By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · September 10, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
KAHNAWAKE, QC - The final table of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada CA$5,000 Main Event is set. Playground Poker Club played down from thirty starting stacks on Wednesday morning to nine bagged players by 10:26 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday night, according to the WSOP.com official results page for the event. The nine survivors are six Canadians, one American, one Briton and one Brazilian, and each is now guaranteed at least CA$150,000 in a pay ladder that runs to a first prize of CA$1,500,000. Play resumes Thursday, September 10 at Playground Kahnawake with all hole cards on the WSOP.com and WSOP YouTube livestreams on a 60-minute delay.
Day 5 delivered the single most consequential rearrangement of the leaderboard the tournament has produced through the week. Paul Klann, the 2013 WPT L.A. Poker Classic champion whose 11,300,000-chip bag put him at the top of the Day 5 chip counts on Wednesday morning, was eliminated in thirteenth place for CA$100,000. Klann had opened Day 5 with a 32-big-blind cushion over Canadian second-place Guoyan Li, who himself went out in eleventh for CA$120,000. Nicholas Palma, the American who bagged third for Day 5 with 7,600,000, was eliminated in sixteenth place for CA$85,357. Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas, the Quebec-resident Twitch streamer who took the Day 4 chip lead and dropped to fifteenth by Day 5 start, went out twentieth for CA$65,000. Franco Tucci, the five-time WSOPC ring holder and most-decorated Canadian professional in the field at Day 5 start, busted twenty-seventh for CA$51,000.
The Final Nine
The nine seats are led by three players who bagged over 6.3 million on Wednesday morning and one American with substantial WSOP-branded pedigree. Playground has not yet published the official seat draw or Day 6 starting stack counts as of the Thursday morning report window; the players listed below are the nine survivors known to have advanced through the payout ladder, with their Day 5 opening stacks and the payout each has locked up so far shown for reference.
| Player | Country | Day 5 Start Stack | Locked Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance Kornuth | United States | 6,600,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Jonathan Bussieres | Canada | 6,600,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Deven Lane | Canada | 6,300,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Jack Salter | United Kingdom | 5,700,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Parth Mansukh | Canada | 5,500,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Mayukh Chakraborty | Canada | 5,500,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Robert Renaud | Canada | 4,500,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Benjamin Veenstra | Canada | 4,300,000 | CA$150,000 |
| Felipe Baraky | Brazil | 3,800,000 | CA$150,000 |
Six Canadians in the nine-handed final table. Every seat is guaranteed at least CA$150,000. First prize is CA$1,500,000.
Kornuth Is the Marquee Name
Chance Kornuth of the United States is the most decorated player at the table by a wide margin. Kornuth holds four WSOP bracelets, most recently the 2024 Flip & Go for US$155,446, and career live tournament earnings above US$16 million per Hendon Mob. He is the player who eliminated Daniel Negreanu on Day 4, catching the correct river card in a hand that sent the Toronto-born Poker Hall of Famer to the rail. He plays a heavy live schedule at both Circuit and marquee-buy-in events and is the only Day 6 seat with a WSOP-branded major title on his rEsumE. Kornuth arrives at the final table sixth in Day 5 starting chips but co-tied with Jonathan Bussieres.
Jack Salter, the second highest-profile international name, is a Chelmsford, England live tournament professional with a long stack of European high-roller cashes on The Hendon Mob. Felipe Baraky is a Brazilian online-and-live professional best known for his online cashes on GGPoker and PokerStars under the handles “godlikeson” and “Lagrecasso”, including a WCOOP main-event victory and a Sunday Special title. Neither Salter nor Baraky has a WSOP bracelet or WSOP Circuit ring.
The Canadian Six
The six Canadian seats are the most substantive Canadian contingent at a WSOPC Main Event final table in the modern era. None of the six is a national headline name in the mould of Negreanu, Mike Leah or Griffin Benger, and none holds a WSOP bracelet. But collectively they represent the kind of Canadian mid-stakes tournament ecosystem that Playground has cultivated for a decade.
Jonathan Bussieres is a Canadian professional listed with WSOP.com; Deven Lane, of Canada, carries 31 recorded WSOP cashes across his career per WSOP.com and roughly US$84,000 in career earnings. Parth Mansukh is a Canadian regular with 18 cashes and three prior WSOP-branded final tables, including a fifth-place finish at the 2026 WSOPC Kahnawake Spring CA$1,000 for CA$33,812 in May and a 22nd-place finish in Event #4, the Canadian Championship, earlier at this same festival for CA$11,100. Mayukh Chakraborty is a Canadian tournament player with a small handful of prior recorded cashes. Robert Renaud is the most credentialed of the Canadian six on the Circuit specifically: he won the 2025 WSOPC Kahnawake Fall CA$1,000 Progressive Bounty for CA$14,953 in November, has three prior WSOP-branded final tables per WSOP.com, and was Day 1B chip leader in the 2026 WSOP Main Event CA$1,500 Monster Stack in Las Vegas earlier this summer. Benjamin Veenstra is a Canadian professional with modest career results but a growing schedule at Playground.
