Online Poker - WSOP

The World Series of Poker is unequalled by any other major poker event in the world today, with then number of participants entering increasing with every year that it takes place. The World Series of Poker Event 2005 was held at Harrah's Rio Suites in Las Vegas with the final two days of the event being concluded in the traditional place, Binon's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas. The play began on the 2nd of June starting with the Casino Employees World Championship with casino employee Andy Nguyen winning $83,390 and a gold bracelet plus the bragging rights as the 'World Champion' among casino employees.

Other players that managed a first place win in the WSOP were Allen Cunningham in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em (event 2) winning $725,405, Thomas Werthmann in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 3) winning $369,535, Eric Froehlich in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em (event 4) winning $361,910, Pat Poels in the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Split (event 5) winning $270,100, Isaac Galazan in the $2,500 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em (event 6) winning $315,125, Maciek Gracz in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 7) including 1495 re-buys winning $594.460, Cliff Joseph in the $1,500 7 Card Stud (event 8) winning $192,150, Erik Sedidel in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 9) winning $611,795, Reza Payver in the $2,000 Limit Hold'em (event 10) winning $303,610, Edward Moncada in the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 11) winning $298,070, Josh Arieh in the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 12) with 395 re-buys winning $381,600, T.J Cloutier in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 13) winning $657,100, Steve Hohn in the $1,000 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo (event 14) winning $156,985, Mark Seif in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout (event 15) winning $181,330, Anthony Reategui in the $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout (event 16) winning $269,100, Quinn Do in the $2,500 Limit Hold'em (event 17) winning $265,975, Denis Ethier in the $2,000 7 Card Stud 8 or Better (event 18) winning $160,682, Barry Greenstein in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 19) winning $135,500, Brian Wilson in the $5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 20) winning $370,685, Todd Brunson in the $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better (event 21) winning $255,945, Mark Seif in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em (event 22) winning $611,145, Jan Sorensen in the $5,00 7 Card Stud (event 23) winning $293,275, Farzard Bonyadi in the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em (event 24) winning $594,960, Johnny Chan in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em (event 25) winning $303,025, actress Jennifer Tilly in the $1,00 Ladies No Limit Hold'em (event 26) winning $158,335, Phil Ivey in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (event 27) including 224 re-buys winning $635,603, Dan Schmiech in the $5,000 Limit Hold'em (event 28) winning $404,585, Lawrence Gosney in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 29) winning $483,195, O'Neil Longson in the $1,500 Razz (event 30) winning $125,690, Doyle Brunson in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (event 31) winning $367,800, David Chiu in the $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo (event 32) winning $347,410, Andre Boyer in the $3,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 33) winning $682,810, Paul Mckinney in the $1,000 Senior No Limit Hold'em (event 34) winning $202,725, Rafi Amit in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (event 35) winning $511, 835, Todd Witteles in the $3,000 Limit Hold'em (event 36) winning $347,385, Joe Heneghan in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 37) winning $611,015 including 1584 re-buys, David Grey in the $5,00 Limit Deuce to 7 Draw (event 39) winning $365,135, Ron Kirk in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em (event 43) winning $321,520, John Pirez in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 44) winning $220,935 and Willie Tann in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em (event 45) winning $188,335.

The World Series of Poker Main event No Limit Hold'em was won by Australian Joseph Hachem defeating 5,618 other player's to win the world champion title and a breaking 7.5 million dollars all for his buy-in stake of $10,000. Joseph found that he was the one with the short stack when there were still five other players at the table but he finally took a stand against Aaron Kanter who had been putting the pressure on Joseph non-stop, Joseph held Q,7 and Aaron pocket nines with the flop at Q,8,2 with the turn bring no help to Aaron. Joseph was left to face Steve Dannenmann, Steve held A,3 while Joseph held 7,3, the flop was in Joseph's favour giving him a straight with 6,5,4, for Steve to split the pot he needed a seven but it didn't appear and Joseph Hachem claimed the title. Joseph came to the World Series of Poker on a whim and it paid off, for one year he will travel the world as the ambassador for poker and has now put him in the poker spotlight for a long time to come.