{"id":34671,"date":"2014-02-10T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=34671"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:32:37","slug":"mike-sexton-response-joe-hachem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-response-joe-hachem.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sexton: My Response To Joe Hachem Is This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve probably heard what the 2005 World Series of Poker main event Champion Joe Hachem has had to say about the newer champions of poker. In a recent video filmed by the Bluff team at the 2014 Aussie Millions he claims that in his opinion <em><strong>&#8220;Gold And Yang destroyed the world champ legacy&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those are some strong words right? He even goes on to make a lot more points about the state of the game today, so if you&#8217;ve not had the chance to watch it then do so now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DXSIv8b4KM\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Mike Sexton: My Take On The Matter:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;I would agree with Joe Hachem that the World Champion should (or wish they would) be an ambassador for poker, but like he says, &#8220;You can&#8217;t make them do it. They have to want to do it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;I said for years that poker never really grew because the vast majority of past World Champions &#8211; just never gave back or promoted the game. They took the money and preferred to stay quiet &#8211; which was their right &#8211; but it didn&#8217;t help promote the game.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Joe said the last five champions (all pretty quiet &amp; reserved) were under 25, so time will tell. But so far, it seems like they prefer to stay out if the limelight.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What we really need is for a bright, nice-looking, young woman to win the main event at the WSOP.\u00a0 When that happens, poker will explode like you won&#8217;t believe possible.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>~Mike Sexton<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Now it&#8217;s your turn<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So do you agree with Mike and what&#8217;s your thoughts on the whole matter? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve probably heard what the 2005 World Series of Poker main event Champion Joe Hachem has had to say about the newer champions of poker. In a recent video filmed by the Bluff team at the 2014 Aussie Millions he claims that in his opinion &#8220;Gold And Yang destroyed the world champ legacy&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-response-joe-hachem.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34671"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34681,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34671\/revisions\/34681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34671"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}