The new World Champion will be decided later today (10pm local time / 1am ET / 7am CET) at Rio's Penn & Teller Theatre in Las Vegas. Here are some comments by the heads up players, if you still want to keep the suspense ahead of ESPN's final table broadcast, don't read any further.


Joe Cada and Darvin Moon seem to be so different from each other they might as well come from different poker planets: Cada is 21 and an online pro with tons of experience in heads up play, Moon is 46, doesn't even own a computer and has played heads up once before in his life.

What they have in common is that both got lucky as hell to get to this stage.

"Back home we always get down to two and chop," Moon explains his lack of heads up experience to Pokerlistings.com. "It'll be a learning experience. He's better than me, but I'm confident. They say he's some kind of specialist heads-up online. I'm not online to watch or see, so we'll just see what happens."

As for Cada, he knows he must be the big favorite, but as his own run shows, anything can happen.

"I was surprised at how many hands (Moon) played against me," he told his local newspaper, the Detroit News. "He didn't play that many against me when we were on the same table before the final table. Going into heads up I feel pretty confident. I have a lot of experience playing heads-up; I play a lot of that online. I don't think he has a whole lot of experience, but it's poker and anything can happen."

Cada has spent endless hours studying and thinking about strategy, whereas Moon's approach to the subject is not so sophisticated.

"I'm sorry," he said. "Can you give me the definition of strategy?"

Sources: Pokerlistings and Detroit News.