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Jonathan Duhamel Wins 2010 WSOP Main Event

Jonathan Duhamel has won the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Canadian pro plalyed very well, used his huge chip lead against John Racener winning the $8,944,310 main prize and the bracelet.

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Jonathan Duhamel with his friends

The most important poker event of the year started at 8 p.m. PT. The audience could witness the enshrinement of Erik Seidel And Dan Harrington into the Poker Hall of Fame as promised, and Frank Kassela also received his '2010 WSOP Player of The Year' title.

Pokerb00m.eu Involved in Tekintamgac Scandal?

WPT Barcelona 2010 champion Ali Tekintamgac was disqualified from the PPT Cannes main event final table after suspicion arose that Pokerb00m.eu bloggers helped him achieve his 4th place in the event. The blog is currently “under maintenance.”

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Ali Tekintamgac wins IPT Venice

After checking video footage of the qualifying day, event management concluded that certain “press members” provided Tekintamgac with information regarding his opponents’ hole cards. The poker player’s associates allegedly were fake journalists of the Pokerb00m.eu blog and were there to help him in the first place. The local police now use the recordings for their investigation.

WSOP Final Table - Duhamel and Racener in the Heads-Up

Jonathan Duhamel will face John Racener in the heads-up at the WSOP Main Event final table later today. Duhamel is in an enormous chip lead, he has over 180 million chips against Racener's 30 million.

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The event kicked off at exactly at 3 p.m. last Sunday when Bruce Buffer, renowned presenter announced the beginning of the finals.The Las Vegas Rio Casino was full by this time, many poker pros and celebrities visited the event, such as Barry Greenstein, Mike Matusow, Tom Marchese, Sorel Mizzi, Carter King, J.C. Tran, Nam Le, Karina Jett, and of course the whole Mizrachi family, supporting the most successful Mizrachi.

WSOP Final Table Live Stream at ESPN

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As I previously announced, the WSOP Main Event final table starts tomorrow. Thankfully, we don't have to wait for the TV show to see the action itself, starting from this year, ESPN will broadcast the event live (with a 5 minute delay) on their website.

The live stream can be found at ESPN3.com, and will be live from Nov 6 Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. The coverage will continue with the heads-up play with the final two on Monday, Nov 8 at 11:30 p.m. ET.

WSOP Main Event Final Table is Finally Here

I'm sure you are all eager to watch this year's biggest event in poker: the WSOP Main Event final table. That's right, it's officially here, the final table starts tomorrow with all the november niners battling for the huge, $8,944,138 main prize. Set at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas, the World Championship of Poker will start tomorrow and we will have our newest champion by November 9.

The identity of the 9 finalists is known since this July, but there must some of you might not be aware who are in, so I decided to collect some interesting facts about the november niners for you, courtesy of WSOP.com.

2010 november niners

Jared Huggins - One Step Closer to The Big Game

Remember Jared Huggins? Last time I wrote about him he was on his was to a better life thanks to Two Plus Two forum users, finally living in a rented apartment. He got a new chance from life, and now he has even more coming: He released his audition video for PokerStars' The Big Game.

Backed by Daniel Negreanu and Justin 'BoostedJ' Smith, the once homeless player can easily star as the "loose cannon" in PokerStars' hit TV show. You can watch his video below, and if you go to this site, you can vote for Huggins. I think the poor fella deserves it, if you are a registered PokerStars member, go ahead and click vote for him!

High Stakes Profits of October: Durrrr on the Top, Ziigmund Loses Big

Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan wins the most in October, earning $990,000, while Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies loses over $1.7 million.

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Tom 'durrrr' Dwan

Having around $1 million in profit already at the beginning of October, durrrr eventually won $991,318 by the end of the month. He clearly dominated the PLO tables, winning $1.2 million in 2784 hands, but he was also successful in 7-game, winning $96,619. Hold’em (both fix- and no-limit), however, cost him $310,000 in total.

