Cyber Security Expert Wins $1.1M in WSOP Super Circuit Main Event

Mayukh Chakraborty, a cyber security expert, won the WSOP Super Circuit main event in Canada, taking home a first-place prize of $1,080,000 USD. He outlasted a field of 2,844 entrants in this $5,000 CAD buy-in tournament.

The main event at Playground Poker Club is officially the biggest live poker tournament in Canadian poker history by several measures, generating a total prize pool of $9,150,707. Chakraborty outlasted a final table with multiple standout players, including four-time WSOP bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Chance Kornuth, and England’s Jack Salter.

The remaining field combined on day 3 on Sept. 7, and by the close of action that day only 116 players remained. On day 4, players including Justin Liberto (115th – $10,440), Daniel Negreanu (99th – $10,440), Vanessa Kade (94th – $12,600), Rami Hammoud (93rd – $12,600), Pascal LeFrancois (87th – $12,600), Michael Mizrachi (78th – $15,120), Will Givens (33rd – $36,720), and Fred Normand (32nd – $36,720) fell. On day 5, Rayan Chamas (20th – $46,800), Fabian Gumz (18th – $46,800), Nick Palma (16th – $61,457), and WPT champions Jack Hardcastle (23rd – $46,800) and Paul Klann (13th – $72,000) all busted just shy of the final table.