Latest 2006 WSOP Results
July 02, 2006
Joseph Hachem, who won the 2005 World Series Of Poker
main event, is busy proving that result was no fluke. At
the 2006 WSOP he has just made the final table of Event
#5, the $2,500 NL Hold'em Short-Handed 6/Table where he
will take on "Dutch" Boyd after Daniel Negreanu
busted out in 8th spot...
This WSOP tournament looked like it would culminate in a
dream final table for ESPN. Because this is a short-handed
tournament the final table would start with only six players.
Televised poker doesn't get any better than Negreanu, Hachem,
and Boyd, whose TV confession about mental illness last
year kept him in the spotlight when his poker could not.
But it was not to be as Negreanu's pocket Aces were cracked
by Boyd's pocket sevens when the latter flopped a set and
slow-played them brilliantly, consigning Negreanu to an
8th place finish, agonizingly close to making the final
table. It was Daniel's first cash in the World Series this
year, and although the $38,852 is chump change to Negreanu
the result must have been encouraging.
As we have argued previously, Hachem is no Moneymaker (can
he even afford the buy-ins for these events anymore?) He
is a genuine poker talent, more like Greg Raymer, and it
would be a wonderful achievement if he were to win a second
bracelet at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
He faces an uphill task here. Boyd, who was the brash "leader"
of The Crew - a group of young guns who stormed the poker
world in 2004 - has a substantial chip lead, which he has
held since eliminating Negreanu. If anyone can beat him
from this position it would be Hachem, who proved how adept
he is at short-stack tournament poker play at last year's
Main Event.
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