World Poker Champion Joe Cada

Joseph "Joe" Each was born in Michigan, United States on November 18, 1988 and was the winner of the 2009 WSOP main event becoming the youngest player to achieve, "title" that was taken in 2010 by Jonathan Duhamel .

He started playing poker when he was 15 years in games 2 / 4 at Party Poker. At 16, and his brother Jerome Each pooled $ 25 to play online poker table and won $ 250 in low stakes games, money lost in a night tilt.

Joe Cada started college, Macomb Community College, at the same time playing online games regularly. Shortly afterwards he was introduced to the live games at a casino in Windsor (Michigan), where he enjoyed the taste of victory, which led him to leave college after two semesters to become a poker player full time.

Even before his victory in the Main Event, each had signed a contract with Pokerstarts poker site, who would be responsible for paying their hotels, travel and some buy-in. But it was in this tournament where he won the by now is his only bracelet. He started the tournament being the chip leader after Day 1C and reached the final table as the fifth player with more chips. However, at this final table was repeatedly to the brink of elimination growing to only 1% of the chips in play (to cover only four big blinds), with this outlook was difficult for anyone to bet on this player to be the cuff. However, reached the heads-up to face the Moon Darwin who won after 88 hands in an all-in preflop with 9 ♣ 9 ♦ Q ♦ against his rival J ♦ out on the flop 8 ♣ 2 ♣ 7 ♠ K ♥ 7 ♣.

Because this final anecdote that tens of fans of Each wore a shirt with the colors of the Michigan Wolverines with the words "Joe Cada Michigan PokerStars 'The Kid'" in the front and the Michigan baseball cap with the words "The Kid "in the rear.

In an interview after the victory he spoke of the controversy over the laws of poker: "... support the right to play poker online. Poker is a game of chance, it's a hobby, an activity, a game. It has to do with luck, is logical, decision-making, mathematics. We should be able to play poker on the Web if you want, and I think if we do restrict our rights illegal ...".

Currently thinking about buying a second home in Las Vegas and the opening of a bar.

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