Michael Eiler Wins EPT Vienna - Negreanu 4th

EPT Vienna is over, Michael 'mae9690' Eiler, 20-year-old german player has took down the title last Sunday, who won the final heads-up against Martin Hruby. Daniel Negreanu, Canadian PokerStars Pro set out to win his first EPT title, wanting to claim his "Triple Crown" (a WSOP, a WPT and an EPT first place) that only Roland de Wolfe and Gavin Griffin could win so far, but in the end he only came in 4th.

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Michael Eiler

Nanonoko Drops Some Popularity

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Nanonoko in real life

According to PokerTableRatings.com, Randy 'nanonoko' Lew is down in popularity. I'm not saying he's not popular at all, but he definitely lost some of his revenue since March according to PokerTableRatings. This of course might be only due to PTR Premium's launch that limited access to player searches, that is why all the players lost some popularity. The popularity graph (which is based on the number of profile views) is very telling nevertheless.

Tony G Is a Vampire Descendant

Whether you like Tony G or not, you cannot deny he's very entertaining to some. The Lithuanian-born Australian player (born as Antanas Guoga) posts regulaly on his blog at PartyPoker. His newest finding is this: he can be a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Wallachia, next to Transylvania - part of modern day Romania - between 1456 and 1462.

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WSOP Africa Happening Now

WSOP is currently holding its first WSOP Circuit Event in South Africa. 3 poker pros have already signed up to play at the tournament Vanessa Rousso, Gus Hansen and Maria Ho are already in Johannesburg at the circuit event of "The World Cup" of poker.

WSOP AFRICA

The WSOP series is well established in the US, and now they join the Emerald Poker Series of tournaments, with the circuit event being held at the Emerald Resort & Casino between 24th and 31st October. You can find the schedule here.

High Stakes Poker New Season Announced

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The recording dates for the 7th season of High Stakes Poker, GSN's hit TV show have been made available. The Season will be filmed from 18-20 November. The lineup has also been introduced: the host will be Gabe Kaplan again, and the tableside interviewer is Kara Scott, who has been replacing A.J. Benza again.

EPT Vienna Launches Today

The main event of the 2010 EPT Vienna kicks off today at the Kursalon Palace in the capital of Austria. It is the second time a stop of the PokerStars European Poker Tour takes place in the Middle-European country; in 2005, Pascal ‘Triple P’ Perrault managed to take down the event, winning €184,500.

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While 297 players registered five years ago, the €5,300 event this year is likely to exceed that number with 209 players having entered as yet and the registration being open until day 1B (Wednesday). From the international elite, here are only some of the names expected to turn up in Vienna: Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano, JP Kelly, Arnaud Mattern, Pierre Neuville, Dario Minieri, Johannes Strassman, Pieter De Korver, Kevin MacPhee, Tomer Berda and Alex Kravchenko.

Gus Hansen to Profit Once Again?

In early October, we all felt sure that Gus Hansen was to be the high stakes fish of the month, but he ended up winning over $1.3 million at Full Tilt Poker since then. In his latest, 11 hours long session, which he played against ‘Urindanger’, he won around $500,000.

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Gus Hansen

In September, it was only Brian Townsend and his -$2,534,000 that stood between Hansen and the shameful title of High Stakes Fish of the Month, loosing “merely” $2,097,000 in online cash games. By 10th October, he lost $1,533,000, paving his way for actually being “honoured” this month – when he started winning. By the 24th, he decreased his losses by $1,344,000, winning $447,000 during his latest clash alone.

Ladbrokes Offers Anonymous Tables

Ladbrokes, leading UK betting company, has recently added the option of anonymous tables to their online poker portfolio. This ensures that your data, including your screen name and avatar, is absolutely inaccessible to your opponents. Switching between anonymous and normal formats is, of course, possible.

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“We are really excited about this launch. Never before have poker players been able to play without other players knowing who they are. This brings an added element to the game for people whose playing style maybe recognizable. For those new to the game, it is an opportunity to try some different moves without getting a reputation because players will simply never know who they are playing against,” Kate McLennan, Ladbrokes spokesperson commented.

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