CADA IS THE POKER MAN! (Update)
13 November 2009
Community college drop-out becomes youngest
ever WSOP main event champion
After an 87 hand heads up starting late Monday night,
21-year-old Joe Cada, a poker pro originally from
Michigan and a community college drop-out, is worth
$8,547,042 today (Tuesday) after winning the World
Series of Poker main event. The victory came when he
went all in with pocket nines versus heads up opponent
Darvin Moon’s queen and jack of diamonds.
For
Cada it was an early birthday present - he turns 22 next
week.
With a blend of audacity and skill honed in
three years of mainly Internet poker action the young
player started the heads up against Maryland logger
Darvin Moon (46) with a significant chip lead which he
managed to hold on to for much of the contest, although
there were times when it switched to his opponent and
some close calls before Moon was eliminated at hand
#364.
Moon's second placing was worth $5 182 928,
a remarkable achievement for an amateur who survived an
entry field of almost 6 500 that included some of the
world's best poker players.
Cada started the
final table in the mid-field but after a few mishaps
secured some spectacular double-ups to enter the heads
up with a chip lead of 135 950 000 vs. Moon's 58 850
000.
Cada's victory was the realisation of a
dream that started when he began playing the game at age
16 and left Macomb Community College in Michigan to
become a professional gambler. His aim was to win the
coveted World Series of Poker main event bracelet....an
ambition he has accomplished in record time.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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