Joe Cada Interview with Bernard Lee
Joe Cada is the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion and joins Bernard Lee in his latest installment of “The Hijack Seat” right here on Poker News Daily. Cada, before he won the biggest tournament in the world, was an online Heads-Up cash game specialist for three year prior. He had gone through a few terrible runs before blazing a trail to the Final Table and the November Nine. At that fateful Final Table he faced the likes of Phil Ivey and Darvin Moon, and was able to recover from having less than just 1% of the chips at the table to go the distance and win poker’s most prestigious title.
Cada is a Michigan native and grew up playing soccer with his entire family. Sports was a big part of his life until he was 16 when he “got lazy and started playing poker full time” from his home online. He continues to play live tournament events and online cash games at PokerStars, where he is a featured sponsored pro.
In this episode of “The Hijack Seat”, Bernard Lee talks to Cada about being the reigning champion and the pressure that goes with the title. They also discuss poker and how things have gone this year, as well as Cada being asked the trademark four questions from the Hijack Seat. During that part we learn what Cada’s favorite hand is, what game he likes most outside of No Limit Texas Hold’em and a player he thinks will make a huge jump in the near future in the world of poker.
Bernard Lee is a special correspondant for Poker News Daily and can also be heard on the airwaves in the New England area on his poker radio show. He is also seen on ESPN’s web poker news show “The Inside Deal” and is the official spokesperson for Foxwoods Casino.
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Poker lexicon:
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
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