I doubt you will ever find a WSOP winner who didn't have a string of fantastic luck en route to winning. Not to say the winner isn't also good, but lots of them are good, so you're not going to win without being very lucky. "It's better to be lucky than good" is never more true than in a WSOP Main Event.
There is a difference between hitting a string of luck and playing like a complete moron and sucking out hand after hand. That's exactly what Cada did. Of course to win the main event you have to get cards and win races, but Cada was winning race after race where he put himself in bad spots and was a huge underdog and kept winning. Its not like Cada had AK and was up against pairs a bunch of times. Cada had lower pairs and was up against higher pairs in about 5 hands I seen and somehow was hitting set after set.
Cada is the least talented WSOP winner since Gold. It was a joke. Cada played terribly, so did Moon. So much luck involved in that table, I can't remember one hand where the best hand held up.
Ivey gets bounced by AQ against AK, it was awful.
Shulman gets his QQ bounced by what? 3s or 2s?
There were only 3 talented players at that table, Shulman, Ivey and Saout. Saout played suprisingly well, got his money in good over and over and still couldn't win. How one of these 3 didn't win astounds me.
Cada vs. Moon was like watching two 6 year olds playing with pennies. I also couldn't stand how they made Cada out to be some "online pro." He's not, and he's not even close.
Terrible end to a great WSOP.
Ivey gets bounced by AQ against AK, it was awful.
Shulman gets his QQ bounced by what? 3s or 2s?
There were only 3 talented players at that table, Shulman, Ivey and Saout. Saout played suprisingly well, got his money in good over and over and still couldn't win. How one of these 3 didn't win astounds me.
Cada vs. Moon was like watching two 6 year olds playing with pennies. I also couldn't stand how they made Cada out to be some "online pro." He's not, and he's not even close.
Terrible end to a great WSOP.
Sorry 4 players. Akenhead was also very talented and played well to get where he was, he was just never at a point where he had enough chips to make it count.
Akenhead finished 9th at both the WSOP M.E and the WSOP Europe. An amazing feat, the best since what Demidov did in 2008 finishing 2nd and 3rd.
Akenhead finished 9th at both the WSOP M.E and the WSOP Europe. An amazing feat, the best since what Demidov did in 2008 finishing 2nd and 3rd.
Cada didn't deserve to win, but it wasn't as though he was dead money at the table. From everything I saw, he seemed like a decent player. Just the hands they showed kinda make him look silly. If I played with Moon in a 1-2 NL game live, I am pretty confident he would be one of the weaker players at the table.
Agreed. Buchman played well. But he is not at the level of the four I mentioned. They are ten times better players than Schaffel and Buchman.
Anyway you look at it, the best player did not win. They didn't even finish second.
I believe that if Shulman's queens would have held up, or Ivey's AK, that either of them would have won. They were like NBA players playing against high schoolers. I forget who it was, but he asked Ivey to guess his hand, Ivey was frustrated with him, but guessed his hand spot on.
Moon making the top 2, is going to create an influx of dead money next year. Moon also seems like a guy who finished second this year, but might never play the tournament again, which would be interesting.
Cada vs. Saout. I remember Joe had 2s, I forget what Saout had, queens? Don't remember how the hand played out exactly, but preflop Cada opened it up with 2s, Saout came over the top HARD, and Cada put it all in with the 2s. It was an amazingly terrible play. I was mistified. Call it one mistake, it wasn't, he had a string of horrible plays.
this isn't true at all. The heads up match last 3.5 hours and Moon dominated the majority of it, something ESPN didn't show.....Moon started with 58 million to Cada's 135 million....but at one point Moon had 144 million and Cada only had 49 million, Moon just made a bad decision jamming his open ended st8 draw after the turn and handing a huge pot to Cada, for the majority of the heads up match Cada was completely owned, Moon certainly made some poor decisions during the final table but most of his play when it got down to 4 handed and heads up was outstanding.