The Day 5 Elimination Ladder
Twenty-one players busted through the day from a 30-handed restart to the 9-handed final table. The payout ladder is confirmed on the WSOP.com results page for Event #7. Every eliminated Day 5 player collected at least CA$51,000, with the payout structure marching from six figures at 12th-13th up through the CA$150,000 ninth-place seat that has now become the ceiling for tomorrow’s eliminated players.
| Position | Player | Country | Payout (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Aaron Quon | Canada | CA$120,000 |
| 11 | Guoyan Li | Canada | CA$120,000 |
| 12 | Adam Cader | Canada | CA$100,000 |
| 13 | Paul Klann | Canada | CA$100,000 |
| 14 | Tamer Alkamli | Canada | CA$85,357 |
| 15 | Bradley Smith | Canada | CA$85,357 |
| 16 | Nicholas Palma | United States | CA$85,357 |
| 17 | Tsunehisa Nishi | Canada | CA$85,357 |
| 18 | Fabian Gumz | Austria | CA$65,000 |
| 19 | Ori Elul | Spain | CA$65,000 |
| 20 | Rayan Chamas | Canada | CA$65,000 |
| 21 | Steve Petrusevski | Canada | CA$65,000 |
| 22 | Gualter Fortuna | Brazil | CA$65,000 |
| 23 | Jack Hardcastle | United Kingdom | CA$65,000 |
| 24 | Zishan Kassam | Canada | CA$65,000 |
| 25 | Huzaifa Lalva | Canada | CA$65,000 |
| 26 | Marco Sousa | Canada | CA$65,000 |
| 27 | Franco Tucci | Canada | CA$51,000 |
| 28 | Edward Sorensen | Canada | CA$51,000 |
| 29 | Xiaoyao Ma | China | CA$51,000 |
| 30 | Matthew Wade | Canada | CA$51,000 |
Source: WSOP.com official Event #7 results page.
The unusual number of Canadian names at the top of that ladder is a function of the field composition on Day 5, which opened with 22 Canadians out of 30 starters. The Canadian ratio at the final table has held at two-thirds, which is roughly in line with the Day 5 starting count.
The Final-Table Pay Ladder
| Finish | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|
| 1st | CA$1,500,000 |
| 2nd | CA$1,000,000 |
| 3rd | CA$750,000 |
| 4th | CA$600,000 |
| 5th | CA$500,000 |
| 6th | CA$400,000 |
| 7th | CA$300,000 |
| 8th | CA$200,000 |
| 9th | CA$150,000 |
Six Canadians competing against three international players at a nine-handed final table with CA$1.5 million up top and CA$1 million for runner-up is unusual by any measure of North American live poker. Playground Poker Club has produced two large Circuit Main Event champions this year, with Toronto’s Allen Shen winning the spring Playground stop for CA$605,000 in April. This is a materially larger prize pool and a materially larger first prize.
The Ontario Angle
None of the six Canadian seats is Ontario-based per the public player-search databases. Bussieres, Renaud, Lane, Mansukh, Chakraborty and Veenstra are listed by WSOP.com as Canadian without a province in most cases. However, several of them are Playground and Toronto-circuit regulars, and Ontario players following the festival on the WSOP YouTube stream will recognise Robert Renaud in particular, who is a fixture on the WSOP Circuit calendar at both Kahnawake and Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary, and who won a ring at Playground’s fall stop in 2025. Franco Tucci’s bust in twenty-seventh is a particularly sharp loss for the Canadian-legend narrative, since Tucci had entered Day 5 in tenth with 5.5 million and was the field’s most-titled Canadian at five WSOPC rings.
For Ontario recreational players, the more consequential development for the province’s online market fires next Sunday, September 13, when GGPoker Ontario’s WSOP Online Ontario bracelet series opens with an eight-event calendar and a record CA$1,000,000 online Main Event guarantee. Ontario players who watch Kornuth take his fifth bracelet or a Canadian outsider take the WSOPC Canada Main Event on Thursday can move directly to the online tournament calendar for the following two weeks.
What Happens Next
Day 6 fires at Playground Kahnawake on Thursday, September 10. Playground has not yet published the official seat draw or the Day 6 start time as of the Thursday morning report window; the WSOP live tournament calendar shows the Main Event as a Day 6 event on Thursday alongside other festival events (Event #14 Mystery Bounty and Event #15 PLO High Roller both scheduled for Thursday). The Main Event is expected to play to a champion tonight, with the CA$1,500,000 first prize and the WSOP Circuit gold ring to be presented at the end of play. The tournament is being livestreamed on the WSOP.com and WSOP YouTube channels with a 60-minute delay.
This publication will file a Main Event champion recap on Friday morning with the full nine-handed pay ladder and coverage of the winning hand.
Sources
- WSOP Super Circuit Canada Event #7 Main Event official results page, WSOP.com - wsop.com/tournaments/result/17604
- Calum Grant, “L.A. Poker Classic Champ Leads Final 30 of Record-Breaking WSOP Circuit Main Event,” PokerNews, September 9, 2026 - pokernews.com/news/2026/09/palma-kornuth-salter-wsop-super-circuit-main-event-52342.htm
- “Read up on everything happening at WSOP Super Circuit Canada,” WSOP.com - wsop.com/news/read-up-on-everything-happening-at-wsop-super-circuit-canada
- Chance Kornuth career profile, WSOP.com - wsop.com/players/512165294/chance-kornuth
- Robert Renaud career profile, WSOP.com - wsop.com/players/496493001/robert-renaud
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