Canuck Aims for $8.9M Poker Haul
August 05, 2010 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Poker
It appears like anyone can bring home the bacon the $ 68-million US World Series of Poker.
Joe Cada. Always taken heed of him? Jerry Yang? Belike not — all the same each caused a small fortune as 2009 and ’07 WSOP champions, severally.
So there is Jamie Gold, who succeeded a world-record $12 million achiever’s plowshare in 2006. The bozo has averaged out less than $35,000 a yr at tournaments since.
Put differently you, me, the postman, the paper male child, still gran could bring home the bacon at no-limit handle ’em poker. It merely commands a trifle of pattern and a gross ton of fortune.
Or, perchance not.
You’ve likely never tried of Jonathan Duhamel, either a 22-year-old Canadian from Boucherville, Que., who spent out of university, purport on locomoting the world on his on line poker wages.
Two yrs afterwards, Duhamel can yield a Maserati if he desires — having characterized for the “last table of nine” at this yr’s WSOP independent upshot. Duhamel, fellow Canuck Matt Jarvis of Vancouver, six Americans — including the closely famed Michael (The Mill) Mizrachi — and an Italian each are vouched $811,823, even if they don’t bring home the bacon another helping hand.
Duhamel, thanks to a screwball, lucky or shrewd poker triumph against the more experient and directly obviated Matt Affleck of the US Government, takes a astonishing $65.98 million in chip shots into the Nova 6 last. That’s $20 million more his closest competitor, Florida’s John Dolan.
Jarvis, 25, has $16.4 million in microchips went forth, The Grinder, $14.45 million.
But those who know poker, consider Miami’s Mizrachi stays the favourite, having succeeded $8.8 million at tourney tables by old age 29.
Fact is, no Canadian has e’er caught the WSOP’s main effect. The cat with the most microchips recording the last table has never brought home the bacon, either. Not this decade, at least.
But after expending 20 moments with Duhamel on Wed, I do know this : He is intelligent and a multi-tasker who belike aced algebra, trig and infinitesimal calculus in senior high school when he wasn’t playing cellar poker with his sidekicks.
