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Event #3 of the 2018 WSOP was bagged by Joseph "Joe" Cada, who outlasted a total of 363 entries, winning the prize money worth $226,218 plus a gold bracelet, thereby bringing his total WSOP bracelet count to 3.

After he won the title in 2009, Cada was considered as the youngest WSOP Main Event champ in the history of the annual poker festival. At that time, he had to battle it out with another WSOP Main Event winner at the final table, 2015 champion Joe McKeehen. Even though he had the chip lead for most of the time at the final table, McKeehen had to settle himself for third place after his pocket sixes got beaten by Cada's pocket kings, with both of them hitting sets on the board.

To win WSOP bracelet and title no. 3, Cada had to knock out Sam Phillips. Once again, it was pocket sixes that made a huge impact in the match's outcome, but this time the sixes were the winning cards and Cada had them, crushing the ace-rag of Phillips thereby decimating his nice stack.

After winning the event, Cada said, "It's tough to win any no-limit event. You have to get really lucky and I ran really well. There were points in the tournament where I could've easily been on the sidelines."

This was the fourth biggest live tournament score for the 30-year-old poker player from Michigan. His two biggest wins came from the Main Event for more than $8.5 million and his title run in the 2014 $10,000 WSOP six-max NLHE event for $670,041.

Now, Cada has a total of lifetime live earnings of over $10.7 million!

2018 WSOP Event #3 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Final Table Results

Source:
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/06/joe-cada-wins-2018-wsop-3k-no-limit-hold-em-shootout-30982.htm