Born: Lebanon, 1966
Home: Melbourne, Australia
Family: Married, with
four kids
Hobbies: Spending time with family, playing
golf, watching
movies, having a good meal in a
nice restaurant, and enjoying a good cigar in a nice
barCurrent car: GS300
Lexus (
black-always black)
Next car: Mercedes CLS 500
Best poker moment: Final hand of the 2005
World Series of PokerWorst poker moment: Catching Kido Phan with
JT to my KK, all-in, and watching the flop come out JJ2 at the 2005
World Series of Poker Circuit
event final
table at
Bally's in
Las Vegas Life began for me in
Lebanon in 1966. My family moved to Australia in 1972 and I've lived in
Melbourne ever since. Life in the land of the Aussies has taught me
one simple thing:
nothing is more important than family. I've been married for more than 16 years and fathered
four children.
Loving and supporting them has always been and will always be my main objective.
To that end, I spent 13 years in a successful chiropractic practice. After the turn of the millennium, I developed a
rare condition that prevented me from using my hands to do my
job. Unable to continue in my regular profession, I took on as a mortgage broker and started looking more closely at poker. Like I'm
sure it is for many of you, what was once a hobby
quickly became a
passion. It was a game I'd been playing for most of my adult life. In the mid-1990s, I started to look at the cards more seriously. Once my condition took away my
ability to do chiropractic work, I started to consider myself a semi-professional poker player, playing
live in
Melbourne and online at PokerStars.
Like any poker player, I'd harbored
dreams of the
World Series of Poker. I figured they would remain dreams. I couldn't justify leaving my family for so
long and so far away. Ultimately, I
found a way to make it happen.
Early in the 2005 WSOP, I played a small
event, placed tenth, and pocketed $28,000. With the
money in my pocket and a new
confidence, I peeled off $10,000 and bought into the 2005 WSOP
main event.
Seven days later, every poker
dream I'd
ever had became a
reality. I had defeated the biggest poker field in history. I had
just won the biggest first
prize in poker history. I was a
World Series of Poker champion. Now, I'm traveling
the World in search of the biggest tournaments and making
sure I keep true to the most important thing in my life: my family.
; "Joe Hachem")
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