How did Joe Hachem do it?

[Rekwob]

because the levels are long and the stacks are big, theres no need to be crazy aggressive like in an online tournament for example. a solid TAG game coupled with a few moves is enough to win the WSOP, you just have to be luckier than the rest of the players with the skills to win it.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

You are aware that you only saw maybe 1% of the hands he played?

[Double Eagle]

Hands like this help. Skip to the last post if you want to see what they had....

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...part=1&vc=1

[MicroBob]

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I'd think most players (worthy of playing the Main Event)

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i have no idea what this means.

Most of the players in the main-event were pretty mediocre.

Playing in the main-event does not mean that you're actually good. It just means that you are playing in the main-event.



It plays like a big online-tourney....with guys like Chan, Raymer, etc also sitting at the tables.

[capone0]

From the hands we saw, it looked like Joe was really good at winning races. I believe he folded AA once in a huge pot (guy hit a set or something). Otherwise, he ran good, never lost a race when all of his chips were in and won the 3 way "race" when Tex made a move at the pot.

Hachem played well, but he didn't do anything that special from what I saw on TV> They didn't show him bluffing, they didn't show him do much. All the really showed was him making a semi bluff with j9 one time into k7 and k5 on a 710K flop and then him being allin and winning over and over.

[MicroBob]

Hachem was a really short-stack with 6 or so players left.

Of course he was winning his all-in's.


Knowing when to appropriately go all-in helps too of course. But it's no secret that you have to get lucky to win the WSOP.



This is about as obvious as it gets.


I recently won a 1200 player MTT online.
I'll tell you how I did it.
I ran well.

When I had 94 in the BB the flop would come 994 and some poor guy had A9 in LP.
When I had a huge stack I get all-in with QQ and pull off a triple-knockout when I catch a straight on board of 89JAT to knock out AA, KK and AK.


You play as well as you can. And then you run well.
That's how you win the WSOP.

[SpeakEasy]

He's the luckiest player who made the fewest mistakes. Just like past WSOP winners.

[UATrewqaz]

He was short stack at the table however the stacks were deep compared to the blinds (nature of the large field) thus he was under no pressure to shove all his chips in (his M was very high, for you HoH people). He let a few others bust out ($$$ for him) and picked up some nice hands to make big chip scores with.

He just played very patiently and very well and the cards fell his way (aka Dannamen could have hit a set in that 3 way hand Hachem had JJ, in which case Dannamen is gonna take 1st)

[Jbrochu]

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We learned at business school (from a very knowledgeable beer-guzzling professor) that Foster's is like their Colt 45 malt liquor, consumed by alcoholic Skid Row bums, and through th emagic of marketing, they sent it around the world.


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Similar to Heineken in Holland and Stella in Belgium.

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This makes me wonder if somewhere in the world people are making a big fuss about Old Milwaukee... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Dominic]

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Fosters. Lots and lots of Fosters.

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No Australian actually drinks Fosters. It's really bad beer, there's far better down here (although, compared to the big American beers, Fosters is nectar of the Gods.)

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Gimme a bit 'o the Green!