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Playground Poker Club
World Poker Tour Playground Poker Club Kahnawake.jpg
The main building
Location 1500 QC-138 C, Kahnawake, QC J0L 1B0, Canada
Opening date 2010
Notable restaurants The Rail Coal Fire Bistro
Coordinates 45°22′36.6″N 73°42′22.88″W / 45.376833°N 73.7063556°W / 45.376833; -73.7063556

The Playground Poker Club is a special place in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. It is a big room where people play the card game poker. It also has some other fun games, like slot machines. This club first opened its doors in 2010.

What You Can Do There

Playground Poker Club is mostly about poker. It has 75 poker tables, which is a lot! The whole area is very big, over 128,000 square feet. This means there's plenty of space for many players to enjoy their games. Besides poker, you can also find slot machines for more gaming fun.

Exciting Poker Tournaments

This club is famous for hosting big poker competitions. In 2013, they held the partypoker Premier League. This was a major event where skilled poker players competed. A player named Sorel Mizzi won the Premier League VII here, taking home a large prize of $466,000!

Playground Poker Club has also hosted events for the World Series of Poker. These are very important poker tournaments that attract players from all over. For example, they hosted Season IV of the WSOP International Circuit.

In 2017, the club was home to the World Cup of Cards. This is another big event for poker fans. It was planned to return to the club in 2019, showing how popular this place is for major poker gatherings.

Amazing Jackpots

Sometimes, very exciting things happen at Playground Poker Club. They have something called a "bad beat jackpot." This is a special prize for poker players. It happens when a player loses a hand of poker, even though they had a very strong hand. It's like winning a prize for having really bad luck!

In August 2017, a huge jackpot of over $1.2 million was won. The person who lost the hand (with the "bad beat") received a big part of it, $460,149. The player who won that hand got $230,088. Even the other players at the table shared some of the prize money, getting $32,870 each.

Another massive jackpot happened in April 2018. This time, it was worth over $1.3 million! The player with the "bad beat" received $522,622. The winner of the hand got $261,311. And the rest of the players at the table each received $37,328. These jackpots show how exciting playing poker at Playground Poker Club can be!

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