WSOP Toronto 2025 Recap: Big Wins, Prize Pools, and Entries

The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Toronto, hosted at the Great Canadian Casino, wrapped up its series of thrilling tournaments on April 22nd. @GCTorontoPoker has been sharing regular updates on X about the event’s biggest moments, the entries for the various events, and the prize pools. The poker festival crowned several champions, highlighted by a massive Main Event payout.

The week's centerpiece was the ten-handed $2,000 Main Event (Event #8), which saw Pengxiang R emerge as the champion, claiming a life-changing $510,245 prize. The victory was announced on April 22nd, with @GCTorontoPoker posting, “Congratulations Pengxiang R! Our #MainEvent Champion taking home a massive $510,245!” Meanwhile, the embedded tweet below reviews some of the numbers from the main event in Toronto.

Other notable winners included Guoke H, who took down the $600 Deepstack NLH (Event #9) for $50,254, and Franco T, who dominated the $3,500 High Roller NLH (Event #10) to secure $207,566. The final event, $400 NLH (Event #11), saw Prateek J win $39,965 from a prize pool of $217,280, generated by 679 entries. Each victory was celebrated with congratulatory posts from 

@GCTorontoPoker.

The 2025 WSOP Circuit Toronto at Great Canadian Casino delivered thrilling high-stakes action and impressive payouts, surpassing last year’s 6,000 entries and CAD 5.5 million prize pool. This year’s success, with over 6,000 entries and CAD 6.5 million in prizes, solidifies Toronto’s growing prominence as a major poker destination.

It will be interesting to see what this all means for poker in Canada. Should it be taken to mean that the game is growing in popularity? Or did the improved numbers occur in the context of fewer Canadians heading south for events in the USA, it even to the USA in general? In this latter case, if true, you might expect regression if the political climate between Canada and the USA changes, specifically, with the border issues.

As always, time will tell. However, the 2025 edition of the WSOP Circuit event in Toronto was a promising one for Canadian poker.