Championship Day 1: Champ from Down Under

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 Ante
Total Entries: 860

Joe Hachem (Melbourne, Australia)
Joe Hachem (Melbourne, Australia)

There are poker stars everywhere we look in the room, you can’t aim a camera without one champion or another showing up in the viewfinder.

We’ve added another WSOP Main Event champion to the field when Joe Hachem took his seat in the Championship. He won his title in 2005 and was the last player to raise the Main Event bracelet at Binion’s in downtown Las Vegas.

Hachem has over $12 million in earnings with only $7.5 million of it coming from the WSOP Main Event title. Less than 18 months after winning the biggest prize in poker, Hachem earned a WPT title at the 2006 Five Diamond World Poker Classic for another $2.5 million.