Playground Poker Club Posts 11-Deep PLO5 Waitlist on Three Tables

At 1:45 a.m. Eastern, Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake had 11 names waiting for three tables of $2/$2 five-card PLO — a ratio that would top every PLO waitlist in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Los Angeles combined.

That's an 11-to-3 waitlist-to-table ratio. The median waitlist for that game at Playground sits at 1. Eleven names is eleven times the norm, on a format most North American rooms don't even spread.

Eleven names waiting for three tables of $2/$2 five-card PLO at 1:45 a.m. — in Kahnawake, not Las Vegas.

Why This Number Matters

Five-card PLO is a niche game. Most card rooms in the U.S. and Canada don't list it on Bravo at all. The rooms that do — scattered across South Florida, a few Texas clubs, the occasional LA session — rarely post waitlists deeper than two or three names.

Playground posted 11.

Three tables were already running when the waitlist hit that number. Every seat was occupied and nearly four full tables' worth of additional players were standing by. At a $2/$2 stake, this isn't high-roller overflow — it's raw grassroots demand for a game format that barely exists on most floors.

What Else Was Running

Playground's PLO5 spike didn't happen in a vacuum. The club is one of the largest card rooms in Canada, located on Mohawk Territory just south of Montreal. It regularly spreads a wide mix of hold'em, Omaha, and mixed games across dozens of tables. But an 11-deep list on a five-card variant at nearly 2 a.m. stands out even by Playground's standards.

The overnight Bravo snapshot showed Playground's $2/$2 PLO5 waitlist at 11 with three active tables — a ratio of roughly 3.7 waiting players per running table. For context, that median waitlist figure of 1 means on a typical session, almost nobody is waiting. The gap between 1 and 11 is the entire story.

The Bigger Picture

Five-card PLO has been creeping into more rooms over the past year, but demand data this stark from a single property is rare. The signal here isn't that Playground runs PLO5 — they've done that — it's the magnitude. Eleven names on three tables suggests the player pool for this format, at least in the Montreal corridor, has outgrown the supply of seats.

Whether Playground adds a fourth or fifth table to absorb the overflow is a floor decision. The waitlist already made the case.