Cada vs. Moon: The Main Event goes heads up
By PokerlifeGuide • November 8th, 2009
And when play reconvenes at 10 p.m. PT Monday, it will be 21-year-old online poker pro Joe Cada looking to become the Main Event’s youngest champion versus Maryland logger Darvin Moon, with an opportunity to shock the poker world to its core.
After a four month delay, the Main Event final table started slowly, but it wasn’t long before a crowd of thousands in attendance at the Rio’s Penn & Teller Theatre in Las Vegas were treated to a plethora of action.
Although he came in short, things appeared to be looking up for James Akenhead, when he tripled up, sucking out with king-queen against Eric Buchman’s ace-king on a miraculous river card.
However, he was cooled out of those chips doubling up short stack Kevin Schaffel with kings against aces soon after.
A few hands later, he got it in with threes against Schaffel’s nines and went out ninth.
“I feel like I played my best; I didn’t make any mistakes,” he said. “Obviously I’m very disappointed, but I went in as the short stack and I had to get it in and gamble.”
Soon after, Schaffel though he had found some more good fortune, getting it in with aces again – this time against Buchman’s kings.
“(When you see you have aces over kings) you think this is your time,” said Schaffel. “It had just happened three or four hands earlier, so you think this might be it. This might be my day.”
And then a king appeared in the window.
“I wanted to throw up,” joked Schaffel. “Good thing I didn’t eat a big breakfast.”
A forth king came on the turn and suddenly Schaffel was out eighth.
Start-of-day leader Darvin Moon then gifted Steven Begleiter almost 18 million chips, folding to his shove on a four-high flop with two spades for just six million more and handing Buchman the chip lead.
The players went for a two-hour dinner break and returned to see Cada fall into a very short stacked position after doubling up Shulman.
Antoine Saout then moved into the lead when he doubled through Begleiter getting it in with two overs and flush draw against Begleiter’s second pair and finding his flush on the turn.
Cada then doubled through Buchman to get some breathing room before winning a huge coin flip against Phil Ivey to leave Ivey as the short stack.
Soon after, Ivey open-shoved from under the gun with ace-king and Moon made the call with a dominated ace-queen only to flop a queen and send the consensus best player on the planet out seventh.
“I lost that pot (to Cada) and then I just got grinded down,” Ivey said.
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