Three WSOPC Stops, Three Continents, One Fantasy Roster

Three WSOPC stops are running at the same time right now — Playground, Caesars New Orleans, and Montevideo — and your fantasy roster needs to pick a continent.

This is the first three-venue overlap of the 2026 Circuit calendar. For 25kfantasy.com contestants, that means triple the ring events generating points, triple the final tables to track, and a genuinely difficult allocation problem. Let's break down what's happening at each stop and where the value sits.

This is the first three-venue overlap of the 2026 Circuit calendar, and for fantasy contestants, that means triple the ring events generating points.

Playground: Ema Zajmovic Leads the Colossus Final Table

The WSOPC Playground $1,000 NLH Colossus has reached its final table, and Ema Zajmovic sits on top with 990,000 in chips. Zajmovic, a Canadian pro with $110,637 in lifetime cashes, holds a narrow lead over Aleksei Ponomarev (839,000 chips, $116,853 lifetime) and Sebastien Roof (828,000).

For fantasy purposes, Zajmovic is the clear high-upside pick from the Playground stop. She's the most credentialed player at that final table by a comfortable margin, and chip leader status in a $1,000 buy-in Colossus means real point potential. Ponomarev, with one career final table and comparable lifetime earnings, makes an interesting contrarian play if you think Zajmovic will draw heavy ownership.

The rest of the Playground final table is relatively unknown. David Ballantine ($1,990 lifetime) and Chuhang Zhou ($4,945) round out the top five. This is a final table full of low-profile grinders, which means any ring winner here could be a fantasy differentiator that almost nobody rostered.

Caesars New Orleans: Daniel Howard's Monster Lead

Down in New Orleans, the WSOPC Caesars New Orleans $400 Monster Stack ($100K GTD) has also reached its final table, and Daniel Howard is running away with it. His 1,660,000 chips put him well ahead of Larry Fesmire (1,500,000, $1,214 lifetime) and Ehab Nekhela (1,195,000).

Here's the fantasy problem: Howard has no recorded lifetime earnings in the database. Neither does Nekhela. The most trackable player at this final table is Evan Benton, sitting fifth in chips with 750,000 and $12,763 in career cashes. That's not much, but in a field of unknowns, he's the closest thing to a known commodity.

If you're building a fantasy roster around NOLA, you're betting on volume over name recognition. The $400 buy-in draws big fields. Big fields mean bigger prize pools. But the players generating those points are unlikely to appear on many rosters, which creates low-ownership upside if you guess right.

Caesars New Orleans is also running a $100 Cash Game Survivor on the side. It's a fun event, but the fantasy scoring implications are minimal. Skip it.

Montevideo: South American Wild Card

The WSOPC Casino Carrasco Montevideo $600 Mystery Bounty is down to 16 players across two tables. Gabriel Duran Sosa leads, followed by Lucas Curbelo and Matias Mendez. All three are Uruguayan. Diego Justo of Argentina ($2,000 lifetime) and Marcelo Cian, also Argentine, round out the named stacks.

Let me be direct: the Montevideo stop is almost impossible to project for fantasy. None of these players have significant tracked results. Chip counts aren't yet reported for most of them. The $600 buy-in keeps the prize pool modest.

But that's exactly what makes it interesting as a contrarian play. If a Montevideo finalist ends up on your roster and nobody else's, the ownership delta could be enormous. It's a pure dart throw with asymmetric upside.

The Fantasy Takeaway

Playground is where the trackable value lives. Zajmovic and Ponomarev are real players with real results at a $1,000 buy-in final table. If you want floor under your roster, start there.

New Orleans offers volume and anonymity. Montevideo offers near-zero ownership.

Three stops. Three continents. Choose your variance.