Wearing a maize and blue University of Michigan shirt, 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada (pictured), known as jcada99on PocketFives, won his second bracelet on Monday. According to WSOP.com, Cada snapped a rather dubious streak for Main Event winners in the process: “Since Carlos Mortensen won the Main Event in 2001, then followed it up with a second bracelet in 2003, no subsequent Main Event winner has been able to return to the winner’s circle.” So much for that.

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Cada’s win came in a $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event that brought out 264 entrants. First place was worth $670,000 and, perhaps more importantly than the money, the win solidified Cada’s place in poker history and ensured that he won’t go down as a one-hit wonder. He told WSOP staff, “This is definitely up in the top three [events I wanted to win]. The Heads-Up $10K, the Six-Handed $10K, and the $25K… I think those are the three next best events [after the Main Event].”

In the end, it was a battle of players with November Nine experience, as Cada defeated fellow PocketFiver Jeremy Ausmus heads-up. The latter started heads-up play with the chip lead, but in the defining hand of the tournament, Cada called all-in before the flop after Ausmus 5bet. Cada flipped over 8-8, while Ausmus showed A-J of diamonds for a coin flip.

With 93% of the chips in play up for grabs, the flop came 10-7-2 rainbow, keeping Cada out in front with a pair. The turn was a second diamond, providing plenty of drama for those in attendance at the Rio in Las Vegas, but the river was a brick and Cada doubled up, taking a 13:1 chip lead. Five hands later, Ausmus (pictured) ran jacks into queens to give Cada his second gold bracelet.

Perhaps PocketFives karma was in play, as Cada told us in an exclusive interview in March that he had been commuting between Michigan and Ontario in order to play online poker and continue gaining experience: “You get more hands in online. You can also learn easier online than live. I’ve been playing online almost every day of the week.” He has made the final table in three of his last four WSOP cashes.

Cada is the 13th PocketFives member to win a bracelet this year, and members of our community have earned over $11 million from WSOP final tables. To top it off, Cada had to navigate a final table that consisted of four bracelet winners and a former WSOP Player of the Year. Here’s how the group cashed out:

1st Place: Joe jcada99Cada – $670,041
2nd Place: Jeremy Ausmus – $414,104
3rd Place: Max Silver – $273,646
4th Place: JC Tran – $185,971
5th Place: Erick Lindgren – $129,192
6th Place: Dario Sammartino – $91,670

Speaking of November Niners, Joseph subiimeCheong (pictured), who finished third in the Main Event the year after Cada won, is second in chips in Event #36, a $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball tournament, with 38 players left. He’s trailing Brian tsarrast Rast and the field also features Phil Hellmuth in 11th place. Rast and Hellmuth have already made one WSOP final table apiece this year. There were 241 entrants.

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