A $1.2 million bad beat jackpot was hit late last week just minutes south of downtown Montreal. The Playground Poker Club’s progressive bad beat jackpot stood at well over seven figures when the.
| Playground Poker Club | |
|---|---|
| Location | 1500 QC-138 C, Kahnawake, QC J0L 1B0, Canada |
| Opening date | 2010 |
| Website | www.playground.ca |
Playground Poker Club is a poker cardroom and casino located in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada.
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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 who took down $466,000 in the process.[1] The cardroom also hosted several World Series of Poker circuit events such as Season IV of the WSOP International Circuit.[2]
In 2017, Playground Poker hosted World Cup of Cards.[3] The event is expected to return to the cardroom in 2019.[4][5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
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References[edit]
- ^Peters, Donnie (2013-11-26). 'Sorel Mizzi Wins partypoker Premier League VII for $466,000'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^Playground Poker Club (2018-08-14). 'A Player's Guide to the WSOP-C Playground'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^PokerNews Staff (2017-08-25). 'The World Cup of Cards Continues at Playground Poker Club'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^Pitt, Matthew (2018-12-21). 'CAD$1.9M Gtd World Cup of Cards Heads to the Playground Poker Club'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^Card Player News Team (2018-12-19). 'The World Cup Of Cards Returns To Playground Poker Club In January 2019'. cardplayer.com. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^Collson, Brett (2017-08-19). '$1.2 Million Bad Beat Jackpot Triggered at Playground Poker Club'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^Maldonado, Pamela (2018-04-27). '$1.375 Million Bad Beat Jackpot Hits at Playground Poker Club'. PokerNews. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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A room filled with cash game players at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal split a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot on Thursday. The jackpot hit at 5:20 p.m. ET when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table.
As the loser of the hand, Delarosbil scooped the biggest share of the jackpot ($460,149). Galle collected $230,088 as the winner of the hand, while the other seven players at the table each received $32,870. And that wasn't all — everyone seated at a table in the poker room when the jackpot hit was paid $1,224 as part of the promotion.
According to the report from Playground, three players saw a flop of . All three players checked to the turn, giving Delarosbil quad jacks and Galle one out to a straight flush. The landed on the river to give Galle his straight flush and trigger the bad beat jackpot.
After the final betting round, both players tabled their hands and the party started. Victory music blared through the room while confetti guns blasted and champagne bottles popped. Watch the video below:
The Primary Bad Beat Jackpot at Playground is progressive and started at $250,000. The qualifying hand starts at quad aces and goes down every three weeks to a minimum losing hand of quad eights. According to Playground, the qualifying hand was quad eights for several weeks and the jackpot prize continued growing until it finally hit on Thursday.
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Photos courtesy of Playground Poker Club
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