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2010 World Series of Poker Main Event final table.

Play begins at 12 noon PT at the Penn & Teller in Las Vegas on Saturday, November 6.

The final two players square off on Monday, November 6 at 8:00 PM.

ESPN3.com streams the play both days to U.S. subscribers.

ESPN airs the 2-hour finale at 10 PM ET on Tuesday, November 9.

Level: 36
Blinds: 250,000-500,000
Antes: 50,000
Time left in level 36: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 46 seconds

Button: Cuong “Soi” Nguyen
Big Blind: Joseph Cheong
Small Blind: Jason Senti

Seat assignments/starting chip counts:
1 Jason Senti 7,625,000
2 Joseph Cheong 23,525,000
3 John Dolan 46,250,000
4 Jonathan Duhamel 65,975,000
5 Michael Mizrachi 14,450,000
6 Matthew Jarvis 16,700,000
7 John Racener 19,050,000
8 Filippo Candio 16,400,000
9 Cuong “Soi” Nguyen 9,650,000

Level 37 will feature blinds at 300,000-600,000 with a 75,000 ante.

1st Place $8,944,310
2nd Place $5,545,955
3rd Place $4,130,049
4th Place $3,092,545
5th Place $2,332,992
6th Place $1,772,959
7th Place $1,356,720
8th Place $1,045,743

Total $28,221,273

Note $7,306,407 was paid out already (9 places x $811,823)

impressed by john dolan on coverage. Not a fan of joseph cheong online so he can bag himself 9th i hope.
Pretty sure felipo candio is the reason i fist pump every time i see an italian at my table limping from mis pos (usually with a view to limp jam 100bigs with a9o).

Played a fair bit of PLO with Matt Jarvis, he's pretty good.

Think Dolan been most impressive though.

Mizrachi FTW!!

fyp

lol you toolbox.

Ive not called him anything.









yet.

Candio winning it would be epic.

But for me I want to see jarvis win lots of pots so his sister jumps up and down a lot with her half done up blouse. The highlight of the wsop for me so far.

Cuong “Soi” Nguyen and candio

doubt it they will

if candio wins i hope theres a huge moneymaker effect in italy it would be amazing

racener i hope he gets the worst bad beat ever.

Like to see candio win it. Guy wears his heart on his sleeve.

Other than him, Mizrachi all the way!

Think both dolan and cheong look good players. Obv chip leader has a massive chance but he seems one likely to spew.

Def having a bet on dolan and cheong at 7/2 and 8-1 respectively.

Mizrachi didn't impress me on the coverage at all, calls far too much oop.

Candio is def a character and i wldnt hate to see him win it.

Bad luck Mizrachi you're tez.


Deffo would love to see Candio skipping about whooping again!

Senti or Cheonggggggggggg ftw!!!!!!!

Then Mizrachi....

Candio ftw..if only to be reminded of this:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA1HVa0CDQA/S_7amvS2x1I/AAAAAAAAAfM/kOuNPGzWiYA/s320/tardelli09072009.jpg)

Been very unimpressed with mizrachi, playing like it's 2006, flagging AJ off 13bbs and donk leading for fun. He could be made to look foolish if he keeps that up! Some very suspect chip passing by Racener too!

Anyone but soy Nguyen for me. Quite like Jarvis !

Yeah, I dunno if its just the hands that are being shown but Mizrachi is playing terrible.  Of all the players Ive seen Id rank him 6th or 7th at best of the final 9.  He donked pretty hard in the Players Championship when he won his bracelet too.

Cheong for no specific reason other than I played with him in a $1500 game at the WSOP and he's just solid as a mo-fo.

Will I get banned if I say:

http://atdhe.net/27621/watch-world-series-of-poker-no-limit-hold-em-championship-final-table

?

Any thoughts on the Jarvis/Cheong hand? Strange play without a fairly obv v betting hand by Cheong because of stack sizes

My Predictions and reasons


When I met Mizrachi in Cardiff he intorduced himself as "the grinder" which made him look like a bit of a dick but he seemed like a really sound guy (but he busto-ed my boy from LNP so he has to finish 9th)

Candio is just incred to watch cos the mass spazz off is only a few hands away, gonna be incred when the explosion comes - 8th

Matt Jarvis When I played PLO with him was the most boring player ever, and he really tilted me cos he's one of these guys who starts quoting theory in the middle of hands, 7th (and PLEASE no HIGHER)

Racener loves himself far too much and ffs take the FUCKING bubble gum out you're not 12 - a tiltingly high 6th for him and +1 whoever said I hope its a horrid beat.

