JOSEPH HACHEM
Name: Joseph Hachem
Born: 3 November 1966
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November
1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
Hachem and his family moved from Lebanon to Australia in 1972. In 2002, he gave
up a career as a chiropractor due to a rare blood disorder and decided to
concentrate on poker.
Hachem is married and has four children.
Before his Main Event win, Hachem finished 10th in another World Series event,
winning US$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. In the final hand, Hachem called a pre-flop
raise from $300,000 to $700,000 with his 7♣ 3♠. The flop came 6♥ 5♦ 4♦, giving
Hachem a straight. When the turn brought the A♠, Steve Dannenmann made the top
pair (with an open-ended straight draw) with his starting hand of A♦ 3♣. Hachem
bet, Dannenmann raised, Hachem moved all-in and was called. In the end,
Dannenmann could only tie if the river brought a 7 (giving him the same straight),
but the 4♣ on the river ensured Hachem the win.
Unlike the previous two winners (Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker), Hachem was
not an Internet qualifier, instead paying the full buy-in. However, like Raymer
and Moneymaker, Hachem represents PokerStars.
After Hachem won the 2005 Main Event, WSOP commentator Norman Chad declared, "Hachem
turned 7-3 offsuit into $7.5 million. Pass the sugar!" Hachem himself first used
what would become his catch phrase after flopping a flush with A6 of clubs
against Andrew Black's three queens, and winning a large pot. (Actually, Hachem
had said "Pass the sugar!" prematurely: had the board paired, Black would have
had at least a full house, which would have eliminated Hachem. Fortunately for
Joe, the board didn't pair.)
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Hachem finished second in the $2,500 short-handed
no limit hold 'em event when his A♠ Q♣ was outdrawn by Russ "Dutch" Boyd's A♦ 5♥
on a board of A♥ K♣ 9♠ J♣ 5♦ on the final hand.
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.
Name: Joseph Hachem
Born: 3 November 1966
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November
1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
Hachem and his family moved from Lebanon to Australia in 1972. In 2002, he gave
up a career as a chiropractor due to a rare blood disorder and decided to
concentrate on poker.
Hachem is married and has four children.
Before his Main Event win, Hachem finished 10th in another World Series event,
winning US$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. In the final hand, Hachem called a pre-flop
raise from $300,000 to $700,000 with his 7♣ 3♠. The flop came 6♥ 5♦ 4♦, giving
Hachem a straight. When the turn brought the A♠, Steve Dannenmann made the top
pair (with an open-ended straight draw) with his starting hand of A♦ 3♣. Hachem
bet, Dannenmann raised, Hachem moved all-in and was called. In the end,
Dannenmann could only tie if the river brought a 7 (giving him the same straight),
but the 4♣ on the river ensured Hachem the win.
Unlike the previous two winners (Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker), Hachem was
not an Internet qualifier, instead paying the full buy-in. However, like Raymer
and Moneymaker, Hachem represents PokerStars.
After Hachem won the 2005 Main Event, WSOP commentator Norman Chad declared, "Hachem
turned 7-3 offsuit into $7.5 million. Pass the sugar!" Hachem himself first used
what would become his catch phrase after flopping a flush with A6 of clubs
against Andrew Black's three queens, and winning a large pot. (Actually, Hachem
had said "Pass the sugar!" prematurely: had the board paired, Black would have
had at least a full house, which would have eliminated Hachem. Fortunately for
Joe, the board didn't pair.)
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Hachem finished second in the $2,500 short-handed
no limit hold 'em event when his A♠ Q♣ was outdrawn by Russ "Dutch" Boyd's A♦ 5♥
on a board of A♥ K♣ 9♠ J♣ 5♦ on the final hand.
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.