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Joseph Hachem

When someone comes out of nowhere to win the top prize in the World Series of Poker, it tends to send a ripple through the world and that is exactly what happened when Joseph Hachem strolled through the casino doors and walked out over seven million dollars richer.  This is not the first time that this has happened.  Both Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer were unknowns in the poker circuit until they pulled off the win for poker’s biggest prize.  Hachem proved to be a confident and aggressive player who quickly eliminated some of the game’s great players even though he was new to the scene.  Tensions run high in the poker rooms in Vegas, especially when there is a prize totaling more then seven million dollars at stake.  Of course this was not an easy task for Hachem.  He had to work through a field of participants that was the largest ever recorded.  Over five thousand six hundred people turned out for the event and Hachem was nothing more than one in a field of many hopefuls.  Ten thousand dollars on the line to start, which is more than some people make in a year. 

One thing that sets Hachem apart from Moneymaker and Raymer is the fact that he was not a satellite winner.  He entered the game with ten thousand dollars from his own pocket while Moneymaker and Raymer won their seat via an internet site.  This does not make them any less a player, but it does mean that Hachem went in with the ten thousand already down, meaning he needed to finish in the money in order to make back what he had.

Steve Dannenmann was the person that Hachem would need to beat for the title.  The winning hand was tense as Hachem held only seven and three off suit.  The flop revealed a straight and he went on to win when Dannenmann could not make a straight from his ace three hold cards.  With that straight Hachem won over seven million dollars and the coveted bracelet that so many have struggled to achieve.  Pretty good for a retired chiropractor who was forced out of practice because of a rare blood disorder in his hands.

Hachem was born on November 3, 1966 and today at age 40 remains one of the top players in the game of poker and tours with the World Poker Tour when not at home running his small business.