The World Poker Tour Returns to Playground, Canada’s Premier Poker Destination
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Last Updated: November 6, 2024
This October, Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, will play host to a major tournament series spanning over full two weeks, with millions in guaranteed prizes up for grabs.
Running October 14 – 30, the WPT Playground festival comprises a rich tournament schedule crowned by the $1,500,000 guaranteed Championship event. Additionally, players will have a chance to get involved with WPT 500 and WPT Prime events.
The WPT Playground will feature a solid selection of buy-ins, with cheapest tournaments coming in at just $250, and many satellites to bigger events on offer at an even lower entry point, so the legendary poker room should be buzzing with action the second half of October.
WPT Playground 2024 Highlights
The action will get underway on October 14 with a WPT 500 event. Featuring a buy-in of just $590, this tournament comes with a hefty guarantee of $400,000 and six individual starting flights up until October 19.
Scattered between these Day 1 flights are many smaller tournaments, including a $300 Mystery Bounty with $30,000 guaranteed and $250 Mega Stack.
The WPT Prime Championship gets underway on Sunday, October 20, with the first of four starting flights. As always, the Prime event comes with a reasonable buy-in of $1,150 and there is a generous guarantee of $800,000 attached to it.
The $3,500 WPT Playground Championship has a guarantee of $1.5 million and it will be the crown of the festival. The big one starts on October 23 and features three starting flights. The final table will be played on October 30, the last day of the series.
With the three main tournaments and a number of side events, WPT Playground is set to dish out over $3,500,000 in prizes. You can check out the full schedule of all main tournaments (excluding satellites) below.
2024 WPT Playground Schedule
Dates | Event | Buy-in | GTD |
October 14 – 21 | WPT 500 | $590 | $400,000 |
October 14 | Mystery Bounty | $300 | $30,000 |
October 15 | Mega Stack | $250 | $20,000 |
October 16 | Bounty ($100) | $300 | $25,000 |
October 17 | Monster Stack Turbo | $300 | $25,000 |
October 20 – 25 | WPT Prime Playground | $1,150 | $800,000 |
October 20 | Mystery Bounty | $400 | $50,000 |
October 21 | Matt Savage Average | $300 | $30,000 |
October 23 – 30 | WPT Championship | $3,500 | $1,500,000 |
October 24 | Pot Limit Omaha | $600 | $50,000 |
October 27 | No Limit Hold’em Turbo | $600 | $60,000 |
October 28 – 29 | High Roller | $10,500 | $200,000 |
October 28 | Mystery Bounty | $1,000 | $100,000 |
October 28 | 8-Max | $400 | $30,000 |
October 29 | Mega Stack | $600 | $50,000 |
October 29 | Mega Stack | $250 | $20,000 |
October 30 | No Limit Hold’em | $300 | $10,000 |
October 30 | Mystery Bounty | $400 | $40,000 |
Experience Allure & Prestige of the World Poker Tour
With two weeks packed with poker action, the Playground Poker Club in Montreal is the place to be this October. In addition to big guarantees and the prestige that comes with winning a WPT event, all players will enjoy a tournament experience of the highest order.
The World Poker Tour has been organizing large poker festivals for decades, showing time and time again that only sky is the limit in terms of guarantees, field sizes, and making sure that everything runs smoothly even when there are thousands of players shuffling between different rooms and hundreds of tables.
The 2024 WPT Playground schedule offers something for everyone, with several tournaments available at just a few hundred a pop. Plus, there will be satellites to all major events running around the clock.
All qualifiers will feature the growingly popular milestone format. In these tournaments, you just need to accumulate a certain number of chips to win a seat, which ensures faster play and more action compared to traditional satellites.
Satellites to the Prime Championship start at just $180, while those looking to qualify for the $3,500 WPT Playground Championship will have a chance to do so in one of many $400 feeder events.
The series starts in a few days’ time and runs all the way until the end of October, so there is still plenty of time to make your travel plans and make sure you’re there for the action.
Of course, running alongside the tournaments, there will be plenty of cash game tables, so there won’t be a dull moment to speak of once things get underway. It will be 15 days of pure poker action 24/7!