After 12 fabulous days of poker, the Playground Winter Festival has come to an end. The Winter Festival, which ran from February 27th to March 10th successfully kept the cold of winter at bay, and provided 12 days of fantastic poker action to players from all over Eastern Canada and the Northeastern US. The festival opened with The Wild $150, which attracted 1441 entries over its three Day 1s and generated a massive prize pool of $188,699.00! At the end of Day 3, 8 players had each won $10K or more, including over $20K for the winner, Jean-Francois Marin! Event 4 was the next of the “large” events – it ended up awarding a total prize pool of $48,015.00. The event was a $300 + $30 Freeze which had 165 players and awarded $11,500.00 to the winner who was local player Michael Korovine. The biggest tournament of them all, however, […]