By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · September 8, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
KAHNAWAKE, QC - Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas, the Lebanese-born and Quebec-resident streaming professional with roughly US$2.2 million in career live tournament earnings and a Twitch channel that has been a fixture of online poker content for a decade, has taken the overall chip lead entering Day 4 of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada CA$5,000 Main Event at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, according to Poker.org’s Day 3 close report by Adam Hampton. The field, which entered Monday with 177 players following a record 2,844 total entries and a CA$13,082,400 prize pool, was cut by roughly a third across the day to 116 survivors, with Chamas out in front of American professional Will Givens in second and the balance of the remaining stacks yet to be reported in detail. Play resumes Tuesday at 11 a.m. local time as the tournament moves into Day 4 of six scheduled days.
Chamas is one of the more distinctive names to hold a Main Event chip lead in a WSOP-branded festival in recent years. Better known to his audience as “Beriuzy,” he built his profile as a high-volume online tournament grinder before becoming a full-time streamer and content creator, at various points serving as a GGPoker ambassador and commentating on the GGMillion$ broadcast. His live results have been strong without producing a marquee live title: The Hendon Mob and Card Player list career live earnings above US$2 million, headlined by a US$600,000 runner-up finish at the 2023 WPT Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open, a sixth-place finish worth close to US$500,000 at the online-and-live WSOP Super Circuit GGMillion$ Champions Event earlier in 2026, and a ninth-place finish at the Triton Poker Jeju US$30,000 No-Limit event for US$116,000. He has no WSOP Circuit ring and no WSOP bracelet. A Canadian first prize at Playground on this occasion would put a headline title on a career that has generated more social-media reach than trophies.
The Day 3 Attrition
Day 3 began with 177 bagged stacks at the conclusion of the three staggered Day 2 flights and finished with 116 players stacking chips for Day 4, an eliminations tally in the low sixties across a session that ran the traditional Playground five-level day. Overnight chip leader Mario Lemieux, the Canadian who topped the Day 2-to-Day 3 count according to Canadianpoker.com, did not carry his lead through the day and does not appear at the top of the Day 4 count. Poker.org’s Day 3-to-Day 4 preview does not itemise a top ten but notes only that Chamas is out in front and Givens is second, with the balance of the ranking not yet published.
The one specific chip stack Poker.org attaches to a named player heading into Day 4 belongs to Michael “Grinder” Mizrachi, the reigning 2025 WSOP world champion and six-time bracelet holder, who sits 28th with 1.5 million in chips and 60 big blinds when play resumes. Mizrachi doubled up on a Day 3 flip to stay in the tournament and is one of a small number of previously bracelet-winning players still in the field. Daniel Negreanu, the Toronto-born Poker Hall of Fame inductee who bagged an 89-big-blind stack of 535,000 for Day 3, is also reported as still alive by Poker.org but without a specific Day 4 stack in the current update.
Playground’s pay ladder in a Main Event of this size follows a Circuit-standard 15 per cent in-the-money cut applied to a 2,844-entry field, which at the tournament’s official CA$5,000 buy-in produced a CA$13,082,400 prize pool and a scheduled first-place prize north of CA$1,000,000. Playground has not yet published the exact top-place figure for this year’s Main Event, but Poker.org confirms first place will exceed CA$1 million. The identity of the money bubble and the number of players cashed on Day 3 have not been individually reported. The tournament structure at this stage returns to level 22 for Day 4 with 60-minute levels and the 1,000-ante progression that Playground uses in its multi-day Circuit stops.
What Chamas Brings To The Table
Chamas is the kind of leader who tends to skew coverage: a full-time content creator with a decade-long stream and a global audience, in his adopted country’s biggest live event of the year, in the chip-leader chair with two days of play still ahead of him. Card Player records his country of origin as Canada; The Hendon Mob and Global Poker Index attach him to Lebanon on their country lists, where he sits eighth on Lebanon’s all-time money list. His most-watched live streams have been off-broadcast studio shows for GGPoker’s Sunday high roller schedule, not tournament runs; a WSOP-branded Canadian Main Event with a first prize above CA$1 million and a live broadcast on WSOP.com and WSOP’s YouTube channel would be his largest single televised deep run to date.
His approach to the middle stages of live tournaments has been documented in enough hours of streamed content that it is worth naming: Chamas is aggressive from the button and cutoff, quick to press stack advantages in three-bet pots at 45 to 70 big blinds, and unusually vocal about the volatility risks he sees at play. He has spoken publicly about carrying an US$800,000 downswing across late 2023 into 2024, an episode he covered in an hour-long return video that reset his content schedule in September 2025. If he converts the chip lead through the final table, it would be his first live seven-figure headline win and the first WSOP-branded Main Event title of his career.
