Joe Hachem Joins Poker Elite with $2.1m Triumph

Friday, 22 December 2006

Poker pro Joe Hachem joined an exclusive and prestigious club when he won the WPT Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship in Las Vegas last Wednesday, 20 December 2007.
Hachem, who hails from Sydney, Australia, became one of only four p

Poker pro Joe Hachem joined an exclusive and prestigious club when he won the WPT Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship in Las Vegas last Wednesday, 20 December 2007.
Hachem, who hails from Sydney, Australia, became one of only four players to win both a World Poker Tour title (WPT) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Victory in the $15,000 buy-in WPT event against 576 opponents, earned Hachem, who was representing Team PokerStars, over $2.1m.
Added to his $7.5m first prize at the 2005 WSOP, the win means Hachem’s earnings have soared to over $10m in less than two years.
Winning the WPT event cemented Hachem’s reputation as a dazzlingly talented poker player, and put to bed any suggestions that his 2005 WSOP victory was a flash in the pan.
“I’m floating, I can’t even feel the ground,” Hachem said after his win. “When I won the World Series I wasn’t this excited. And a lot of it has to do with validation.”
“How cool do you reckon it is to belong to a club that only has four members?” he asked rhetorically.



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