Leader of the pack still playing his cards right
It’s been a dizzying 12 months of fame and luxury for Australia’s poker world champion, Joe Hachem, but family comes first, Mark Russell reports. LIFE could not get much better for former West Preston chiropractor Joe Hachem.Hachem, 39, who won $10 million when he became the world’s no-limit hold ‘em poker champion in July, spent New Year’s Eve with his wife, Jeannie, and the couple’s four children at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
The family had earlier celebrated Christmas…
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Poker dictionary:
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
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