By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · September 10, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
KAHNAWAKE, QC - Daniel Tsipris, the Canadian tournament professional who came within one hand of the WSOP Circuit Playground May Main Event title before losing heads-up to Daniel Ghionoiu for a CA$235,000 runner-up finish, has won Event #9 of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival at Playground Poker Club for CA$47,600 and his first WSOP Circuit gold ring. Tsipris defeated fellow Canadian Jonathan Brazeau heads-up on Monday night to close out the CA$1,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty, per reporting by Canadianpoker.com and confirmed by an official WSOP announcement on X on Monday night. Canada swept the entire top five in a nine-handed final that also produced third-place, fourth-place and fifth-place Canadian cashes. It is the ninth ring event of the festival and the seventh Canadian winner of the eight completed rings, with only American Paul Meiners in Event #6 breaking the Canadian streak.
The win is particularly satisfying for Tsipris. Four months ago, at the same Kahnawake venue, he had come to the felt of the WSOP Circuit Playground CA$2,500 Main Event as the runner-up to Ghionoiu, banking a career-record CA$235,000 in a tournament that produced a CA$2.6-million prize pool. That finish was a career-high result and a career-defining near-miss. He did not have a WSOP Circuit ring on his rEsumE going into September, and Circuit-branded titles have a way of eluding professionals who cash deep across a busy live schedule but come up short of the closing hand. This Monday-night result closes that gap. Tsipris now has both a WSOPC ring and a career-total on-the-Circuit rEsumE at Playground.
The Final Five
The full top-five payout, per Canadianpoker.com:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Tsipris | Canada | CA$47,600 |
| 2 | Jonathan Brazeau | Canada | CA$30,880 |
| 3 | Dan Vigderhaus | Canada | CA$20,640 |
| 4 | Evan Sparling | Canada | CA$14,140 |
| 5 | Sharaf Albardhiuthi | Canada | CA$9,950 |
Cash prizes only; bounty pool payments awarded separately during play. Total entries and total prize pool not published by Playground as of Wednesday morning.
The CA$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty carried a CA$100,000 guarantee per the pre-event WSOP.com schedule. The final Canadian sweep of the top five was the most decisive Canadian result of any ring event at the festival through Wednesday, exceeding even the tournament’s Canada-heavy trend elsewhere. All five paying finalists cashed under the Canadian flag.
Who Is Daniel Tsipris
Tsipris is a Canadian professional whose live tournament rEsumE has been built on repeated deep runs at Playground and other Canadian Circuit venues. His three most recognisable prior cashes are his May 2026 runner-up at the WSOPC Playground CA$2,500 Main Event for CA$235,000 (losing heads-up to fellow Canadian Daniel Ghionoiu, whose winner cheque of CA$370,001 broke his own career-record); his same-tournament pairing at the January 2026 WSOPC Calgary festival where he cashed multiple side events; and a run of Playground cashes across 2024 and 2025 that has kept him in the Canadian tournament conversation. His prior best-known WSOP-branded runner-up at the same Kahnawake venue in May was itself a spinup from an online satellite path; per contemporary reporting by Somuchpoker, Ghionoiu’s bracelet victory in that Main Event came after Tsipris rode a Canadian-satellite qualifier deep into Day 5.
Prior to this Monday, Tsipris had zero WSOP Circuit rings and zero WSOP bracelets on his player profile despite being a Playground regular for years. The CA$47,600 win takes his career live tournament earnings above CA$430,000 by the reasonable arithmetic of his prior Hendon Mob and Card Player results plus this cash, and closes the ring-holder gap he had carried through his May near-miss and multiple prior deep runs at the same venue.
