American poker fans who are intrigued by the newest – and youngest – World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion can now play for a chance to spend a day in Las Vegas with Joe Cada, sponsored by PokerStars.
Starting a new year is always daunting – resolutions, dieting, recovering from big-time spending. PokerStars is offering U.S.-based players a break from the January blues with a promotion that features a five-night trip to Las Vegas, spending money, a seat in a live PokerStars event, and a day hanging out with young WSOP champ Joe Cada. The best part is that this promotion is completely free of charge: freerolls will be held every day between January 6 and February 12 at 21:00 ET; the top 45 players will advance to the Weekly Finals, to be played on January 10, 17, 24 and 31 as well as February 7 and 13 at 17:30 ET. The weekly finals will award 18 seats to the Grand Final each, and the final 108 players will face off on February 13 at 21:00 ET for a once-in-a-lifetime Las Vegas trip and the opportunity to spend some time up close and personal with the youngest WSOP Main Event Champion to date, Joe Cada.
Long gone are the days when a 24-year-old Phil Hellmuth held the record as the youngest Main Event winner. Cada has set a nearly unbreakable record by winning the WSOP at the age of 21, ousting last year’s young champion, Peter Eastgate, who was 22 at the time of winning the much-coveted Main Event bracelet.
Cada dropped out of Macomb Community College in his native Michigan to pursue a full-time poker career and was quickly rewarded for his courage by becoming part of last year’s November Nine, facing tough competition that included the famous and universally dreaded Phil Ivey. After a long final table and 88 hands of heads-up play, Cada defeated Darvin Moon to win $8,546,435, a place among champions, and a new WSOP record.
