By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · September 5, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
KAHNAWAKE, Quebec - The World Series of Poker's official festival-recap page updated overnight to confirm two Playground ring events that had been sitting unverified on the WSOP public results system for a full three days. Harley Stoffmaker of Canada won Event #5, the CA$1,500 buy-in Monster Stack Pot-Limit Omaha, for CA$90,000; and American Paul Meiners took Event #6, the CA$1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Progressive Bounty, for CA$51,000. WSOP.com's own recap page, which the operator updates as the festival progresses, published both results together on Thursday and Friday. The Stoffmaker win extends the WSOP Super Circuit Canada's opening Canadian streak to five consecutive ring events; the Meiners win, in the next event, snaps it.
The Stoffmaker result closes the identification gap this desk flagged in Thursday morning's Pillon-Championship piece, where WSOP and CanadianPoker had cited a "Pillon and Stoffmaker" pair without identifying the second winner's event. Stoffmaker is the CA$25,836 fourth-place finisher at the 2024 WPT Montreal CA$590 buy-in event, per Card Player, and his CA$90,000 first-place cash at Playground is his largest recorded live tournament payout on that public record.
Six Events, Six Winners
| Event | Buy-in | Winner (Country) | First-Place Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 NLH Super Circuit Kickoff | C$500 | Sebastien Proulx (Canada) | C$56,000 |
| #2 NLH Mini Main Event | C$500 | Daniel Haim (Canada) | C$185,000 |
| #3 NLH Mystery Bounty | C$1,000 | Frederic Moss (Canada) | C$90,000 |
| #4 NLH Super Circuit Championship | C$2,300 | James Pillon (Canada, Windsor ON) | C$335,000 |
| #5 PLO Monster Stack | C$1,500 | Harley Stoffmaker (Canada) | C$90,000 |
| #6 NLH Progressive Bounty | C$1,000 | Paul Meiners (United States) | C$51,000 |
Source: WSOP.com "Read Up on Everything Happening at WSOP Super Circuit Canada", published September 3, 2026 and updated September 4, 2026. Full pay-out tables for Events #4 through #6 have not yet appeared on WSOP.com's public results system as of Friday afternoon.
Through six ring events, Canadian first-place cash totals CA$756,000 across Proulx, Haim, Moss, Pillon and Stoffmaker. American first-place cash sits at CA$51,000 through Meiners. Combined winners' cash is CA$807,000 with twelve ring events still to play across the back half of the festival.
Stoffmaker and the PLO Field
The CA$1,500 PLO Monster Stack sits in an unusual position on the Playground event grid. Pot-Limit Omaha is played in only a handful of Ontario-facing rooms with any weekly volume - GGPoker Ontario, BetMGM Poker Ontario and PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario are the province's meaningful PLO cash operators, and PLO tournament content across Canada is thin outside of Playground-hosted Circuit stops. The event drew a CA$75,000 guarantee, and Stoffmaker's CA$90,000 first-place cash indicates the pool cleared that guarantee by a comfortable margin. WSOP.com has not yet published the aggregate entry count for Event #5 or the second-through-final pay-out schedule; the CA$90,000 payment is the only confirmed cash from the pay-out phase.
Stoffmaker's Card Player profile is thin - the WPT Montreal 2024 fourth-place cash was his largest recorded live tournament finish before Playground. The PLO ring is his first WSOP Circuit title. Neither WSOP.com nor Card Player list a specific hometown for him at this time.
Meiners Ends the Streak
Paul Meiners's Event #6 win prevents the WSOP Super Circuit Canada from opening on an unbroken domestic sweep. The CA$1,000 Progressive Bounty, which fired at noon on Wednesday, September 2 with 30,000 starting chips and 30-minute levels, carried a CA$150,000 guarantee. Meiners's CA$51,000 first-place cash is the lowest ring-event first-place payment of the series so far in absolute terms and reflects both the smaller buy-in relative to the Championship and PLO Monster Stack, and the bounty format's characteristic diversion of prize-pool weight into the bounty column. WSOP.com has not yet published the aggregate entry count for Event #6, the bounty schedule, or the runner-up cashes.