The Canadian Sweep at Playground Continues
Tsipris’s ring is the seventh Canadian win of the eight completed ring events at the WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival. Only American Paul Meiners, who won Event #6, the CA$1,000 NLH Progressive Bounty for CA$51,000, has interrupted the Canadian pattern. The full current list of Canadian ring winners at the festival:
| Event | Title | Winner | First Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | CA$500 Super Circuit Kickoff | Sebastien Proulx | CA$56,000 |
| #2 | CA$500 Mini Main Event | Daniel Haim | CA$185,000 |
| #3 | CA$1,000 Mystery Bounty | Frederic Moss | CA$90,000 |
| #4 | CA$2,300 Canadian Championship | James Pillon | CA$335,000 |
| #5 | CA$1,500 Monster Stack PLO | Harley Stoffmaker | CA$90,000 |
| #8 | CA$2,000 Deepstack Turbo | Scott Carragher | CA$100,000 |
| #9 | CA$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty | Daniel Tsipris | CA$47,600 |
Event #6 (Progressive Bounty) went to American Paul Meiners for CA$51,000. Event #7 (Main Event, CA$1,500,000 first prize) is currently playing its final table on Thursday. Ten ring events remain to play through Saturday, September 12.
The aggregate Canadian first-prize takings across the seven Canadian ring wins are now CA$903,600. Combined with the ongoing Main Event, where six of the nine final-table seats are Canadian chasing a CA$1.5-million first prize on Thursday, the WSOP Super Circuit Canada is on pace to produce the most Canadian-dominated Circuit stop in the tour’s Canadian history.
The Ontario Angle
Tsipris is a Canadian professional; his hometown is not published on the WSOP.com player profile, and the residency addresses on the Hendon Mob for Canadian Tsipris entries are inconsistent. His playing schedule, however, is heavily weighted to Playground and Ontario satellite paths, and his most public online-qualifier route to this year’s Main Event runner-up was via GGPoker satellites. For Ontario recreational players following the festival on the WSOP YouTube stream, the story of a Playground regular finally converting a ring after multiple near-misses fits the broader Canadian narrative of the festival and is the kind of career-arc win that will bring more Ontario players to Playground for the WSOP Circuit’s return in November.
The compressed Monday-through-Monday-night structure of the CA$1,000 PLO Bounty also demonstrates the format Playground uses for its mid-buy-in ring events: a same-day fire with unlimited re-entry through nine levels, then a one-day play-down to the ring. The result is a Circuit ring plus a small career-plus cash inside a single 24-hour window, which is a template Playground and Ontario satellite paths are likely to keep for the November stop.
What Happens Next
The WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival runs through Saturday, September 12. Ten ring events remain to be decided, including the CA$1,500,000 Main Event whose nine-handed final table is playing out on Thursday, Event #10 CA$14,000 GGMillion$ High Roller (Day 2 also on Thursday), Event #11 CA$600 Ultra Stack (Day 2 also on Thursday), Event #12 CA$25,000 Super High Roller (fires Thursday), Event #13 CA$1,500 Monster Stack (fires Thursday afternoon), Event #14 CA$800 Mystery Bounty (starts Thursday), Event #15 CA$6,000 PLO High Roller (fires Thursday), and side events through the Saturday closing weekend. Playground has not yet published the champion or full final-table results for the Main Event as of the Thursday evening report window.
Ontario players who want to build a Circuit-friendly bankroll at home have Sunday’s GGPoker Ontario WSOP Online Ontario bracelet series firing on September 13 with an eight-event calendar and a record CA$1,000,000 online Main Event guarantee. This publication will file a Main Event champion recap Friday morning.
Sources
- Bjorn Lindberg, “Rayan Chamas Leads WSOP Super Circuit Canada Day 3 Main Event; Daniel Tsipris Wins PLO Bounty,” CanadianPoker.com, September 8, 2026 - canadianpoker.com/en/news/rayan-chamas-leads-wsop-super-circuit-canada-main-event-after-huge-september-7-20260908-0001
- Official WSOP announcement of Tsipris ring win, X - x.com/WSOP
- WSOP Super Circuit Canada schedule and prize-pool listings, WSOP.com - wsop.com/tournaments/wsop-super-circuit-canada
- Daniel Ghionoiu / Daniel Tsipris May 2026 WSOPC Playground Main Event final table results - wsop.com/tournaments/result/711
- WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival wrap-up, WSOP.com - wsop.com/news/read-up-on-everything-happening-at-wsop-super-circuit-canada
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