The Top 5 Players of the Sihoki Slot , Part 3
Here’s my pick for the third-best performance of the 2006 Sihoki Slot preliminary events. If you missed the earlier entries, click on the other names in the Top 5 list below.
The rest of this list will be coming soon. Then we can return our focus to the top stories of the Main Event.
The Top 5 Players of the 2006 WSOP Prelim Events:
- Jeff Madsen
- Phil Hellmuth
- Joe Hachem
- Joe Hachem
Carlos Mortensen was the last WSOP champion (in 2001) to receive much respect. Ever since Robert Varkonyi won in 2002, and the fields started exploding post-Moneymaker, everyone expects the winner to be an unknown. And then they immediately disregard the unknown winner as “lucky.”
Our reigning champion, Joe Hachem, was unknown to American fans when he won $7.5 million last year. But Hachem was comfortable with the title of champion in a way that Chris Moneymaker never was. A lot of poker fans felt that Hachem had to prove himself as a worthy champion with a follow-up victory of some kind. But Hachem never felt the pressure to prove anything to anyone at this year’s WSOP.
New Rules: Cover Her, Don’t Pimp Her
New Rule: If you’re the exclusive real time reporting media outlet, you should actually try covering the, now, only remaining woman in the WSOP field.
I noticed that Card Player put up an obligatory video interview with Sabyl Cohen yesterday as she was one of the three remaining women in the field. But so far today, she can’t buy coverage.
According to CP, her stack has gone from 398,000 to 960,000 to 1,400,000 to 905,000. So far they have covered one of her hands. How many interns does it take to cover 9 tables; apparently more than seventeen. And Card Player still has her …