Joe Hachem is a winner - again !
Aussie poker player Joe Hachem joined an very elite group of players when he won the WPT North American Poker Championship in Las Vegas on earlier this week.
Hachem became one of only four players to win both a World Poker Tour title (WPT) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event.
Victory in the $15,000 buy-in WPT event, with 576 contestants, earned Hachem over $2.1m. Added to his $7.5m first prize at the 2005 WSOP, the win took Hachem’s earnings to over $10m in less than two years.
Winning the WPT event underlined Hachem’s reputation as an outstanding poker player, and put to bed any suggestions that his 2005 WSOP victory was a flash in the pan.
Only three other players had achieved the feat :
* Doyle Brunson — 1976 & 1977 WSOP winner and won the Legends of Poker WPT event in 2004
* Scotty Nguyen — 1998 WSOP winner and won the Gold Strike World Poker Open in 2006.
* Carlos Mortensen - 2001 WSOP winner and won the Doyle Brunson North American Championship WPT event in 2004
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