It was only a matter of time…get ready for a Playground Online Power Weekend to be hosted on partypoker, from Thursday May 14 to Monday May 18. This edition brings plenty of player favourites and a few surprises with over $34,000 in prize pool guarantees. There will be one multi-day event, the Big 50, which offers a $15,000 prize pool guarantee and a choice of six starting flights. Players will enjoy a premium structure throughout two days of play as they battle it out on the virtual felts. There are also six single-day events, each with a distinct format including the much anticipated Heads Up. Whether you want to play a Megastack, a 6-Max, a PLO Bounty, a Progressive Bounty or even a Mix-Max, you will find it in this Online Power Weekend. Check out the schedule and take your pick!  

The Grand Prix is back, it’s online, and this time it’s visiting 5 regions at once!  This May, partypoker LIVE is hosting 5 Grand Prix’s simultaneously on partypoker. Players from Canada, the UK, Germany, Brazil and Russia will have a regional Grand Prix, each with local currency buy-ins and prize pools. The tournaments will be restricted so that only players from that country can take part. All of the restricted events in the Grand Prix Online Series have low buy-ins and huge prize pools. The Grand Prix Canada Online will take place from Sunday, May 3 to Sunday, May 10 with a whopping $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. This event features 19 single re-entry starting flights with a buy-in of only $50 + $5, giving players more than enough opportunities to get in on the action. Click here for the full schedule. Phase tournaments with a buy-in of only $5 + […]

What is the Grand Prix 4 Dealers tournament? It is a $50+$5 USD tournament with a $250,000 USD guaranteed prize pool, which will be held on partypoker from Sunday, April 26 to Sunday, May 3 with 100% of the registration fee going to partypoker LIVE’s freelance dealers. With three single re-entry starting flights daily and four on the final Sunday, you have plenty of opportunities to get in on the action. 25 to be exact and all qualifying players will progress to the final day on Sunday, May 3 at 2:00PM EDT. Phase tournaments will start 1 hour prior to each scheduled Day 1, offering players a shot at a share of the huge $250,000 guaranteed prize pool for only $5+$0.50 USD. That’s one tenth the buy-in! Also, Tournament Dollar Satellites are running for as little as $1+$0.10 USD, and the full schedule is available here. Wait! There’s more. The […]

After a couple weeks of cash games and a busy weekend of tournaments, we’ve got some changes to announce – most of which are suggestions from you, our players. That being said, the following updates have been put into place. Cash games The club games have been hit or miss. Some days we get a couple off the ground, others we may be lucky if there’s a heads up match going on. In an effort to get more games off the ground, the following has been implemented: The additional 20% rake back will only be applied to accounts that have played at least one raked hand on a Playground cash table, per week. The 20% still applies to cash activity throughout partypoker though. So make sure you get in a few hands per week on the Playground tables. Knowing that the hardest part in getting the games going is not […]

Playground’s weekly tournament schedule is moving online to partypoker, just like our cash games. We have 2 daily tournaments scheduled, 7 days a week. The first one is at 12:00pm EDT and the second at 7:00pm EDT. All buy-ins are half the amount with the formats and structures you’re used to, on the same days you’re used to playing them. These tables are restricted to Playground members, and display your real name. If you don’t have a partypoker account, click here  To find them, navigate to the partypoker LIVE tab, then select the following filters: Canada > Playground [CA] > Playground Tournaments > All The schedule can be seen below:

As we all deal with the unprecedented situation surrounding the recent COVID-19 outbreak, live poker will obviously need to be put on pause. A lot of us will be stuck at home over the next few weeks, forced to keep away from those we normally interact with, in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. As such, Playground has made arrangements with partypoker to create, as of March 21, Playground specific Online Cash Games. What does this mean? It means that you’ll be able to play at tables restricted to the same group of players you’re used to sitting with at Playground. As well, on these tables, a player’s real name will appear, so you know exactly who it is you’re up against! These tables will be accessible in the main Cash Game lobby on partypoker, identified by our logo, and named using our club name followed by […]

Over the course of the last week, Playground implemented a series of measures to support the effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), which culminated in a complete closure on Friday night at 11:59pm. Today, we announce that the WPTDeepStacks Montreal, on Playground’s event schedule from April 16 to April 27, 2020, is postponed indefinitely. The decision was taken in conjunction with our partners the World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE. All of us are still very excited about the WPTDeepStacks Montreal and we wish to assure the community that the new dates will be made public as soon as they are decided. Playground’s senior management team is still meeting daily, analysing the latest news and development and discussing the best course of action for the public’s safety. We thank you for your patience and understanding.  

As Omaha players know, any hand can have some wild swings from street to street. But at a $2/$2 table yesterday evening, the uncertainty was put to rest on the turn of an exciting hand, and the result was just what the table was hoping for.  On Sunday evening, the hand played out on a seven-way Omaha table, where the action started off with a $5 straddle and a call. Two other players made the call before a raise to $25 from Charles B changed the action. Sensing an opportunity, the short stack at the table moved all in for his last $60. Francois C made the cold call and Charles followed suit.  Flop: Francois checked the action over to Charles, who made a bet of $130, which was promptly called.  Turn: Boom! With a large pot brewing and the perfect card on the turn, it wouldn’t be long before […]

The next Power Weekend is just around the corner! This edition brings plenty of player favourites across a range of formats with over $190,000 in prize pool guarantees. This seven-event series runs from March 26 to March 30 and promises to be action packed! Along with huge payouts, those who emerge victorious from these events will take home a stunning Power Weekend champion’s ring. There will be two multi-day events, the Playground 500 and the Playground 100, each with massive prize pool guarantees and unlimited re-entry structures. The $500 + $50 Playground 500 offers a $100,000 prize pool guarantee and a choice of four starting flights. Players will enjoy a premium structure throughout three days of play as they battle it out for five-figure payouts. The $100 + $10 Playground 100 will have six starting flights throughout the weekend, so expect a huge turnout for this two-day event. Many players […]