Joe Hachem was on 3 November, 1966 Born in Lebanon in 1972 and moved his family to Australia, where he studied and became a chiropractor. Today, Joe lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Jeanie, and his four children, Anthony, Justin, Daniel and James. After a few year round playing poker only in passing, he started playing tournaments after 2002 due to an unusual blood disorder, which had an impact on the use of his hands, was forced to abandon his practice.

In the World Series of Poker 2005 Joe won the 10th place in the $ 1,000 No Limit Hold’em event, which earned him $ 25.850. With his winnings he bought a few days later for the main event, and the rest of the story we all know, I think. Joe won the main event, got off his first bracelet and took home with $ 7,500,000.

The following year Joe became second in the WSOP $ 2,500 Short-Handed No Limit event, 4th in the Pot Limit event and finished 238th place in the Main Event In addition, In 2006 he won his first World Poker Tour title at the Five Diamond Poker Classic at Bellagio. Hachem thus belongs to an exclusive group of 5 players, both the WSOP Main Event title and a WPT title won (Dan Harrington, Scotty Nguyen, Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen also belong to this group).

Hachem won combined with the “World Series of Poker Champions II” on NBC’s Poker After Dark, the PokerStars APPT Tournament of Champions in 2007, and was 11ter the PokerStars EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in 2008. Thus, Hachem won $ 10,700,000 in his career while playing poker tournaments, which he to Jamie Gold, Daniel Negreanu took third place in the All-Time Money List shows. If you have not noticed, Joe’s is definitely the best game Texas Hold’em, and he is a member of Team PokerStars, where he plays under the name ‘JoeHachem’.