1E, it is clear that partypoker has managed to beat the guarantee by a healthy margin. The final prize pool in the event is more than $21.5M, which sets the new record for largest poker tournament by prize pool in history! Day 2 in the event gets underway at 2:00pm. Through the first 4 starting flights there were 568 players qualified, and Day 1E is set to add another 110+ players to the mix. Day 2 will play through 18 levels with blinds starting at 80K/160K and an ante of 20K. The chip average to start the […]
Day 1C: Another huge Day in the MILLIONS Online
Sunday on partypoker saw another huge milestone passed as 1,112 entries joined Day C in MILLIONS Online, taking the overall number of entries past the 3K mark to 3,170 so far in this huge $20M Guaranteed tournament. There’s still a way to go before the guarantee is reached, but the tournament is definitely on track to not only match but to surpass the $20,000,000 – which will make this the largest tournament in poker history by a wide margin! The chip leader at the end of Day 1C was Carlos “carlitos350” Camargo, who managed to accumulate 19,285,021 chips through the end of the 20 levels played on Day 1. This puts him in 6th place overall, as no one has been able to catch up to the leaders from Day 1A last week. There’s another player among the leaders on Day 1C who should be on everyone’s radar moving forward: […]
MILLIONS Online Day 1B: The cup is (more than) half full
The second of 5 starting flights in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Online event was held last night on partypoker.com and with 484 entries joining the tourney, the total number of buy-ins has now reached 2,058 – more than half of the number required to hit the massive $20M Guarantee in the tournament! Pundits and commentators have been impressed with the player numbers so far, which looks to be on track to match and surpass the huge guarantee. The tournament is already the largest in partypoker history and one of the largest in online poker history overall! The chip leader to the end of Day 1B was Argentinian “patrondelmal” (21,904,963 chips), and there are two Canadians in the top 10, Troy “good player” Quenneville (15,442,304 chips) and Shyam “S_dot111” Srinivasan (13,678,675 chips). There are several other players we have gotten to know here at Playground that were able to make their […]
MILLIONS Online is underway
2018 has been a huge year in the poker world, and the year is concluding with a bang with MILLIONS Online on partypoker! We previewed the $5,300 MTT last week, and with Sunday’s Day 1A now in the books, it’s becoming clear that the event is delivering on its promise to be the largest single online MTT in history! Day 1A ran on Sunday November 25th and featured a total of 1,574 entries, which got the tournament off to a great start by contributing almost $8M to the prize pool. There’s still a long way to go to reach the ambitious $20,000,000 Guarantee, but with the amazing feeders and Mega satellites underway every day, there’s plenty of opportunity left for players to join the event for much less than the $5,300 buy-in amount. Through the 18 levels of play on Day 1A, the 1,574 entries were whittled down to just […]
Action in the Caribbean at the CPP
The partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party is in full swing at the Baha Mar Resort in the Bahamas. There are two huge events underway this afternoon, and players that we know well at Playground are involved in both. First up is the final day of the $25,500 MILLIONS World event, and with just 9 players left and a $250,000 min-cash today, Charles La Boissonnière is among the final group. Charles is very well known as a terror at the tables here at Playground, and though he’s not a regular in $25K tournaments, his $900,000 in lifetime earnings just in events held at Playground is a testament to his superior abilities on the felt. Action is underway now and you can watch a live stream via partypokerlive.com. It’s also Day 2a in the $5,300 CPP Main Event, and with 465 players slated to play today in addition to new Day 2 […]
The Monster Series is back again!
