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2009 WSOP Main Event: Following Day 5

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.12.2009 in Uncategorized | no comments

Will Nichoel Peppe claim the 2009 WSOP Last Woman Standing Cup (TM)?

Will Nichoel Peppe claim the 2009 WSOP Last Woman Standing Cup (TM)?

Some decent storylines developing at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Here’s what we’re looking at today:

  • Can former ME champs Joe Hachem (490,000) and Peter Eastgate (397,000) make November NineTM runs?
  • With only a handful of women left in the field (we’ve seriously found about 6-7, hopefully a few Caseys, Jamies, and Euros with girly-sounding names end up being chicks so we can at least get to double-digits), who will win the Last Woman Standing CupTM. Currently, Nichoel Peppe, a woman, is the biggest stacked of the females, just shy of 900k.
  • Is this the year Phil Ivey makes it to the final table? He’s come close before, and has never looked more focused. He currently top 20 in chips with over 1.2M.
  • Lou Diamond Phillips? Really?
  • Will fan-favorite and PokerRoad.com‘s Joe Sebok continue his run?

Look for more Girls on the Rail pics, Last Woman Standing vids, and updates from the Dream Team Poker event throughout the day.

UPDATE: Only three women left. This may end soon.

Tagged as: 2009 WSOP Main Event, joe hachem, Last Woman Standing, Nichoel Peppe, Peter Eastgate, Phil Ivey

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“Salty” Joe Hachem Particularly Salty on Tonight’s WSOP Main Event Broadcast

by Wicked Chops Entity on 9.9.2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

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"Salty" Joe Hachem was in rare typical form on ESPN, similar to his 2006 WSOP performance above.

Hat’s off to ESPN for continuing to show poker players in a little more honest light this year.

The most recent case in point is spotlighting "Salty" Joe Hachem being especially salty on Day 1C of the 2008 World Series of Poker.

So here’s what we’re looking for…if one of our readers can put together a compilation of Salty Joe’s saltiest moments and upload it to YouTube, we’ll ship you a Wicked Chops tee. Easy enough. Have at it.

Tagged as: joe hachem, world series of poker

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Another Ill-Conceived Poker Movie to Hit the Big Screen…Seriously

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.22.2008 in Poker News | no comments

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"Salty" Joe Hachem is among the stars in an upcoming poker documentary. Behind him, Vaughn Sandman predicts how many screens the movie will open on.

Hollywood isn’t a hard one to figure out. If a movie is successful, you make more like it. Or you make sequels. Deep Impact (great name for a porno) begets Armageddon. Dante’s Peak begets Volcano. The Mummy begets another Mummy. Pluto Nash does not beget Pluto Nash Forever.

So why, exactly, are more poker movies being made?

No matter. For those who haven’t gotten their fill from Lucky You, The Grand, that shitty Stu Ungar flick, and Deal, here comes Pass the Sugar…a documentary on the final nine from the 2005 WSOP Main Event.

"Pass the sugar," btw, is the phrase that 2005 champ "Salty" Joe Hachem would say after winning pots. Which means after David "Chino" Rheem inevitably wins the 2008 WSOP Main Event, expect a docu called "Ship It" to hit the screens sometime in 2011.

Anyway we’re bored writing about this already, so read more about this sure-fire blockbuster that is certain to put Brad Kondracki back on the map here.

In related news, in case you missed it yesterday, poker-themed Vegas shows are also not learning the same lesson.

Tagged as: joe hachem, Poker News

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“Salty” Joe Hachem Can Rub Off On People

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.28.2008 in Uncategorized | no comments

Apparently, "Salty" Joe Hachem has some sort of osmosis effect on people he sits next to at the World Series of Poker. That’s a lot of salt at one table.

Tagged as: 2008 WSOP, joe hachem, world series of poker

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2008 WSOP Update: Shorr, Seidel and Hachem Among Leaders on Day 1 of Event No. 43

by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.25.2008 in Girls,Girls on the Rail,Poker News | no comments

Shannon Shorr is among leaders in Event No. 43 at the 2008 WSOP

Shannon Shorr (above photo, on right) is among the Day 1 leaders in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Low event at the 2008 WSOP.

A total of 720 runners entered Event No. 43, the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better event, today, bringing the prize pool to just under a mil with first getting $216,249, or about $70k less than what you could fetch Phil Ivey‘s old SLR for on eBay.

Last we looked there were 82 players remaining and one good-from-afar-but-far-from-good girl on the rail. Really, photo-worthy railbirds have been slim to none the past few days. Let’s step it up ladies. We have a site to run.

Current chip leaders just before midnight include Erik Seidel, who’s gunning for his first bracelet of this year’s WSOP, Joe Hachem, who just might be the next Joe Hachem, compulsive WSOP casher Berry Johnston, and the guy with the girl’s name Shannon Shorr. Layne Flack and his teeth are also making a move up the leader board late tonight just got eliminated.

Stacked the most right now is the generically-named Ed Smith, who has quietly amassed around $270k in WSOP earnings over the years.

Keep track of chip counts here.

Check out WSOP daily video recaps over at PokerListings.

Hot girls in the WCP forum here.

* Despite the overall lack of talent along the rail lately, the girl below was seen over the weekend and from all accounts is one of the hottest yet. Hopefully she returns because our photog was drunker than a peach orchard boar, whatever that means, when he snapped the shots below.

Tagged as: joe hachem, poker, Shannon Shorr, WSOP

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