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Johnathan Duhamel is the first Canadian to win the World Series of Poker’s main event, defeating John Racener at the final table in Las Vegas. Duhamel, a 23-year-old poker pro from Montreal, bested Party Poker Bonus Code Racener to collect more than $8.9 million in first-place prize money with the gold 2010 poker world champion bracelet.

Duhamel, who opened with a 6-to-1 lead in chips next to Racener, won on the 43rd hand with an ace-jack unsuited that held up versus Racener’s king-eight suited in diamonds. Not one hit for either turn or river, or player on the flop and Duhamel won with his ace-high.

Being the first world champion from Canada suggests another honor. Party Poker Code Duhamel is at the moment the face of poker in his home country, which he receives well.

In all poker history, he’s only the sixth non-American to win the WSOP main event. The others are Mansour Matloubi (1990) of England, Noel Furlong (1999) of Ireland, Carlos Mortensen (2001) of Spain, Joe Hachem (2005) of Australia and Denmark’s Peter Eastgate (2008).