Playground Poker Club is a poker
cardroom
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and casino located in
Kahnawake
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,
Quebec
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,
Canada
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.
Features
The casino opened in 2010 and focuses on poker. It offers 75 poker tables in an area over 128,000 square feet. In addition to poker, the casino also has slot machines.
Playground Poker hosted the
partypoker Premier League in 2013. The Premier League VII hosted at the cardroom was won by
Sorel Mizzi
Sorel Mizzi (born April 16, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player. Mizzi plays online poker under the names of "Imper1um" and "Zangbezan24". , information gathered by Cardplayer.com's database states Sorel Mizzi has l ...
who took down $466,000 in the process.
The cardroom also hosted several
World Series of Poker
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circuit events such as Season IV of the WSOP International Circuit.
In 2017, Playground Poker hosted World Cup of Cards.
The event is expected to return to the cardroom in 2019.
Two bad beat jackpot with a prizepool of over $1 million were hit at the casino. In August 2017, a jackpot of $1,210,989 was hit. The loser of the hand received $460,149, the winner received $230,088 and the rest of the table received $32,870.
In April 2018, a jackpot of over $1,375,000 was hit. The loser of the hand received $522,622, the winner $261,311, and the rest of the table received $37,328.
See also
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Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was a category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is considered to be one of the most su ...
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Québec Pavilion
The Québec Pavilion was a pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal on Notre Dame Island. It featured modern architecture and exhibited Quebec's urban and industrial growth.
Overview
Modern lines characterized the architecture of the Québec Pavilion. ...
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Montreal Casino
The Montreal Casino (french: Casino de Montréal) is a casino on the Notre Dame Island in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, and is the largest casino in Canada. It is located in Jean-Drapeau Park, across from Montreal’s Old Po ...
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Parc Jean-Drapeau
Jean Drapeau Park (officially in French: ''Parc Jean-Drapeau'') (formerly called ''Parc des Îles'') is the third-largest park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises two islands, Saint Helen's Island and the artificial island Notre Dame Isla ...
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List of casinos in Canada
This is an incomplete list of casinos in Canada as of around 2011:
Type:
Resort (R)
Destination (D)
Community (C)
Racing entertainment centre (REC)
Ownership:
Government owned (GO)
First Nations (FN)
Private facility (PF)
Privately operated ( ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.playground.ca/
Buildings and structures in Montreal
Casinos in Quebec
Tourist attractions in Montreal