Australian Poker Players

There is no doubt that Joe Hachem’s win at the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker did wonders for the game of poker in Australia. But Hachem is not a one hit wonder and has ten other cashes to date to his name at the WSOP along with a WPT title to his name and one other final table. When Hachem defeated Steve Dannenmann for the title then the chant of “Aussie Aussie Aussie” rung around the playing hall!

But Hachem is not the only big name Australian poker player. Tony G is not Australian by birth but Lithuanian and he moved to Australia at the age of 11. He is not a prolific tournament winner but still has more than $3 million in lifetime winnings in tournaments all over the world including no fewer than 15 cashes at the WSOP.

Mark Vos is another well respected player on the poker scene but is also another player who was not born in Australia. Vos was born in South Africa but his major tournament win came in 2006 when he won event six at the WSOP $2000 NLHE tournament and picked up over $800,000 for his efforts. Vos has no fewer than nine cashes at the WSOP and goes by the nickname of “pokerbok”.

Bill Argyros is one of the most experienced of all of the Australian poker tournament players and is a regular in many leading poker tournaments all over the world. Argyros came 15th in the 1995 WSOP main event and was his closest ever run in the big one but he has yet to pick up a really big title. But Argyros has the respect of many players on the professional circuit including many of the very best in the world.

His nickname is “The Croc” but once again, Argyros is another player who did not originate from down under but from Greece in this instance. Despite never winning a major title, Argyros has amassed nearly a million dollars in tournament winnings over the years. One poker player who has gone the other way is Jeff Lisandro who was born in Perth and now resides in Italy. Lisandro is by far the most successful Australian player ever in terms of major tournaments won and has no fewer than five WSOP bracelets to his name.

He also has a very impressive 35 cashes at the WSOP along with coming a very impressive 17th in the 2006 main event won by Jamie Gold. Lisandro won the $10,000 World Championship Stud event in 2009 picking up over $430,000 in the process. In that 2009 series he became the first player to win titles in all the seven stud variations of razz, stud high and stud high-low.

He is thought of by his peers as being one of the best seven card stud players in the world and in Lisandro’s case then he definitely has the titles to prove it. He is also one of the few players to win three bracelets during the same WSOP.

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