The World Cup of Cards Is Coming To Playground Poker Club

If you’re itching to play in some great poker events, there’s a new festival on the calendar: the World Cup of Cards hosted by Playground Poker Club. Running from Aug. 18 through Sept. 14, the WCC and its more than $2,000,000 in prize pool guarantees is a festival you won’t want to miss.

The World Cup of Cards boasts two major event sponsors, partypoker and Tonybet, who have teamed up with Playground Poker to produce an entirely new kind of festival on the global poker scene. The WCC will run for four weeks and feature 28 events, each one with a prize pool guarantee. The focus is squarely on giving players what they want — fun events, huge guarantees, and a ton of value for their poker-playing dollar.

Consult the full schedule for the World Cup of Cards.

One of the highlights of the WCC is the number of non-hold’em events on the schedule. Over 25 percent of the scheduled tournaments in the festival feature other forms of poker, including not only pot-limit Omaha, but Omaha hi-low, five-card Omaha, and two variants of pineapple.

That’s not to say that the WCC has anything against hold’em. The range of no-limit hold’em events on the schedule has never been seen before in a festival of this scale. In fact, there’s a huge $5,400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max tournament that will generate a monster prize pool for players looking for a large buy-in event.

Just as the World Cup of Cards kicks off, Playground Poker Club will also be hosting the WPT National Montreal, a $600 event with seven Day 1s and a huge $400,000 guarantee. This WPT National event features an innovative format that …

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