Poker Legend Joe Hachem - Chiropractor Turned WSOP Poker Champion
Joe Hachem was born in Lebanon in 1966 and immigrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia at the age of eight. After a successful career as a chiropractor, this family man and father-of-four was forced to drop his practice after developing a rare blood disorder that affected his hands and thus his ability to work. Looking for a new way to make money, Hachem decided to turn his love of poker from a hobby into something a little more serious and started playing in tournaments and at online sit
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Poker glossary:
- FLOP GAME - Any of a number of poker games where a flop is dealt.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
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