If your a poker player and you watched the 2010 world series of poker then you know Jonathan Duhamel is now 9 million dollars richer from his efforts at the world series. Actually he got 1st place, well the other 7,318 players went home with prizes but none as great as Duhamels. Going in to the final table Duhamel had 188 million well his heads up oppnent Racener had 30 million. Everyone thought that Racener had the talent to pull it off, but it turned out that Duhamels over powering chip lead determined Raceners fate. Duhamel was the first Canadian World Series of Poker winner.

The 2010 WSOP winner Duhamel was from Boucherville, Quebec, Canada. He started playing poker with six of his friend in college, where he was studying finance to help him out with his professional poker career. So far studying finance in college has served him well. Duhamel said that he has been supporting himself for 2 years buy playing online poker.

Previously in this year’s tournament, Duhamel boasts cash wins for a total of $43,000 in WSOP winnings. On June 6, 2010, Duhamel won $5,724 playing No-Limit/Six Handed at a $1,500 buy-in event. Duhamel won the remaining $37,276 in July 2nd’s No-Limit $2,500 buy in event. Earlier this year, Duhamel also cashed at January 4th’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, winning $17,500 and leaving in 151st place.
Prior to this year’s WSOP tournament, Duhamel has made few appearances at live games. Duhamel’s most notable win has been in the 2008 European Poker Tour (EPT) where he also played No-Limit and finished tenth for a win of € 42,800 (or roughly $56,585).
Jonathan Duhamel’s other cashes include turning a $325 buy-in into $1,358 with a ninth place finish at the 2007 East Coast Poker Championship, $369 for 47th place in 2006’s Empire State Poker Series, and $3,960 for placing ninth in 2001’s World Poker Finals.

Jonathon Duhamel has been taking the poker world by storm as you can see just from all the money he has won during the year 2010.