Watch Joe Cada go for a second WSOP Main Event bracelet tonight!
Joe and his rail represented our university well in 2009 when he took it all after a brilliant call on a Darvin Moon semi-bluff and now he's back in the final table tonight and he's had his University of Michigan shirt on the whole way. He's mid/small stack which means he'll need one or two big hands to break his way but if so it would be the greatest feat in poker history. While the legend Johnny Chan won back to back decades ago, the quality of poker and entrant count was far inferior to what Cada negotiates now.
It'll streamed/shown semi-live tonight on ESPN and PokerGo for any other enthusiasts.
Go Joe and Go Blue!
Don't really follow WSOP these days, but will try to catch it since we have a UM alum.
Years back (2006, I think), a buddy of mine who is a Ross graduate finished #14 in the WSOP and ended up taking home over $900k. Good times.
Not sure if Joe attended UM of not but his primary backer in '09 Cliff Josephy did, and Joe is from Clinton Township. He and his mates are all avid Michigan fans as evidenced by how prominently they represent the university.
He's not actually an alum, just a fan.
But I believe he is a Utica High Alum!!! So there is that. Go Chiefs!!
UHS ‘14
Fuck Ike!
We’re very similar.
We both went to Utica High School and Eppler Jr High School
We’re both non-alum Michigan fans
We both had the same history book in 8th grade history. (Past students names are on the book owner side on the front cover)
Not an eppler grad, moved from Sturgis freshman year ( still orange and black!). yes fuck Ike and Stevenson. Ford who cares.
While we are throwing the fucks around, fuck sturgis. That is all.
Ha! Pretty cool story about the History book. I'll pass it along to him. He'll get a kick out of it.
Harbaugh is a pretty avid Phil Hellmuth fan. Hopefully he'll be a Joe Cada fan tonight (and the rest of the weekend if all goes well)!
Go Ike! Go Joe! And Go Blue!
Maybe he's even written a WSOP SuperGuide™!
I'll be rooting for Cada, but also for the current chip leader who is from Muskegon.
Although judging from Manion's hat, it looks like he's a Domer in which case boo this man!
An MGoReminder that Brian Cook played in the WSOP way back in the .blogspot days and wrote about it (stealing links from an MGoShirtless post..):
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/viva-con-dios.html
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/vegas-in-some-detail.html
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-live.html
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/busto.html
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/photographic-evidence-of-people-in-my.html
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/macarthur-but-defeated.html
Wow, I didn't know that. It's pretty impressive to have the confidence to drop $10k to play in the main event. I'd love to do it some day if $10k is burning a hole in my wallet. OTOH, I know I need more practice. I play $.02/$.05 at bovada.lv and I end up ahead maybe 50% of the time.
I believe he won a series of online tournaments, ultimately winning his entry to the big kuhuna.
Back then (and before and after) only a small percentage of the players pony up $10K. A significant percentage in many years were online qualifiers. Others play in through live satellites. Many more more have backers, including many of the pros. That's the only way I was able to cash.
Really, this is good to know. How do you qualify online? Which tournaments? I've never seen anything like this at bovada and they have a huge poker presence.
General info on qualifying:
https://www.uspoker.com/blog/how-to-qualify-world-series-of-poker-2018/21683/
Site that lists specific online qualifiers:
It's not as easy for US players since Black Friday. Poker Stars alone sent over 1000 qualifiers one year. Bovada is tiny compared to the action just a few years ago.
Also a reminder that tonight they're just going until the first 3 players are eliminated. Tomorrow they'll go from 6 to 3, and Saturday will be the final night of the ME.
Starts at 9PM Eastern
12-Jul9:00 PM – END ET WSOP Main Event: Day 8 – ESPN *** Nine to six players
13-Jul9:00 PM – END ET WSOP Main Event: Day 9 – ESPN***Six to three players
14-Jul9:00 PM – END ET WSOP Main Event: Day 10 – ESPN***Three players to winner
He's obviously played well but he'll need to open up his game or hope for some Manion-esque cooler to get amongst the chip leaders & truly contend. The pay jumps are huge so maybe he'll be laddering instead
Can someone explain the significance of this event? Aren't there like 15 events a year that are the "World Series of Poker" in which the winner gets a bracelet?
I also read a headline today that Phil Hellmuth won a bracelet, setting a record - is this event over? Very confusing.
