Joe Hachem considers himself the luckiest man in the world. Not because he won the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event. Not because he's spent the decade since amassing $12,056,258 in live tournament earnings. And not because he's celebrating the tenth anniversary of his win with another deep run in the Main Event this year, sitting with over 200,000 in chips on the first break of Day 3.
It's because his family is here with him every step of the way.
"The first time around they didn't know what I was doing," Hachem said of his four children - three boys, now 24, 21, 19 and a 22-year-old daughter.