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JOE CADA ABOUT TO MAKE POKER HISTORY

November 9, 2009

The 21-Year Old Come Back Kid Aims at $8.5 Million and the title of Youngest WSOP Champ
WHAT: Joe Cada sits as chip leader and is about to make history at the 2009 World Series of
Poker as the youngest winner in the history of the Series earning $8.5 million
WHERE: 2009 World Series of Poker- Main Event Final Table at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino
in Las Vegas, NV
WHEN: Final table play begins on Monday Nov 9 at 10:00 PM PST
The World Series of Poker Main Event began with 6,494 entrants two months ago. Now only two
players remain. The 2009 final table began on Saturday afternoon with the final nine players and
ended around 6 a.m. PST Sunday with Darvin Moon and chip leader, Joe Cada, sitting at the final
two seats.
At 21, Joe Cada is about to make poker history if he can outlast Darvin Moon, a logger from
western Maryland. Cada will become the youngest Main Event winner in the history of the World
Series of Poker. Team PokerStars PRO Peter Eastgate, who won last year at 22, currently holds
the record. Cada and Moon go head-to-head Monday night with play beginning at 10:00 PM PST.
The two will battle for the top prize of $8.5 million at the World Series of Poker, and for Cada, a
part of history as the youngest WSOP winner.
The 21-year-old Michigan native has been playing poker for six years. Cada couldn’t play in U.S.
casinos until he turned of age last November. But he played in Canada at 19, and he could also
play in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas as well as the PokerStars Latin
American Poker Tour in Costa Rica.
Cada began playing poker online at PokerStars.net. By the time he began college, he was playing
online poker so well that he withdrew from college to become a fulltime poker player.
“It would be pretty amazing if I did beat Peter Eastgate’s record,” Cada said after play ended on
Sunday. “This is surreal; I feel very fortunate right now. I might as well go buy a lottery ticket while
I’m at it!”
Cada is being labelled the ‘come back kid’ based on his historic comeback after being shortstacked
with eight players left. Cada currently holds a 9 to 4 chip lead over Moon and is now on
the verge of making history with his unexpected comeback. Cada sits with 135,950,000 chips,
while Moon holds 58,850,000
The 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table will resume on Monday at 10pm PST at the Rio All-
Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

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