The inaugural WSOP Super Circuit Canada festival closed at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec, on the morning of Sunday, September 13, with Canadians taking 13 of the 18 WSOP Circuit rings on offer. It is the highest home-nation share ever recorded at a WSOP Circuit festival outside the United States, and the largest live poker festival by prize pool in Canadian history. The signature result, Toronto cybersecurity engineer Mayukh Chakraborty CA$1,500,000 Main Event win from a record 2,844-entry field, has been the story of the fortnight; the final three days of the festival delivered the coda, an all-Canadian sweep of the closing ring events.
Chad Edmunds closed out the CA$1,500 Closer Turbo Bounty for CA$63,000 in cash and his first WSOP Circuit ring on the evening of Saturday, September 12, according to the WSOP's official announcement on X, which described the win as coming "after a year of close calls at Playground." Matthew Hall of Canada followed by winning the CA$600 No-Limit Hold em Progressive Bounty for CA$22,500 in the early hours of Sunday morning, per the WSOP.com results database. And Montreal's Haile Rafik Kuo, whose year at Playground the WSOP described in a Sunday tweet as "packed with deep runs," took the closing CA$500 Series Saver Hyper Turbo for CA$31,070. Canada swept the final three finals; Playground shut the tournament room at breakfast on Sunday.
Complete Ring Winner List: 13 Canadian, 3 American, 1 British, 1 French
| # | Event | Winner | Country | Buy-In | 1st Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Circuit Kickoff | Sebastien Proulx | Canada | CA$500 | CA$56,000 |
| 2 | Mini Main Event | Daniel Haim | Canada | CA$500 | CA$185,000 |
| 3 | Mystery Bounty | Frederic Moss | Canada | CA$1,000 | CA$90,000 |
| 4 | Super Circuit Canadian Championship | James Pillon | Canada (Windsor) | CA$2,300 | CA$335,000 |
| 5 | PLO Monster Stack | Harley Stoffmaker | Canada | CA$1,500 | CA$90,000 |
| 6 | NLH Progressive Bounty | Paul Meiners | USA | CA$1,000 | CA$51,000 |
| 7 | Super Circuit Main Event | Mayukh Chakraborty | Canada (North York) | CA$5,000 | CA$1,500,000 |
| 8 | NLH Deepstack Turbo | Scott Carragher | Canada (Charlottetown) | CA$2,000 | CA$100,000 |
| 9 | PLO Bounty | Daniel Tsipris | Canada | CA$1,000 | CA$47,600 |
| 10 | GGMillion$ High Roller | James Hundt | USA | CA$14,000 | CA$425,000 |
| 11 | NLH Ultra Stack | Jonathan Brazeau | Canada | CA$600 | CA$126,000 |
| 12 | NLH Super High Roller | Michael Wang | USA | CA$25,000 | CA$230,000 |
| 13 | NLH Monster Stack | Stuart Taylor | United Kingdom | CA$1,500 | CA$121,000 |
| 14 | Mystery Bounty | Griffin Mason | Canada | CA$800 | tba* |
| 15 | PLO High Roller | Thomas Eychenne | France | CA$6,000 | CA$130,000 |
| 16 | Closer Turbo Bounty | Chad Edmunds | Canada | CA$1,500 | CA$63,000 |
| 17 | NLH Progressive Bounty | Matthew Hall | Canada | CA$600 | CA$22,500 |
| 18 | Series Saver Hyper Turbo | Haile Rafik Kuo | Canada (Montreal) | CA$500 | CA$31,070 |
Source: WSOP.com official festival results; ring counts verified by Canadianpoker.com (Bjorn Lindberg, September 13, 2026). *Event #14 first-place cash figure not yet published on WSOP.com; total prize pool CA$171,416 from 441 entries. Hometowns verified against La Presse (Chakraborty), WSOP tweets (Kuo), and OntarioPoker.com prior reporting (Pillon, Carragher).
The Records the Festival Set
Beyond the ring count, the festival produced the largest single tournament prize pool in Canadian live poker history. The CA$5,000 Main Event drew 2,844 entries and produced a CA$12,689,928 prize pool, per the WSOP.com official wrap. Before this year, the record was the CA$4,450,500 Main Event prize pool set at Playground in August 2025. The new figure roughly triples that.
