How close did Cada come to losing the heads-up battle with Darvin Moon?
Put it this way. At one point nearly every person on media row had his or her story written with the lead saying that Moon had won. That’s how much it appeared that Moon was going to win. Going into the night, most people thought it would be over pretty quickly since Cada had a significant edge in chips and heads up play. Moon said that he had probably only played heads up three times in the last two years. Cada plays heads-up every day online. But Moon stunned everyone by quickly taking the chip lead. The heads-up battle lasted 87 hands and for the majority of the four hours it lasted, it looked like Moon was going to pull off the upset. The key hand of the heads up match came when Cada made a great read and called Moon’s all-in. At the time Moon had a lead of about 25 million chips, but he was a huge underdog with his 8-7 suited against Cada’s J-9. Cada doubled up on the hand, got the chip lead back and then never relinquished it. 7. What did you think of Phil Ivey’s performance? I t
