Eighteen events, a $2,200 ceiling: Playground's MSPT Canadian Poker Championship
Playground in Kahnawake ran the MSPT Canadian Poker Championship from 1 to 12 October 2026, an eighteen-event series whose $1,150 Main Event (Event #12) took four starting flights from 8 to 11 October before its final day on the 12th. The most expensive tournament was the $2,200 Mega Stack High Roller (Event #10); everything else sat at $1,000 or below. The series has now finished and Playground published no results to its tournament calendar.
The series opened with Event #1, a $300 Mega Stack spread across six starting flights between 1 and 3 October, with its Day 2 on 4 October. From there the calendar filled in tightly: a $300 Monster Stack Bounty on 3 October, a $500 Monster Stack 8-Max and a $300 Progressive Knockout on 4 October, and three events in one day on 5 October - a $250 Mega Stack, a $300 Mystery Bounty and a $250 mixed Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Hold'em event played with three lives.
The expensive end of the schedule landed in the middle of the festival. Event #8, a $1,000 Mystery Bounty, played its Day 1 on 6 October and its Day 2 the following day. Event #10, the $2,200 Mega Stack High Roller, started on 7 October with its Day 2 on 8 October, and it was the series ceiling - no tournament on the card was dearer.
The Main Event was the series' centrepiece and the most accessible of the headline events at $1,150. Its four starting flights ran on consecutive days from 8 to 11 October, all at 11:00, with the final day on 12 October. Playground stacked $180 milestone satellites around it, several per day from 8 October onward, which was the cheapest route into the field.
The back half of the card kept the buy-ins modest: a $600 Mega Stack 50/50 Bounty on 8 October, a $500 Mystery Bounty on 9 October, a $500 No Limit Hold'em on 10 October, a $500 Monster Stack Turbo on 11 October, and the series closing on 12 October with a $1,000 Progressive Knockout and a $300 Mystery Bounty.
One practical note for anyone planning a trip around the regular schedule: Playground's weekly tournaments were displaced while the festival was on. The room's calendar showed the weeklies running on 30 September, disappearing for the festival window, and resuming on 13 October - the day after the Main Event final. All buy-ins above are as posted by Playground, in Canadian dollars.
No results published
We re-checked Playground's tournament calendar on 9 November 2026 to add the Main Event result and could not obtain one. The calendar is a client-side widget: it returns nothing to a plain page fetch and nothing to a text extractor in a live browser either, and it is a forward-looking calendar rather than an archive, so a concluded series leaves no trace on it. This record therefore stands as a schedule of what was offered, not a report of who won. The series dates, event numbers and buy-ins were all read from that calendar while the festival was upcoming and in progress.
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Frequently asked questions
When was the MSPT Canadian Poker Championship 2026?
1 to 12 October 2026 at Playground in Kahnawa:ke, Quebec. The series has finished.
How much was the Main Event?
$1,150, with four Day 1 flights on 8-11 October and Day 2 on the 12th.
What was the biggest buy-in?
The $2,200 Mega Stack High Roller - there was nothing larger on the schedule.
Who won the Main Event?
Playground did not publish results to its tournament calendar, which is a forward-looking schedule rather than an archive, so we have no verified winner for this series.
Does Playground run tournaments outside festivals?
Yes, almost daily - from a $100 Deepstack Turbo up to a $300 Wednesday bounty capped at 72 entries.