Soi Ngyuen seems like a lovely guy who's accidently ended up at the final of the main event, a miracle 5th for him i think NICE LIFE

Jason Senti - Everyone has managed to forget about him and in the midst of the beginging of an iquiry into where the 9th member of the nov.9 is Senti Busts in 4th shoving 3.5bb's with 8's, being called by T's and the board coming TTx.

Joseph Cheong - I like his glasses so he's gonna finish in a solid 3rd

Johnathon Duhamel - a cool guy, who has managed to hold of the urge to go to the skate park for the entire final, but is just too impatient to see it out through HU, busts 2nd 7bet jamming Q9s and runs to do some extreme sports.

John Dolan seems like the best player, so I'l say he wins, but pokers not like that, he'll actually probably come 7th and someone really annoying like John Racener, or really dull like Matt Jarvis will win instead.

(FWIW the £££ in the betting on Joseph Cheong at 8's imo)

Racener was on my opening table. He did seem up his own arsehole. Very good tho

candio with a huge dbl thru to 30mil

this could have just got much better

watching now, cliffs of first 30 hands including candios double

Sick hand

Jarvis AIPF 99 v Grinder's AQ

Flop Q-8-Q. Turn 9. River A.

Down to 7 now.

looking like grinders destiny after hands like that!

been sick so far

Where is the best stream for this?

The ones I found were all far too laggy to watch without sending me on supertilt - I'm watching on Twitter.

This is working fine for me.

http://www.atdhe.net/11270/watch-poker-channel

the one skippy posted above works fine for me

yeah, no lag

http://atdhe.net/27621/watch-world-series-of-poker-no-limit-hold-em-championship-final-table

anyone want some props? elephant_Feet@hotmail.co.uk lets get betting.

lol id of snapped that off with a king.

OMG Racener has been so nitty
Dolan ftw

i'd be happier if the grinder was wearing a bit more advertising.

surprised witj racener, but meh he could have been card dead, only 60 hands. in my main prop i got..

John Dolan
Racener
Cheong
Senti

Was anyone else suprised that Senti got Pokerstars sponsership? whereas Candio, Racener and Jarvis had to settle for Cardrunners.
Had to laugh that Soi had to settle with PAD sponsership lol - Poor guy

Rooms only allowed to have max 3 players at final table. Tilt had 7.

However, Tilt also have a deal with Cardrunners and PAD brands, so used those to get around the rule and stop losing 4 players to a rival site.

sponsored by jack links beef jerky. classy.

i was going to make some props with pleno but he's disappeared.

anyone up for this -

$10 a man

next man out
random factor on who you get, to be sorted if enough people want to play -  7 players currently
obv if you get short stack its great, big stack is shit.

Its only $10 so will take any body with a bit of rep as good for it to pay after.

anyone in?


 ;booder;

how long dou think thiswill be on for?

ages. 6-10 hrs.

I remember staying up to watch last year as i had a chunk on Shulman, i fell asleep at about 5am and there were still 5 in.

any marketing people around or those in the know? how much do you think FT and Stars have spent on sponsoring? upwards of 2 mill maybe?

Would it be like a draft in picking who we want? Will maybe keep me from falling asleep if i done this,  ;sleep;.

watching the stoke match on sky plus as well myself, bit of self flagulation.

we can go for the next one out $10 each. Say, yeh or ney. i'll send 1-4 and 5-7 followed by either a 1 or a 2 to a reputable member. you pick 1 or 2 and those are your guys. i'll confirm your guys. that make sense? probably not, i've had a few drinks.

yeah might as well

message sent.

pick 1 or 2.

1-4 is up to seat of the grinder, 5-7 is grinder and after

duhamel
mizrachi
candio

cheong
dolan
senti

which sidewould u prefer

2 glglgl

message sent to andrewt =

1-4 = 2
5-7 = 1

i'll explain later if required.

ta




good luck

Confirmed.

so who have i got?

you have every player before the grinder.

i have
mizrachi
racener
candio

you have everyone else.

for clarity...

you have
duhamel
cheong
dolan
senti

if any of those guys go out 7th i win.

oooo. was scared there

hilarious. just saw last years replay where moon folds on the flop with 14/1 odds and enough chips to still be chip leader if he calls and loses. jesus.

