The battle for the World Championship of poker is done and we have a new champion. Here's a recap of heads up stage; if you don't want to spoil your suspense ahead of the ESPN final table broadcast, don't read further.

The name of the new champion is Joseph Cada, 21, from Michigan, USA. The online pro was the expected winner but the Maryland logger Darvin Moon did not go down without a great fight, lasting 3 hours and 88 hands.
In the very first hand heads up, Moon won a big pot with pocket queens against Cada's pocket 9's on a board of K32 A K, and that set the tone for the match for a long time. Moon played very aggressively, apparently taking Cada by surprise with his approach, and he soon took the chip lead despite starting with a 1:2.4 disadvantage.

Moon was leading approximately 145m - 54m when he was drawing for the tournament win. Cada raised 3m, Moon called. Flop T95 rainbow went check-check. Turn another T, Moon checked, Cada took a stab at it with a 3m bet, Moon answered by check-raising all-in. Cada thought for a long time before finally making a tough call with J9. Moon turned over 87s for a 7-outer, but the river was a blank and Cada doubled up to chip lead.

In the course of the following hands Cada was able to widen the gap, until just 8 hands after doubling up we saw the decisive hand - and again it was because of a questionable call by Moon. Cada made another preflop raise to 3m, Moon re-raised to 8m, Cada went all-in. Moon checked his cards and made the call for approximately 70m total - with just QJ suited. Cada had pocket nines again, and this time they were good. Flop 872 was excellent for Cada, who couldn't bare to watch and went to the stands to his backer Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy while Moon stood by the table staring at the cards. The turn was a scary looking but safe K, and the river... a 7, and Cada's supporters' roar probably made the roof of the Penn & Teller Theatre jump a few millimeters.

The players shook hands and exchanged a few words, and then Darvin Moon walked out of the stage and the limelight of the poker world, while tearful Joe Cada received his bracelet from the hand of the WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.

Cada is exacly 21 years and 357 days old, and that makes him the youngest World Champion ever. He started playing poker at 15, making a $50 deposit to PartyPoker with his brother Jerome. They ran it up to $250 before losing it all in one tilt session. Since then Joe has come a long way. At 19, when his friends were trying to find the money to fund their college education, he was already buying his first house with his poker winnings. He stayed in college for two years before turning pro.

1. Joe Cada $8,547,042
2. Darvin Moon $5,182,928
3. Antoine Saout $3,479,670
4. Eric Buchman $2.502.890
5. Jeff Shulman $1.953.452
6. Steven Begleiter $1.587.160
7. Phil Ivey $1.404.014
8. Kevin Schaffel $1.300.231
9. James Akenhead $1.263.602

Source: Pokernews.