As the sun started to creep up above the Nevada skyline at 6.46am on 15 July 2005, a turn of a card changed Joseph Hachem’s life forever. Hachem, a former chiropractor from Australia, had been playing almost non-stop no-limit Texas hold’em for 14 hours on the final day of the WSOP main event when he decided to go all-in against American Steve Dannenmann.

Hachem had flopped a straight, his opponent missed the chance to split the pot on the river, and suddenly the Aussie was a whopping $7.5 million richer. As the fellow countryman who had boisterously supported him throughout launched into chants of ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!