by James
1. December 2009 11:41
Joe Cada, the 21 year old from Michigan has won the World Series Of Poker 2009, becoming the youngest ever Main Event champion in the history of WSOP. Cada bested Maryland player Darvin Moon for a top prize of $8.5 million! Moon earn $5.2 million for the his second place finish.
We’ve been watching this series since June this year when the final battle began, and what a rollercoaster ride is has been! We saw bit names Phil Ivey out this past weekend and the final consisting of relative newcomers.
Moon began play at the final table in the heads up with a total of 5,000 in WSOP tournament chips, and Cada with an amount of 58,875,000 at the start of last nights 10PM heads-up match. We saw an immensely amount of different play strategy throughout the game including the chip stacks totally reversing to Cada going from the chip leader to having 1/3 of the tournament chips.
Play was fairly exciting but the 70th hand was where the action was. This hand let to the turnaround of game in which Cada started to figuratively fight back with a much stronger chip stacks
The 88th hand was the monumental hand.
Cada raises
Moon re-raises
Cada goes all in
Moon calls!
Cada shows a pair of 9’s – Moon a couple of suited overcards
The flop came: 8C 2C 7S. No change
The Turn: KH. Nothing
The River: 7C.
Cada wins!
None the less, exciting as hell for Cada, and a hearty congratulations to him