Canadian poker players like Mike McDonald, Shawn Buchanan, Cory Carroll, Glen Chorny, Owen Crowe, Sorel Mizzi and Mike Watson are winning tournaments around the world. Quietly over the last decade, a younger generation of promising poker players has grown up and is achieving tremendous poker success.
In 2010, French-Canadian Jonathan Duhamel won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker for $8.9 million sparking yet another spotlight on Canadian poker talent. Although many of them have migrated to the poker mecca of Las Vegas, seeing the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, Kara Scott and Evelyn Ng on poker TV shows representing their country proudly has helped develop a strong fan base for the online game. Some of the most popular players in the world hail originally from Canada. Online poker for real money has flourished in Canada over the last decade.
