PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario, dormant on tournament content since the site relaunched on the FanDuel infrastructure earlier this year, opens its first proper multi-table tournament series tonight at 7:05 p.m. Eastern with the CA$50 No-Limit Hold em Nightly Dynasty. The event is the opening gun of the sixty-event September Dynasty Series, which runs through Monday, September 28, and builds to a CA$300 Main Event on Sunday, September 27, alongside a CA$50 Mini Main. Estimated combined guarantees for the Ontario schedule sit between CA$1 million and CA$1.5 million, per Pokerfuse.
The launch matters for reasons that go beyond one operator's tournament calendar. GGPoker Ontario, the AGCO-registered market leader in peer-to-peer online poker in the province, begins its own eight-bracelet WSOP Online Ontario 2026 series on Sunday, September 13, according to Pokerfuse's announcement coverage. The WSOP Online Ontario Main Event on Sunday, October 5, will carry a record CA$1-million guarantee, the largest in the four-year history of the regulated Ontario peer-to-peer online poker market. Two of Ontario's three major AGCO-registered online poker operators are firing their biggest scheduled tournament weeks of the fall at exactly the same time. Ontario grinders who used to have to pick one operator to camp for a series can, for the next sixteen days, camp both.
The Dynasty Series Schedule: 60 Events, CA$30 to CA$1,500 Buy-Ins
The Ontario schedule opens tonight with three tournaments. The CA$50 Nightly Dynasty fires at 7:05 p.m. Eastern. The CA$100 Kickoff follows at 8:05 p.m. Eastern. The CA$30 Mini Kickoff runs at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. The opening weekend adds five more tournaments on Sunday, September 13, including a CA$500 Storm, a CA$100 Dynasty, a CA$30 Shield, a CA$100 Second Chance and a CA$50 Mystery Sonic, per PokerNews's Ontario schedule breakdown.
The rest of the calendar builds through weekday Super Tuesdays, Thursday Thrills, Wednesday six-max Mysteries, Friday Fights, and a Saturday, September 20 Bounty Sunday that features a CA$500 Bounty Storm, a CA$200 Bounty Dynasty and a CA$50 Bounty Shield. The final weekend concentrates the money. Sunday, September 27 stages the CA$300 Main Event at 6:05 p.m. Eastern alongside the CA$50 Mini Main at 6:30 p.m. Eastern and a CA$100 Second Chance at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. The series closes on Monday, September 28 with three Sendoff tournaments, capped by a CA$100 Sendoff at 8:05 p.m. Eastern and a CA$30 Mini Sendoff at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
What the Ontario schedule is not. The Ontario Dynasty Series does not include the CA$1,500 High Roller Main, the CA$1,000 Storm Kickoff, the mixed-game events, or the four-handed and heads-up total-knockout tournaments that appear on the parallel one-hundred-event US Dynasty Series running across New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Pokerfuse reports total US guarantees at more than CA$3.5 million; the Ontario estimate of CA$1 million to CA$1.5 million reflects the smaller Ontario ring-fenced player pool and the shorter schedule. Ontario players remain segregated from the US shared-liquidity pool under current AGCO rules, an issue the Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear on October 7 in the Attorney General of Ontario cross-border iGaming reference.
Opening-Day Schedule at a Glance
| Time (ET) | Event | Buy-In |
|---|---|---|
| 7:05 p.m. | Event #1: NLHE Nightly Dynasty | CA$50 |
| 8:05 p.m. | Event #2: NLHE Kickoff | CA$100 |
| 8:30 p.m. | Event #3: NLHE Mini Kickoff | CA$30 |
Source: PokerNews Ontario schedule. Individual Ontario event guarantees have not been published by the operator; Pokerfuse pegs individual guarantees between CA$1,500 and CA$100,000 across the series.
The Bigger Story: Ontario's First Two-Series Weekend
Regulated online poker opened in Ontario on April 4, 2022, when the AGCO subsidiary iGaming Ontario opened the province's ring-fenced peer-to-peer market. Since then, no calendar weekend in the market's four-year history has hosted the coincident launch of two flagship tournament series from two different major operators. This one does.
The PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario platform sat quiet on the tournament calendar through the summer following its FanDuel-infrastructure relaunch, running mostly cash-game traffic, the ongoing Summer Sendoff centroll (a promotional series that awards CA$10,000 in tournament tickets and cash to players entering ten one-cent tournaments between September 4 and September 13, per Pokerfuse), and its house nightlies. The September Dynasty Series is its first substantive tournament programming since the relaunch. GGPoker Ontario, which has been the province's dominant peer-to-peer operator since day one, has run consistent tournament programming throughout the same period, including this summer's WSOP Super Circuit Canada satellite qualifier system that funnelled Ontario players into the CA$5,000 Main Event at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake. That event finished Thursday night with Toronto cybersecurity engineer Mayukh Chakraborty banking CA$1,500,000 for the first prize.
The WSOP Online Ontario 2026 schedule, per Pokerfuse, runs eight bracelet events between Sunday, September 13 and Monday, October 5, with a headline CA$1-million-guarantee Main Event on the closing Sunday. This is the largest online tournament guarantee ever posted in the regulated Ontario market. GGPoker Ontario is the only AGCO-registered operator licensed to award WSOP-branded bracelets in the province.
What Ontario players should watch. The Dynasty Main Event on September 27 is the CA$300 headline. The WSOP Online Ontario Main Event on October 5 is the CA$1-million-guarantee one. The two do not overlap. Ontario grinders and casual players can, in principle, run the full sixty-event PokerStars on FanDuel schedule through September 28 and then pivot straight to the closing three weeks of the WSOP Online Ontario bracelet schedule. For a mid-stakes player planning a bankroll allocation, PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario weighs to volume at CA$30 to CA$500 buy-ins; the WSOP Online Ontario schedule weighs to prestige at higher buy-ins with bracelet equity.
How the Ontario Market Compares to the US Dynasty Series
The parallel US Dynasty Series, running on the same platform across New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania under the tri-state shared liquidity compact, has one hundred events, buy-ins from USD$10 to USD$1,500, and total guarantees of more than USD$3.5 million, per PokerNews's preview of the US schedule. The US Main Event on September 27 carries a USD$350,000 guarantee at USD$300, alongside a USD$200,000 High Roller Main at USD$1,500 and a USD$75,000 Mini Main at USD$50. Ontario's smaller schedule reflects both its smaller population and the fact that Ontario players remain segregated from the tri-state pool.
The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the Attorney General of Ontario's cross-border iGaming appeal on Tuesday, October 7, per Tribuna. Both Ontario and Alberta will argue for the constitutionality of pooling regulated players with foreign jurisdictions, a change that would materially reshape Ontario tournament liquidity. That ruling is not expected to affect the September or October 2026 tournament schedules described here.
Ontario Access and Registration Notes
Both PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario and GGPoker Ontario are AGCO-registered operators contracted by iGaming Ontario and licensed to offer real-money online poker to players physically located in Ontario aged nineteen and over. Neither the September Dynasty Series nor the WSOP Online Ontario 2026 series is accessible to players in Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba or other Canadian provinces, or to players in the United States or overseas. Cross-provincial and cross-border play remains the subject of the pending Supreme Court reference and is not currently permitted.
Operator review pages for the four AGCO-registered peer-to-peer poker operators are here: PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario, GGPoker Ontario, bet365 Poker Ontario and partypoker Ontario. All four require players to complete AGCO-mandated Know-Your-Customer verification and to be physically located in Ontario at the time of play.
Reporting draws on the PokerNews Ontario Dynasty Series schedule breakdown by Will Shillibier (September 11, 2026), the PokerNews US Dynasty Series preview by Jon Sofen (September 10, 2026), the Pokerfuse Ontario Dynasty Series announcement by Nick Jones (September 2, 2026), and the Pokerfuse Summer Sendoff and WSOP Online Ontario coverage by Anuj Arora (September 10, 2026). Estimated Ontario series guarantees are as published by Pokerfuse and remain subject to operator confirmation. No affiliate relationship exists between OntarioPoker.com and any operator named in this report. Illustration is AI-generated for editorial purposes.