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Casino Pauma’s Lucky Players WFin Hummer H3s!
our lucky Casino Pauma Palm Club players each won a 2005 Hummer H3 in one of Casino Pauma’s most popular and exciting
promotions, the H3 Giveaway.
Carol W., Randy M., Romeo T., and Ed C., all entered
Pauma’s fantastic promotion to win the newest Hummer model. e promotion, which ran during June and July, had six winners– four of the lucky Palm Club players are shown here.
Casino Pauma’s award-winning Palm Club promotions o er exciting prizes each month. Look on page 25 for this month’s exciting promotion!
Pictured Right: Casino Pauma Hummer Winners (Clockwise from top left), Carol W., Randy M., Romeo T., and Ed C.
Australian Wins 2005 World Series of Poker
former osteopath became one of the Hachem outlasted eight other players at the nal biggest poker winners in history with the table and a record eld of 5,619 players to capture $7.5 million first place championship in the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold’em World
2004, who earned spots by winning Internet online poker site tournaments, Hachem paid the $10,000 entry fee in cash.
In the nal tense moments of the tournament, Hachem bet $2 million on a straight 3-4-5-6-7. Dannenmann, who held a pair of aces, raised the stakes to $5 million. At that point, Hachem went “all in,” for $30 million. Mr. Dannenmann called. e nal card was a 4, leaving Hachem the winner.
ESPN lmed all 14 hours of nal table play and will air one- and two-hour segments later this year.
the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
Joseph “Hash” Hachem, 39, from Melbourne, Australia, won rst place on July 16th by outlasting Steven Dannenmann, a certi ed public accountant
from Maryland, in the almost 14-hour nal at Binion’s, the birthplace of the event. Mr. Dannenmann, 38, took $4.25 million for second place.
Championship. e total prize pool at the 36th WSOP, which began on July 7, was $103 million, a poker world record. e top nine players all received
prizes of more than $1 million.
Playing in his rst-ever WSOP, Hachem became
the third straight unknown player to win the game’s most coveted title. Unlike the previous two champions, Chris Moneymaker in 2003 and Greg Raymer in
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