Event 57 - $10,000 Main Event Championship - Live Updates
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Day 10 Live Updates
2010 Main Event: Duhamel Wins!
Jonathan Duhamel pounded on John Racener after the break getting him under 17 million.
Racener finally shoved into him once forcing a fold, but Duhamel open shoved A♠ J♥ the next hand and Racener made the call with K♦ 8♦.
With the Main Event title hanging in the balance, the flop fell 9♠ 4♣ 4♦ keeping Duhamel ahead.
The turn brought 6♣ and no help for Racener.
And finally the 5♣ river came down and insanity ensued on the stage as Jonathan Duhamel had become champion of the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
Duhamel will collect $8.9 million becoming the first Canadian to grab Main Event glory while John Racener settles for the $5,545,855 second prize.
As chants of "Duhamel, Duhamel," fill the Penn & Teller theater we say goodnight and goodbye from the 2010 World Series of Poker.
Stay Tuned to Pokerlistings, however, for a few words from the World Champ himself and maybe a photo or two.
The Winner Interview
We scrambled and clawed our way into like four straight questions with the newly-minted champ. Check out the video right here, right now.
Main Event Heads-Up: So Close, But Yet So Far
Jonathan Duhamel did not slow down after the John Racener double picking up the next few pots with some aggressive play into the tournament's 41's level.
But Racener fought back, calling a Duhamel pre-flop raise then pushing him off this pot on the turn.
A limped pot then saw Duhamel bet 1.7 million on a king high-flop. Racener called and after both players checked the turn, he bet three million on a board pairing river.
Duhamel called but Racener showed a king to drag the pot and continue his slow climb back into contention.
Duhamel outkicked Racener to pick up a decent pot the very next hand and continued applying pressure on the shorter stack.
After getting pushed around for a while, Racener turned things around pushing Duhamel off a pot to get back to the 37 million mark.
Duhamel continued to raise the button more often than not, but Racener made a few aggressive plays of his own to stay in it.
A misstep taking a stab at a pot left Racener right where he started soon after that and Duhamel continued raising with regularity.
That's when Racener made it 3,750,000 pre flop and Duhamel shoved to force a fold and increase his lead.
Pot after pot seemed to be headed Duhamel's way as the player's headed off on a 20-minute break and now return with the chip stacks that look like this
1 Jonathan Duhamel 197,050,000
2 John Racener 22,550,000
Main Event Heads Up: Racener Doubles
Jonathan Duhamel took the first pot of heads-up play with a button raise and the second when John Racener folded.
Duhamel raised again from the button in the third hand, but Racener shoved forcing a fold.
Racener limped in the very next hand and Duhamel checked bringing the first flop. A bet from Racener was enough to take that one down.
Duhamel put his foot on the gas after that picking up the next few pots and eating away at Racener's short stack.
The French Canadian took a big chunk making two pair and correctly calling a river raise from Racener.
Suddenly the Floridian was down to 18 million chips and in need of a double up just to get back to where he'd started the day.
Duhamel then casually shoved K♥ 4♣ from the button and Racener looked him up with a well timed two queens.
The queens held and Racener doubled up to about 40 million in chips.
2010 Main Event Heads-Up: It's About To Go Down
It all comes down to this.
What started with 7,319 players over four blazing-hot Las Vegas days in July is now down to just two on a rainy day in November.
Just minutes from now a 23-year-old from Boucherville, Quebec will take on a 24-year-old from Port Richey, Florida in a battle for the ages with all the glory of the 2010 WSOP Main Event title and some $8.9 million on the line.
It's Canada's Jonathan Duhamel versus America's John Racener and it's for all the marbles.
The Penn & Teller Theater inside the Rio is buzzing with anticipation as the two combatants take to the stage and onto the felt.
By now you must know that Duhamel has a 6:1 chip lead and this could be over fast.
But you also know that despite holding just 30,750,000 in chips to Duhamel's 188,950,000, Racener is a double up away from making it a match.
It's heads up for the gold and it's poker, so just about anything can happen.
PokerListings will be on the scene all night bringing you live updates until a World Champion is crowned.
Stick around, it's about to go down.
Event Information
- Event Name
- Event 57 - $10,000 Main Event Championship
- Venue
- Date
- 2010-11-08
- Final Day
- 2010-11-09
- Buy In
- $10,000
- Entrants
- 7319
- Prize Pool
- $68,798,600
- First Prize
- $8,944,138
Event Winner
| Player | Prize Money | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Duhamel | $8,944,310 |
| 2 | John Racener | $5,545,955 |
| 3 | Joseph Cheong | $4,130,049 |
| 4 | Filippo Candio | $3,092,545 |
| 5 | Michael Mizrachi | $2,332,992 |
