The COVID-delayed WSOP Circuit Calgary finally ran in Jan 2022, record numbers of Canadian poker players came to compete for record $1.8 million prize pool. It took two years to pull off, but the first World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) event ever held at Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary is now complete, with a record prize pool and massive attendance . When the dust settled on the series, the Main Event from the Calgary series set a record for the largest prize pool in Alberta history at almost $1.8 million .
In planning since early 2020 , the Calgary, Alberta, Canada stop for the WSOP-C took an extra year to finally run. Originally scheduled for January of 2021, WSOP-C Calgary had to be “postponed as a result of pandemic restrictions”:, but it finally ran in January of 2022.
By the time registration closed on the very first event, it was clear that the series would be huge for the Canadian poker market. The game had almost 400 entries with a prize pool of nearly $125k for a $400 buy-in , which was a tremendous number for a starting event in the market.
Overall, the series ran 12 Circuit Ring events across the nearly two-week-long series, building a total prize pool of more than $3.4 million Canadian . That included a record Main Event that built the largest prize pool in Alberta history after nearly 1,200 entries were recorded . Last verified: January 2022 Biggest Game in Alberta
More than $3.4 million in total series prizes would be a noteworthy story enough, but that is not all — the Main Event also hit record levels . With 1,179 total entries, the Main Event of this series built a total prize pool of $1,786,362 CDN . That was a record for the province of Alberta, bumping up the previous record by more than $200k.
Until this past week, the biggest event ever run in Alberta ended with more than $1.5 million in prizes. Run at Grey Eagle Casino in Calgary in 2016, the WPTDeepstacks Main Event generated a total prize pool of $1,555,720 […]
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