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Joe Cada on David Letterman Tonight


2009 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Cada will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday night.

Um, yeah, that’s about it. We’ll post video when it’s available.

In completely unrelated news, the above video is of a hot Asian girl with big boobs in a bikini hitting golf balls (credit: With Leather).

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Joe Cada Should Go Back to College


Pictured above, what Joe Cada thinks about us thinking he should go back to community college.

Pictured above, what Joe Cada thinks about us thinking he should go back to community college.

Let’s start by saying this: we like Joe Cada. He seems like a good and modest kid, embraces the responsibilities of being poker’s ambassador for the next year, has a hot girlfriend, etc.

Soooo with that out of the way…Cada took to the 2+2 forum to defend his 2009 WSOP Main Event final table play, where the haters have come out calling him the ultimate luckbox for the past week.

Writes Cada:

“Lets first by saying if anyone thinks I’m denying I got lucky at the final table then im not. 2nd poker is very situational basis depending what has been going on, images , stack sizes , fold equity, hand ranges, etc so for people to make assumptions by seeing 2 hours of footage cut from 17hours is pretty irreasonable. On that note since its 4:15am im just going to copy and paste what I wrote from last post.

For all those people who I agree what I said thank you and for the others than thats fine to everyone is subject to there opinion. Did I get extremely lucky during the final table of the main event? Yes I did, but as an extreme critic to my self play I was not mad about how I played any hand even though I got lucky.”

It goes on more but our eyes had exploded by that point. Now we’re further away from our educational days than we care to admit, but if the above is a demonstration of how smart people write these days, then fuck us all. Checkmate, China.

View the full thread here. More on Cada dropping out of community college here. And if you haven’t been watching it, see why Cada dropped out of community college by watching Community here.

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Joe Cada Interview at 2009 WSOP Main Event Viewing Party


Watch WSOP 2009 Viewing Party at ESPN Zone on RawVegas.tv

ESPN just aired the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table. They held a viewing party at the ESPN Zone in New York New York with Joe Cada.

In our latest episode of the The TOKE, we caught up Cada, where he revealed that he’s gotten backer-free, that he hasn’t heard yet from Letterman or Leno, and if you’re one of his friends trying to hit him up for cash, he’s had his cell phone off for almost two days, so try again later.

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Joe Cada and Darvin Moon Exit Interviews


Watch JOE CADA IS YOUNGEST WSOP CHAMP on RawVegas.tv

RawVegas.tv got some interviews with Joe Cada and Darvin Moon right after heads-up play wrapped at the 2009 WSOP Main Event early this morning.

Moon seems in good spirits despite his loss…which $5M can magically do for you.

Just realized that like last year and 2006, the runner-up is going to end up with more money than the actual winner. In related news, who cares.

Great though Darvin ripping the interviewer for the question about the difference between first and second. Salty Darvin?

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Final 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table Heads-Up Photo and Link Dump


Who's the bigger winner tonight? Mikey!!!

Who's the bigger winner tonight? Mikey!!!

The final table went about two hours longer than most of “us” figured. Darvin Moon, a ginger logger, played better than many thought he was capable. “Some” might even say he outplayed Joe Cada. But in the end, Cada prevailed, becoming the youngest WSOP Main Event champ in history. (Side note: the above photo kind of has a Steve Dannenmann/Salty Joe Hachem feel to it, doesn’t it?)

As we noted earlier, while the final table itself was excruciatingly long, there was a ton of drama on key hands and a great storyline of Joe Cada coming from 2.3M in chips to become the eventual winner. Should easily be the most compelling final table from a TV perspective in poker history.

A flood of news from the past couple of days, so in case you missed anything, follow the links:

:: Darvin Moon said at the press conference that he had a criminal past and then told us he was “just kidding.” But he does. And then there’s this too. Just when you thought you didn’t know a guy…
:: This former Playboy model said her mouth could only fit so much. Hee-hee!
:: Dani “Ansky” Stern joins the Brunson 10.
:: The final final table Inside Deal.
:: Jeffrey Pollack‘s final 2009 WSOP vlog.
:: Mike Sexton‘s Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
:: AlCantHang tweeted: “Dennis Phillips pounced upon Darvin Moon when he left the cage.” Which reminded us of this.
:: More of The Maven.
:: Dr. Pauly‘s play-by-play of the final table action.
:: And finally, thank you to whoever gave us our all-time favorite Google search hit: is phil ivey black. Really? You need Google for that?

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