Mayukh Chakraborty walked into the 2026 WSOP Super Circuit Canada Main Event with $3,260 in total recorded live earnings across two career cashes. He walked out of Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec, on Thursday, September 10, with CA$1,500,000, a WSOP Circuit ring, and his name permanently attached to the biggest Main Event in Canadian poker history. The CA$5,000 buy-in event drew 2,844 entries and generated a CA$13,082,400 prize pool. Per The Hendon Mob, Chakraborty is from North York, Ontario. His only previous recorded cashes were a 30th-place finish in the World Cup of Cards CA$1,150 Main Event in January 2025 for $2,254, and a 19th-place finish in a $400 WSOPC event in Verona, New York in March 2026 for $1,006.
The Tournament That Rewrote Canadian Poker History
The inaugural WSOP Super Circuit Canada at Playground was the largest and most significant poker festival ever held in the country. The Main Event alone cleared its CA$10 million guarantee by more than CA$3 million, producing a CA$13,082,400 prize pool from 2,844 entries, more than tripling the previous Canadian Main Event record of CA$4,450,500, set at the same venue in August 2025. The total series prize pool exceeded CAD $18,862,400, surpassing the previous Canadian record for a single tournament series of CA$15,540,000.
The festival carried the weight of Canadian poker on its shoulders from the first day. Canada’s most famous poker player, Daniel Negreanu, called the traditional “Shuffle Up and Deal” to open the Main Event before entering it himself, making deep runs into Day 4 before hitting the rail. WSOP Main Event champion Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, two-time bracelet winner Mike Leah, former WSOP Main Event finalist Griffin Benger, and cash-game content creator Rayan “beriuzy” Chamas all advanced deep into the field.
How Chakraborty Won It
Paul Klann entered Day 5 as chip leader with 11.3 million, having built the largest stack in a massive, heavily Canadian field. Chance Kornuth sat sixth, Jack Salter ninth. Seven of the nine final table seats went to Canadians. The 30 survivors played down to a winner on September 10, with the last three players all coming from different countries: Salter from the United Kingdom, and two Canadians in Chakraborty and Benjamin Veenstra. Salter fell in third for CA$750,000. The heads-up match was an all-Canadian affair, both players chasing a result neither had come close to before. Veenstra held a slight advantage when his tournament-survival moment came, per WSOP’s live updates, but Chakraborty won the high-card flip to claim the title. Kornuth, considered the pre-final-table favorite given his extensive tournament resume, finished fourth for CA$600,000. Veenstra earned CA$1,000,000 as runner-up.
WSOP Super Circuit Canada CA$5,000 Main Event Final Table Results
CA$5,000 buy-in | 2,844 entries | CA$13,082,400 prize pool | 428 paid
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Mayukh Chakraborty | Canada | CA$1,500,000 |
| 2nd | Benjamin Veenstra | Canada | CA$1,000,000 |
| 3rd |  Jack Salter | United Kingdom | CA$750,000 |
| 4th |  Chance Kornuth | United States | CA$600,000 |
| 5th | Jonathan Bussières | Canada | CA$500,000 |
| 6th |  Felipe Baraky | Brazil | CA$400,000 |
| 7th | Parth Mansukh | Canada | CA$300,000 |
| 8th | Deven Lane | Canada | CA$200,000 |
| 9th | Robert Renaud | Canada | CA$150,000 |
The Controversy Behind the Numbers
The result was not without drama off the felt. According to SpadePoker, citing WSOP Live and X, approximately an hour into Day 3, after players were already in the money, organizers discovered an error: an older payout model had been loaded into the system that allocated CA$2,000,000 to the winner and reserved 47% of the prize pool for the final table. WSOP representatives intervened and redistributed the structure mid-tournament, reducing first place from CA$2,000,000 to CA$1,500,000 and lowering the final table share from 47% to 42.5%, with the savings redirected to lower finishes. The change triggered some player discontent, according to SpadePoker. Altering a payout structure after the money bubble bursts directly affects player decisions, and Chakraborty’s first-place prize was CA$500,000 less than the original structure promised.
The Record in Context
The previous record for the largest live poker Main Event in Canada was CA$4,450,500, also set at Playground, in August 2025. Chakraborty’s winning prize of CA$1,500,000 is larger than most Canadian Main Event prize pools before this week. The festival was the first WSOP Super Circuit stop in North America, and it delivered on every promise.
The WSOP Super Circuit Canada continues at Playground through September 12, 2026, with remaining events including the CA$14,000 GGMillion$ High Roller, a PLO Bounty, and the closing Turbo Bounty. Results and updates at WSOP.com.
- Sources: WSOP.com, SpadePoker, The Hendon Mob
- Article originally produced at poker.pro.
