Congratulations to the 22 year old Joe Cada who won the 2009 WSOP main event, taking home a massive $8.5 Million USD! He defeated the stone faced logger Darvin Moon, who himself had some ‘luck’ on the final table to make his way to 2nd place over all. For the full round up, head to the official WSOP site

1. Joe Cada – $8,546,435

2. Darvin Moon – $5,182,601

3. Antoine Saout – $3,479,485

4. Eric Buchman – $2,502,787

5. Jeff Shulman – $1,953,395

6. Steven Begleiter – $1,587,133

7. Phil Ivey – $1,404,002

8. Kevin Schaffel – $1,300,228

9. James Akenhead – $1,263,602

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888 World Poker Crown

May 17, 2008

©2008 PKR Pete – The 888.com World Poker Crown, hosted at the Peralada Castle in Barcelona is over, and coming out on top was Jack Hinchley, a Canadian plumber.

The World Poker Crown is a unique tournament which saw a total of 2,200 online poker players duke it out for a spot in the 8 person strong televised offline final table. It ended up being a European and Canadian table, and leading the chip count was: Jack Hinchley (349,000), Bjorn Van Bavel (41,000), Mark Castonguay (52,000), Piotr Stanislaw (102,000), Bart Wetsteijn (139,000), Michael Lawson (207,000), Bert van Doesburg (38,000), Mark Roessler (58,000).

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