2,844 entries. CAD $13,082,400 in prize money. Over a million to the winner.
The biggest live poker event ever held in Canada is living up to the hype at Playground in Quebec. The CAD $5K WSOP Super Circuit Main Event has attracted a ton of heavyweight names, and plenty of them are still in the fight as the field has thinned to just 116 survivors.
That list includes 2025 WSOP Main Event champ Michael ‘Grinder’ Mizrachi, who hits Tuesday’s Day 4 in 28th position with 1.5 million chips, good for 60 big blinds when they return at 11am local time.
Grinder’s doing what he does, winning a big flip on Day 3 to double up and stay in the hunt.
Also still in there and swinging is Canada’s favorite poker son Daniel Negreanu, who carries 365K with him into Day 4.
That’s just 14bb, so Kid Poker is going to need to make some moves sooner rather than later to add a second WSOP Circuit ring to his trophy cabinet. It’s been 20 years since the first, but ther’s never a bad time to win a tournament.
Like Mizrachi, Negreanu had to win a race to stay alive on Day 3. And as with Mizrachi, he hit the card he needed right off the bat.
It’s another Canada-based player who leads the field, though. Rayan Chamas may be better known to modern audiences as ‘Beriuzy’, a high stakes player and busy streamer whose achievements include winning two WCOOP titles in a single night.
Chamas was also the subject of a recent poker documentary, available now on YouTube. He’s piled up 5.2M chips here for a healthy lead over 2nd place, where Will Givens is hot on his heels with 4M.
Don’t call it a comeback
Does Givens’ name sound familiar? If you watched any of the 2026 WSOP Main Event, it should.
A talkative, entertaining character with a WSOP bracelet, multiple rings and a string of other tournament victories to his name, Colorado’s Givens picked up plenty of fans during his run to 19th in the summer.
He collected $325K for that deep run, which eventually came crashing to a halt following a cruel beat versus eventual champion Lucas Jumalon. In a blind vs blind clash Givens held a dominating 
against the 
of Jumalon, and the two got all the chips in preflop.
The board brought two tens and no help for Givens, who left the party 8 days in with the best tournament score of his career. He’ll be hoping to top that this week in Quebec, and will do just that if he makes it to the final 5.
Another player coming off a heroic run in Las Vegas is Rami Hammoud, who made the WSOP Main Event final table, eventually falling in 6th for $1.75M. The Canadian sits in the middle of the pack with 1M chips, or 40bb.
All remaining players have locked up a cash of $14,500 (~USD $10,500), but here’s how the payouts look at the top of the tree:
- $1,500,000 (~USD $1,086,000)
- $1,000,000 (~USD $724K)
- $750,000 (~USD $543K)
- $600,000 (~USD $434K)
- $500,000 (~USD $362K)
- $400,000 (~USD $289K)
- $300,000 (~USD $217K)
- $200,000 (~USD $144K)
- $150,000 (~USD $108K)
We're not the only ones looking forward to seeing the ever-entertaining Givens back in action; also keen to spend a little more time at the tables with him is Daniel Negreanu, who shared his admiration for his opponent on X.
Notable names still in on Day 4
- Rayan ‘Beriuzy’ Chamas (1st, 5.2M)
- Will Givens (2nd, 4M)
- Chance Kornuth (11th, 2.3M)
- Jack Salter (14th, 2.2M)
- Frederic Normand (18th, 2M)
- Nick Maimone (25th, 1.7M)
- Andy Stacks (26th, 1.7M)
- Michael ‘Grinder’ Mizrachi (28th, 1.5M)
- Guillaume Nolet (36th, 1.4M)
- Rami Hammoud (60th, 1M)
- Nicky Palma (74th, 785K)
- Aram Zobian (79th, 750K)
- Justin Liberto (83rd, 635K)
- Vanessa Kade (95th, 505K)
- Daniel Negreanu (109th, 365K)
Day 4 action starts at 11am local time at Playground, with blinds at 10K/25K wiith a 25K big blind ante.
