World Series of Poker Super Circuit Series Arrives in Montreal

The World Series of Poker Super Circuit Series at the Playground Poker Club, Montreal brought out some of the most exciting players in the world, as GGPoker Global Ambassadors such as the eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu and the 2025 WSOP Main Event champion Michael Mizrachi were joined by luminaries like poker  pro and coach Jonathan Little.

Early WSOP Circuit Ring Winners

The series opened with the $500 buy-in Super Circuit Kickoff, where Canadian Sebastian Proulx emerged on top. Aside from a cash at the 2025 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Proulx had recorded each of his previous two dozen results in Canada, including a runner-up finish in a WSOPC event in Kahnawake a year ago that earned him $95,493. This time, he went one better, overcoming the field to collect the CA$56,000 top prize.

Event #2 attracted a field featuring Abby Merk and Will Givens, while Corey Eyring (below) also returned to the tables after coming out of a self-imposed poker ‘retirement’. The CA$500 Mini Main Event proved hugely popular, drawing an incredible 3,484 players to set a new attendance record for the club. Daniel Haim ultimately prevailed over Paul Darymple heads-up, with the all-Canadian final table producing a homegrown winner and a CA$185,000 payday.

Frederic Moss claimed the third event of the series so far, taking home the CA$90,000 top prize after another final table dominated by Canadian players. All 10 finalists hailed from the host country, with Moss eventually emerging from a field of 1,194 to secure his debut WSOPC ring and the largest cash of his poker career.

Kid Poker in the Building

The opportunity to play at Playground hasn’t gone unnoticed by Canada’s biggest names. Daniel Negreanu has returned to his home country, much to the delight of fans, with Kid Poker due to become a parent with wife Amanda later in 2026. Despite that, he’s found plenty of time to make his presence felt at Playground and remain active throughout the series, even playing some $1/$3 cash!

Negreanu hosted a Meet-Up Game (MUG) alongside fellow GGPoker Global Ambassador Michael Mizrachi, while also taking part in Circuit events at the tables and filming footage for his video blogs.

“Played $1-$3 at Playground today,” Negreanu told his fans on X. “Turned $400 into $613, winning about 50 bb’s an hour. If you play in the $1-$3 games I get into, it’s doable.”

Negreanu will also have several WSOP Circuit events on his agenda over the next week or so in Montreal before he returns home to Las Vegas, with the WSOP Paradise festival in The Bahamas the last event series he’ll play before fatherhood.

Biggest Bad Beat Jackpots in Playground History

Circuit rings aren’t the only life-changing money on offer at Playground. The Kahnawake card room has built a global reputation for handing out some of the largest bad beat jackpots ever recorded at the felt, funded by a rake taken from every eligible cash game pot. Here are how the five biggest stacked up and who was involved in each hand.

1. August 2023 – CA$2,590,185. Quad tens were beaten by Marc-André Ouellon’s ten-high straight flush, the largest bad beat jackpot (BBJ) in live poker history at the venue at the time.
2. September 2024 – CA$2,275,388. Quad nines were cracked by an opponent’s quad aces on the river.
3. June 2022 – CA$2,228,425. Quad tens were beaten by a straight flush, the previous world-record bad beat jackpot before August 2023.
4. March 2024 – CA$1,817,990. Quad jacks were beaten by a spade straight flush… ouch!
5. October 2025 – CA$1,595,087. Two straight flushes collided in the same hand during a $1/2 cash game.

The room’s minimum qualifying hand for a bad beat jackpot floats between quad deuces and quad aces depending on how recently the BBJ has hit, and payouts are split 40% to the losing hand, 20% to the winning hand, 20% among the rest of the table, and 20% among every other eligible cash game player in the room at the time!

Will there be more big winners at the Playground Poker Club over the next fortnight? You can guarantee it!