Jonathan Duhamel had faced countless opponents in his long march to the World Series of Poker Final table and the heads-up battle that would decide the 2010 world champion, but none so insistent and unforgiving as the expectation he foisted upon himself. He said at every turn that he would not be happy unless he was wearing the gold bracelet. Tonight, Duhamel put a muzzle on that nagging compulsion when he became the first Canadian to win the World Series of Poker Main Event. After entering the second night of November Nine play with a better than 6-1 chip lead
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Jonathan Duhamel, the first Canadian WSOP Main Event champion
WSOP November Nine: Jonathan Duhamel captures Canada's first championship bracelet
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WSOP November Nine: Duhamel earns back big lead after Racener doubles
Analyzing heads up poker without access to hole cards is even more pointless than analyzing full ring poker without access to any poker knowledge whatsoever. But as we have done that for getting on six years now, we'll give this other game a stab. It was plain in the pre-match...more
WSOP November Nine: The first moments of heads-up play
And so we've reached the moment at which Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener sit down eye to eye. In the moments leading up to the match, Duhamel came off the Rio's Ipanema Tower elevator flanked by an entourage of two burly fans. Duhamel's ears were stuffed with white buds. He...more
WSOP November Nine: Duhamel leads from the front in quest for $9 million
It's not easy being a chip leader. Ever since the World Series Main Event revised its format to give us the November Nine, the chip leader at the end of the summer section has never won the bracelet. Even before that it was far from a foregone conclusion that pre-final...more
Diary
WSOP Diary Day 38: Hachem in Hollywood; Kravchenko to final table
Nothing tells the story of a celebrity invasion better than a crowd-control rope stretched across a patch of carpet it has never been stretched across before. Every day for the past two weeks, this reporter has boldly headed down the central aisle of the Pavilion Room on his commute into...more
WSOP Diary Day 37: Welcome PokerStars players!
There are numerous ways to detect the imminent arrival of the World Series Main Event: The opening of poker lounges in busier corridors at the Rio, a longer line of reporters at the media desk collecting credentials, and the slow to a crawl of hotel internet services as online tables...more
WSOP Diary Day 36: Deal me a winner. Meet the folk with your fate in their hands
Every six-max table at the World Series of Poker always has seven people around it, and when they're ten-handed, there will always be 11 chairs. Even when the November Nine assembles to play down to a Main Event multi-millionaire later this year, the ESPN crew will draw up ten seats...more
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