The 3rd partypoker Monster Series will be held from July 29th to August 6th and, as always, the series guarantees great tournaments at a wide range of buy-ins – and over $2,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools! The Monster Series is a festival that focuses on low- to mid-stakes online tournaments divided into three tiers of buy-in: Low, Medium, and High. It also features a wide range of poker formats like 6-Max, Deepstack, and Hyper tournaments – each offered at all three buy-in tiers. The festival culminates with its Championship Event #52-High on August 5th – this tournament alone boasts a $200,000 guarantee! While you’re playing Monster Series events, you’ll also want to consider related promotions like the Cash Game Monster Hour, 50/50 ticket giveaway, and the Play 10 Draw. See our Monster Series page for more information. Team partypoker’s Natalia Breviglieri commented on the Monster Series: “I love these low […]
Khun makes it to Day 6 in the Main Event
Montreal’s (and Laval’s) own Chanracy Khun has progressed to Day 6 of the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas! There are just 109 players left – just 1.4% of the total field – and with 4,830,000 chips, Chanracy starts the day in 33rd place on the leaderboard. Being in the last 109 players in the Main Event is impressive – but this is ground Chanracy has traveled before. His second-biggest score in poker came in 2014 when he exited in 69th place in this event for $103,025 – a feat he’s no doubt hoping to improve upon this year. Chanracy has played every big event here at Playground Poker Club since the first Playground Poker Classic in 2011, in which he placed 4th ($20,000), but his true breakthrough in the poker world came in Barcelona in the Spring of 2013, when he won a WPT Main Tour title for €181,400. […]
Going deep in the 2018 WSOP Main Event
In Las Vegas, this year’s record-setting edition of the WSOP Main Event continues with Day 5 and there are still several players we’ve developed a relationship with over the years in the hunt for the ultimate prize in poker! The number following each player’s name is their chip count to start Day 5. Brian Altman (4,861,000) – Brian had a memorable spring of 2016 in the Montreal area when he juggled two events at the same time but hosted at two different venues – and managed a win plus a 16th place finish in that year’s WPT Canadian Spring Championship. Brian Yoon (3,228,000) – Brian was the overall Day 2 chip leader in the 2018 MILLIONS North America Main Event. Many years earlier, while visiting Playground to play in the WPT Montreal, he booked a win in a $220 Bounty Tournament, one of the side events in the 2014 Playground […]
Mike Sexton welcomes MILLIONS players
The Tournament Hall and the additional seating area have been filling up at a constant rate all day, and this is certain to continue as both of today’s tournaments allow entry and re-entry until the end of the break following level 9 – both events are about half way to that point. Immediately following the first break, partypoker Chairman Mike Sexton took to the microphone to welcome all of the players to the MILLIONS North America, and on behalf of all players, he added some extremely kind words about Playground Poker Club, and in particular the fantastic dealer corps on staff here. Mike is no stranger to Playground, and for our part it’s wonderful to be able to continue our relationship in this way. Here are a couple of shots of Mike (and the media scrum that surrounded him) This post was published first on this Playground Event Blog: MILLIONS […]
Number 2 on our Top 10 – Montreal: A foodie’s paradise!
Food! One of the key benchmarks for measuring how great a city truly is. Not only does Montreal have a ridiculous number of places to eat – there’s one restaurant for every 6 Montrealers – the quality and standard of both casual and fine dining establishments is world class. When Canada’s 100 Best released their list of top restaurants earlier this month, it came as no surprise that Montreal restaurants occupied 21 spots on the list, including 4 in the Top 10. Now if our Glorious Habs could up their game to the same level as our local chefs, we would be perennial Stanley Cup contenders. But that’s a story for another day… now’s the time to dig in. Montreal foodie landmarks: Smoked Meat, Bagels, and Poutine Schwartz’s is the place to go to enjoy the classic taste of Montreal smoked meat. Open for over 90 years, the oldest deli […]
Announcing the Monster Series!
Kicking off on April 29, 2018, the second edition of the partypoker Monster Series is serving up 41 events and a total of 123 tournaments over the course of eight action-packed days. Between the range of formats, small buy-ins and huge guarantees, the Monster Series has something for everyone. This series will feature a range of in-demand formats, like 6-Max and 8-Max Progressive Knockouts, in response to player feedback. Also, for the first time, the Monster Series will feature 3 special Ladies events. Depositing Player Ticket Giveaway Besides the popular formats, this series offers something that is always popular with players: free giveaways! All new depositing players will receive $25 worth of tickets for the Monster Series on top of their welcome bonus of up to $500. The Monster Series runs from April 29 until May 6, offering buy-ins as low as $0.44 and guarantees as high as the $300,000 […]