Re: Was Hachem being unethical?
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After some time Hachem turns to Watkinson and says "I know what you have."
Watkinson replies "You know what I have? OK tell me what I have."
Hachem says "There are other players behind you I can't say yet but before the cards are turned over I'll tell you what you have."
Watkinson claims to have folded QQ and Hachem says something like "Of course I knew you had QQ."
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i don't see any reason to believe that Hacham actually knew what Watkinson's hand was in this spot. he didn't, after all, tell him before the cards were turned up or even before Lee told him what he had himself.
if i were a totally impartial observer of this hand, i'd see him angling about as hard as he could for more callers.
the problem that arrises for Minh is that say Hacham actually does know two hands at the table, his (AK) and Lee's (AQ) then he could be telling Lee the truth but not be able to advise Minh properly before seeing his cards. In fact, there's only a couple hands (duh) that his JJ isn't in great shape against, especially considering the size of the pot yadda yadda.
so yeah, i'm unconvinced that a) Hacham knew anything more than his own cards b) anything shitey went down here.
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