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PokerStars weekly roundup: 16 November 2009

Cada crowned champion of the world.
Joe Cada, a 21-year-old from Michigan, became the youngest ever World Champion of Poker last week when he
won the final table of the main event in the Penn and Teller Theatre at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Ahead of 6,494
players who started the event back in July, Cada triumphed in the long awaited final table, beating poker legend
Phil Ivey, fellow PokerStars players Kevin Schaffel and Eric Buchman and the chip leader for most of the final
Darvin Moon, having started fifth in chips and at one point having just 1% of the chips in play. The heads-up duel
was one of huge swings and the odd pair of nines, all of which can be read about on the PokerStars Blog
(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/wsop/2009/wsop-crowns-joe-cada-youngest-main-event-061007.html). Cada’s
reward for his astonishing comeback – the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet and the small matter of
$8,546,435.
The Sunday Million becomes the Sunday $2.5 million
PokerStars (http://www.pokerstars.com) was setting new records last weekend when the PokerStars Sunday
Million became a celebration of the $250 million in prize money already earned by players since the flagship online
event began. To mark the occasion PokerStars ensured there was a $2.5million prize pool, that’s an extra million
to the usual prize pool, earning the eventual winner more than $365,000. It also coincided with a new record for
players online on PokerStars at the same time when 317,000 were recorded playing at once.
The thriller in… Cebu
The latest leg of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (http://www.appt.com) came to a conclusion over the weekend at the
Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa in Cebu, Philippines where Dong-bin Han from Korea became just the second
Asian-based player to win a leg of the tour in what was only his first major tournament
(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/appt/2009/appt-cebu-korean-victory-in-asian-paradi-061243.html). The 37-year-old
outlasted a 319-strong field made up of the region’s best players winning the first prize of PHP 7,410,000
(US$160,000). The prize pool of PHP 29,086,420 (US$622,036) made this the richest event of its kind on
Philippine soil. The tour now heads south to Australia (http://www.appt.com/tournaments/sydney/) for the final
event of the third season, the grand final at Star City in Sydney. It all starts on December 1st.

Sunshine, beaches and the EPT Vilamoura
The next leg of the European Poker Tour (http://www.ept.com) is underway in the Algarve region of Vilamoura
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/vilamoura/index.html) in Portugal. It’s yet another new
destination for the tour which this year will feature 13 stops, including first time visits to Kyiv
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/kyiv/) and the Austrian Alps
(http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/snowfest/), as well as Portugal. Several hundred players have
descended on Casino Vilamoura to capture the first EPT crown from these parts and the name of that winner will
be known after the final table on Sunday. The tour then takes a week to head back across Europe to the Czech
capital Prague (http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/prague/ ). In the meantime coverage from the
front lines of EPT Vilamoura can be found on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com) .
Tournaments in all corners of the world
In true PokerStars fashion, if one tournament is finishing somewhere two more are starting somewhere else
around the world. As the EPT (http://www.ept.com) touches down in Portugal the same is happening in Costa Rica
where the next leg of the Latin American Poker Tour’s (http://www.lapt.com) third season starts this week in Playa
Conchal (http://www.lapt.com/tournaments/playaconchal/). It’s the second time the tour has visited these parts, the
last time being in season one when Valdemar Kwaysser, a PokerStars qualifier from Hungary, turned $200 into
$280,000. This year the Paradisius Playa Conchal Resort will be home to the tour, starting on Thursday. Follow all
the action on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com).
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