Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

I didn't realize it until I saw his picture after he won, but it turns out that I played at my first table with Joe Hachem. We chatted a bit prior to the tourney and after our table broke we ended up at tables next to each other across the room and talked during each break. Very nice guy and seemed at the time to me to be a pretty strong player.

Anyway, he played a hand at our first table that was noteworthy. I was in the 10 seat and he was in the 1 seat. Table seemed very unremarkable except for the guy in the 9 seat, who appeared very nervous and completely out of his element. In the first couple of orbits he acted out of turn twice, and then lost a few chips to me in a battle of the blinds when he played AQ way too slowly and let me catch running cards for a flush.

So the hand in question begins on the third orbit or so, Hachem raises to 200 from UTG and gets called by the CO and the 9 seat in the SB while I fold my BB.

Flop comes AK3r. SB checks, Hachem bets out 500, CO folds and the SB thinks for a bit and calls.

Turn is a Q, putting a flush draw on the board. SB shakily grabs a 1k chip and tosses it into the pot. Hachem glares at him for 30 seconds or so, then raises to 3000. SB fiddles with his chips for a while and calls.

Turn is a 9, no flush possible. Now the SB bets 500 and Hachem raises him yet again to 3000. SB tanks for a minute and then calls.

What do they have?

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

A/K for Hachem & A/Q for the SB?

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

KQ for the SB. He probably would have bet out on the flop if he had AQ. I put Hachem on a set of Ks. Maybe set of Aces.

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

SB has a crappy hand. Maybe just an A, possibly something like A3. Hachem has a bigish hand but not a straight, my guess would be AQish. The turn was the decision point where he decided whether to raise for value or just call down. That's my guess.

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

Very very likely Hachemhas a set..

I put him on Q-Q (90%), A-K (10%).

I'll put SB two pair A-9, K-Q.

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

My guess is AK or KK for Hachem, AQ for SB

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

I like SB for 33. I think he has to have some chances to win to call the turn raise and the river raise. I think he could dump AQ by the river.

I like Hachem for KK to lead the flop, and raise all the way down.

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

i know the results.

you guys are so close, yet so far.

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

Hachem - AA
SB - J10s

Re: Joe Hachem hand from Main Event
 

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Hachem - AA
SB - J10s

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Uh, that would mean that SB has the nuts, and therefore would have to have been a complete idiot for not reraising on the river.