Saturday, July 16th, 2005

After a long day and night of play we can finally crown a new World Champion - Joseph Hachem! He is a worthy winner that has outplayed and has had that little extra luck that is needed to become the world champion.

A big congrats to the Champion from Team PokerRoom.com!

 

Oh almost forgot - hear is is the hand that won him the title

Dannenman raised 700k preflop and Hachem called. The flop came [6♥][5♦][4♦], Dannenmann bet 700k, Hachem raised  itto 1.7m and Dannenmann called agin. The turn brought the [A♠], Hachem bet 2m, Dannenmann raised to 5m, Hachem pushed all in and Dannenmann called.

Hachem: [3♠][7♣]
Dannenmann: [A♦][3♣]

Hachem had flopped a straight and Dannenmann could only hope for a split pot but no such luck! The river card wass the [4♣] and Dannenmann will go home with $4,250,000 for 2nd place.

Joseph Hachem will go home with $7,500,000 and the World Series Championship of 2005 title.

Saturday, July 16th, 2005 Kanter pushed in preflop with [A♦][9♠] and was called by Barch with [J♠][J♥]. No help from the board that showed[K♥][7♥][9♥][8♠][J♣]. The last three players are ready for more action - Kanter goes home with a cool 2 million.

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

 Dannenmann raised from the button and Hachem called. Tex Barch pushed in over the top and was called by both Steve Dannenmann and Joe Hachem. The flop came [2♦][3♦][T♣] and both Dannenmann and Hachem checked. The turn and river came [Q♥][9♣]and the players checked it. Hachem showed pocket [J]'s, Barch mucked, and Steve Dannenmann showed pocket [7]'s. Barch will go home with $2,500,000 for 3rd place.

Hachem now has 39 million left and Dannenman has 16 million

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Hachem seems to be less effected by the late night then the others and he is taking home the small pots right now. He has nw worked himself into the lead

1  Hachem                    $ 20.530,000            
2  Dannenmann            $ 19,90,000                 
3  Barch                       $ 11,300,000                 
4 Kanter                        $ 4,660,000   

Saturday, July 16th, 2005 1  Dannenmann            $ 25,000,000                 
2  Hachem                    $ 14.000,000            
3  Barch                       $ 11,500,000                 
4 Kanter                        $ 4,750,000   

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Joseph Hachem doubles through Aaron Kanter

Kanter makes a pre-flop bet of 1 million and Hachem goes all in. Kanter calls it and shows[9♠][9♦] 
Hachem holds [Q♦][7♦] 

But the board came [Q♥][2♥][8♣][A♥][2♣] so Hachem won with a little luck and doubled up.

Current chip count

1  Dannenmann            $ 23,800,000                 
2  Hachem                    $ 13.200,000            
3  Barch                       $ 12,600,000                 
4 Kanter                        $ 6,500,000   

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

The players are soon going into a new level. 120-240K blinds and the antes are up to 40K.

Their chip counts going into this level is

1  Dannenmann            $ 24,670,000                 
2  Barch                        $ 14.000,000            
3  Kanter                      $ 10,560,000                 
4 Hachem                     $ 7,020,000   

Of course Dannenmann looks strong but with this field anything can happen.

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Kanter went all in and Brach called. The players showed

Aaron Kanter [A♣][7♥]
Tex Barch [A♥][Q♣]

The flop came [7♦][7♣][10♠] giving Kanter a set of [7]'s. The turn came [A♠] and Barch was drawing to the case [A] for a chopped pot. The river came [6♥] and Kanter doubled up with his boat.

Chip count

1  Dannenmann            $ 26,100,000                 
2  Barch                        $ 17.000,000            
3  Kanter                      $ 9,000,000                 
4 Hachem                     $ 4,400,000   

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

 Black raised pre-flop to 600k and  Dannenmann re-raised to 2m.  Black pushed in over the top and was called by Dannenmann. The players showed:

Andrew Black [10♥][10♦]
Steve Dannenmann [A♠][K♦]

Black lost the coin flip, but he goes home with $1,750,000!

We are down to four players!

1  Dannenmann            $ 26,000,000                 
2  Barch                        $ 20.150,000            
        
3 Hachem                    $ 5,050,000   
4  Kanter                      $ 4,830,000                 

Barch and Dannenmann are looking really strong! But as we all know - anything can happen in poker!

And all of the remaining players are guaranteed at least 2 million dollars!

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Seems like Hachem might have started his way back...

Dannenmann made a pre-flop raise to 250k and Joe Hachem pushed in. Dannenmann immediately called and the players turned up:

Joe Hachem [7♦][7♥]
Steve Dannenmann [A♠][J♣]

The board came [9♣][10♥][6♣][9♥][3♣] and Joe Hachem doubled up to 5m

Chip count

1  Barch                        $ 21.400,000                 
2  Dannenmann            $ 16,300,000                 
3 Black                        $ 8,200,000                 
4 Hachem                    $ 5,100,000   
5  Kanter                      $ 4,900,000