Joe Hachem is the 2005 World Series of Poker main-event winner. Joe hails from Melbourne, Australia and is one of the reasons poker has been popularised in Australia.
Glen Chorny will be chip leader, when Day 5's 'almost' final table begins. Twelve hours after announcing 'shuffle up and deal,' the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo called it a night, without reaching their eight person final table more
With four hours left to Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Antonio Esfandiari pulled ahead of the field by dragging the biggest pot of the day. Mark Keightley opened for 14,000, Esfandiari... more
Norway's Oyvind Riisem, fourth-place finisher in the WSOP Europe Main Event, ended Day 2 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo as chip leader with 441,400 chips. Fellow Norwegian Johnny Lodden finished... more
Sunday's second flight of the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo began play with 450 players. This puts the total starting field for the €10,000 buy-in event at 842 players, 136 more than last year, when Gavin Griffin took... more
338 survivors from three 'first' days of the 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event gathered at Melbourne's Crown Casino for Day 2 of the year's biggest tourney to date. 2007 third-place finisher Andy Black started Day 2 with a slight chip lead over... more
294 players joined the field for the second Day 1 of the Aussie Millions Main Event. In the field on Day 1b were 2007 champion Gus Hansen, 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak... more
Action was fast-paced early from the outset on Day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final in Sydney, with 40 of the 116 players that started the day heading to the rail within the first 45 minutes. The field... more
Day 1c of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final attracted more big names to Sydney's Star City Hotel and Casino. The last of three opening days featured both local stars such as Billy 'The Croc' Argyros, Gary Benson... more
Mere hours after the end of Main Event of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau, even more top-flight poker pros took to the tables at the Grand Waldo Casino for the $15,000 buy-in 'High Rollers' Tournament... more
With a final table featuring a former World Champion, one of the most recognizable female poker players in the world, and a pair of former roommates who moved to Korea to become professional video gamers, the conclusion of the PokerStars.net... more
352 players from around the world joined a history-making Day 1 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau championship event, including some of poker's biggest names and three former WSOP Main Event champions... more
Among the questions that have been asked as poker becomes ever more global is this: "When is the game coming to China?" While the Chinese have a rich gambling tradition, poker itself had barely a toehold in the world's most populous country... more