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WSOP champ takes the WPT crown, too
Melbourne, Australia poker ace Joseph Hachem added a World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship win to his c.v. this week and in the process pocketed a winner's check for almost $US2.2 million at the Bellagio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. His winnings include a $25 000 seat sponsorship in the WPT World Championship.
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The event is the biggest tournament on the World Poker Tour circuit, the rival code to the World Series of Poker, in which the former chiropractor pocketed $10 million when he achieved final victory in July last year.
"He's very emotional, very humble and over the moon," Hachem's brother Tony said last night. "But he's beaten the best players in America, some of whom have been playing the game for 40 years."
The respected poker website Cardplayers.com estimated that up to two million Australians followed 39-year-old Hachem's progress online. The next stop on the Aussie's tour will be to play in the $10 million Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas next week, before returning to his homeland for the Australian World Series at Melbourne's Crown casino.
"I'm more excited than I was when I won the World Series," a jubilant Hachem told PokerListings.com after taking down runner-up Jim Hanna in heads-up play at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Second-placed Hanna won big, too - a $1 099 430 prize.
Joe Hachem is now one of only four men - Doyle Brunson, Juan Carlos Mortensen and Scotty Nguyen - who hold World Series of Poker Main Event and World Poker Tour titles.
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