November 7th, 2009Joe Cada
In 1989, Phil Hellmuth became the youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event at 24. Last year, Peter Eastgate broke that record and won the Main Event at 22. This year, another player stands to set the all-time record for youngest to win the Main Event. Joe Cada enters the WSOP Main Event final table 5th in chips and stands to set the all time record.
Joe Cada started playing poker just six years ago. He stated that the Moneymaker effect had him and his friends playing a lot of poker and he and some friends would regularly discuss their games. Cada started his poker playing career playing in $2-$4 Limit games on Party Poker. By the time he entered college, he was playing regularly online. Shortly after entering college, he started playing live poker, and after two semesters, Cada left college to pursue poker full time.
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Cada’s venture into playing professionally thus far has gone relatively well. He has down a Sunday $750k Guarantee Event on Full Tilt for better than $147,000. Also, prior to the Main Event, Cada had cashed in two other WSOP events. He finished 64th in the $2,500 NL Holdem event and then finished 17th in one of the $1,500 NL events. Also, factor in the fact that Cada will finish with no les than $1.263 Million from the Main Event, and his career has a pretty solid start.
Cada is a very competitive person in general. He regularly plays soccer on two teams that he has been playing for all of his life. Cada also considers himself a very quiet person, and really isn’t comfortable with all of the cameras and the attention being put on him. He considers himself just a laid back type of guy. However, he did state that if he won the Main Event, he would embrace the title of “poker ambassador” and do what he can to help further the game as the world champion of poker.
Winning the Main Event isn’t out of Cada’s reach. He is smack in the middle of the field with 13.215 Million. One double up nearly puts him in 3rd place. He has a lot of chips with a lot of play left. Cada is confident in his game, not hiring anyone to help him improve. He says that he has provided a nice living for himself playing poker the last few years, so he is confident in winning. He even gives himself odds of 8 to 1 to win.
Will Joe Cada become the next Main Event champion? The final table kicks off on Saturday and heads-up play is on Monday.
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