Another Super Stack series at Deerfoot Inn & Casino is in the books, with the conclusion of the Main Event and final Bounty game completing on Sunday, as well as the $280 NLH on Saturday night. As expected, the Main Event was the biggest game of the series by far, drawing almost 300 entries for prizes of more than $375k.
The final two side games also saw a lot of interest. Saturday night saw 95 entries alongside Day 1b of the Main Event, while the Sunday side game, alongside Day 2 of the big show, drew 130 entries. Those final side games added more than $50k between them to the series prizes.
With the big Main Event included, the 2026 Summer Super Stack blew past $1.1 million for a final total of more than $1.16 million in prizes, with 2,640 entries across all 17 events.
2026 Summer Super Stack at a Glance
| # | Event | Entries | Prizes | Winner | 1st |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $340 Seniors | 131 | $37,335 | Glenn Slater | $9,893 |
| 2 | $230 NLH | 129 | $25,123 | Austen Dao | $6,659 |
| 3 | $340 Deepstack | 517 | $147,345 | Michael Malm | $25,210 |
| 4 | $450 PLO Double Board Bomb Pot | 68 | $25,840 | Gavin Lee | $7,455 |
| 5 | $340 PKO | 133 | $37,905 | Dean Morrone | $4,084 |
| 6 | $180 Team ($180 per Player) | 76 | $11,191 | Trevor Brassard + Nancy Brassard | $4,590 |
| 7 | $340 One-Day Deepstack | 133 | $37,905 | Julius Roque | $10,046 |
| 8 | $400 5-Card PLO | 99 | $33,388 | Stephen Macpherson | $8,013 |
| 9 | $400 HORSE | 44 | $14,839 | Remy Bhend | $6,678 |
| 10 | $230 NLH | 136 | $26,486 | Maru Somers | $6,887 |
| 11 | $1,000 NLH 6Max | 104 | $88,920 | Ronnie Dattani | $24,898 |
| 12 | $560 Megastack | 353 | $167,676 | Glenn Tarasoff | $30,832 |
| 13 | $600 PLO | 97 | $50,274 | Dylan Skiffington | $11,000 |
| 14 | $1,500 Superstack Main | 294 | $377,055 | Pav Braich | $86,722 |
| 15 | $340 PLO Bounty | 101 | $28,785 | Peter Darlington | $5,232 |
| 16 | $280 NLH | 95 | $22,563 | Chen Qin | $5,416 |
| 17 | $280 NLH Bounty | 130 | $30,875 | Peter Benedito | $6,458 |
| Totals: | 2,640 | $1,163,505 | $260,073 |
Pav Braich Comes from Behind to Win the Main
- Entries: 294
- Prizes: $377,055
- Winner: Pav Braich ($86,722)
Event #14: $1,500 Super Stack (Main) ($1,350 + $150)
As always, the Main Event capped off the series in a big way. Friday & Saturday hosted the two Day 1 flights to the Main, with Friday’s 1a drawing 118 entries and Day 1b hitting 176 entries.
That put the final prizes for the Main at $377,055, more than twice the size of any other game in the series. 55 players returned for the money play on Sunday’s Day 2, but nearly half of the returning players were set to go home empty-handed as neither Day 1 played down to the 10% required for a payout.
Mehmet Siginc, who only arrived at Deerfoot for this Main Event, bagged the biggest stack for Day 2, getting almost 500k before the end of Day 1b. It was Siginc’s first event at this Super Stack series, but he wasn’t idle before that – instead, he was at Seminole Hard Rock last week, winning three trophies.
Daniel Lefebvre joined him in the top three stacks for Day 2 with 463k, while Jim Harnden, Sam Gottiparthi (who also arrived from out east just for the Main Event), and Jo Teliani joined the 400k club with their Day 1a stacks to make up the top five stacks for Day 2.
Of those big stacks to start the day, only Harnden, Teliani, & Gottiparthi were able to play their way deep into the endgame on Sunday. Siginc had to settle for 23rd place, while Lefebvre had a very rough Day 2, busting before the cash spots.
The top three 1a qualifiers all made it into the final table action at the end of Sunday. They hit the final table fairly early in the final day, with the final ten sitting down less than 9 hours after the first Day 2 hands were dealt. From there, it was almost as long to decide a winner as it had been to get to the final 10.
Harnden was playing the big stack through much of the early part of the day. When they hit the money spots, Harnden was the only player with more than a million chips, but as the money progressed, Teliani, Braich, Amarjot Brar, and Stacey Doering started to build stacks as well.
When they got eight ways at the final table, Braich and Teliani were fighting for the lead. Braich was in front by a nose, but Teliani was nipping at his heels with just 65k less, with both players well above 2 million and Harnden just shy of that mark. Julius Roque, who took 3rd, was mostly playing a waiting game, sitting on a smaller stack through most of the final table, but watching other players bust out around him to ladder.
That’s when Teliani started to turn up the heat as well. By the time the final table was four-handed, she had more than 7 million of the 11.8 million in play, and was in control of the table. Start-of-day leader Harnden was the next out in 4th place when his king-jack couldn’t get there against Braich’s ace-eight.
