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If you play poker and watch a poker game on TV from time to time, you probably already know Phil Ivey, a Pro Team member at Full Tilt.
If you’re like me and also listen to what the players on these shows have to say, you can hear that most of them have the upmost respect and fear for Phil Ivey with statements like: “I’ll play anyone, except Phil Ivey” or “You can choose anybody in the world to team up with, except Phil Ivey”.
Every other Pro seems to be afraid if Phil Ivey joins the table.

What makes him so feared? Is it that he reads hands like the best? Or that you can’t put a tell on him? Or the way he rolls his eyes searching for information on the table?
Probably it’s this combination that makes him the most feared player in the world and he has a record to prove it.

In the WSOP he made 35 money finishes so far and won 7 Bracelets. He’s also the youngest player ever to win 7 bracelets.
In this year’s WSOP Main Event, he played one of his best Poker ever and earned himself a place in the November Nine where he finished 7th, earning $1,404,014.
Besides the WSOP tournaments he also plays games in the WPT and EPT which made him a stunning $12,000,000 so far.
Makes me wonder what his winnings are with regular cash games?

A special hand I recall that shows Phil Ivey is also human like the rest of us, is a play during this year’s WSOP main event where he’s folding a winning hand.
He’s holding pocket 8’s and after the river card was drawn he made a flush. Smith (his opponent) checked as did Phil Ivey. Smith showed his pair of Aces that he made on the river.
But Phil Ivey who always tries to look at his cards only once and very quick, made a mistake. He probably was thinking he had the 8 of diamonds and of clubs. Instead he had had the 8 of spades and a Flush on the river. After he saw Smith’s Ace, he mucked his cards without even looking at them again. (See video for the play).

Whenever I see Phil Ivey play, I try to learn how he’s playing, what hands he plays and how he’s playing them. If anybody can teach you to play poker it’s Phil Ivey.
You can also learn from him if you follow the lessons on Full Tilt

Joe Cada, is this year’s Main Event winner of the World Series Of Poker. By winning he also broke last year’s winner Peter Eastgate (22) record for the Youngest WSOP Winner ever with his 21 years.
Together with the $8.547.042 prize money he won his very first Bracelet.
In the 3 hours heads-up session against Darvin Moon he proved to be the better one. He had a big advantage at the start with his 135.950.000 chips against Moon’s 58.850.000 chips but it proved to be a tight game.
The last and winning hand #364:
Cada: 9s9c
Moon: QdJd
Cada raises pre-flop to 3 million from the button, Moon think’s about the bet and re-raises to 8 million chips. Cada looks at his cards 2 times and decides to go All-In. Moon does the same and call’s the All-in risking his tournament.
The crowd is going wild. Dealer flops: 8c 2c 7s. Cada is still in the lead and only 2 cards away from WSOP 2009 victory.
On the Turn the dealer draw’s a Kh, still no help for Moon who senses his tournament is over with only 6 outs left.
When the dealer turns a 7c on the River, the crowd is ecstatic. Moon congratulates Cada with his winning and takes home the $5.182.928. 2nd prize price money. Not bad for a logger from the state of Maryland. Moon said that he initially was thinking about cashing his Main Event seat which he had won. A good thing he didn’t

Cada self is a young professional poker player who quit school to play pro. His parents were against his decision, but after they saw how good their son was at it, they came back on their decision and gave him their full support.
Cada made the good choice and is living the dream.

To end up the post, the full result of the final table.
1 $ 8,547,042 Joe Cada
2 $ 5,182,928 Darvin Moon
3 $ 3,479,670 Antoine Saout
4 $ 2,502,890 Eric Buchman
5 $ 1,953,452 Jeff Shulman
6 $ 1,587,160 Steven Begleiter
7 $ 1,404,014 Phil Ivey
8 $ 1,300,231 Kevin Schaffel
9 $ 1,263,602 James Akenhead

Congratulations Joe!!!