Official 5 Diamond Championship Thread

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Joe Hachem has just won the 2006 WPT Bellagio Five Diamond Championship. For first place he takes home a gold and diamond Championship Bracelet, a $25,500 seat to the WPT Invitational, and a cash prize of $2,182,075.

[daedalus]

paaass me the sugah!

[UMTerp]

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Whadda we think? Hachem KK vs. JJ?

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I can't imagine Hanna folds an overpair only 50 BBs deep heads up with the pot laying him 3:1.

Hachem could easily play a hand like 77 or 88 that way. I think it's more likely he was trying to figure out if he had odds to call with overs. Though the continuation bet seems rather large if he only had overs. Who knows.

[daedalus]

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Whadda we think? Hachem KK vs. JJ?

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I can't imagine Hanna folds an overpair only 50 BBs deep heads up with the pot laying him 3:1.

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yeah but I can't imagine he bluffed at the pot with a bet of $3M.

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So, is Hachem > Raymer now, in the ranking of recent WSOP winners?

[Whitewash]

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Whadda we think? Hachem KK vs. JJ?

77. Hachem raises to $450,000 and Hanna raises an additional $900,000. Hachem thinks for a few moments before making the call. The flop comes 965 and Hanna bets $3,000,000. Hachem moves all in and Hanna thinks for several quiet minutes before folding his hand. Hachem rakes a huge pot.

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Underpair might make sense with that line.

BTW, I think it's much more likely Hachem had QQ-AA than 77 or 88. He is more likely to push with the middle pair since he's gonna have no clue where he's at with most flops, and a big pair makes sense with cold calling the reraise in order to get the guy for all his chips on the flop.

[daedalus]

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So, is Hachem > Raymer now, in the ranking of recent WSOP winners?

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Easily. He's rocked since he set foot in the U.S.

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So, is Hachem > Raymer now, in the ranking of recent WSOP winners?

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Results >Decisions too

[chicken10der]

I am just in awe of this guy's results since winning the 7.5. WSOP Circuit final table, 2 WSOP final tables, 238th in the 8700-player main event, WPT $15k title...wow.

[adman2006]

And it's only his first year on the circuit, more to come and I can't wait to see it unfold!