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Humberto Brenes - Professional Poker Player Review Series

Humberto Brenes is a Professional Poker Player. He won two bracelets in the 1993 World Series of Poker that took place in Las Vegas. Humberto Brenes was born on 8th May I the year 1951. He is a Professional Poker Player and has got several prizes for the game. The world class player began his career in early seventy's. At that time he played baccarat and gambled with that game. After a few years he got interested into poker games and started playing tournaments. From the year 1974 he stepped into the world of poker tournaments and stopped petty gambling by playing baccarat.

When he first started with the poker games it was not easy for him to understand all the strategies and the planning of the game. Humberto Brenes devoted the maximum time of each day in learning the game properly and he was very much serious about the betterment of his playing skills. The more he played the more he learnt about the game. He took almost 14 years to make himself a master of that game. In the year 1988 he has established himself as a regular poker tournament player.

After this stage he took part in the worldwide poker competitions and established a record that proves his efficiencies on the casino game. He got two bracelets in the World Series of Poker tournaments. He made three final tables in the world poker tour. He got one bracelet for 1993 World Series of Poker in limit Texas hold'em. The second bracelet he secured was also in that year in the World Series of Poker in pot limit Omaha. This world class tournament takes place at Las Vegas in every year. Humberto Brenes got the place of the player who secured the highest number of money finishes in 2006 World Series of Poker tournament. For this place he joined hands with the famous poker professional Phil Hellmuth Jr. in the year 2002 he won $502,460 for securing the first place in World Poker Open tournament.

Humberto Brenes is a member of the famous Team Poker Star. His nick name is the shark because he uses toy sharks as card protectors. He is a nice man with a nice dress sense. He is one of the most popular Poker Players of the world. Humberto Brenes dress sense, his personality and his style are mingled with his charismatic playing skills and make him more popular among the other Professional Poker Players. He wears two pairs of eyeglasses at a time. He has created an unique image as a player.

Humberto Brenes is called the Godfather of the Costa Rican Players. The Latin charm that is noticed in his behavior while he plays the game is the most attracting feature of him. It is true that any one can easily spot him with the pair of two eyeglasses and bright tracksuits. But who will believe that this person earned over $2.5 million in the all tournaments. Humberto Brenes is the owner of some restaurants and a TV channel in Costa Rica.

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Joseph Hachem - Professional Poker Player Review Series

Joseph Hachem is an Australian poker player. He is a Lebanese by birth. Now he is famous as a Lebanese-Australian poker player after he won the 2005 World Series of Poker Championship. Joseph Hachem is from Lebanon. He was born in the year 1966 on 3rd November in the Republic of Lebanon, a small country of Western Asia. When Joseph Hachem was at the age of six his family moved to Australia from Lebanon. Till 2002 Joseph Hachem was not a regular poker player. He played poker but often. He was by profession a chiropractor at that time. He could not be able to continue that profession as a chiropractor because he was suffering from a rare blood disease. He left his job for that physical incapability.

After that he made his decision to play poker as a professional player. He started playing the casino game professionally from the year 2002. Now he lives in West Preston. West Preston is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He lives with his wife and four children. In the year 2005 Joseph Hachem made the world record in playing poker. In this year he participated in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and he did the impossible in that tournament. He beat 5,619 players in the table. The prize money that he won is really surprising. He got $7,500,000 in that championship.

The final table in the 2005 World Series of Poker championship was a marathon session. The viewers were witnessed of a rare scene that Joseph Hachem is defeating the players one by one and it stopped when a total of 5,619 players became the losers. The marathon play was continued for 14 hours. The world tournament was started before six days and Joseph Hachem was struggling for all those days with an average result at the final tables. But at the last day he establishes that nothing is impossible. At last he won the $10,000 no limit Texas hold'em main event in the 2005 World Series of Poker.

In the next year he took part on the World Series of Poker and he finished at the second position in $2,500 short-handed no limit hold'em. In the $2,500 pot limit hold'em tournament he secured the fourth place in 2006 World Series of Poker. Joseph Hachem took part in the other poker events also. He appeared in the Poker Superstar III but he did not get a remarkable achievement in it. He could not reach the super-sixteen round.

He made the final table in the circuit event of the World Series of Poker. In the 2007 he earned a lot in poker tournaments. Joseph Hachem's total earning in live tournaments crossed the amount of $10,400,000 in the year 2007. He ranks second in the poker world whose earning as a Professional Poker Player has crossed the limit of $10 billion. He is among the five Professional Poker Players who won in the World Series of Poker main event. He also got the World Poker Tour title.1n December, 2007 he proved himself the best in the Poker Stars tournament of champions.

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