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Jonathan Duhamel chipped up during the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and made the most of his arsenal, playing big stack poker to the best of his ability. He became the first ever WSOP Main Event champ from Canada and earned $8.9 million. Duhamel took 15th in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the 2010 WSOP prior to his deep run in the Main Event and banked $37,000, or 25 times his buy-in.

Duhamel is the chip leader entering the 2010 WSOP November Nine and will come armed with a massive stack of 65.98 million, nearly 50% more than the second place tally of John Dolan. Duhamel sent UB.com pro Adam “Roothlus” Levy to the rails with pocket aces against K-Q to chip up late on the November Nine play down day.

The biggest success that propelled Duhamel into the stardom came two years later, during the 2010 World Series of Poker. Playing in the field of over seven thousand players he managed to secure the place at the final table that was scheduled to take place in November of the same year. Jonathan Duhamel (born August 24, 1987) is a Canadian poker professional from Boucherville, Quebec, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2010 Worl Jonathan Duhamel - Top podcast episodes. Jonathan Duhamel, born in 1987 is a professional poker player from Boucherville, Quebec, Canada. In 2010 he scored the biggest win of his career by taking down the WSOP Main Event and collecting. Jonathan Duhamel (born August 24, 1987) is a Canadian poker professional from Boucherville, Quebec, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He is the first Canadian player to capture the Main Event bracelet.

Besides coming to the final table of the Main Event with the chip lead, Duhamel might be best remembered for his knockout of Matt “mcmatto” Affleck. On a board of 10-9-7-Q, Duhamel called Affleck’s all-in with pocket jacks. Affleck flipped up aces and Duhamel suddenly found himself down to 10 outs on the river. Sure enough, an eight hit the board, filling Duhamel’s straight and sending shockwaves through the Amazon Room. The pot was worth a healthy 42 million chips, or 20% of the total in play.

In a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event, the former college finance major finished in 50th and collected nearly $6,000. In a key hand during Day 7 that fueled his Main Event run, Duhamel moved all-in on a board reading 6-3-6-8-2. He received a call from online poker stud Matt “berkey11” Berkey, who flipped up 6-10 for trips. However, Duhamel had him crushed and showed pocket eights for a boat. The double up took Duhamel to 7.9 million in chips.

Duhamel’s best poker work came not in the United States, but in Europe on the European Poker Tour (EPT), where he bubbled the final table of a €5,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament in Prague and banked nearly $55,000. That tournament featured a solid final 10 that included Duhamel, Canadian poker pro Andrew “achen” Chen, Nasr El Nasr, and WSOP bracelet winner Sebastian Ruthenberg.

Duhamel also made the spotlight in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, where he cashed for $17,000 after exiting in 151st place. When he’s not playing poker, Duhamel enjoys hockey and lives in Boucherville, Quebec. He was one of nine Canadian poker players, or 11% of the field, to reach Day 7 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event at the Rio in Las Vegas.

Duhamel qualified for the 2010 WSOP Main Event through PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site.

Poker News Daily caught up with Jonathan Duhamel for an exclusive video interview.

Jonathan Duhamel is an incredibly talented, young poker
player from Canada. His most impressive accomplishment was when
he won the main event of the World Series of Poker in 2010, but
that certainly isn’t his only victory, as he has gone on to win
a plethora of different tournaments worldwide.

Over the course of his career so far he has earned a
staggering $12.7 million dollars, placing him at number two on
Canada’s all time money list. At only twenty seven years old, we
still expect to see great things from him in the near future.

Early Years

Jonathan Duhamel was born in August of 1987 in Quebec,
Canada. He grew up in the Boucherville sector of Quebec and was
a part of a typical middle-class family; his father was an
airplane engine mechanic and his mother was a bank teller.
Duhamel’s parents wanted to make sure he understood the value of
money so as soon as he turned thirteen years old, he got his
first job picking strawberries.

