Friday, November 13, 2009
Youngest poker champion-Joe Cada sets world
record
LAS VEGAS, USA -- Joe Cada
(21) of
Shelby Township, Mich., a poker professional who chose cards
over college won the World Series of Poker main event winning
$8.55 million and setting the new world record for the Youngest
poker champion
.
Photo: Joe Cada, 21, is the youngest
champion ever in the World Series of Poker. / Reuters photo
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Cada's record-breaking win breaks a record
for the tournament's
youngest winner
set last year by 22-year-old Peter Eastgate
of Denmark. The previous Guinness world records holder for
the title of Youngest
poker champion
, Phil Hellmuth, held the record for
over two decades. He was 24 when he won for the first time
in 1984.
He battled 41-year-old logger Darvin Moon
and at one point held only one per cent of the chips in play.
Cada, who turns 22 next week, took home $8.5 million early
Nov. 10 when he outlasted Maryland logger Darvin Moon (and
6,492 other competitors) at No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em to win
the sport's biggest prize.
Joe
Cada turned over a pair of nines early after 46-year old Darvin
Moon called his all-in wager with a suited queen-jack, setting
up an about-even race for most of the chips on the table.
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"I ran really well and I never really thought
this was possible," Cada said. "It was one of those dreams
and I'm thankful it came true."
He told reporters: 'Luck always helps. I'll
take all the luck I can get.' The player was virtually unknown
when he started the competition, but he is now worth approximately
£5.1million.
The finale pitted the youthful professional
- who makes a living playing poker online - against a self-employed
logger who, until this year's World Series of Poker, had never
been on an airplane or gambled for high stakes.
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Friday,
November 13, 2009