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Player · Canada

Shawn Buchanan

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

$7,483,157Live earnings
219Cashes
$812,941Best cash
#297All-time money list
#14Canada ranking

Shawn Buchanan has been near the top of Canadian poker for two decades. The Vancouver player has 219 recorded cashes and $7.5 million in earnings, fourteenth on the national all-time list, and once ranked 62nd in the world. He was runner-up in the $25,000 Six-Handed event at the 2010 WSOP for $812,941, won the Championship Event of the 2007 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship for $768,775, and finished second in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in December 2012 for $746,502. He remains the most successful tournament player British Columbia has produced.

Recent results

DateEventWherePlacePrize
30 Jun 2010$25,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed, 41st WSOPLas Vegas2$812,941
29 May 2007$10,000 Championship Event, Mandalay Bay Poker ChampionshipLas Vegas1$768,775
4 Dec 2012$10,300 Championship Event, WPT Five Diamond World Poker ClassicLas Vegas2$746,502

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Frequently asked questions

Who is British Columbia's best-known poker player?

Shawn Buchanan of Vancouver, fourteenth on Canada's all-time money list with about $7.5 million in earnings.

Source: The Hendon Mob (earnings, cashes, best cash, rankings, residence, results), retrieved 2026-09-14. Last checked 2026-09-14. Figures are as published by the sources and may be incomplete.

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