Think of it like golf or tennis. There are lots of tournaments every year, but there are four majors. And of those four majors, there may be one or two that are viewed as more prestigous than the others. Yes, there are 60+ tournaments at the (American) WSOP (they also have a European WSOP and one in Macau as well). The type of poker game varies in each tournament (Omaha, Razz, Horse, etc.). The tournament structure varies as well. Among the different games, No-Limit Hold Em has the largest fields. Of these No-Limit Hold Em events, the main event is essentially The Major (golf and tennis analogy) of all the tournaments. The reason being the 10k buy-in, field size (several ways to satellite the tournament bringing total to 5 or 6 thousand players), deep starting stack (50k in chips now), history of the tournament, but most importantly prize payout (which is directly related to field size and buy-in) which is usually around $8 million for 1st and even $1 million for 9th. Because of this, it is widely considered the biggest and most prestigious tournament every year.
Thanks. So Phil Hellmuth looks to have won a "bracelet" but not for the main event, some adjacent event. Seems like "bracelets" are not really the same thing as "Stanley Cups" or even "majors", though winning the WSOP No-Limit Hold Em main event (and it's bracelet), would be.
Hellmuth did win the main event in the 80's unseating Chan who was going for a 3 peat. Hellmuth is an excellent tournament player who has won the most WSOP tournaments (i.e., bracelets). However he is also an insufferable douche who commonly insults table mates who take a pot off him for "playing poorly" next to his greatness. Most people you'd think would be pleased that the competition plays poorly, but to Hellmuth, anyone who plays a hand in a way that does not end up with him winning is playing poorly and thus bad at poker. Universally despised fellow.
I mean, I understand why the pros get pissed in these tourney things. Poor play is the equivalent of a kamikaze attack for those guys. I'm sure its maddening for people to show up in your profession, who have no business being there, and just wreck your shit over dumb play and luck. Bad players are incredibly unpredictable land mines that they have to navigate, and they kind of turn the whole thing into a circus.
Fair, but most of the hands Hellmuth calls "poor play" are not in fact that. He just uses that as a crutch to vent like a baby.
Correct. A bracelet essentially signifies that you won a WSOP sanctioned event (they gave out over 60 total this year). Much like if they give Dustin Johnson a trophy for winning the John Deere Classic (I don't know if they do that or not). He won a PGA-sanctioned event. He won some money. It just doesnt carry the same weight as winning a green jacket, U.S. Open Trophy, Claret Jug, etc.
The shirt Cada had on last night looked like it came straight from Walmart.
Joe Cada lives three blocks from me
Heres the Final table chip counts
Two Michigan people Cada and Manion (a US Mail carrier)
Michigan has 4-5 former WSOP World champions
- 1
- Nicolas Manion
- 112,775,000
- -
- Muskegon
- MI
- United States
- 2
- Michael Dyer
- 109,175,000
- -
- Houston
- TX
- United States
- 3
- Tony Miles
- 42,750,000
- -
- Jacksonville
- FL
- United States
- 4
- John Cynn
- 37,075,000
- -
- Indianapolis
- IN
- United States
- 5
- Alex Lynskey
- 25,925,000
- -
- -
- -
- 6
- Joe Cada
- 23,675,000
- -
- Shelby Township
- MI
- United States
- 7
- Aram Zobian
- 18,875,000
- -
- Cranston
- RI
- United States
- 8
- Artem Metalidi
- 15,475,000
- -
- Kiev
- -
- Ukraine
- 9
- Antoine Labat
- 8,050,000
- -
- Vincenna
- -
- France
I was in the audience briefly at the 2010 WSOP Main Event the year after Cada won it. I remember my dad and I were wearing Michigan stuff and happened to sit right next to his sisters at the feature table and they got very excited seeing our Michigan stuff. Met Joe at one of the breaks briefly. He seemed like a very very nice kid
I also attended that year. Was cool seeing Doyle Brunson blowing around on his scooter.
Hold ‘em is for bitches. Omaha’s where the men play.
Amen brotha
Cada advances to final table, but holy shit did anyone see the final hand???
AA vs KK vs KK
Lowest chip stack has KK (same suit as AA) and acts first, going in. AA has second highest stack and goes in. Second KK has him covered by only 8M, but calls. Crazy.