Joe Cada Poker Fan

Joe Cada was previously thought as the unknown player in the WSOP 2010, but for the 2011 round he is one of the familiar ones. Last year, Joe Cada was not a household name. Now, he certainly is. Rookies have had a profound impact at the World Series and this year should prove to be no different. Throughout the past month, we have previewed several of these rookies. Most have recently turned 21, but other young players have been on the European Poker Tour and will be bringing their games to the Rio this summer. Here's a look at several WSOP newbies you should keep an eye on:

Joe Cada could be replaced in this years NBC Heads Up Championships. Trickett will fellow Brits James Bord and Liv Boeree if the reports are true.

This does make perfect sense as it’s hard to think of another player in finer form right now, with a 1st and 2nd in two of the biggest buy-in events ever at the Aussie Millions plus a WPT final table earning the UK pro almost $3 million this year already.

Joe Cada finished in the eleventh place in the PCA on Wednesday. “It’s a really tough field, there aren’t many weak spots at all, but that’s what you are going to get from a $25k buy-in,” said Joe Cada, who followed up his 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event with an 11th place finish at the PCA $25k Wednesday.

David Fishman is set to face Joe Cada along with many other stars in an event. David Fishman faces David Williams, Joe Cada, Phil Hellmuth, William Perkins and Phil Laak for 150 hands of cash game poker. Taping for the second season of the Big Game will take place in 2011.

Tom Dwan, David “Viffer” Peat, Eli Elezra, Alan Meltzer, Patrik Antonius and Gabe Kaplan play another week of cash game poker to conclude the 2010 season of Poker After Dark. The week of January 3 starts a brand new season, kicking off with a $100,000 buy-in sit n’ go.

Joe Cada will be hosting the All In For Cerebral Palsy celebrity charity poker tournament at the poker room. Proceeds from the event will benefit the One Step Closer Foundation, a non-profit organization whose main goal is to ease the lives of those who suffer from cerebral palsy through financial freedom and social acceptance.

Main event champion Joe Cada has defended his move that was seen as slightly controversial. Cada's move drew criticism, but a year later he maintains "there are reasons for what I did." Whether or not you agree with his play, here is Cada's thinking at that final table.

To recap, five players remained, blinds were $300,000-$600,000 plus a $75,000 ante, and Jeff Shulman opened under the gun for $1.75 million. Action folded to Cada.

After Joe Cada's victory last year, this year's WCOOP winner is guaranteed to win at least $2 million, according to PokerStars, and that's unheard of for an online tournament. Joe Cada beat out a field of 6,494 to win $8,546,435 at last year's WSOP. This year's winner stands to win $8,944,138 for coming out on top of the 7,319 field.

Canadian poker pro Joe Cada started up lately on his PokerStars blog about the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker and the World Series of Poker. A strong performance at the 2009 WSOP saw Cada cash three times for over $8.5 million. The biggest of those cashes wasn’t claimed until November, when Cada made his way through a Main Event Final Table that included such players as Eric Buchman and the legendary Phil Ivey. His win made him the youngest Main Event champion ever, picking up his bracelet just short of his 22nd birthday.

Joe Cada’s title defense officially starts as he sits down for the 2010 main event. It’s been a tough summer for the young champion, as he has struggled to get anything going. According to the entrants lists that the WSOP provides, Cada played 17 WSOP events in 2010 with zero in-the-money finishes.

Cada sat down with Card Player TV recently to talk about this summer, how it compares to last summer, and his hopes for the main event.

In the 2009 World Series, Cada’s first since he had just turned 21, he cashed in two events before his main-event run.

A new breed of internet poker players who have honed their gambling chops online are facing off against old-school competitors, bringing speed and aggression to the world's biggest tournaments, which I found out about in a little investigation I did for Wired.