The Chase
Behind the two named leaders sits a Day 4 field studded with well-known names still to be enumerated in the public counts. Poker.org confirms Mizrachi in 28th and Negreanu among the survivors. From Sunday’s Day 3 close reporting by Poker.org and Poker.pro, Mike Leah bagged 900,000, Griffin Benger bagged 777,000, Chance Kornuth was reported inside the top five overall on Day 3, and Will Givens was reported tenth heading into Day 3 before advancing to second overall by the Day 3 close. Whether all four survived Monday’s attrition through the money bubble has not been individually confirmed, and Playground has yet to publish a Day 4 top-25 or updated pay-out ladder as of the Tuesday morning report window.
For Canadian players following the field, the reasonable expectation is that Playground will publish a full Day 4 top-25 and a formal in-the-money ladder before cards go in the air at 11 a.m. Eastern. The tournament is being livestreamed on WSOP.com and on the WSOP YouTube channel with a two-tables-of-broadcast feature set-up, and Poker.org, Pokerfuse and Canadianpoker.com each carry rolling written coverage through the day. The Day 4 stopping point is expected to be either a redraw to two tables or a hand-for-hand approach to the official final table, which is scheduled to play out Wednesday.
The Ontario Angle
Chamas is not an Ontario player - he is based in Quebec and plays under a Lebanese flag on WSOP tournament tags - but the field carries a meaningful Ontario contingent that has been at the top of the story throughout the festival. Canadian players won five of the first six ring events at this Circuit stop before American professional Paul Meiners took Event #6, and Windsor’s James Pillon won Event #4, the CA$2,300 Super Circuit Championship, for CA$335,000 to claim the second WSOPC ring of his career, as we reported last week. Playground continues to draw disproportionately from Ontario for its multi-day fields, and the province’s live players have generated four of the six ring-holder cheques already on this trip.
For Ontario recreational players watching the Main Event stream, the practical calendar consideration is that GGPoker Ontario’s 2026 WSOP Online Ontario bracelet series, an eight-event Ontario-only online calendar with a record CA$1,000,000 Main Event guarantee, fires its first event at the Kick-Off on Sunday September 13, six days after the Playground Main Event resolves. Ontario players who follow Chamas’s Twitch stream and want to run a live-and-online tournament week can therefore trail this week’s live final table on Wednesday and then move to Ontario’s online tournament schedule from the second week of the month through early October.
What Happens Next
Day 4 of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event fires at Playground Kahnawake at 11 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, September 8. The remaining 116 players will play down to a redraw or hand-for-hand cutoff scheduled between two and three tables, with the official final table to be resolved on Day 5, Wednesday September 9. Day 6 is the final table itself, with a first-place cash confirmed by Poker.org to exceed CA$1,000,000. Playground has not published its scheduled play-through count for Day 4 as of the Tuesday morning window, but a Circuit Main Event of this size at Playground typically plays five 60-minute levels on Day 4 before bagging, meaning the day should close between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern with a top-24 or top-27 field bagged for Wednesday.
For those following remotely, the WSOP LIVE app is running rolling chip counts, and Poker.org, Pokerfuse, PokerNews and Canadianpoker.com each have Day 4 live-blog coverage in the field. This publication will file a Day 4 recap Wednesday morning with the updated top-nine and the pay-out ladder as soon as Playground releases the in-the-money list.
Sources
- Adam Hampton, “Will Givens second as Mizrachi, Negreanu chase WSOP Super Circuit title,” Poker.org, September 8, 2026 - poker.org/latest-news/will-givens-second-as-mizrachi-negreanu-chase-wsop-super-circuit-title
- Adam Hampton, “Negreanu, Mizrachi take big stacks into WSOP Super Circuit Main Event Day 3,” Poker.org, September 7, 2026 - poker.org/latest-news/negreanu-mizrachi-take-big-stacks-into-wsop-super-circuit-main-event-day-3
- WSOP Super Circuit Canada schedule and prize-pool listings, WSOP.com - wsop.com/tournaments/wsop-super-circuit-canada
- Rayan Chamas career results and country of origin, Card Player - cardplayer.com/poker-players/276139-rayan-chamas
- Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas profile and career earnings summary, Somuchpoker - somuchpoker.com/poker-player/rayan-chamas
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