Canadian players: Thoughts on PlayNow.com

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PlayNow.com is run by the provincial lottery corporations is not open for all provinces yet butt has some good MTT's $20 buy ins and lots of newer players in the Bad Beat tables I find it very good for withdrawal speed although it is by cheque all and all a great site
 
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I tried it a few years ago, 2011 to be precise, and there wasn't much traffic.
I only tried it because they were advertising "Canucks for a buck" tourneys where for $1 you could win Canucks playoff tickets during the whole playoffs.
I eventually won one of those, and when I say traffic was low I mean there were only 63 people in the tourney when I won 2 lower bowl tickets (and the whopping $19 first place prize money) to the first game of round 3 (semi finals). I sold the tickets to a friend for $500 (face value was $240 each) since he was a big Canucks fan, I could have got a lot more selling them to anyone else.
Back then you could have your winnings sent directly to your bank account.

Is the traffic better now?
 
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never heard of this site, leery to even try, if there is no traffic..how can they operate
 
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We Canadians should avoid these canadian poker sites (Playnow, espacejeux) like the plague. Here in canada, we have an incredible selection of poker sites (Canadian, US, UK sites etc..), the only thing that can screw this up is if the government decides to outlaw all these sites and leave us with only tax paying poker sites like Playnow. As Canadian players, we should boycott that pathethic poker site known as Playnow (or espacejeux in Quebec). The more those Canadian sites succeed, the bigger the chance that the government will screw us by banning all non-canadian poker sites.
 
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I tried it a few years ago, 2011 to be precise, and there wasn't much traffic.
I only tried it because they were advertising "Canucks for a buck" tourneys where for $1 you could win Canucks playoff tickets during the whole playoffs.
I eventually won one of those, and when I say traffic was low I mean there were only 63 people in the tourney when I won 2 lower bowl tickets (and the whopping $19 first place prize money) to the first game of round 3 (semi finals). I sold the tickets to a friend for $500 (face value was $240 each) since he was a big Canucks fan, I could have got a lot more selling them to anyone else.
Back then you could have your winnings sent directly to your bank account.

Is the traffic better now?

Traffic is pretty good now they have some good guaranteed tourneys during the week a 20k or 30k guarantee every sunday a 100k or 150 k every 3 months on sunday the last bad beat was 650k for .5/$1 and up tablesthere also a micro bad beat gets up to 8 to 10k for.05/.10 tables up to $1tables
 
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We Canadians should avoid these canadian poker sites (Playnow, espacejeux) like the plague. Here in Canada, we have an incredible selection of poker sites (Canadian, US, UK sites etc..), the only thing that can screw this up is if the government decides to outlaw all these sites and leave us with only tax paying poker sites like Playnow. As Canadian players, we should boycott that pathethic poker site known as Playnow (or espacejeux in Quebec). The more those Canadian sites succeed, the bigger the chance that the government will screw us by banning all non-Canadian poker sites.

I don't buy this I think the Canadian government will leave things alone it is a great site with good tournaments
 
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If they have a decent bonus for signing up I might check it out, if they dont than I might as well stick to pokerstars where I know the site like the back of my hand.
 
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Tried to play there from Ontario but was not able to register as they only accept BC and Manitoba residents.

OLG offers online casino but not poker...

Don't trust anything that comes out of Quebec (too much corruption).

Any other choices for Canadians?
 
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