Deerfoot Summer Super Stack 2026: The Premier Poker Festival on the Western Canada Calendar
18 Jun 2026Read More
Spring Super Stack Midweek Recap as Calgary Series Heads Into Final Weekend
- Stephen Dauphinais wins $1,000 6-Max at Spring Super Stack 2026.
- Julius Roque triumphs in $600 PLO event.
- Ed Gaetz claims victory in the Megastack Cup, the biggest side event.
The 2026 Spring Super Stack at Deerfoot Inn & Casino is now at the point where the series starts taking shape. A dozen events had already been completed before the final weekend got going, and by Friday night that number had climbed to 14, with total prizes pushing past the CA$600,000 mark.
Here is what you may have missed.
Stephen Dauphinais Closes Out the $1,000 6-Max
Tuesday’s $1,000 6-Max drew 91 entries and produced a CA$77,805 prize pool, with Stephen Dauphinais eventually taking the title and CA$22,565 after a long day that stretched to nearly 14 hours.
The tournament reached the money after roughly nine hours, and from there the pace stayed fairly steady until the final table, where Dauphinais steadily worked his way into position. Dean Morrone was the first to go, while Daniel Lefebvre’s attempt to build a bigger run ended after an earlier hand in which Colten Yamagishi rivered a full house against Lefebvre’s flopped flush.
By the time the field got down to three, the action had been moved into the poker room to finish things off with the clock pushing toward 3 am. Dauphinais then won one of the bigger hands of the night when Umang “Ronnie” Dattani’s aces were cracked, setting up heads-up play against Colter Yamagishi.
Yamagishi managed to pull nearly level, but the decisive hand turned against him when he flopped two pair, only for Dauphinais to improve to a better two pair on the turn. Yamagishi was left with almost nothing behind, survived briefly, then lost the last of it with nine-seven against jack-five when the board missed both players and jack-high played.
Event #11: $1,000 6-Max Final Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Dauphinais | CA$22,565 |
| 2 | Colter Yamagishi | CA$17,117 |
| 3 | Umang “Ronnie” Dattani | CA$11,671 |
| 4 | Jason Law | CA$7,780 |
| 5 | Daniel Lefebvre | CA$5,446 |
| 6 | Karin Chatur | CA$3,890 |
| 7 | Dean Morrone | CA$3,501 |
| 8 | Jae Lee | CA$3,112 |
| 9 | Jamil Kanji | CA$2,723 |
Julius Roque Controls the $600 PLO Final Table
If Dauphinais had to work through a shifting final table, Julius Roque’s route in Wednesday’s $600 PLO looked a bit different. He came into the last table with more than a third of the chips in play and never really let go from there.
The event drew 73 entries and built a CA$37,449 prize pool, with Roque earning CA$11,610 for the win. The final table was not short on names either, with Kurtis Ruhl, Colten Yamagishi, Sebastian Crema, Fraser Short, and Mal Hagen all part of the closing lineup. Roque’s stack created an awkward ICM dynamic almost immediately, with everyone else forced to navigate shorter stacks while he sat behind a pile that kept giving him room to apply pressure.
Hagen was first out in the money, Yamagishi followed in sixth after another deep run a day after finishing runner-up in the 6-Max, and once the table finally loosened up, Roque kept his place at the top. Ruhl made a very real fight of it, having spun fumes into a competitive stack, and the two were close enough when heads-up began that it briefly looked as though the finish could swing.
Instead, Roque won the last important pot with an overpair of queens after tank-calling Ruhl, who had potted the flop with top pair for most of his stack. That gave Roque his 16th recorded live win.
Event #13: $600 PLO Final Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julius Roque | CA$11,610 |
| 2 | Kurtis Ruhl | CA$8,613 |
| 3 | Joseph Leung | CA$5,992 |
| 4 | Sebastian Crema | CA$4,119 |
| 5 | Fraser Short | CA$2,996 |
| 6 | Colten Yamagishi | CA$2,247 |
| 7 | Mal Hagen | CA$1,872 |
Ed Gaetz Lands the Megastack Cup in the Series’ Biggest Side Event So Far
By Friday, the focus shifted to the Megastack, and this was the one that really changed the numbers around the series.
The CA$560 event drew 346 entries across two starting flights and generated CA$164,350 in prize money, making it the biggest completed event of the week to that point. Ed Gaetz came through it for CA$37,120, which looks set to stand as the defining result of his live tournament record so far.
Day 2 began with 34 players rather than the expected 35 after a double knockout at the end of Day 1b, and from there the event took just over eight hours to play down. Kelly Gall and Thomas Taylor came into the final table with the biggest stacks, while Gaetz sat third and remained the only other player above the million-chip mark.
Dave S and Jae Lee were the next to go, Taylor bowed out in third after a half hour of three-handed play, and heads-up did not last long once Gaetz and Gall were left alone. Gall got his chips in with second pair and backdoor draws, but Gaetz had top pair and improved to two pair on the turn to finish the tournament.
Event #12: Megastack Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Gaetz | CA$37,120 |
| 2 | Kelly Gall | CA$23,050 |
| 3 | Thomas Taylor | CA$15,650 |
| 4 | Jae Lee | CA$12,370 |
| 5 | Dave S | CA$9,655 |
| 6 | Julius Roque | CA$7,430 |
| 7 | Darcy Spilchen | CA$5,795 |
| 8 | Rafael Wood | CA$4,315 |
| 9 | Matthew Ouellette | CA$3,655 |
Haven Taylor Picks Up Her First PLO Title in the Bounty Event
The late finish on Friday belonged to the PLO Bounty, where Haven Taylor came through a 126-entry field to win CA$6,177 plus 14 bounties.
The event generated CA$35,910 overall, with CA$23,310 in the regular prize pool and the rest attached to bounties, and it lasted around 10 hours before wrapping at 5 am. Taylor controlled most of the final table and, by the end, collected the 10th live win of her career and the first one in an Omaha format.
Thomas Taylor, having just finished third in the Megastack, late-registered and still found a min-cash in 11th. Elle Brezina made one of the more stubborn runs of the week by surviving from the short stack for what felt like forever, laddering from 20th to 10th while often playing with only a big blind or two. Julius Roque, fresh off his PLO title earlier in the week, was the first player out at the final table in a four-way all-in that more or less set the tone for the rest of the finish.
By the time the event got heads-up, Taylor had already done most of the hard work. Jeff Bryde made it to second and picked up four bounties along the way, but the final hand went Taylor’s way after the money went in on the flop with her two pair against Bryde’s wrap. She turned a full house and ended the sweat there.
Event #15: PLO Bounty Final Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haven Taylor | CA$6,177 |
| 2 | Jeff Bryde | CA$4,429 |
| 3 | Kurtis Ruhl | CA$3,030 |
| 4 | Duane Wong | CA$2,331 |
| 5 | Gordon Chin | CA$1,632 |
| 6 | Benny Sarnelli | CA$1,166 |
| 7 | He Wang | CA$932 |
| 8 | Joshua Bennett | CA$816 |
| 9 | Julius Roque | CA$723 |
| 10 | Ellen Brezina | CA$629 |
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