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WSOP - WSOP HistoryWSOP 2005 WinnerJoseph Hachem Scoops $7.5 million in WSOP 2005 WinJoseph Hachem from Australia did the impossible and beat 5,619 players for the World Champion of Poker title and $7,500,000 in prize money. The final table was a marathon session that lasted 14 hours, in addition to the six full days of poker all participants had played before it started. Hachem managed to survive on a small stack most of the final, table but made an incredible finish. Joseph Hachem, a 39-year old Lebanon-born professional poker player who lives in Australia, is the new World Champion of Poker. This was his first ever World Series of Poker event, though he has been playing poker for 10 years. He bought in the old fashion way, by paying the $10,000 entrance fee in cash. On the final hand with the blinds at $150,000-$300,000 with a $50,000 ante, Steve Dannenmann made it $700,000 to go. Hachem called and the flop came 4D-5D-6H. Hachem checked to Dannenmann who fired $700,000 into the pot. Hachem then raised to $1,700,000 and Dannenmann called. The turn was the AS . Now it was Hachem's turn to fire and he bet $2,000,000 into Dannenmann, who quickly raised it to $5,000,000. Hachem thought for a while and then declared that he was going all-in, Dannenmann instantly called. Dannenmann held the AD -3C for the top pair (aces), but Hachem had the 7C-3S (one of the worst starting hands in Texas Holdem) and had flopped a straight. The only card that could save Dannenmann on the river was one of the three remaining sevens in the deck for a split pot. On the river the 4C fell and with that Hachem became what all poker players dream of, the World Champion of Poker.
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