Is there an echo from one of the commentators because he's talking from Joesph Cheong's ass? Never heard so much arse licking and brown nosing from one commentator

god racner is playing sooo annoyingly flop a set and check call on flop and river streets turnwent check check

omfg
cheong 5bet shoved



180 mill pot

a7 vs qq

racner has around 35 mill

madness

jo san paul,

is it down to 2 yet? my link won't load up.

m'goi

lol josan

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wsop-toc
final 3duhamel cheong and racner

laggy and shit quality but its the only one i can find

stupid racner hu

full tilt have nearly every player at the final table and its probably going to be won by a stars player!

com

i watched a couple hours when 9 handed to 7 last night but fell asleep, i guess racner v cheong h/u???

racner is a chi sing, lap sap, sap gow :D

btw the adhtv link i was watching last night was good quality, worth a look for the h/u battle

rancer is a bak chi

he is hu vs duhammel
duhammel will easily win

massive lead

Interesting 188m chip hand there.

The chip counts at the start were roughly Racener 20m, Cheong 105m, Duhamel 95m.

Racener folds the button. Cheong ( Aspades  7h) bets 2.9m from SB, Duhamel ( Qc Qd) 3bets to 6.75m, Cheong 4bets to 14.25m, Duhamel 5bets to 22.75m then Cheong does the old hexabet shove all-in and Duhamel calls.

Now, reading the tweets and reports, they're all calling this a massive blow-up by Cheong but surely that is a massive, massive call he's forcing Duhamel to make, given the stack sizes. Duhamel can fold there and still be about 50m chips ahead of the shortstack. Cheong has a blocker to AA and surely if there's ever a spot where someone who'd never fold KK pre can fold it, it's here.

I think it's a great bet.

i agree,i missed the hand but after being 6 bet you have to really considor laying KK down. QQ, OK not exactly an auto fold, but cheong has played the hand like he has KK minimum, and like you say 50mill behind is still plenty.....me personally i think i pass QQ.....VERY GUTSY CALL IMO

looks very spewy to me. if you're going to 6b bluff there it doesn't need to be even close to a shove

Duhamel snapped it and been 3 bet 4 bet a lot by cheong

In isolation it might suggest KK+, but given how much they must cumulatively know about each others games by now I'm guessing that his range is wide enough to make QQ a fairly straightforward call. I don't think it was that bad a shove, and would have got bigger aces and smaller pairs to fold - but I don't think I'd call it a great bet by any stretch - definitely a bit spewy at least.

No. From someone who is a blow up expert this is definately a blow up.

C/L have under 100bb's
 Qh Qd Is an EASY CALL imo, easiest hand Duhammel played today Id Imagine.

Personally, with Racener AI, with a hand that is likely pretty strong, I dont see why Cheong thought Duhammel was5bet folding ???

Not a fan persoanally but its sooooooooper sick :)

please anyone but racener win

Gutted Cheong isn't gonna win.

I must have missed something as to why everyone is hating on Racener (agreed he's played a few off hands lol) but Duhammel has made some of the worst calls and plays ever and like Cada doesn't deserve to win, IMHO.

Like what? The jj?

Play full of courage ! TOby an Jake would of hit the ACE though!

anyone know what time the heads up starts????


TIA

lol big charra knows it's all skill!

8pm so I make that 4am in the uk

yeah i found out it was 8pm EST but i thought EST was only 5 hours difference?    cheers anyway

oh, I thought it was 8 vegas time. est is only 5 hours so 1.00, that's better

why wouldn't they use local time? americans are odd

It is 8.30pm PST (11.30EST)....4.30am proper time.  

Actually I think it's an 8pm kick-off PST, but the streams on ESPN3 begin 30 minutes later.  Either way, early doors starting time here.

you were right m8, a rival forum was wrong. it started at 4am

The WSOP Official report

Jonathan Duhamel is the winner of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship.

Duhamel, from Boucherville, Quebec became the first Canadian citizen in history to win poker’s world championship.  Two Canadians had previously finished in the runner-up spot in the 41-year-history of poker's undisputed world championship.  Tuan Lam took second place in 2007, to Jerry Yang.  Fellow Canadian Howard Goldfarb did the same in 1995, losing to Dan Harrington.
 
Duhamel, a 23-year-old poker pro, collected a whopping $8,944,310 in prize money.  He was also presented with the widely-cherished and universally-revered gold and diamond-encrusted gold bracelet, representing the game’s sterling achievement.

The triumph was not easy.  Duhamel overcame a huge field of 7,319 entrants who entered what was the second-largest WSOP Main Event in history.  The tournament began on July 5th, and took more than four months to complete, including the customary recess prior to the November Nine.

Duhamel's route to victory was a determined one, albeit peppered with a few unwanted detours.  He arrived at the final table -- which began on Saturday, November 6th -- with the chip lead.  He held about one-third of the total chips in play.  Duhamel lost some of his momentum during stage one of the finale, which included the elimination of seven players playing down to the final two.  Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi seized the chip lead at one point during play, but ultimately finished fifth.  Joseph Cheong also proved to be a formidable foe during the long battle, but ended up as the third-place finisher.
 
