Joe Hachem...

[JoeM]

..is the real deal.

Discuss.

[uclabruinz]

Post of the year.

[AThermopyle]

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Post of the year.

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Reply of the year.

[betgo]

Betfair has him as 85-1 to make final table, with D. Brunson and Lindgren at 80-1, so I assume some people think he is a strong player.

[pineapple888]

Where's that Garry Coleman "Who gives a f*ck" photo when you really need it?

[Xellos]

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Where's that Garry Coleman "Who gives a f*ck" photo when you really need it?

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I assume this is what you are looking for.

http://images.ugoto.com/attachments/ee58fa268e422c7.jpg

[DVaut1]

He just got busted by John Gale and finished 4th in the PLHE event, back to being a complete donk whose skill is up for debate I guess.

[Jackie Onassis]

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He just got busted by John Gale and finished 4th in the PLHE event, back to being a complete donk whose skill is up for debate I guess.

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Nice.

[El Diablo]

D,

Hot bustout, too:

73. Joe Hachem raises to $38,000 from the small blind and John Gale makes the call from the big blind. The flop comes Kspade4club3club and Hachem bets the pot of $76,000. Gale makes the call and the turn comes the 8heart. Hachem moves all in for $90,000 and Gale makes the call. Gales shows Aclub3diamond for a pair of threes but Hachem turns over Kdiamond9heart for a pair of kings. The river is the Aspade and Gale spikes two pair on the river to eliminate Hachem in 4th place.

nh, John. Looks like stacks were about 400:200 at start of hand.

Definitely a very strong showing for Hachem already this year.

[DVaut1]

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Definitely a very strong showing for Hachem already this year.

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Yeah, but navigating the near-6000 player field in the most prestigious event in the world, along with FTing a WSOP Circuit event and finishing 2nd to Dutch Boyd in the $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed Event earlier this year still left me, and apparently the OP, questioning whether or not he was "the real deal", or perhaps just some kind of fake deal. Had he won today, and perhaps 5 or 6 other bracelets at this World Series, that question maybe would have been settled. Now we're just left to wonder.

[Jackie Onassis]

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Yeah, but navigating the near-6000 player field

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LOL

[pineapple888]

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Where's that Garry Coleman "Who gives a f*ck" photo when you really need it?

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I assume this is what you are looking for.

http://images.ugoto.com/attachments/ee58fa268e422c7.jpg

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Yeah, that's the one. TYVM.

[Army Eye]

Gale ended up winning the bracelet after making that call with A3. That's kind of depressing.

[nath]

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Post of the year.

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Reply of the year.

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Deep quote of the year!

[FoxwoodsFiend]

My impression of him is that he was willing to fold his way into the final table with a short stack. He just happened to pick up hands at the right time and got a stack up once he got there. I'm not saying he's a bad player, but he did seem a bit passive in the money from sweating the tournament.

[Bill Murphy]

IIRC, his Hendon Mob page was pretty similar to Fossilman's pre-WSOP win=lotsa good results in ~$100-$300 tourneys; and word was he was a big winner at medium sized NL & 100-200 limit cash games, a la Greg.

Similar players, good enough to put themselves in position to get lucky(which has to happen), and then smart enough to know what to do when they do get lucky.

Props to both Joe & Greg, and Bill Chen too, same deal there.

[Ignignokt]

Remember that Hachem was not able to travel abroad to play until last year's WSOP, severely limiting his opportunities to enter large tournaments.

Also, people miss the fact that he final-tabled in event 37 ($1K NLHE w/rebuys) in 2005, so he didn't come completely out of nowhere in the ME.

[rothko]

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Definitely a very strong showing for Hachem already this year.

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Yeah, but navigating the near-6000 player field in the most prestigious event in the world, along with FTing a WSOP Circuit event and finishing 2nd to Dutch Boyd in the $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed Event earlier this year still left me, and apparently the OP, questioning whether or not he was "the real deal", or perhaps just some kind of fake deal. Had he won today, and perhaps 5 or 6 other bracelets at this World Series, that question maybe would have been settled. Now we're just left to wonder.

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he's only 2nd in points for wsop '06. clearly, joe moneymakered the win last year. he still has some time and bankroll left to try and accomplish something else, but it's really looking like he has no game.