14 Facts About Jonathan Duhamel

Jonathan Duhamel was born on August 24,1987 and is a Canadian poker professional from Boucherville, Quebec, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker.

Jonathan Duhamel has won three WSOP bracelets in his career.

Jonathan Duhamel started playing poker with his high school friends during the Moneymaker boom.

Jonathan Duhamel later attended the Universite du Quebec in Montreal, studying business administration and finance.

Between January 2011 and April 2015, Jonathan Duhamel was a member of Team PokerStars Pro.

In January 2012, Jonathan Duhamel made four final tables at the PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure.

Jonathan Duhamel finished fourth in the Super High Roller Event after his elimination by the winner of the event, Viktor Blom.

Jonathan Duhamel made another final table in the turbo event, finishing fifth.

Finally, Jonathan Duhamel finished second in the High Roller Event and won $634,550.

On March 23,2013, Jonathan Duhamel finished in third place to win $125,000 at Premier League Poker VI in London.

In June 2015, Jonathan Duhamel defeated Bill Klein heads-up to win the $111,111 buy-in WSOP High Roller for One Drop for $3,989,985 and his second WSOP bracelet.

Jonathan Duhamel was badly beaten in a home invasion robbery in December 2011.

Jonathan Duhamel objected, leading to litigation in the Tax Court of Canada over whether his poker winnings were taxable income.

The court upheld Jonathan Duhamel's appeal, finding that on a balance of probabilities the taxpayer's poker gambling activities were not carried on in a sufficiently commercial manner to constitute a source of income from a business for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, and ordered the CRA to exclude net gains from these activities in determining Jonathan Duhamel's income.