Stage two of the November Nine's grand finale was played on the main stage inside the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas.  The final duel was played to a packed house of nearly 2,000 spectators and a worldwide audience following the action over the Internet.  Millions more will watch the final crescendo of the WSOP Main Event on Tuesday night, when the championship premiers on ESPN television.  The two-hour program will debut at 7:00 pm PST.
 
The runner up was John Racener, from Port Richie, FL.  Despite the disappointment of defeat, he could take great pride in a noble effort that resulted in overcoming all but one of the more than 7,000 players who began the pursuit of ever poker player's greatest dream.  Racener collected poker's supreme consolation prize -- $5,545,955 in prize money.
 
As the Canadian champion, Duhamel was only the sixth non-American to ever win the WSOP Main Event.  He followed in the hallowed footsteps of Mansour Matloubi (UK -- 1990), Noel Furlong (Ireland -- 1999), Carlos Mortensen (Spain -- 2001), Joe Hachem (Australia (2005), and Peter Eastgate (Denmark -- 2008).

Picutre from Poker listings, reports at http://www.pokerlistings.com/live-tournaments/wsop

(http://edge2.pokerlistings.com/assets/photos/_resampled/CroppedImage180320-IMG2202.JPG)

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/wsop/2010/wsop-november-nine-jonathan-duhamel-capt-075407.html

is this available to watch online yet anywhere? Have checked pokertube, anywhere else? Think it was on TV last night in the US?

Not yet Jefferson.

Hopefully on pokertube tonight/2moro.

grrrr, writing a piece for Bluff about the Cheong/Duhamel hand n would like to see it first....what did u make of it, Cheong close to being everybody's new fave player if it comes off?

Fanboys on 2+2 all saying Cheong played sick good.

Dunno bout that hand though.

With how aggressive he and they were both playing and how many times duhammel had 3 bet folded, i'm not surprised he jammed. The second it's all in they are both discussing and he's like yeah man sigh if you make it bigger or jam I fold but the click it back left me enough room. Nice hand, get there 30% equity oneeee time rotflmfao


He was so in control he could deffo fold, he coulda just binked an ace though!

it's been on pokercast without holecards for the last two days or so.

You saw both of their interviews about the hand? Can get you links if you haven't both of them explain thought processes in the hand and about some previous hands (that wont be on the footage) that helped create the dynamic. Also there was a shortish stack (Racener) so ICM wise its a tougher call with Queens. Racener describes the shove as ridiculous and the call as questionable.

Personally I think Duhame never has a hand like 77-1010 or a8-aq, he is never going to 5bet to induce a 6bet and get it in with the shorter stack and huge stacks as he knows Cheong is super aggro and could get it in with two overs and obv doesnt want to flip, Cheong knows this so knows his 5bet range is most likely polarised between qq+ and AK (maybe) and spewy air. If you rewind a few orbits prebviously, Duhamel had flatted a Mizrachi raise BVB with Aces and got it in v q8 on qxx flop, so he could maybe even think he would flat the 4bet and get it in on the flop as most of Cheongs range was air as he was flatting alotttttttttttttttttttt of 3bets, even OOP.

Basically, I like the shove and would have done it myself.

   what i seen of cheong was very very impressive, he was by far the best player on the f/t. 1 badly timed hand cost him the title.   choeng joined the commentry team for a little during the heads up, phil helmouth might aswell well asked him out for a date his toungue was so far up choeng ar53 lolol

    great player, we'll certainly see an awful lot more of him

I couldnt believe it when i was hearing hellmuth saying cheong's 6bet with a6 (and his general play) were so good. -Hellmuth musnt have been feeling well to compliment a young aggroo internet kid so much.

Hellmuth is changed now, got really pissed off and just turned super aggro.

fyppp

haven't seen the interviews, would like to see them if u have the links handy? Racener seems a bit weird, won't take too much notice of him, Cheong seems to be the man. It's easy to say he coulda folded and won the comp and as a one-off hand that's true but he got to that position playing so aggro and it's not the most ridic thing to bink an ace if the worst happens and duhamel calls. Great hand tho, I'll look at the no hole card version that'll do cheers

The only part of the hand worth analysing is the 4 bet. Once he 4 bets he is only doing it SO THAT he can 6 bet. But whether the 4 bet is an ICM disaster or not is probably worth looking at. Altho u can take into account bonuses from winning etc- id say it was pretty standard allround. Personally i wouldnt have 4bet but he is only 4 betting so that he can 6 bet.

the first episode of the ft has just been put on pokertube now, guess the rest will follow!!

wow, i thought Racenet was AI during that hand as well....
that obv makes a difference lol