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Moneymaker Tour in Kahnawake 2025: Main Event Prize Pool

19 May 2025

Shane Lambert 19 May 2025

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Moneymaker Tour at Playground Poker features a $1,150 Main Event with a tweeted $826,000 prize pool.
23 events have a combined CAD $1.4M in guarantees, celebrating Chris Moneymaker’s influence.
Additional events like $400 Mystery Bounty and $300 Mega Stack are making big news.

The Moneymaker Tour in Kahnawake 2025 at Playground Poker features a $1,150 Main Event with an $826,000 prize pool. With 23 events and over CAD $1.4M in guarantees, it honors Chris Moneymaker’s legacy, drawing huge fields for thrilling poker tournaments.

Moneymaker Tour Main Event in Kahnawake Hits $826,000

The Moneymaker Tour, hosted at Playground Poker in Kahnawake, Canada, is currently running, having started on May 7th. Recent posts from @PlaygroundPoker on X spotlight key figures—prize pools, entries, and entry fees—reflecting the poker festival's scale. With some events concluded and others ongoing, here’s the latest.

The CAD $1,150 Main Event (May 16th-20th) started with a CAD $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. But recent news from the casino's website verified that the prize pool guarantee is much higher. Registration is closed and, as of Day 1C, the Main Event had hit CAD $695,000. A tweet from Sunday out of the Moneymaker Tour's account indicated a prize pool of $826,000. That might be the final count, but usually the numbers are finalized after the event.

Poker prize pool guarantees are usually conservative, as the last thing a casino wants to do is make up a prize pool shortage with their own funds. But exceeding the guarantee by $326,000 makes it a clearly successful event.

Some Other Numbers from Kahnawake

Event #14, a $400 Mystery Bounty, drew 146 entries for a $48,910 prize pool, including $21,900 in bounties, and ended with a three-way ICM deal. Event #9, a $250 Mega Stack, had 116 entries, generating a $23,200 prize pool, concluding with a heads-up chop. Event #10, a $400 PLO, saw 86 entries for a $28,810 prize pool, also wrapping with a heads-up deal.

Event #3, a $300 Mega Stack, smashed its $250,000 guarantee with 1,106 entries. With 141 players advancing to Day 2, the prize pool has soared past the target. Event #4, a $500 Monster Stack 8-Max, attracted 139 entries for a $59,075 prize pool, while Event #5, a $200 Deepstack Turbo, had 89 entries and a $13,795 prize pool after a four-way ICM deal.

Chris Moneymaker had a meet-and-greet at the venue. He's an American poker player who revolutionized the game by winning the 2003 WSOP Main Event as an amateur, earning $2.5 million after qualifying via a cheap online satellite. His victory sparked the "poker boom," inspiring a generation of players, and the Moneymaker Tour honors his legacy, showcasing major poker events.

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