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?
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Darvin Moon, Joe Cada, November Nine, Poker News
Joe Cada became the youngest ever winner of the WSOP Main Event.
Joe Cada has won the
2009 WSOP Main Event.
The 21 year-old Cada banks $8.5M for the win (although really after paying off his backers, Johnny Bax and Sheets, then paying off the Fed, it’s closer to 2.5Mish, but whatever). Cada is now the youngest ever WSOP Main Event winner, beating Peter Eastgate’s record from last year.
Cada defeated Darvin Moon, a ginger logger, for the title.
Watch ESPN on Tuesday night to see how it all played out. Should make for great TV.
Because it’s already gotten buried on the site, below is the press conference from earlier today with Cada and Moon. According to the video, looks like Cada is about to hit the Palms and party up with the Maloofs. Have to say, we liked his answer on being an ambassador for the game and we hope he follows through.
Watch 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table Press Conference on RawVegas.tv
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Darvin Moon, featured, Joe Cada, November Nine
Ginger logger Darvin Moon didn't waste any time in chipping up against Joe Cada.
Much like the day ended yesterday with big hand after big hand,
Darvin Moon, a ginger logger, took down a monster first pot at the
2009 WSOP Main Event as his Queens bested
Joe Cada’s nines.
Darvin has pulled to close to even, as Cada is down to around 100,000,000 and Darvin is up to 85,000,000.
Buckle your seat belts!!!
(kidding about that last sentence…don’t buckle a fucking thing).
UPDATE: Lots of big pots. One way or another, this will be over quickly.
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Darvin Moon, Joe Cada, November Nine
Watch 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table Press Conference on RawVegas.tv
The
WSOP held a press conference at the
Masquerade Square inside the Rio for
Darvin Moon and
Joe Cada.
After Nolan Dalla (who would make an excellent ring announcer) did the introductions, “they” opened it up to the press for Q&A.
Moon actually sort of addressed that he has a criminal past (not in the video), saying that “we” could look it up, then saying that he was “just kidding.”
But more importantly than that, it looks like Joe Cada might’ve already won…in that he has a smoking hot girlfriend.
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, Darvin Moon, Joe Cada, November Nine
This is slightly different than what our reaction would be...slightly.
The Entities who comprise
Wicked Chops Poker are known to be a lot of things: handsome, well-endowed, and even possible of hitting someone with the occasional zinger.
One thing we’re not known for is being gracious at losing.
So let’s just say that if our hopes of winning a WSOP Main Event title that everyone was pulling for us to win was dashed as our A-K was cracked by a ginger logger’s A-Q, then the LAST thing you’d see us doing is calmly taking a bite out of an apple when the Queen hit on the flop, as Phil Ivey did.
The more likely would reaction would be something like yelling, “You effing ginger logger! Eff you! How the eff do you not take a sponsorship deal??? What’s wrong with you??? Eff principles! And eff everyone here! Eff eff eff!”
Ivey’s reaction soon thereafter was wildly different too, as he was reportedly on Tilt playing Omaha Hi/Lo 30 minutes after leaving the Rio.
Also, as seen below, the Humphrey’s reaction to Ivey’s all-in was different too…kinda cute, actually.
These awesome pics are courtesy of Everest Poker.
Tagged as: Darvin Moon, November Nine, Phil Ivey, WSOP Main Event
The two guys next to the two guys in the middle should be the ones playing for the 2009 WSOP Main Event title.
In between excruciating periods of nothing happening, the 2009 WSOP Main Event final table like no other on Saturday. It’s overall length and the gut punch of Phil Ivey’s elimination were hard to watch live… but it will make ridiculously good TV, regardless of how the heads-up match goes between Joe Cada and Darvin Moon.
Anyway, here are our final thoughts on the final table (a Q&A of sorts) before heads-up play on Monday night begins.
:: Who *should* be playing heads-up for the title? So who played the best yesterday? Of course we won’t completely know the answer to this until we see some hands on TV, but an argument that Phil Ivey and especially Antoine Saout (trust us, KILLS us to admit that) deserve to be playing for the 2009 WSOP Main Event title. Ivey picked his spots well. He nearly doubled his stack at one point. Had he either won his race with A-8 vs. Joe Cada’s 4-4, or won his A-K vs. Darvin Moon’s A-Q, Ivey would’ve been a force. You could tell Ivey was grinding away at this and really wanted this. As for Saout, had his pocket Queens not been cracked by Joe Cada’s ducks, he’d likely have the chip lead going into heads-up play. From what we saw, Saout didn’t make one misstep along the way.
:: Who *shouldn’t* be playing heads-up? Not really hard to make the argument that Darvin Moon played the worst out of the final table-ists. He made a few questionable plays, including a donk-off of his stack when he literally hit nothing of a flop against Antoine Saout. Not sure if someone gave him advice to be more of a bully with his stack, but Moon doesn’t play enough or have the skills yet to make those kinds of reads/play.
So while Moon played the worst, Joe Cada was DEFINITELY the luckiest. Cada ran like Moon did pre-November NineTM. He literally hit every card he needed and won every race. Cada was down to 2M chips at one point, super short-stacked, but basically won every pot he played after that. It was sick. Not that Cada is a bad player. To the contrary he is very good. He was just once-in-a-lifetime lucky yesterday.
Anyway, for an interview with the lucky-to-be-there Cada and Moon from USA Today, where Cada was humble enough to admit that we all have permission to hit him if he ever bitches about a bad beat again in his life, go here.
:: Who is this year’s Dan Nassif? Dan Nassif finished 9th in the 2006 WSOP Main Event. Never heard from him since. Gut is that probably will be Steven Begleiter this year. Just a feeling we won’t see much of him in the future.
:: Who is this year’s Michael Binger? If you’re looking for a guy at this final table to go under-the-radar and keep cashing and making a decent living with little fanfare, that would be Eric Buchman. He was already doing that anyway. He might not exactly be the cult of personality, but dude can play.
:: Who is this year’s Tuan Lam? In case you forgot, and there’s a good chance you did, Lam finished second to Jerry Yang in the biggest turd of a WSOP ME final table ever back in 2007. If Darvin Moon does NOT win tomorrow (and we don’t think he will), you’ll never hear from Moon again (and he’s probably OK with that).
:: Will Phil Ivey ever make the WSOP ME final table again? Lots of talk about this among the so-called poker “media” and on forums. Our general take is this: Ivey is 32. He’s made 4 top 25 WSOP ME finishes this decade. He’s better than everyone else. He’ll be back. Doesn’t necessarily mean that he’ll win one, but he’ll be back sometime in the next 20 years.
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, Darvin Moon, Joe Cada, November Nine, Poker News
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