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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... promotion , five of six members of the PokerStars Million Dollar Men faced off against Tom McEvoy, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Joe Hachem. Click image for larger version Peter Eastgate , Ylon Schwartz , Darus Suharto and David "Chino" Rheem all sat down for a practice round against the best. While Ivan Demidov actually had a seat at the table, he was a little preoccupied with...
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London City (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... Williams already waiting there, as is Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri. We also reported that Chris Moneymaker had suffered a similar fate. His day came
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... human. That summer, an unknown thirtysomething CPA from Tennessee, the appropriately named Chris Moneymaker, became a poker legend when he parlayed a $40 online investment into a multimillion-dollar World Series of Poker championship.The result of all this was a poker explosion that made the game nothing less than a national obsession. Naturally, the media - always hot for the Next...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
No-limit hold'em is the first type of poker that many of today's younger players ever played. They saw Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker parlay $39 into $2,500,000 by winning first place in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event after winning his entry via a PokerStars satellite tournament. That sparked the poker interest in many of them, who wanted thereafter only to play no-limit...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
by John Duthie Having busted on level 4 of this tourney making a move with 4,6 suited it was great to watch the players whose patience, timing and skill managed to get them to the final 10. This looked like a very interesting line-up with our old friend ‘Money800’ (Chris Moneymaker) joined by Jonathan Little (jcardshark), dorinvandy,DuckU ,purplEUROS, Glen Chorny (chornon),gbmantis,O.Hershiser...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
It was one of the best final tables in WCOOP history, featuring Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker and baseball great Orel Hershiser. Now PokerStars.tv has put together a fantastic highlight reel for you to watch with all the hole cards exposed. Take a look! Watch WCOOP Highlights: Event 5 - $10,300 NL Hold'em on PokerStars.tv Other Event #5 News WCOOP Event #5: dorinvandy beats star-studded...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Chris Moneymaker, Orel Hershiser make final table by Brad Willis and Change100 If three-bets were fleas, WCOOP Event #5's players would never stop itching. The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has always been the richest event in online poker and one of the biggest tournament series live or online. Event #5, however, was a whole different beast. The $10,000 buy-in High-Roller...
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PokerPlasm.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Chris Moneymaker. Greg Raymer. Joe Hachem. These are the names of world poker champions. They are also the names of players who have played Texas hold’em poker games online extensively, which may well have contributed to their championship victories. Playing texas holdem poker isn’t necessarily a path to riches and glory, but it can be. [...]
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
As we enter Day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau, stories begin to permeate of players following the Chris Moneymaker-eqsue dream, of turning a tiny satellite buy-in, into a major tournament victory, often with little-to-no tournament experience for the player. Remember Moneymaker’s 2003 WSOP Main Event victory, universally credited as having instigated...
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Poker News | pokernews.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
This weekend has been a colossal one for online poker. With the 25k PLO heads up championship on Full Tilt, the WCOOP high-roller NLHE event on PokerStars and many other big games there were millions of dollars won by many fantastic players. Choron, GBmantis, Orel Herschiser, Chris Moneymaker, and Patrik Antonius are just a few names that featured themselves today. WCOOP Event 5 High-roller...
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AimlesslyChasingAmy (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
You don’t talk about fight club Chris Moneymaker’s win was always a double-edged sword for the poker media. It began the Cinderella model of coverage with the requisite fairy tale ending — where the winner was not only the most skillful, but the most worthy of taking home the glass slipper. And the money that flowed from online poker [...]
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Poker News | pokernews.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
There are a couple of factors that played a role in boosting the development of poker on TV. One of these factors is the TV channel ESPN. This channel brought the World Series of Poker 2003 into peoples homes. Another factor is Chris Moneymaker, who, in that same year, showed that an amateur can become world champion and a millionaire with an investment of merely $39. But it was John...