The Meiners result is the first American ring win at the WSOP Super Circuit Canada, and it lands in a relatively low-buy-in event, which softens the flag-planting effect. It does, however, break the storyline that had built through the opening week - a clean sweep would have been a talking point through the Main Event's back half.
Where the Field Actually Sits: What's Not Yet Published
The reporting gap between WSOP's editorial recap page and its results system remains the story-behind-the-story of this festival. WSOP.com's public event page for the WSOP Super Circuit Canada shows verified pay-out tables for only Event #1 (Proulx, 731 entries) and Event #2 (Haim, 3,484 entries). Events #3 through #6, all of which have crowned winners per WSOP's own promotional page, remain unpopulated on the operator's public results system four to seven days after their respective final tables. Serious tournament reporters at CanadianPoker.com have flagged the gap; PokerNews and Poker.org have not yet published dedicated Playground event recaps beyond opening-weekend flights.
For readers running an office pool on cumulative Canadian rings versus international rings, the tally through six events is straightforward. For anyone hunting more granular data - entry counts, exact pay-out tables, chip-count leaderboards from Main Event Day 1A through 1C - the operator's public system has not caught up. This desk continues to file follow-ups as the data appears.
Main Event Update: Day 1A Complete, Day 1B in the Books, Day 1C and 2A Firing
Event #7, the CA$5,000 Super Circuit Main Event carrying the CA$10-million guarantee, is now three flights in. Day 1A fired at noon on Wednesday and completed overnight, with WSOP's official X account naming Toronto-born Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu as the Day 1A chip leader. Day 1B fired Friday at noon local time and closed overnight; Day 1C fires Saturday at noon local time and Day 2A opened Saturday morning. WSOP has now confirmed that Michael Mizrachi (nine-time WSOP bracelet holder, reigning 2026 WSOP Player of the Year favourite), Dan Cates and Calgary-based Twitch streamer Kevin Martin are all fielded for the livestream. Chip counts, aggregate entries and survivor totals for Day 1A, Day 1B and Day 1C have not been published on WSOP.com's public system.
The Main Event's flight schedule has six Day 1s across September 3, 4, 5 and 6, with a final Day 1 (2C) on Sunday and Day 2 on Monday, September 7. The final table plays down on Wednesday, September 9, per the WSOP.com schedule. If the Mini Main's 2.65x-over-guarantee performance extends to the Main Event, roughly 3,000 CA$5,000 buy-in entrants clear the CA$10-million guarantee - a comfortably attainable threshold given the volume already through the pre-event Championship and PLO fields.
What Comes Next
Twelve ring events remain on the WSOP Super Circuit Canada schedule after Event #6. Event #8, the CA$2,000 NLH Deepstack Turbo, fires Sunday, September 6. Event #9, a CA$400 NLH Big-O Bounty, opens the same weekend. The eighteen-event series closes on Saturday, September 12. Pay-out tables from Events #3 through #6 are expected on WSOP.com's public results system through the weekend, along with confirmation of the second- and third-place cash for the Championship and the PLO Monster Stack.
Related Coverage
- Windsor's James Pillon wins WSOPC Super Circuit Canadian Championship for CA$335,000 (September 4)
- Frederic Moss wins WSOPC Mystery Bounty for CA$90,000 (September 2)
- Daniel Haim wins WSOPC Canada Mini Main for CA$185,000 from record 3,484 field
- Sebastien Proulx wins WSOPC Canada Kickoff for CA$56,000
- PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario launches 61-event Dynasty Series
- Ontario poker tournament schedule
Sources
- WSOP.com - "Read Up on Everything Happening at WSOP Super Circuit Canada", published September 3, 2026 and updated September 4, 2026, with confirmed winners for Events #1 through #6.
- WSOP.com Super Circuit Canada schedule and structure page, retrieved September 5, 2026.
- Card Player Harley Stoffmaker player profile, retrieved September 5, 2026.
- World Series of Poker verified X communications on Main Event Day 1A chip leadership (Daniel Negreanu) and livestream lineup (Mizrachi, Cates, Martin), published Wednesday, September 3, 2026 into Friday, September 5, 2026.
- CanadianPoker.com news feed, "Pillon and Stoffmaker Win as CA$10M Main Event Begins" headline, dated September 3, 2026.