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Written by Mathias | Thursday, November 11th, 2010
After months and months of long awaited suspense, the 2010 WSOP Main Event has played itself out and a winner has emerged. French Canadian Jonathan Duhamel is the newest WSOP World Champion as of Monday night. After beating out John Racener who came in second, Duhamel took home $8.9+ million. Racener got $5.5+ million. Following his win, Duhamel took the opportunity to crowd surf across through the hands of his fans.
After winning Duhamel commented, “It’s a dream come true for me. I’m the happiest guy on earth right now. It’s amazing.”
He ended up heads-up against Racener with close to 189 million chips (Racener was majorly short-stacked with about 30.65 million). The 23-year-old and his massive chip stack was no match for Racener, who was defeated after 43 hands. Duhamel pushed all in for just over 200 million chips pre-flop in the last hand with A spades and J hearts. Racener called with a King diamonds and 8 diamonds. Nothing came up for either hand, and Duhamel became the first Canadian WSOP Main Event champ in the history of the series.
“I kind of knew that John Racener wanted to grind it out so I had to do the same thing,” said an excited Duhamel after winning the tournament. “I knew it would not last two or three hands, it would last a lot longer than that.”
“I didn’t want to be too obvious with my game,” he added. “I didn’t fold at all. I limped a little bit just to try and confuse him and have a good balance to my game.”
Duhamel had Racener cornered with little room for improvement as Duhamel limped, raised, and pushed all in in a rather systematic and balanced way of play.
Duhamel’s balanced play — he limped, raised and pushed all in in seemingly equal proportions — gave very little room for Racener to gain enough ground on Duhamel.
Following his second place finish, Racener said of Duhamel, “He played real solid. I thought he was going to play more aggressively, but he was patient and that threw me off a little bit. I was like ‘Wow, this is going to be a lot harder than I thought.’”
“I thought he was going to play real fast…and I could trap him a little bit,” he added.
Despite Duhamel’s victory, Racener did win about 30% of the hands during the heads-up part of the tournament.
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