Poker Pro Joe Hachem
Joe Hachem was born on November 3, 1966 in Lebanon. He was the winner of WSOP main event 2005 winning $7,500,000.
Born in Lebanon his family moved to Australia in 1972. In 2002 he gave up his career as a chiropractor and decided to focus on the beautiful game of poker. Hachem is now married and has 4 kids.
Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, outlasting 5,618 other players, and winning $7,500,000. Hachem was short-stacked for much of the final table, and did not take a chip lead until there were just 3 players remaining.
Tournament Money Winnings $10,744,616
Some might call him the luckiest man in poker-he won the 2005 WSOP Main Event for $7.5 million and didn't have to pay a dime to the tax man in his native Australia. Formerly a cash game specialist at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Hachem now travels the world and has racked up deep finishes on the APPT, the EPT, and at the Victorian Poker Championships. Hachem also has a WPT title to his name, earned at the 2006 Doyle Brunson North American Poker Classic at Bellagio, for which he earned over $2.2 million. Pass the sugar, indeed.
Born: Lebanon, 1966
Home: Melbourne, Australia
Family: Married, with four kids
Hobbies: Spending time with family, playing golf, watching movies, having a good meal in a nice restaurant, and enjoying a good cigar in a nice bar
Current car: GS300 Lexus
Next car: Mercedes CLS 500
Best poker moment: Final hand of the 2005 World Series of Poker
Worst poker moment: Catching Kido Phan with JT to my KK, all-in, and watching the flop come out JJ2 at the 2005 World Series of Poker Circuit event final table at Bally's in Las Vegas
Born in Lebanon his family moved to Australia in 1972. In 2002 he gave up his career as a chiropractor and decided to focus on the beautiful game of poker. Hachem is now married and has 4 kids.
Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, outlasting 5,618 other players, and winning $7,500,000. Hachem was short-stacked for much of the final table, and did not take a chip lead until there were just 3 players remaining.
Tournament Money Winnings $10,744,616
Some might call him the luckiest man in poker-he won the 2005 WSOP Main Event for $7.5 million and didn't have to pay a dime to the tax man in his native Australia. Formerly a cash game specialist at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Hachem now travels the world and has racked up deep finishes on the APPT, the EPT, and at the Victorian Poker Championships. Hachem also has a WPT title to his name, earned at the 2006 Doyle Brunson North American Poker Classic at Bellagio, for which he earned over $2.2 million. Pass the sugar, indeed.
Born: Lebanon, 1966
Home: Melbourne, Australia
Family: Married, with four kids
Hobbies: Spending time with family, playing golf, watching movies, having a good meal in a nice restaurant, and enjoying a good cigar in a nice bar
Current car: GS300 Lexus
Next car: Mercedes CLS 500
Best poker moment: Final hand of the 2005 World Series of Poker
Worst poker moment: Catching Kido Phan with JT to my KK, all-in, and watching the flop come out JJ2 at the 2005 World Series of Poker Circuit event final table at Bally's in Las Vegas
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We sit down with Australia's own 2005 WSOP $10,000 World Champion Joe Hachem as we find out what makes a winning poker player.
We sit down with Australia's own 2005 WSOP $10,000 World Champion Joe Hachem as we find out what makes a winning poker player.
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World Series of Poker vs World Poker Tour
Prior to his Main Event win, Hachem finished 10th in the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em World Series event, winning $25,850.Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, outlasting 5,618 other players, and winning $7,500,000. Hachem was short-stacked for much of the final table, and did not take a chip lead until there were just 3 players remaining.
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Hachem finished second in the $2,500 short-handed no limit hold 'em event. Hachem later finished fourth in the $2,500 pot limit hold'em tournament; he was once again eliminated after taking a bad beat on the river, this time from eventual winner John Gale.
Hachem also finished in the money (238th place) of the 2006 WSOP Main Event, after his pocket Aces were outdrawn by Andrew Schreibman's pocket Jacks. Hachem took home $42,882, and in defense of his title outlasted 97.2% of the largest field in poker history. He was also the last remaining Main Event champion left in the field, as Greg Raymer had been the year before.
In December, Hachem won $2,207,575 and his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic.
Hachem has also made the final table of a World Series of Poker circuit event.
Hachem also appeared in Poker Superstars III, but failed to advance to the Super 16 round by only one point.
He, Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen and Dan Harrington are the only five people to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event and a World Poker Tour title.
Hachem won "World Series of Poker Champions II" on NBC's Poker After Dark on a table consisting of Main Event winners Doyle Brunson, Greg Raymer, Jamie Gold, Huck Seed and Johnny Chan whom he defeated heads up to win $120,000.
Hachem won the PokerStars APPT Tournament of Champions in December 2007. The single-table tournament was composed of winners from all previous APPT events as well as Team PokerStars members including Greg Raymer. Chris Moneymaker and Isabelle Mercier.
As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $10,700,000. He is second to Jamie Gold in live poker tournament career earnings.
Joe Hachem at a Glance
Joseph Hachem (pronounced "Ha-shem") () (born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.
The next year, Hachem won his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic, earning him $2.2 million. He is one of only five poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship. Including WSOP main event...
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Since Joe Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker, the world media have scrambled to interview the world champion of poker. When Joe has time away from the tables, he takes a few moments to update everyone on what has happened to his life since winning the world's biggest poker tournament. Here is a collection of new stories, interviews, and profiles on Joe Hachem.
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