Joe Hachem
- Career Earnings: $ 10,744,616
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, Oi, Oi: Hachem entered the world stage to the sound of this chant coming from his enthusiastic supporters as he took down the 2005 WSOP Main Event.
Joe Hachem was born in Lebanon. At the age of six, he and his family and moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he has resided ever since. Married, with four children, family has always been the focal point of Joe’s life. Joe spent 13 years in a successful chiropractic practice. However, he developed a rare condition that prevented him from using his hands to do his job. Unable to continue in his regular profession, Joe took on as a mortgage broker and started looking more closely at poker.
What was once a hobby quickly became a passion and in the mid-1990s, he started to look at the poker more seriously. Like many a poker player, Joe harbored dreams of competing in the World Series of Poker.
Early in the 2005 WSOP, he played a $1,000 no limit event, placed tenth, and pocketed $28,000. With the money in his pocket and a new confidence, Joe peeled off $10,000 and bought into the 2005 WSOP main event. The rest of the story is now enshrined into poker history as Joe won the 2005 WSOP Main Event and $7.5 Million dollars.
Since winning the Main Event in 2005, Joe has cashed nine times in poker tournaments worldwide, including a first place finish at the 2006 Five Diamond World Poker Classic and second place at the 2006 WSOP No Limit Hold’em Shorthanded event.
