Duhamel and Racener the final two

Submitted by: TightEnd on Mon, 08/11/2010 - 12:44pm
Canadian poker professional Jonathan Duhamel holds a 6-1 advantage in chips as he faces John Racener of the U.S. for the $8.9 million top prize at the WSOP Main event final table

Duhamel, 23, and Racener, 24, play Heads Up tonight after outlasting 7,317 other players

Duhamel, of Boucherville, Quebec, majored in finance before dropping out of the University of Quebec in Montreal. He’s been playing poker full-time for about two years -- mostly online -- and his combined WSOP earnings before this event were $43,000.

Duhamel has almost 189 million chips to about 30.8 million for Racener, a poker professional from Port Richey, Florida. Racener entered this event with $701,165 in earnings from WSOP tournaments.

 

The other finishers on the final table were as follows

3rd Joseph Cheong $4,130,049
4th Filippo Candio $3,092,545
5th Michael Mizrachi
$2,332,992
6th John Dolan $1,772,959
7th Jason Senti $1,356,720
8th Matthew Jarvis $1,045,743
9th Soi Nguyen $811,823