As we continue to countdown the eventual return of live poker at Playground, we’ve partnered with partypoker to bring the World Cup of Cards to the virtual felts between June 11 – June 30, 2021. It’s been 14 months since we’ve dealt a live poker hand, and 16 months since we hosted the last World Cup of Cards, which saw more than $1.5 million paid out between 22 stacked events. Although the entire schedule has yet to be announced, we can confirm that the model will replicate that of past years, with various formats of the game we all love being featured. We can also confirm the Main Event, which will be a 4-day event with 3 day 1s, a buy-in of $1,100 and feature a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool! Check your emails and our facebook page to be kept up to date as we announce the rest of the […]

The WPT® Montreal Online, starts this Sunday on partypoker. The series kicks off with Day 1A of the US$2,000,000 guaranteed Main Event and runs through to the end of the month, culminating on Monday February 1st with the final day of the $1,000,000 guaranteed Mike Sexton Classic! Players still have 2 huge opportunities at winning their seat into the Main Event if they have yet to do so, as partypoker is hosting a $320 super satellite before each of the Main Event’s two day 1s – each guaranteeing a whopping 50 seats, worth $3200 a piece! The first satellite is this Sunday, January 17th, at 10:30am with the second one starting at the same time the following week, Sunday January 23rd. Along with the Main Event, partypoker has added a variety of tournaments at a wide range of buy-ins, allowing players of all bankrolls access to the first ever WPT […]

The WPT® Montreal Online, on partypoker, has been pushed back by 1 week. What does that mean? More ways to qualify with an extra week of feeders and qualifiers! Day 1A of the US$2,000,000 guaranteed Main Event will now take place on Sunday, January 17, 2021, with Day 1B being played Sunday, January 24, 2021.  Feeders into the weekly Sunday 10 seat guaranteed satellites are running daily. Pick your starting point from $0.01 > $3.30 > $33, as up until the week prior to the main event, there will be no direct entry into the 10 seat guaranteed mega satellite – you need to win your way in! As of this writing, 21 players have already qualified for the main event. Will you be next?

Another Power Weekend on partypoker! With the last few days of heat behind us, and the cold of winter soon on the way, there’s no better time than now to host another Power Weekend, on partypoker. From Wednesday November 18 to Monday November 23, the latest edition brings back player favourites and a guarantee of over $40,000!  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 seven single-day events, each with a distinct format including a much anticipated Heads Up tournament. 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 […]

WPT® Montreal Online, on partypoker, will be the starting point of an exciting 2021 for our poker community. With a US$2,000,000 guaranteed Main Event, players have the chance to join the action as of this week – for as little as US$0.01! Day 1A of the Main Event will take place on Sunday, January 10, 2021, and Day 1B is scheduled for Sunday, January 17, 2021.  There will be plenty of chances for players to get involved before the start of the series though, with daily feeders and weekly satellites running into the Main Event – the first of which start Sunday, November 8, 2020. With limited re-entries permitted and real names being used at the tables, players of all levels will be given a fair chance to succeed. Making things even more interesting, the maximum buy-in into one of these satellites will be US$33, until we get into 2021 […]

Introducing Playground Club Games on partypoker! Get back on the (virtual) felt with the same faces you were accustomed to before the world was flipped upside down! Our new Club Game section on partypoker is exclusive to Playground members, and has both NLH and PLO tables ranging from $0.25/$0.50 to $2.50/$5. To join the club, you just need to follow these 3 easy steps: Step 1: Once logged in, click on Club Games, on the top right of your menu Step 2: Click Join Club, right below Club Games on the new page Step 3: Enter the following information: Club ID: 1003968 Password: EST2010 It’s that easy!  To sweeten the pot even more, you’ll be able benefit from all of partypoker’s cash game promotions while enjoying the company of your fellow Playground players. Which means, play on our Club Game tables counts towards partypoker’s $36,000 daily leaderboard and Cash Back […]

Given the uncertainty created by the ongoing pandemic, we have made the decision, in conjunction with the World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE, to postpone the WPT Montreal, scheduled to take place from October 29 to November 8, 2020. We want to thank the poker community for their continued support and rest assured we fully intend to host the festival at a later date. We will continue to monitor developments relating to the pandemic and provide updates as they become available. Be safe and we hope to see you at our tables very soon.

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: