A Professional Player’s Profile

Joe Cada is a widely supported online Poker player taking the industry by storm. Get the full low-down on his career, experience and future with this exclusive player profile

At age 22, Joe Cada has a lot to vouch for, as one of the world’s best online and offline Poker players. Cada is a relatively new face on the Poker scene, yet his short but successful career has already made a memorable impression on the industry and won him more than just winnings. Following his big win at this year’s WSOP event, we take a look back at some of his greatest wins, plus recap on the latest.

Cada, originally from Michigan’s Shelby Township, began taking classes at the Macomb Community College. Yet shortly after his start there, he realized that his future lay in professional Poker, and made the decision to transition from the academic to the real world. Within a short time, he began imprinting his name onto the industry. He entered his first World Series of Poker tournament just after his 21st birthday, where he cashed in at Event 13 in 64th place and at Event 34 in 17th place. He raked in a total of over $28,000. He was knocked out of the tournament only by Bertrand Grospellier, a PokerStars Team Professional, with a harsh defeat that has stayed with him since.

Cada proceeded on to the 2009 WSOP Main Event, for which he earned a seat on July 15 by taking down no less than 6,494 other players. The event, which wrapped up on the 10th of November, was worth a gold bracelet and a minimum of $1,263,602.

Cada entered the final table with 13,215,000 chips, enough for fifth place. On Day 8, he managed to double that amount with a pre-flop all-in won with pocket Aces against pocket 10’s. With the added ammo against his teammates, Cada continued to put up a good fight, even taking on Phil Ivey a handful of times.

Cada proceeded on to the final table up against Antoine Saout and Darvin Moon. He quickly eliminated Saout and his pocket Queens with pocket Deuces, and went on to play Moon with a whopping 135 million chips to play. It took 88 hands, yet Cada triumphed, and set the record as the youngest ever Main Event winner in WSOP history. With so much achieved in such little time, the sky is the limit when it comes to his future!