By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · September 9, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
KAHNAWAKE, QC - Scott Carragher, the Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island poker professional with career live tournament earnings of roughly CA$322,000 across 34 recorded cashes and six major final tables but no previous WSOP Circuit ring, has won Event #8 of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake for CA$100,000. Carragher defeated fellow Canadian Ryan Pignatelli heads-up on Sunday night to close out the CA$2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Turbo, according to reporting by Canadianpoker.com. It is his first WSOP Circuit gold ring, a career-best live cash by roughly CA$52,000 over his previous top result and the sixth Canadian winner of the seven completed ring events at the eighteen-ring festival to date.
Pignatelli, also Canadian, banked CA$65,000 as runner-up in what became an all-Canadian heads-up finish. Pignatelli had cashed earlier in the festival for CA$1,500 with a 38th-place finish in Event #6, the CA$1,000 Progressive Bounty won by American Paul Meiners for CA$51,000, and had built into contention across the Sunday-through-Monday Deepstack Turbo before running second to Carragher on the final hand. Playground Poker Club and WSOP.com are expected to publish the full nine-handed final table pay ladder and payout schedule as part of Wednesday’s daily WSOP festival update.
Who Is Scott Carragher
Carragher, whose WSOP.com player profile lists him as a Canadian from Charlottetown, has been on the Canadian tournament circuit for several years as a mid-stakes and Circuit-focused professional. According to Card Player, his lifetime live tournament earnings entering this event stood at roughly CA$322,635 across 34 cashes and six major final tables. His prior career-best cash was a runner-up finish at the 2025 WSOP International Circuit Kahnawake Summer CA$400 No-Limit Hold’em event, for which he collected US$47,880 after losing heads-up to Yves Perras. He had also placed third in the 2026 WSOPC Deerfoot Inn & Casino Event #8 CA$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for CA$36,101 in January, and fourth in the 2025 WSOPC Kahnawake Fall CA$1,000 Colossus for CA$32,759 in late 2025. His largest single result outside a WSOP-branded event was a sixth-place finish at the 2025 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown CA$10,000 Deep Stack for approximately US$63,000. Adding this CA$100,000 to his rEsumE lifts his career live tournament earnings above CA$422,000 and gives him a WSOP Circuit ring after six previous major final tables without a title.
Carragher is not the WSOPC Canada festival’s deepest-pocketed professional or its most recognisable Canadian name, but he is the kind of Canadian Circuit regular who explains why Playground has become the highest-yield Circuit stop on the calendar. He plays a heavy Canadian tournament schedule in-person, cashes across a wide variety of buy-ins, and has a stack of six-figure runs at Playground that had produced results in the CA$18,000 to CA$50,000 range but had not yet delivered a title. This is the breakthrough finish, and it comes at the festival where six of the first seven completed rings have already gone to Canadian players.
The Canadian Sweep at Playground
Carragher’s win takes Canadian players to a six-of-seven record in completed ring events at the festival, with American Paul Meiners breaking the streak in Event #6 before Canadians resumed the pattern in Event #8. The current tally of completed WSOPC Canada ring winners:
| Event | Title | Winner | Country | First Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | CA$500 Super Circuit Kickoff | Sebastien Proulx | Canada | CA$56,000 |
| #2 | CA$500 Mini Main Event | Daniel Haim | Canada | CA$185,000 |
| #3 | CA$1,000 Mystery Bounty | Frederic Moss | Canada | CA$90,000 |
| #4 | CA$2,300 Canadian Championship | James Pillon | Canada | CA$335,000 |
| #5 | CA$1,500 Monster Stack PLO | Harley Stoffmaker | Canada | CA$90,000 |
| #6 | CA$1,000 Progressive Bounty | Paul Meiners | United States | CA$51,000 |
| #8 | CA$2,000 Deepstack Turbo | Scott Carragher | Canada | CA$100,000 |
Event #7 is the CA$5,000 Main Event, currently playing Day 5 with 30 survivors and a CA$1.5-million first prize; the winner is not yet decided.
The Canadian aggregate takings across the six completed Canadian wins now total CA$856,000, and the count of Canadian ring holders at the festival now stands at five distinct individuals plus one repeat champion in Windsor’s James Pillon, who took his second WSOPC ring in the Canadian Championship for CA$335,000 last week. Layer that on top of the Day 5 chip counts in the Main Event, where 22 of the final 30 players are Canadian, and the WSOP Super Circuit Canada is on track to produce the most Canadian-dominated Circuit festival in the tour’s Canadian history.
The Ontario Angle
Carragher is a Charlottetown resident and not an Ontario player, and Pignatelli’s residency is listed as Canada without a province in the WSOP.com database. But for Ontario recreational and professional players following the Playground festival, this event and this heads-up finish are consequential for two reasons. First, the ongoing Canadian sweep at the festival strengthens the appeal of Ontario satellite paths to future WSOPC Canada stops, of which the next is the WSOP Circuit Canada in November at the same venue and the following one is expected to return to Toronto in H2 2026 at Great Canadian Casino Resort per WSOP.com’s published Circuit schedule. Second, the compressed timing of the CA$2,000 Deepstack Turbo, which fired at 3 p.m. on Sunday and finished in the early hours of Monday morning, is a template Playground is likely to keep for turbo-buy-in ring events in future stops, and the ring-plus-CA$100,000 outcome sits in a sweet spot for Ontario weekend visitors who can play a one-day Circuit event without staying multiple nights.
The Rest of the Festival
Eleven ring events remain to play through Saturday, September 12, according to WSOP.com’s public schedule. The most significant is Event #7, the CA$5,000 Main Event, whose Day 5 fired Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. local time with 30 players remaining and a first prize of CA$1,500,000, the largest single first-place figure in Canadian live poker history. Other live events include Event #10 CA$14,000 GGMillion$ High Roller (Day 2 playing Wednesday), Event #11 CA$600 Ultra Stack (Day 2), Event #12 CA$25,000 Super High Roller (fires Tuesday night), Event #13 CA$1,500 Monster Stack (fires Wednesday afternoon), and side events through the Saturday closing weekend. The Playground festival closes on Saturday, September 12 with Event #17, the CA$600 NLH Progressive Bounty, and Event #18, the traditional closer.
What Happens Next
Playground Poker Club is expected to publish the full Event #8 nine-handed final table pay ladder as part of its Wednesday daily update, alongside a Day 5 chip-count update from the Main Event. Canadianpoker.com and WSOP.com are running rolling written coverage through the day. For Ontario players following the festival remotely, the WSOP LIVE app is publishing chip counts as they are bagged, and the WSOP YouTube channel is livestreaming the Main Event feature table with a 60-minute delay. This publication will file a Day 5 recap Thursday morning with the official final table set for the Main Event and any additional ring winners.
Sources
- “WSOP Super Circuit Canada: Day 3 Field Is Set 2026,” CanadianPoker.com, September 7, 2026 - canadianpoker.com/en/news/wsop-super-circuit-canada-main-event-day-3-20260907-0004
- “Read up on everything happening at WSOP Super Circuit Canada,” WSOP.com festival wrap-up - wsop.com/news/read-up-on-everything-happening-at-wsop-super-circuit-canada
- Scott Carragher career profile, WSOP.com - wsop.com/players/640108213/scott-carragher
- Scott Carragher career results, Card Player - cardplayer.com/poker-players/257820-scott-carragher
- WSOP Super Circuit Canada schedule and prize-pool listings, WSOP.com - wsop.com/tournaments/wsop-super-circuit-canada
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