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Tournament: Concerns over Cada’s big WSOP win?
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At last week’s World Series of Poker Final Table, twenty-one-year-old online poker sensation Joe Cada took down the Main Event title, the gold bracelet and US$8.5 million for just over a week’s work at the tables. He also earned the attention and scrutiny of the mainstream media, many of whom have displayed more concern about a young man earning so much money so fast through what they consider a game of luck.
Their concerns may not be entirely unfounded. Second-place finisher Darvin Moon owed much more of his success at the final table to catching good cards than playing skilled poker, giving the lie to the oft-heard statement among experienced players that poker is a “game of skill”. Moon admitted that, in terms of poker skill and experience, every member of the November had him outclassed, although he outlasted all but one of them.
Despite the fact that Cada was not allowed to play in a US-based casino until early this year and that his win marked his first time participating in the prestigious World Series of Poker, he gained much of his experience playing online tournaments and heads-up cash games, as well as traveling to Canada and the Caribbean to practice his skills against live opposition.
While many media members congratulated the youngster on his tremendous win, some said that his win at such and early age may cause other young people, struggling in entry-level jobs or cramming in late-night study session in colleges and universities, to abandon such career paths and take up poker or other forms of gambling for the “easy money”. In Cada’s home state of Michigan, the unemployment rate is over fifteen percent, while casinos in the Detroit area are flourishing.
Dennis Martell, the health services coordinator at Michigan State University, said that Cada’s success may inadvertently lead students into problem gambling. He said that nearly twenty percent of the students, most of them males, at the East Lansing campus reported that online gaming disrupted their studies. He stressed the “perfect storm” of the poor economic outlook in the state, the expansion of local casinos and a generation of young people raised on “point-and-click” gratification.
14-Nov-2009, 16:04
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