We finally know the winner of the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

He is a young 22 years old Canadian player named Jonathan Duhamel. Indeed in recent years all WSOP main event winners have been very young male 22 to 24 years of age, showing how online poker has forever changed the face of poker as we used to know it. Indeed the oldest player at the final table was 37 years, and most others were less than 30.

This is the largest poker prize every year and the most prestigious of all live poker tournaments, this year in its 41st edition. Jonathan Duhamel defeated a field of 7,319 players to take possession of the humongous first prize of $8,44 million.

The most famous player at the final table was Michael Mizrachi, who was chip leader for a good period of time. But when his stack took a big hit when he doubled another player with a dominated hand, this was the beginning of the end and he finished 5th for 2 million dollars and change.

With only three players left, there was a big stack, a medium and a short stack. And in what sometimes happens in such situation, the two largest stacks put all their chips in the middle in one hand. This is always a great moment for the shortest stack when he sees the big guys battling each other instead of trying to grind him out. After all the difference between second and third place is worth $1.4 million, a costly price for making a mistake.

But this is what Cheong the chip leader at the time did when he ended up playing his A7 versus Duhamel’s QQ. After this hit, it was just a matter of time for him to take the direction of the rail, leaving Duhamel a 6 to 1 chip leader over John Racener, who got over $5 million for his second place.