The Mini Main Event, Event #2, at a CA$500 buy-in, drew 3,484 entries across five starting flights. It is the largest field for a single tournament in Playground Poker Club's history, exceeding the previous record of 1,978 entries set at the venue's 2025 WSOP Circuit Main Event by roughly seventy-six per cent, per WSOP.com. Total festival prize pools across the eighteen ring events comfortably exceeded CA$18 million, well past the previous Canadian record of CA$15.54 million for a single tournament series.
What every ring winner also collected. Beyond the ring and the first-place cash, every WSOP Super Circuit Canada ring winner received a USD$5,000 WSOP Circuit Paradise Package, per WSOP.com's mid-festival brief. The package includes free entry into the USD$2,750 WSOP Paradise Circuit Championship Mystery Bounty in December in the Bahamas and hotel accommodation at Baha Mar. The Main Event champion, Chakraborty, collected the Circuit Package on top of the CA$1.5 million cash.
The Ontario Presence
Ontario players supplied a meaningful share of the Canadian ring winners and of the deeper field. James Pillon of Windsor took Event #4, the CA$2,300 Super Circuit Canadian Championship, for CA$335,000, his second WSOP Circuit ring, from a 996-entry field with a CA$2,014,360 prize pool. Chakraborty of North York took the Main Event. GGPoker Ontario, the AGCO-registered platform that ran the province's official satellite qualifier system into the CA$5,000 Main Event, has not published the number of qualifiers it seeded into the tournament, though internal Ontario grinder communities have discussed the pathway at length over the summer. The Playground venue in Kahnawake sits roughly eight hours by car from Toronto and is the closest full-scale live poker room to the province's major population centres for players who wish to play WSOP-branded live events.
The Non-Canadian Rings
The five non-Canadian winners represent three countries. Paul Meiners of the United States took Event #6, the CA$1,000 NLH Progressive Bounty, for CA$51,000 to become the first non-Canadian winner and to break what had been a five-in-a-row Canadian opening streak. James Hundt of the United States took Event #10, the CA$14,000 GGMillion$ High Roller, for CA$425,000. Michael Wang of the United States took Event #12, the CA$25,000 NLH Super High Roller, for CA$230,000, the highest buy-in event on the schedule. Stuart Taylor of the United Kingdom took Event #13, the CA$1,500 Monster Stack, for CA$121,000. Thomas Eychenne of France, a Team SmarDex Poker member who had won an EPT Barcelona High Roller weeks earlier per Poker.org, took Event #15, the CA$6,000 PLO High Roller, for CA$130,000, defeating Canadians Frederic Normand (2nd, CA$85,000) and Jean-Guy Dubois (3rd, CA$60,000) at the final table, per L'Amateur de Poker.
What Comes Next
Playground Poker Club hosts the November WSOP Circuit Playground stop on November 2, per the WSOP's Playground 2026 calendar, returning to the standard CA$400 to CA$5,000 buy-in structure that has run the venue's live schedule since 2023. Before then, Ontario players have two immediate online destinations. GGPoker Ontario fired its 5th Annual WSOP Online Ontario bracelet series on Sunday evening with the CA$500 Kick-Off; the series runs eight bracelet events with CA$2.95 million in guarantees and builds to a record CA$1-million-guarantee Main Event on Sunday, October 5. PokerStars on FanDuel Ontario's 60-event September Dynasty Series, opened Friday night, runs through Monday, September 28, with a CA$300 Main Event on Sunday, September 27. Both are AGCO-registered and available only to players physically located in Ontario aged nineteen and over.
The next WSOP Super Circuit stop is at the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma, per the WSOP's schedule announcements. The Playground venue's next WSOP Circuit engagement is scheduled for November. Whether Playground bids for a return of the WSOP Super Circuit brand in 2027 has not been announced.
Reporting draws on WSOP.com official festival results, the WSOP.com Chakraborty wrap by the WSOP editorial desk (September 10, 2026), the Canadianpoker.com festival-close piece by Bjorn Lindberg (September 13, 2026), the L'Amateur de Poker report on Thomas Eychenne by the French poker desk (September 12, 2026), the La Presse Chakraborty feature by Simon Gravel (September 11, 2026), and prior OntarioPoker.com festival coverage. Hometown identifications limited to those explicitly stated in primary sources. No affiliate relationship exists between OntarioPoker.com and any subject of this report. Illustration is AI-generated for editorial purposes.