Four months after 7,319 runners ended up $10,000 for poker’s biggest prize, Jonathan Duhamel has been named champ for $8,944,310 and become the first Canadian winner of the Winner Poker Coupon Code Main Event.
Millions of onlookers around the world watched on as the November Nine returned to the Rio for a two day final table, but Duhamel was the only player to hold his nerve amidst all the drama, sending big names Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi and Joseph Cheong to the rail along the way.
Duhamel, a college-dropout turned online poker sensation from Quebec, built a overwhelming Winner Poker Mac 6-1 chip stack over second place finisher John Racener before heads-up play had begun, and was in no mood to let his lead slip when they returned to the Rio on Monday. Hardly an hour had passed when Duhamel pushed Racener all-in with AJ, raising his hands to the sky as his opponent’s K8 failed to connect on a nine-high board.