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WSOP 2010The WSOP 2010 main event winner is Jonathan Duhamel, the first Canadian to win a main event. The PokerStars player now joins the team of PokerStars bracelet winners which include Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate and Joe Cada.

On Saturday the November Nine played 11 hours until two players remained Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener, they played heads-up on Monday night to determine the 2010 WSOP main event champion.

Duhamel had a 6-1 chip lead on Racener going into the Heads-up match and finally won the WSOP bracelet and main event title for 2010.

Watch the 2010 World Series Of Poker main event highlights and action on the final table tonight on ESPN on 9 November at 10 – 12 pm

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poker hall of fameWorld Series of Poker have announced two new members for the Poker Hall of Fame, Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington will now make up the 40 members in this elite group of poker ambassadors. The new members will be inducted in a ceremony just before the WSOP final table in November.

There are now 18 living members of the initial 40 members elected, only one or two new members are elected each year.

Eight poker players were nominated for this years Poker Hall of Fame which include Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Linda Johnson and Tom McEvoy.

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Phil Laak wins WSOPE eventPhil Laak has won his first WSOP bracelet in the opening event of the WSOPE, Laak has achieved almost everything in poker but was lacking a bracelet win. Phil Laak wins WSOPE event, he cashed more than £170,000 for his first place win in the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe event #1 in London beating Andrew Pantling who has chip leader for most of the tournament.

With his arm still in a cast from his recent ATV accident where he almost lost his eye and broke several bones, Laak has a new out look on life since his accident, his red mohawk is something he always wanted to have, he also plans to learn how to play blues on the piano.

Some might think the Unabomber hit his head really hard in the crash or he is going through a midlife crisis one thing is certain it sure has not affected his poker game.

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ippa championship tournamentThe International Poker Players Association championship tournament is going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments on the calender. The televised High-roller poker tournament has a buy-in of $250,000 and a prize pool of $12 million, the tournament is limited to a field of 48 players all competing for a first place prize of $5 million at the Monte Carlo Casino in December 2010.

So far the event has already attracted some of the High Stakes Poker pros including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Tony G and Patrik Antonius.

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pokerstars the big game episodesThe PokerStars Big Game week 6 features Andre Capella as the loose cannon play High Stakes Poker cash games against UltimateBet Poker pro Phil Hellmuth, Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu, DoylesRoom Brunson 10 team player Dani Stern plus Eugene Katchalov and Prahlad Freidman.

The highly entertaining PokerStars TV show stakes a $100,000 to a loose cannon every week, to play against top poker pros.

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