2005 World Series of Poker ResultsThe 2005 World Series of Poker results are in, and what a year it has been. After shattering participation records and prize money payouts for a live tournament with $106 million, hosting 45 events with 32,341 players entered, the person who walked away the 2005 World Series of Poker champion was Melbourne, Australia's Joseph Hachem. Joseph walked away with an amazing $7.5 million.In the end, the final table came down to 9 players. In the longest final table in tournament history, lasting 14 hours, Hachem came out on top of a stellar group of players. The group of stellar included the following individuals: Win your seat into the next 2010 WSOP or WPT event by joining Bodog Poker and playing in a satellite tournament! John Derick Barch, the owner of Big Johnson's Beer Garden Bar in Richardson, TX took his second money finish in his career. Daniel Bergsdorf from Sweden took the second chair. He had given up a career as a truck driver to take on being a professional Poker player. Andrew Black, also known as "The Monk", hailing from Dublin, Ireland had previously finished 14th in the 1997 World Series of Poker. Steve Dannenman, who held out till the last, but was defeated in only six hands by Hachem in the end, is a CPA and mortgage broker from Severn, MD. Aaron Kanter of Elk Grove, CA made the final round in his first year in the World Series of Poker. Hailing from Kingston, PA, Brad Kondraki, who began playing a couple of years ago, also made the final round in his first year. He started playing Poker to pay for law school. Rounding out the final table are Scott Lazar, a magician of all things and Mike "The Mouth" Matusow. Check out the entire 2010 WSOP Schedule! Finally, it was Joseph Hachem, a chiropractor from Melbourne, Australia who took the crown in a decisive hand about an hour after sunrise. Hachem moved his family from Lebanon in 1972 and had been a successful chiropractor for 13 years before giving that up to play Poker professionally. Nursing a short stack for most of the seemingly endless round, he took Danneman out on the sixth hand of one on one play with a 7 high straight. In the beginning of the hand, Danneman had initially raised $700,000 after Hachem called the big blind. Hachem raised to $1.7 million. The turn, or fourth card was an ace and Hachem bet $2 million. Danneman raised it to $5 million and Hachem went "all in" with more than $30 million. Danneman called. He had held out for 7 to match Hachem's straight, but the River card didn't bear it out for him and Hachem took the pot. The two made World Series of Poker history when they ended play at 6:44 am: 13 hours and 56 minutes after the final round began. The table was 18 minutes longer than the previous mark, established in 1983. --- by Bones McCoy at offshorepokerroom.com on February 16, 2006
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