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	Chris Moneymaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born 1976 in Tennessee) is an American professional poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
		Moneymaker attended the University of Tennessee and earned a masters degree in accounting.
		Moneymaker has since played on the World Poker Tour, finishing second at the Shooting Stars event, earning $200,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Moneymaker (327 words)

	Poker Stars Chris Moneymaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chris won the final hand with a full house, fives full of fours, defeating veteran ring game player Sam Farha's top pair.
		Chris was an accountant at the time of his win.
		The one thing Chris will never be able to do is use what he did to help him achieve his victory in 2003...
	www.gamguru.com /poker-stars-chris-moneymaker.htm (538 words)

	Chris Moneymaker - Start Of The New Breed \| Poker Pro Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Atlanta, GA in 1975 and now living in Nashville, TN, Moneymaker was a young accountant with a wife when he first learned the game of Texas Hold 'Em in 2000.
		Chris didn't like the game; it was slow and usually the buddy that chose the game always won.
		As the fates would have it, however, Chris became the poster child of the Internet generation as he battled his way through what was at that time the largest field the history of tournament poker.
	www.pokernews.com /stories/chris-moneymaker.htm (755 words)

	CNN.com - Mr. Moneymaker nets $2.5m poker prize - May. 24, 2003
		Moneymaker, with his metallic wraparound shades, clutched a small crystal in his hand for good luck.
		Moneymaker drew a five and a four to Farha's jack and ten.
		Moneymaker, the father of a 3-month-old girl, was among 37 players sent to the tournament after paying $40 and qualifying at PokerStars.com.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/05/24/offbeat.poker.win.ap (699 words)

	ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - Chat-5712
		Moneymaker, who qualified for the WSOP by winning a $40 online poker tournament, took home a cool $2.5 million after he defeated Sam Farha in the final round game of No-Limit Texas Hold'em.
		Chris Moneymaker: There were a lot of hands that could have affected my life.
		Chris Moneymaker: He invited me to be part of the crew last year but I turned him down.
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatESPN?event_id=5712 (2209 words)

	Chris Moneymaker \| Professional Poker Player Profile
		The 2003 WSOP was Moneymaker's first live tournament, and he was almost unable to attend it.
		At the 2003 WSOP, Chris made a number of memorable plays, among which was his heads-up against Sam Farha.
		Chris Moneymaker has quit his accountant job to become a celebrity spokesman for Series owner Harrah's Entertainment, as well as PokerStars.
	www.poker-player-profiles.com /chris-moneymaker (388 words)

	Welcome to Poker Net Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But there Chris is, walking proud and standing tall, and serving as an inspiration to all the people who sit down at their home games and dream of bigger things.
		Cash was tight and Chris realized he probably wouldn't even be able to afford to travel to Vegas to play, so he sold pieces of his action to his father and a friend.
		Chris proved he wasn't a flash in the pan by finishing second to Phil Gordon in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star.
	www.pokernetonline.com /pros/chrismoneymaker.html (754 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- News: FROM $40 TO MONEYMAKER
		Sam Farha, right, of Houston tries to determine whether Chris Moneymaker of Spring Hill, Tenn., is bluffing Saturday after Moneymaker put in all of his chips during the World Series of Poker at Binion's Horseshoe.
		Moneymaker outlasted 838 other entrants in the World Series of Poker's $10,000-entry, no-limit Texas hold'em event to claim the title of world champion and win the biggest poker tourney prize ever, topping the $2 million collected by last year's champ, Robert Varkonyi.
		The fifth upcard was another five, giving Moneymaker a championship-winning full house, fives over fours, and marking the second consecutive year an amateur won the event with a final-card full house.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2003/May-25-Sun-2003/news/21397335.html (905 words)

	Chris Moneymaker, 27, Wins 2003 World Series of Poker
		Moneymaker would have won without the full house, so maybe on Letterman, he just mentioned the pair of 4's and 5's cause it didn't matter that he got the full house.
		Moneymaker was one of the few guys not talking smack constantly during the tourney, so I was happy to see him win.
		Chris was in big trouble needing a nine, queen, or ace on the river.
	www.poker-king.com /poker-king-articles.php?article=13 (1537 words)

