Literally. Most flips won from behind. Insane good run.

Sometimes poker is...just poker,

He played phenomenal just to get there in the first place. And if you look at each situation individually, really all of his shoves were standard except for the 22 vs QQ one. And in that one if he just plays normally and calls the 3bet pre he's doubling through the queens on that board regardless. Anyway, obviously he got extremely lucky to win the main in 09. But considering his track records before and after his 09 win, he was always gonna make it big.

Luckiest guy alive! Some of his all-ins where ridicolous. But lady luck helped him every time.

09 definitely was a lot luck, as every ME champ needs luck to win, but his run in 2018 ME as well as this years monster stack shows he is a crusher. The guy that won the monster stack one when dominated multiple times and cada got 7th from a 3 outer jack on the river. Just the nature of poker.@@AlcatrazHR

You said everything

Darvin moon was a beast how did he pass on

He passed away? When did that happen? Played with him in a short deck game a couple years ago. Didn't even realize it was him til I knocked him out and someone said it was him. Barely said a word.

@@denisfolcik1373 sadly he died after some surgery

Cada just sucked his way to the bracelet.

@@patrickmcphee770 If there is ONE thing I absolutly hate players doing, is slowroll to show their cards, after THEY been called. Like Cada does vs Ivey 4:27 in. He looked so uncomfortable jamming, and almost seemed embarrasing to show his 44.

Moon didn't do much wrong though... He got lucky but he wasn't doing anything stupid... When Kopp went all-in with a small flush on a paired board as 2nd stack vs Chip Leader was insanely bad... even Moon's call was pretty bad with 2nd nut flush... but when I look back on the hand, Kopp was very unlikely to have KK, 99, or 22, and probably not nut flush... more like ace of diamonds and maybe K9 or a 2. In that situation I would have folded the 35d after Moon check raised when the board paired.

Nice try cleaning up... but he was a snot - or didn't you notice him disrespecting Moon after he knocked out certain players - guess you only saw the highlights!

I think Cada's final table was exceptionally lucky, at least up to that point for televised poker. That said, Cada made it back to the final table recently so it's not like he's an awful player who got lucky one year.

@@mrmacrossexactly but I love when people say he got lucky, yea he did but no way you can win with all skill, most people who say that just envy him that it wasn’t them

Shoving 22 against a better player and a better hand, for your tourney life with the worst hand possibly, no blockers and yet manage to win..that's an idiot with a lottery ticket not poker.

ryan depaulo previously put it beautifully when he repeatedly said "get it in bad, suck out on the river, that's the plan all along"

That's what makes these tournaments so crazy. You have to win coin flips.

He just decided to coin flip over and over lol

Uhhh he got it in with 33 against JJ and flopped a 3. And shoved 22 against Saouts QQ and flopped a 2. How did they not out play him?

@@seankiesling2054 getting it all-in preflop doesn't let anyone really out play each other

@@christianu5440 they got him to put his money in extremely bad. Regardless, if that's the case then no one can say he "didn't give anyone the chance to out play him" if he just got all the money in pre

Only took him 9 years!

@@Romans8-9 you know how fucking hard it is to make the wsop MAIN EVENT FINAL TABLE

@@benmuffie665 not that hard obviously as 9 of them make it to the final table 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@leprechaun7667 right out of 8000 people its super easy. Man do you think you proved a point or something? Cause ya just sound really dumb

Do it once maybe it's a fluke. Do it again and you're the real deal. Sure, Joe got very lucky at the final table in 09. But he played phenomenal to get that far. And when you consider his story, that he bought his own house with 100% down payment (no mortgage/loan) when he was 19 years old, whether he won the main that year or not he was always gonna make it big in poker. Also won 2 more bracelets in 2018 btw.

Hero call? Heads up middle pair is like pocket kings.

cmon that’s not even the toughest call on a paired board heads up

@@cbrreezzyy69 HU in the main event would make those kinda decisions alot harder. its not like playing a 100$ heads up tourney at your local casino lol. Also Moon was a donk who got extremely lucky to make it to 2nd place. Back then players that bad could make deep runs lol

J9 is pretty strong there but indeed it would be a much more interesting hand than all the impossible to get away from allin situations in these videos

was

No but it’s how isn’t it. Throwing 40BB in with hands like 22 and 33 is only ever a bluff! You can’t be called by worse holdings and when he was rightfully called, he hit the 2 outer. Very very lucky player. Doesn’t know how to play a pot after he’s been reraised so he thinks All-In will work when tbh it’s a donk play. If he wasn’t such a luck box, spectators and commentators would be saying how badly he played.

It doesn't help that he has a cold, harsh, scowling face. Because he looks like a sadist, he could feed the world and still be hated.

