Joe Hachem

Joe Hachem
Joe Hachem (2019)
Personal information
Date of birth	March 11, 1966
Country of birth	Lebanon
Nickname	Diamond Joe
place of residence	Melbourne
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 7.5 million
Total prize money	$ 12,672,387
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	32
Best main event	Win ( 2005 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	11
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: January 21, 2020

Joseph “Joe” Hachem ( Arabic جوزف هاشم, “Ha-shem” spoken; born March 11, 1966 in Lebanon ) is a Lebanese - Australian poker player . He won the World Poker Championship in 2005 .

Personal

Hachem is originally from Lebanon. He and his family moved to Australia in 1972 . Hachem gave up his chiropractic career in 2002 because of a circulatory disorder in his hands. Instead, he decided to focus entirely on poker.

Hachem is married and has four children. He runs a pawn shop in Pascoe Vale and enjoys playing golf . In 2009 he played a supporting role in the film Prey - Outback Overkill as a hotel worker. He also made a cameo as a poker player in the 2008 comedy film All in - All or Nothing .

Poker career

On July 16, 2005, Hachem won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , beating 5619 players, earning him $ 7.5 million in prize money as well as a bracelet . Hachem survived a situation in which all of his chips were at stake in the main tournament when he only had a pair of three in hand just before the prize money ranks. However, another 3 came on the flop , so Hachem won. For most of the last day, Hachem had few chips. That only changed when there were only three players left. Hashem's winning hand was 7 ♣ 3 ♠ , one of the weakest starting hands in Texas Hold'em . After he had gone along an increase from 300,000 to 700,000 chips before the flop, on the flop were 6 ♥ 5 ♦ 4 ♦ and a road . The turn came the A ♠ , giving his opponent Steve Dannenmann the highest pair and an open ended straight draw with his starting hand of A ♦ 3 ♣ . Hachem bet, Dannenmann raised, Hachem stepped in and Dannenmann called. Dannemann could only have reached a split pot if a 7 had come on the river , which would have both had a straight from 3 to 7, but the 4 ♣ appeared on the river, which secured Hachem the victory. Unlike previous winners Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker , Hachem did not qualify for the tournament online , but paid the $ 10,000 buy-in himself. Just like Raymer and Moneymaker, Hachem was then a representative of PokerStars .

At the 2006 WSOP , Hachem finished second in $ 2,500 shorthanded no-limit hold'em when his A ♠ Q ♣ was beaten by Dutch Boyds A ♦ 5 ♥ on a board by A ♥ K ♣ 9 ♠ J ♣ 5 ♦ because Boyd was two Couples had. In December 2006, Hachem won more than $ 2.2 million and his first title at the World Poker Tour Main Event at Bellagio , the main event of the Doyle Brunson North American Poker Classic . In the second episode of the TV poker series Poker After Dark in 2007, Hachem won the first episode against Greg Raymer , Jamie Gold , Huck Seed , Doyle Brunson and heads-up against Johnny Chan .

Overall, Hachem has more than 12.5 million with poker live tournament dollars earned, making it the most successful Australian poker player .

Web links

Commons : Joe Hachem  - Collection of Images

• Joe Hachem in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Joe Hachem in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Joe Hachem in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joe Hachem in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Australia All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 9, 2020.