Playground's $5/$10 List Hit 11 Deep With Zero Tables Open

The List Nobody Could Get On

Eleven names sat on the $5/$10 no-limit hold'em waitlist at Playground Poker Club at 10:45 PM on May 20 — and not a single table was spreading.

That's 2.2× the room's median waitlist for the game. Eleven players wanted to sit. Zero seats existed. The demand-to-supply ratio was, technically, infinite.

Two floors away, the WSOP Circuit stop at Playground was grinding deep into the night.

Eleven players wanted to sit $5/$10 at Playground — zero tables were open, and the waitlist was running at 2.2× median.

The Circuit Effect

The WSOPC Playground series is pulling tournament grinders from across eastern Canada into Kahnawake, and the side effect is predictable: every satellite bust-out becomes a potential cash-game customer.

By 10:45 PM, a $600 Milestone Satellite for the $5,000 Super Circuit Canada Main Event was down to its final two tables — 17 players left from a field that had started much larger. Walaa Bou-Diab led with 152,500 in chips. Joel Kogan, a one-time WSOPC ring winner with $47,715 in lifetime tournament cashes, was still alive with 47,500.

Every player who busted that satellite walked out into a poker room already overflowing.

PLO5 Wasn't Any Better

The $5/$10 list wasn't even the most oversubscribed game in the building.

By 2:45 AM on May 21, Playground's $2/$2 PLO5 game had 14 names waiting — nearly 5× the median waitlist — with only two tables running. That 4.7-to-1 ratio means seven players were queued per open table.

PLO5 at $2/$2 drawing 14 deep at a Canadian poker club at nearly 3 AM tells you everything about the foot traffic a Circuit stop generates.

What's Running

Playground's late-night snapshot on May 20–21:

• $5/$10 NLH: 0 tables, 11 waiting
• $2/$2 PLO5: 2 tables, 14 waiting

Both games posted waitlist surges well above their historical medians. The $5/$10 list ran more than double its normal depth. The PLO5 list ran nearly five times higher.

The WSOPC Playground series continues with satellite and ring events feeding into the $5,000 Super Circuit Canada Main Event. As long as the tournament floor keeps busting players, the cash-game floor will keep stacking names on the list.

Whether Playground opens more tables to meet the demand is the only open question. Right now, the answer appears to be no.