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Joe Cada came into the World Series of Poker Main Event as an unknown community college dropout.

He went out on top, becoming the youngest to win poker's showcase tournament at the Rio and walking away with $8.5 million.

The 21-year-old outlasted Maryland logger Darvin Moon in a nearly three-hour heads-up match early Tuesday morning to win the tournament's $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'em championship.

Cada had one of the most unusual runs to the World Series of Poker title after reaching the final table of nine in sixth place.

Several times Saturday night and Sunday morning, he was on the brink of elimination, but he battled back, often thanks to a favorable river card.

He closed out Moon on the 364th hand with a pair of nines.

Moon, 46, won nearly $5.2 million for finishing second.

Cada will split the prize 50-50 with two Detroit-area gamblers who bankrolled his entry into the World Series of Poker.

MONDAY

FLU KILLS BOY

The Clark County coroner's office said a 6-year-old North Las Vegas boy died from H1N1-related causes.

It was the first local death of a child from causes related to H1N1, also known as swine flu. The boy, Daejon Meadows, died the previous Thursday at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center from respiratory failure, H1N1 and sickle cell anemia.

TUESDAY

THE SHOWS MUST GO ON

A District Court judge refused to drop the curtain on two high school plays that some parents tried to stop to because of their "mature content."

Green Valley High School was allowed go forward with productions of "The Laramie Project," which deals with the murder of a gay college student in Wyoming, and "Rent," about starving artists coping with AIDS and addictions.

WEDNESDAY

HELLS ANGELS RAIDED

Las Vegas police served search warrants at six locations throughout the valley amid criminal investigations into the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, including a brawl last year that resulted in the stabbings of two rival gang members.

The fight broke out in December at a downtown wedding chapel when members of the gang ran into three members of the rival Mongols motorcycle gang, who were there for an unrelated wedding.

Police did not release details of the other investigations into the Hells Angels.

THURSDAY

DON'T JUDGE ME

The Nevada Supreme Court ordered Family Court Judge Robert Teuton to vacate his position, saying the appointed judge's term ended Jan. 5.

The high court said state law required Teuton to face election on Nov. 4, 2008, since he had been appointed the previous August. But Teuton was appointed three days after the deadline to change the ballot for that election.

Teuton plans to file his candidacy in January for a full term.

FRIDAY

BOY SHOOTS AT CAR

A 7-year-old boy fired a 9 mm handgun into an unoccupied vehicle while waiting for his school bus to Ries Elementary School in southwest Las Vegas.

About 45 children were waiting at the bus stop, but no one was injured, Clark County School District police said.

Police determined the 7-year-old boy brought the stolen gun from home and showed it to another 7-year-old, who took it and fired. The boys were too young to be arrested, and the investigation was ongoing.