@@clintonmanning6433 but if you gonna look for other WSOP champions other years highlights, they were also lucky just like him, shipping all in with short stock with worse hands. I would say to win WSOP you need to be more lucky then skilled I guess.(65% lucky, 35%skill)

@@sag1nbaev I completely agree with you, everybody gets lucky at the WSOP but it is how that makes the difference. If he was simply reraising with 15BB then it wouldn’t be such a donk play, it just is what it is but to throw 40BB away after you’ve been reraised is another situation entirely and any pro knows that unless you are sure you’re being bluffed, the All-In there is a bad play over 90% of the time. He did it twice when he was sitting with a healthy stack. Saout, the man that came 3rd in 2009 was so unlucky. He had the stack and did everything right and lost an 80/20 and a 50/50. When you get deep it’s massively about the luck. Probably more like 85-90% about the luck as the best hand usually always wins unless you are a madman like Qui Nguyen.

@@clintonmanning6433 the 33 shove was for like 17bb. And while the 22 shove was very reckless, in a blind v blind battle, the majority of the time he's gonna get Saout to fold. That said the 40bb shove was excessive I agree with you. But if he plays it normally and just calls the 3bet, on the ensuing board he's always going to double through the queens so while his play for that hand was terrible no matter how he played it he was getting the double up. And I agree with the OP. I for one love Cada, I think he's a classy dude and a great player regardless of how lucky he got in 09. Compared to some of the other ME winners in the 2000s, he was without question one of the best.

Argument is normally valid but he placed 5th in 2018 lol, i think he’s pretty good. This isnt a Jamie Gold or a Jerry Yang

@@BlanBlan19901990 among all the main event winners from 02-09 Cada was very clearly the most talented. Being lucky does not mean you are bad... plus is it not unlucky to have a pocket pair dominated blind v blind?

This dude also has 4 bracelets btw

I will.

I will 🙂

Did he get lucky when he got 5th at another main event?

@@BlanBlan19901990 was more a comment on how you need to be on the right side of the variance.

@@BlanBlan19901990 Yes. To make the final table involves an extreme amount of luck. To make it twice you have to be one of the luckiest men alive.

PokerStars style lol

*small pair

Yes he got lucky, but watch (there's a video of all his hands) him play...he shifted gears like Cada never did - stop with the fanboy stuff, youth is mostly arrogance, and most fade.

@@shadowdawg04 Most fade? Hilarious considering Cada has three other bracelets and final tables another main event. Moon was pretty much never seen again in the poker world.

But you can say that about any winner of a mega-field tournament like this. Sure the luck was more obvious with Cada to win 2 final table all-ins as a 4 to 1 dog, then winning two massive flips at the end, but every winner of a tournament like this gets very lucky. Maybe for some it's simply winning flips as opposed to winning twice at the final table as a 4 to 1 dog, but the luck is still there for those large field tournament winners too,

He’s a 4 time bracelet winner and 2 time main event final tablist, I bet he’s decently skilled at poker lol

I remember that. He was heads up with an asian who couldn't believe Cada's luck. This one is just as bad. 'Luckiest man alive' should be the title of the wsop tourney.

Isn’t that awesome? Getting Lucky 🍀

How did he win his other braces he has a lot of luck

Yeah thats how he won the main event lol shut up nh

I think all the money still going all in on the flopped sets anyways. But yah super lucky

He made FT in 2018 and he has multiple bracelets. Calling him a fish is disrespectful tbh.

He has 4 WSOP bracelets how many do you have?

He's a damned good player. Luck is a part of the game. But still the 2-2 and 3-3 suck outs were disgusting. They both came on the flop so the results would be the same but still. To make those kinda moves pre flop and get lucky sucks

There's a huge difference between making a move and getting there vs calling down bad and getting lucky. The latter is the fish.

How many bracelets do you have?

@@Drulou 0...???

@@_Chris_D_3004 exactly

Theres a video set, five parts I believe...great watch!

Yes you do and he did......got lucky.

@@patiencezero-xc9zl Exactly. Lucky as f''k.

​@@drizzle952Cada has main event final tabled twice. His last FT main event was 2018. Hes a 4 timed bracelet winner and knows how to beat massive fields. Keep crying donk

@@stapes7344 Crying? Lol. You saying he wasn't lucky?

@@drizzle952 You have to get lucky to win a massive field. DUH! Doesnt mean hes not a great player

Forget jerry yang or jamie gold

I think the allin was less than 10bb. As he stated, 'I was looking for a reason to fold'. When you open and a 10bb stack jams you are statistically supposed to call almost everything, even A8o.

Hands shown - Player All in vs him with A5s vs 88 And Cada holds - player All in with small stack with 10’s and Cada losses with Aces - player all in with A8o Cada wins with 44 - Cada all in with 3’s and double vs JJ - Cada all in with 2’s and sucks out and doubles vs QQ - Player All In with 88 vs Cada AKo and rivers a K - Cada big chip lead heads up shoves with 99 vs JQs and wins WSOP Crazy he should have been out twice with being completed dominated. And then that K river with AK Vs 88. Crazy because that would have crippled him. Well done though, every player at final table has sucked out numerous times and coolered numerous times. So well done Mr Cada