![]() ![]() ![]() It seems like a waste.”Īll this is a preamble to a counter-intuitive truth about Cada: It’s not about the money. I just don’t feel right going out and buying a $100,000 car or something super expensive when my family is working hard. I won a few million last year and I didn’t buy a new car. “I don’t think I’m frugal, it’s just that I’m not into material things,” he says sitting at his kitchen table in early September in a backward baseball cap, ragged T-shirt, and loose-fitting gym shorts.“I still wear these clothes that I had in high school. Even though in the subsequent decade he has won more than $5.5 million in live tournament poker - to say nothing of what he has won online, which is not tracked publicly - there is little about his world or demeanor to suggest he is so wealthy. These two items comprise Cada’s sole splurges in the years after he, at 21, took home an $8.5 million prize as the youngest-ever World Series of Poker Main Event champion in 2009. Yet the home and the deluxe SUV are pretty much the only tells.
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