Call them luckboxes, say they run like God, but today’s poker youth have one thing in common — the one thing that separates them from others: They have no fear.

Take the latest example — 2009 WSOP main event champ Joe Cada. The 21-year-old was one of the most active players at the final table.

Cada open-raised 41 of 276 hands before play went heads up and took the blinds and antes 23 of those times. In those same hands, Cada won eight before the flop by three-betting his opponent and forcing them to lay down their hands. Late in the tournament he forced Antoine Saout to fold to a four-bet.

Amazingly, Cada only saw 18 flops before play went heads up.

That’s not to say Cada played brilliantly — he was certainly lucky. Cada was all-in pre-flop eight times — six of those his tournament life was at stake, two of which his opponents won’t soon forget.

Cada went all-in before the flop with pocket threes against Jeff Shulman’s jacks and hit a three on the flop — then Cada four-bet all-in with pocket twos against Saout’s queens and you guessed it, spiked a deuce on the flop.

He also beat Phil Ivey with pockets fours to Ivey’s A-8 and crippled Saout with his A-K against Saout’s eights.

“I wouldn’t change much,” Cada told an online poker site. “Some of the situations were unfortunate. Luckily I sucked out, but that’s part of the game.”

Suckouts have always been a part of the game, but if you’re going to take away anything from Cada’s win, it’s that ultra-aggressive pre-flop play is now one of the biggest parts of the game.