After high school, Duhamel decided to enroll at the
University of Quebec in Montreal, otherwise known as UQUAM to
pursue a career in Business Administration and Finance. While
attending school, some of his classmates introduced him to poker
and they were soon playing on a regular basis at each other’s
dorm rooms. Duhamel had no idea that this hobby of his would
turn into an opportunity of a lifetime.

He became so passionate about playing poker that he
eventually decided to take some time off of school so he could
pursue a career in it. His first decent cash out was at the
European Poker Tour’s No Limit Hold’em main event in 2008, where
he took tenth place and received over $50,000 in prize money.

Duhamel spent the next couple years building up his bankroll
by playing at various casinos across Canada and this is where he
claims to have met excellent players who helped him gain the
necessary experience he needed to take his career to the next
level. He once said, “There are a lot of very good poker players
in Quebec, we all talk strategy together, and I am the player I
am now because of them!“

Poker Career

PokerStars soon offered to sponsor the young player, seeing
great potential in him. Duhamel didn’t cease to amaze them when
he won the No Limit Hold’em main event of the 2010 WSOP after a
head to head match against John Racener. He cashed in nearly $9
million from that win alone and he also landed several other
impressive money finishes that year at the WSOP as well.

Since then, Duhamel has been traveling the world to compete
in a variety of different tournaments, but it’s through no limit
hold’em tournaments where he has made the majority of his
money. In 2011, he placed first in the Highroller No Limit
Hold’em event of the European Poker Tour for well over $270,000.
Duhamel actually has a very impressive performance record at the
EPT and you can check out the details on his top five finishes
in the table below.

Jonathan Duhamel’s Top 5 EPT Results

In addition to the EPT, Duhamel also won NBC’s National Heads
Up Championships No Limit Hold’em Championship in 2011,
accumulating another $125,000. The following year, Duhamel
entered the No Limit Hold’em event in the 2012 L.A. Poker
Classic, and despite a close match against Vanessa Selbst for
the win, he finished with a close second.

Despite all of his victories through playing No Limit
Hold’em, Duhamel still finds success when playing other versions
of poker as well. He achieved a third place finish in both the
$5000 Pot Limit Omaha and the 8 Game mixed events of the 2014
WSOP. Also prior to that in 2013, Duhamel took tenth in the
Omaha Hi/Lo event in the World Series of Poker that year.

Most recently he took first place in the PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure 2015 held in January, cashing in at over $110,000. He
also placed seventh in the No Limit Hold’em event of the World
Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown a few months
later.

Victim of Burglary

In December, 2011 two men forced themselves into Duhamel’s
house, beat him up, and tied him down. The intruders were after
his WSOP gold bracelet, the Rolex watch which Duhamel received
from PokerStars, and any cash they could get their hands on.
Luckily, despite his financial loss, Duhamel wasn’t too badly
hurt from the incident.

The burglars were prosecuted by the police only a few weeks
after the investigation started, but unfortunately his WSOP gold
bracelet had already been sold. About two months later it was
found severely damaged lying in the streets of Montreal, unable
to be salvaged.

Personal Life

Duhamel can definitely be considered a sports fanatic, having
played ice-hockey, baseball, soccer, and a plethora of other
sports since he was a young child. His all time favorite team is
the Montreal Canadien’s ice hockey team and he makes it a point
to go to as many of their games as possible.

Duhamel is also an author, having written a poker strategy
book called, “Final Table,” where he gives advice to players who
are interested in competing in bigger tournaments. His book was
published in 2012 and it’s a popular read for gambling
enthusiasts today.

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Duhamel is also a devoted philanthropist who donated $100,000
from his 2010 WSOP Main Event winnings to the Montreal Canadiens
Children’s Foundation. He also regularly donates to the La
Fondation Sainte-Justine Hospital, whose goal is to provide the
best treatment possible for children with terminal illnesses.

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He’s also passionate about donating money to the Amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) foundation, which funds research to find
a cure for the disease.