Champions of Poker

Joe Cada has a name which is very familiar with most poker players, as well as poker fans. He has built quite a name for himself in the poker world and it is with great skill that he has earned his place in poker history. A Michigan Native, Joe Cada has taken the world of poker by the tail and has become known as one of the best of the best. One truly amazing fact is that Cada has only been playing the game of poker for a short six years. This makes his success in the game all that more impressive.

At the young age of just 16, Cada began playing poker on Party Poker. He shared an account on there with his brother, whose name is Jerome. By the time Cada began college, he was a regular player of online poker. This eventually led him to a land based casino which was located in Windsor, Canada. He could not legally play poker in American casinos at such a young age, however Canada afforded him this ability. It took just two semesters for Cada to realize that poker was more important to him than college. He dropped out of college and began playing poker full time.

Through playing poker in Canada, Cada was able to earn himself enough cash to enter poker contests which were located in such places as the Bahamas and Costa Rica. When it comes to dedication and focus, Joe Cada has shown that he is both extremely focused and dedicated to the game of poker and it has paid off very well for him. Not only was Joe Cada the winner of the 2009 WSOP Main Event, but he is also the youngest player to ever win the WSOP Main Event!

In the Main Event, Joe Cada started off with the fifth largest of the chip stacks. In the 122nd final table hand Joe Cada’s stack became reduced to just 2,275,000. However, this still wasn’t enough to hold Cada down and he climbed back up to walk away with the event in his pocket. After a series of fortunate double up’s, Cada made it heads-up with Maryland logger Darvin Moon. Heading into heads-up play, Cada held the lead and entered a long heads-up battle with Moon. A combination of strong play and hyper-aggression from Moon eventually landed Cada the richest prize in poker. Joe Cada made history with that victory, becoming the youngest Main Event champion in history. At the time of his WSOP win, he was less than a year younger than the previous youngest winner, Peter Eastgate.

If you are wondering what it is that he does in his spare time, you will probably not be too surprised to know that he spends it playing online poker. It is estimated that he plays approximately 2,000 poker hands daily on Pokerstars, a very popular online poker site. Cada plays there under his username, jcada99. In fact, prior to his victory at the WSOP, Cada earned a $1,000,000 contract with the PokerStars site which paid for all his hotels, travels, and even some of his buy-ins. Cada also spends a good amount of his time traveling around the country as poker’s newest ambassador following his WSOP Main Event win.

When it comes to poker players, some players just have it and some don’t. One thing is clear; Joe Cada has more than proven that he is one of them that truly has what it takes to excel at poker on all levels. It’s a pretty fair assumption to say that we can expect to see a lot more of this talented poker player and there is every reason to believe that he has a very lucrative poker career ahead of him.

Tags: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Joe Cada

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