WPT and WSOP sanctioned events at Playground Poker Club.
A dated index of WPT-sanctioned and WSOP Circuit tournament series hosted at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawà:ke, with the factually recorded exclusion status of each post-March-2024 series from the perspective of one fourteen-year patron banned without written cause.
Scope of this index
Playground Poker Club is a long-standing partner venue of the World Poker Tour circuit and a periodic host venue for the World Series of Poker Circuit. The exhaustive operator-side calendar of WPT-sanctioned series at Playground since the venue opened in 2010 is maintained by the World Poker Tour and by the operator, and both are the authoritative sources for the earlier record.
This page does not attempt to duplicate that earlier operator-side record. It is a first-person index of the sanctioned series at the venue that fall inside the post-March-2024 exclusion window — that is, the series that have taken place or are scheduled to take place while the ban on me remains active and for which I have therefore been, or will be, excluded as a direct consequence of the unresolved ban. Each entry is dated, names the sanctioning body, and states the exclusion status factually. No motive, intent, or internal process of the operator or the sanctioning body is asserted; only the observed fact of the series having taken place at the venue and the observed fact of my exclusion.
For the definition of a WPT-sanctioned event, and for related vocabulary including the continuing-harm doctrine and Part XXIV of the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission regulations, see the glossary.
Dated index of sanctioned events at Playground Poker Club
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Pre-ban WPT series at Playground Poker Club
Sanctioned by: WPT partner circuit · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Playground Poker Club has been a long-standing partner venue of the World Poker Tour circuit since shortly after its 2010 opening. I was a foundational patron of the venue from that same period. Individual WPT-sanctioned series held at Playground during that fourteen-year window prior to the March 2024 customer-service incident are not itemized on this page; they fall outside the scope of the exclusion record this site maintains. For those earlier series the operator and the World Poker Tour are the authoritative archival sources.
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WPT Global Summer Million
Sanctioned by: WPT · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Held at Playground Poker Club during July and August 2025. I was excluded from this series as a consequence of the unresolved ban that became known to me on the morning of 2024-10-05 and that had not been resolved by the time this series ran. The fact of this series and its location is cited in my 2026-04-14 follow-up correspondence to the World Poker Tour executive team, preserved in the correspondence archive on this site.
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WPT Global Winter Classic
Sanctioned by: WPT · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Fifteen days of sanctioned WPT tournament action hosted at Playground from 18 January through 1 February 2026. I was excluded from every day of this series. This was the first major internationally-sanctioned tournament series at the venue to occur after the one-year anniversary of the October 2024 ban discovery, and the first for which I gave contemporaneous written notice to both Playground Poker Club executive leadership and to the World Poker Tour executive team that the exclusion was ongoing and unresolved.
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WSOP Circuit at Playground
Sanctioned by: WSOP Circuit · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Sixteen days of World Series of Poker Circuit sanctioned events held at Playground from 10 through 25 May 2026. The 2026-04-28 response deadline set out in the 2026-04-14 final written request passed without a written response on the merits, the call offered by the licensee on 2026-04-30 was never scheduled, and the series ran with the restriction still in force. I was excluded throughout. The WSOP Circuit is included on this page because it is a sanctioned tournament series co-hosted at a WPT partner venue, and because the search-intent clusters for "WPT Playground" and "WSOP Circuit Playground" overlap for patrons researching the venue.
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WSOP Super Circuit Canada at Playground
Sanctioned by: WSOP Circuit · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Eighteen days of World Series of Poker Super Circuit events held at Playground from 26 August through 12 September 2026, as published on the WSOP tournament schedule. This is the third sanctioned series at the venue to run in 2026 with the restriction still in force, and the first to run after the licensee told the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission on 2026-04-28 that my access was "temporarily restricted so they can speak with you and resolve the issue." No conversation had taken place by the time the series opened, and none has taken place since. I was excluded throughout.
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MSPT Canadian Poker Championship at Playground
Sanctioned by: WPT partner circuit · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
Mid-States Poker Tour Canadian Poker Championship scheduled at Playground from 1 through 12 October 2026, per the licensee's own tournament calendar as read on 2026-09-13. Included because it is a branded, externally sanctioned series at the venue. Absent a written statement that my access is restored, I expect to be excluded from it; the entry will be updated to the factual outcome once the series has run.
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WSOP Circuit at Playground (November)
Sanctioned by: WSOP Circuit · Venue: Playground Poker Club, Kahnawà:ke
World Series of Poker Circuit series scheduled at Playground from 2 through 16 November 2026, per the licensee's own tournament calendar as read on 2026-09-13. This would be the fourth sanctioned series of 2026 at the venue, and the third WSOP-branded one, to run while the restriction that the licensee described to the Commission as temporary remains in force without a conversation. The entry will be updated to the factual outcome once the series has run.
Read the correspondence with the World Poker Tour.
The October 2024 escalation to four named World Poker Tour executives, and the 2026-04-14 follow-up that reopened the thread, are preserved in full in the correspondence archive. Neither has received a substantive response on the merits, and the asks to Playground Poker Club and the World Poker Tour remain open.