Joe Cada Wins the World Series of Poker
1-liner, Poker November 10th. 2009, 11:30amJoe Cada Wins WSOP: Joe Cada, a 21-year-old community college dropout, won the World Series of poker. The last man standing from the field of nearly 6,500 competitors hauled in $8.55 million. Cada is the youngest champ in WSOP history. [Bloomberg]
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:32 am
In future news, Joe Cada blew away the $8.55 million he won in the WSOP on coke, strippers, steak buffet, Jim Beam, and percoset.
/to the lifestyle.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Joe cada > Jon Secada
November 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Dammit. When can Phil Ivey win this thing? Love that guy.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
spoiler alert! Oh wait, its in the title. Too late.
/doesnt give a shit
//someone might
November 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
He’s broke in 2 years. Bet.
Watching how young the field is in pro tourneys these days is incredible, especially the WSOP Main Event.
Good questions for Doyle can come of the youth movement, TBL.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Dammit. When can Phil Ivey win this thing? Love that guy.
Not sure that a true pro will ever win the WSOP again. Because of the amount of players out there now, so much is given to luck. That’s why, in my opinion, it’s going to be some nobody winning it so long as the pool of players remains gigantic.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Because with fields this large, it’s 99% luck, 1% skill. It’s doubtful you’ll ever see a “name” poker player ever win it again.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Cash games are more fun to watch anyway. That’s where you see real skill in poker. Jamie Gold, who won the WSOP a few years ago, went on High Stakes Poker on GSN to play in a cash game format with pros and he was like a fish out of water. None of his schtick that won him the WSOP mattered worth a damn in the cash game.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
So Phil Ivey doesnt win?
November 10th, 2009 at 11:44 am
He does, alot, but there’s a big difference in tournament play versus cash games. Ivey destroys people in cash games, but in tournament games, his abilities are blunted. He’s like a casino…you may be up on him inteh short term, but long term he will crush you. In tournament play, he doesn’t have unlimited time to destroy you (even though he does pretty well for himself).
November 10th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Looks like Jay V is off the hook for spoiling this thing.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:44 am
So Phil Ivey doesnt win?
He wins smaller tournaments were you don’t have thousands of people playing, because it’s less about luck and more about skill. He does very well in cash games too, which is where most professional poker players earn their living.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I personally like cash games better.
But it is also a different style of poker, not all players succeed at both even if they are seasoned pros.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:48 am
The impressive part about Ivey and a few other pros is how many top 50 finishes they have at the WSOP this decade, with the field being massive. That shows more skill than one guy winning once and never being heard from again.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I like the tournaments with different games. Omaha high low, and that one that’s Horse. Too much Hold ‘em this year on TV.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:51 am
But it is also a different style of poker, not all players succeed at both even if they are seasoned pros
Exactly, you’ll see seasoned pros go out of tournaments fairly quickly a lot. Sammy Farha go to the final against Chris Moneymaker a few years ago and that’s probably the best a pro has done until Ivey this year.
WPT on Travel Channel is good too.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Love Omaha high-low.
If you get a house cash game going and start getting rounds of other games like Omaha, the hold-em players will but you new shoes every week.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Sammy Farha go to the final against Chris Moneymaker a few years ago and that’s probably the best a pro has done until Ivey this year.
Well that’s silly. Dan Harrington finished 3rd and 4th in consecutive years, which is better than Ivey, twice, I’m pretty sure.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am
WPT on Travel Channel is good too.
It is better. Actual pros and not a bunch of online kids pissing their pants and making decisions based on whimsy and not skill.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:56 am
was a bit surprised this still gets viewership, thought interest died out a couple years ago.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am
> Jon Cena > Jon Seda (actor from Homicide) > Joe Mama
November 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am
TBL poker tourney would be neat. wonder if that could be done online
November 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am
I would prefer it if everybody stayed more casual about All-Ins prior to say the 8th day of the main event.
I hate Phil Helmuth, Phil Laak, Humberto Brenes, and all those guys, except Mike Matusow.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am
do they still have that smokin girl as the “host” or whatever…forgot her name
November 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
wonder if that could be done online
I would hope so. I have the worst poker face.
@ wilhelm - people still eat up the big stars, and the main event. They showed at least 18 episodes of just the main event.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
When Joe Rogan begins hosting the event, you’ll know it’s officially in trouble.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Norman Chad is awesome at poker commentary.
P.S. My wife’s seen every minute of every poker aired WSOP tournament since 2004, and she still gets confused when a guy with two Aces loses.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Well that’s silly. Dan Harrington finished 3rd and 4th in consecutive years, which is better than Ivey, twice, I’m pretty sure
Mea culpa. I knew I was forgetting someone.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Helmuth is my favorite. People see his antics but forget he’s correct 99.9% of the time.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Well that’s silly. Dan Harrington finished 3rd and 4th in consecutive years, which is better than Ivey, twice, I’m pretty sure
Harrington’s two books are The Word.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Correct. I’ve read and reread them several times.
Doing a TBL tourney would be possible. I play on Pokerstars and they have a feature allowing you to set up your own poker games. I haven’t done it myself but I know it can be done.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Harrington’s two books are The Word.
for tourney poker yeah…but if you want development of overall skill, both cash and tourney…you go with David Skalansky. 2+2 publishing (think they also published Harrington’s book, though not certain). They also have a website for people talking cards.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
TBL Holiday Charity Game? I’m in.
/keep it fair… keep it fair.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
The poker sites can host private tournies you need a password to get in to. Doyle has his own site. When he is on here maybe you can work something out with him to have a weekly Big Lead tourney on there. Where at some point during the week you reveal the password on the site and everyone can use it to play in the tourney. I dont know if you could get sponsors to donate anything, but maybe you could get some prizes somehow?
And hats off to Cada. Regardless of what was said above, he is a good player and appears that he will be a good ambassador for poker.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Anybody who has a pokerstars account with a certain amount of VIP points can ask support for the ability to create custom tournies with a password. Any stakes, any game(s).
November 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Cada is the youngest champ in WSOP history
No, no he isn’t. Steve Billirakis is the youngest WSOP bracelet winner. Cada is just the youngest *main event* champion in history.
And Cada isn’t collecting all of the $8.25M… Cliff Josephy and Eric Haber had like 60% of him, so they get most of the money.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
cada and eastgate, last years winner, are both pros. theyre not big name pros but they play online for a living. i know eastgate played $25-50 NL online which is about the equivalent of $100-200 live. he is more of a pro than 90% of the guys that you know by name.
its easy to set up a private tourney on pokerstars
November 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
My thoughts were have people send something to TBL Godfather. He gets the $$$, then doles out the codes to people who get in… then people play for a prize and a title, with half going to a charity of TBL’s choice. Just a thought…. But I would play 1x a month or something like that if people were setting up a semi-routine game… couldn’t do 1x a week (anymore)
November 10th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
well lets make this poker tourney happen. im down
November 10th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
i know eastgate played $25-50 NL online which is about the equivalent of $100-200 live.
I’m curious what you’re basing that on.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
you see at least 2x as many hands an hour online vs live and i am assuming he multitables
November 10th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
it’s more than 2X I bet duder. Back when I used to play online I bet I saw 4X plus I multitabled. Then again the only casino close to here with poker is usually slow as fuck
November 10th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
you see at least 2x as many hands an hour online vs live and i am assuming he multitables
Gotcha.