Jonathan Duhamel Poker
Jonathan Duhamel: Canadian Professional Poker Player. 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. 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.
Canadian poker pro and 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel is no longer a member of the Team PokerStars Pro, PokerNews recently learned.
Although the poker room decided not to share any details about Duhamel's contractual agreements and the reasons that led to the parting of ways, a representative from PokerStars confirmed to PokerNews that they 'won't be working together in the future.'
Rumors about the end of the sponsorship deal between PokerStars and Duhamel started earlier this month after the 27-year-old player from Boucherville, Quebec, showed up at the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown not wearing the usual PokerStars patch. Duhamel also no longer appears on the list of the Team PokerStars Pro members published on the room's website
Member of Team PokerStars Pro since January 2011, Duhamel currently sits second on Canada's all-time money list, with live tournament earnings for $12,786,360, according to HendonMob.
Besides his victory of the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Duhamel's career includes other remarkable results such as a first-place finish at the 2011 European Poker Tour Deauville High Roller for €200,000, a second-place finish in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller for $634,550, and an eighth-place finish in the 2013 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players' Championship for $207,630.
In the first four months of 2015, Duhamel has already put together live tournament winnings of more than $170,000, thanks to a first-place finish in a $5,300 side event at the 2015 PCA, plus cashes in the PCA Main Event, WPT Fallsview Main Event, EPT Malta Main Event, and at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.
During his time at PokerStars, Duhamel also published a poker strategy book titled Final Table: A Winning Poker Approach from a WSOP Champion, in which he told his story at the WSOP 'to highlight the game's rational and logical side and to allow readers to figure out whether they have the characteristics that might allow them to win on a regular basis.'
On a more dramatic note, back in December 2011 the player was the victim of a home invasion when two robbers broke into his home to steal cash, valuables, and his WSOP Main Event bracelet.
'Two men broke into my house, and I was physically assaulted and robbed,' reads the statement issued by Duhamel shortly after the event. 'After being threatened with death and have given everything I had, I was bound and repeatedly beaten on the face and body before my attackers leave. I am pleased to confirm that I have not suffered any major injuries.'
Although the investigators were able to retrieve the WSOP gold bracelet and about half of the stolen cash, Duhamel's former girlfriend, Bianca Rojas-Latraverse, was arrested together with four more people in connection with the robbery.
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Jonathan Duhamel
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.
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.
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Duhamel qualified for the 2010 WSOP Main Event through PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site.
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