The Most Famous
POKER PLAYERS from Lebanon
This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Poker Players. The pantheon dataset contains 15 Poker Players, 1 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 7th most number of Poker Players behind Vietnam, and United Kingdom.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Poker Players of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Poker Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joe Hachem (b. 1966)
With an HPI of 29.81, Joe Hachem is the most famous Lebanese Poker Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Hachem (Arabic: جوزف هاشم; ; born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for being the first Australian to win the World Series of Poker main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize. The next year, Hachem won his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic, earning him $2.2 million. He is one of only six poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship. Including his WSOP Main Event victory, Hachem has finished in the money in thirteen World Series events. As of January 2018, Hachem's tournament winnings exceed $12,200,000, making him the 35th-highest ranked player in live tournament career earnings.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lebanese poker players born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Lebanese poker players include Joe Hachem.