That left Braich and Teliani battling for the lead, with Roque in the back, and he ended his day shortly after in 3rd when he couldn’t crack Braich’s fives with his king-jack. Roque was repping Okanagan Oasis during his Day 2 run, a Bed & Breakfast run by one of the regulars in the local scene, Johnny “WowWow” Yu.
That left Braich & Teliani heads up, with Teliani in the lead. They spent close to an hour battling, and while Teliani dominated the early HU play, Braich was flopping huge in the endgmae. Earlier in the night, he flopped the nut flush to send Nicholas Peterson to the rail in 8th place in flush-over-flush carnage, then when they got heads up, he smashed the flop for quad eights to stay alive with a double against Teliani, then shortly after doubled to the lead after flopping the nut straight against a pair for Teliani.
Teliani fought back with a double of her own, turning two pair with queen-nine to get there against king-ten for Braich, but that was as far as she could get. She was still quite short at that point, and got the rest of her money in with a suited queen, but this time she couldn’t get there against the ace-eight for Braich, who flopped his ace and held.
This was Braich’s third Main Event win in about 10 months. He took down the final PPT Main of 2025, then followed that up with back-to-back titles with the first PPT Main of 2026, so he clearly has a handle on how to play the Main in Alberta. For her part, Teliani is one of the fast-rising stars of the local scene, having picked up the game just three years ago. This year, she’s in the lead for Female Player of the Year in the Alberta Poker Index standings, and the points from this Main should push her into the top-20 overall.
Final Table Results from the Main Event
See the Payouts tab on the Live Reporting page for a full list of the Main Event payouts.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pav Braich | $86,722 |
| 2 | Jo Teliani | $56,558 |
| 3 | Julius Roque | $37,706 |
| 4 | Jim Harnden | $30,164 |
| 5 | Amarjot Brar | $22,623 |
| 6 | Sam Gottiparthi | $17,910 |
| 7 | Willie Hernandez | $13,951 |
| 8 | Jarret Gray | $10,369 |
| 9 | Nick Peterson | $8,861 |
| 10 | Dave S | $7,541 |
Chen Qin Wins Event #16 & His Last Longer Bet
- Entries: 95
- Prizes: $22,563
- Winner: Chen Qin ($5,416 in HU Deal)
Event #16: $280 Turbo ($250 + $30)
The Saturday night side game was the penultimate buy-in of the series, and saw 95 entries build a prize pool of $22,563. It took close to 9 hours to play down to the winner from the opening hands, with Chen Qin taking it down over Duane Wong. Qin also added a little extra cream to his prize, as he was in a last-longer side bet with buddies George Yang & Robin Luo.
Yang had a stack for Day 2 of the Main, and wasn’t even planning to play this game, but Qin and Luo convinced him to jump in with th $50-per-head last-longer. All three made the final table, with Luo falling first in 6th place, and Yang making it as far as 3rd.
That left Qin heads-up against Duane Wong, and Wong was one card away from winning it when he had Qin at risk with pocket eights against king-five of spades. Qin flopped the flush draw and rivered the spades to survive with a double.
That put them pretty much even, and they decided to cut a deal. They chopped the remaining prizes down the middle, with Qin taking the official win, and he posed with his buddies from the last longer bet, as well as Luteng Li, all players who flew in from the west coast for the final weekend of the Summer Super Stack.
Final Results from Event #16
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chen Qin | $5,416 |
| 2 | Duane Wong | $5,416 |
| 3 | George Yang | $3,384 |
| 4 | Haven Taylor | $2,256 |
| 5 | Scott Calvank | $1,579 |
| 6 | Ying (Robin) Luo | $1,128 |
| 7 | Terry Chow | $1,015 |
| 8 | Akhilesh Sharma | $902 |
| 9 | James Shaw | $790 |
| 10 | Kristhofer Di Leone Velasquez | $677 |
Peter Benedito Takes the Final Game at Summer SS
- Entries: 130
- Prizes: $30,875 ($24,375 prizes, $6,500 bounties)
- Winner: Peter Benedito ($6,458)
Event #17: $280 Bounty ($200 + $50 + $30)
With Day 2 of the Main Event running alongside, the final game didn’t get much coverage on Sunday. It took just over 9 hours to play down to the winner, Peter Benedito, who took down the top prize over Nolan Buchanan.
The 130 entries made the final game one of the bigger single-day games of the series as the 5th side game of the series to hit 130 entries or more. That put $24,375 into the payouts pool, with an additional $6,500 in bounties for a combined total of $30,875 in prizes.
Final Results from Event #17
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Benedito | $6,458 |
| 2 | Nolan Buchanan | $4,631 |
| 3 | Keegan Oliver | $3,169 |
| 4 | Sergio Rodriguez | $2,438 |
| 5 | Kevin White | $1,706 |
| 6 | Mohsen Shafizadeh | $1,219 |
| 7 | Chad Utke | $975 |
| 8 | Kyle Dery | $853 |
| 9 | Kevin Kemna | $756 |
| 10 | Thanh Nguyen | $658 |
| 11 | Patrick Allan | $585 |
| 12 | Andrew Phomtavong | $488 |
| 13 | Daniel O’Leary | $439 |
2026 Summer Super Stack Winners Gallery