	SI.com - More Sports - John Walters: How Moneymaker started the poker craze - Tuesday May 24, 2005 3:51PM
		Everyman Chris Moneymaker inspired a nation of card sharks with his shocking victory at the '03 World Series of Poker.
		The larger story was the the triumph of Chris Moneymaker in the '03 WSOP Main Event.
		Moneymaker, in a story that almost every premier player under the age of 30 also tells, was inspired by the 1998 film Rounders (see our story on the cult classic, in which a law student portrayed by Matt Damon takes down a top older Russian player, portrayed by John Malkovich, and then moves to Las Vegas).
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/more/05/18/poker.moneymaker (599 words)

	Chris Moneymaker: Professional Poker Player - PokerallStar.com
		Professional Poker player Chris Moneymaker was born in Spring Hill, Tennessee in 1976, attended the University of Tennessee and earned a masters degree in accounting.
		Three years later Chris Moneymaker won his seat into the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker by spending $39 playing online Poker Texas Hold'em.
		Chris Moneymaker went on to win the first prize of $2.5 million as a Professional Poker player.
	www.pokerallstar.com /chris-moneyaker.html (317 words)

	Chris Moneymaker Bio - Poker player profile, quotes and pictures
		No, he is not kidding, his name really is Chris Moneymaker and he is one of the most successful money makers in the world of poker.
		One day, Chris sat down with his friends to watch Matt Damon in Rounders, and was inspired to become a poker player too.
		Chris Moneymaker: I'd guess that out of the last 365 days I've been on the road about 180 of them.
	www.everypoker.com /chris-moneymaker (483 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2. 5 Million at the World ...
		In 2004 the number of entrants—and the winning pool—at the World Series of Poker tripled, thanks in large part to Chris Moneymaker, an amateur player who came out of nowhere to win the 2003 Series, and prove to newcomers and poker pros alike that anything is possible with a chip and a chair.
		Moneymaker was a young accountant from Tennessee who loved to gamble but only took up cards after college.
		Moneymaker's improbable 2003 victory at the World Series of Poker (where he was an untested amateur player) has been seen on ESPN's WSOP series as many times as a Seinfeld rerun.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Ek57ZGwASy&isbn=006076001X&itm=1 (808 words)

	Review of Moneymaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amateur poker players all over the world have been inspired by Moneymaker's story, parlaying $40 into what at that time was the biggest tournament poker payday ever.
		Basically, Moneymaker makes the claim that his low-stakes online poker playing was in some measure a way for him to keep a big sports betting problem in check.
		Moneymaker doesn't appear personally compelling or as a person of destiny or anything like that.
	www.jetcafe.org /npc/reviews/gambling/moneymaker.html (635 words)

	Chris Moneymaker - World Series of Poker - Moneymaker Gaming
		Chris Moneymaker is the real name of the twenty-seven year old who won the 2003 World Series of Poker No Limit Hold'em Championship.
		The other thing that I really respected about Chris was what a great sportsman he was at the table.
		In 2004, Chris came in second at the Bay 101 Shooting Stars World Poker Tour event.
	www.poker-babes.com /bio/chris-moneymaker (961 words)

	Bay 101 Shooting Star WPT - Phil Gordon Chris Moneymaker
		Chris showed the heart of a champion when he earned a pot with a pure bluff.
		Chris won another hand when Phil called in the small blind with 97 of diamonds and Chris checked Q9.
		Chris won a nice pot when he raised with 97 of clubs and Scott reraised in the big blind to $116,000 with K9 of diamonds and Chris called.
	www.poker-babes.com /world-poker-tour/bay-101 (1561 words)

	Poker.Net - Chris Moneymaker
		Now Moneymaker spends his time as a paid poker ambassador, which brought him to the opening of Harrah's Kansas City poker room last weekend.
		Chris pushed my chips back at me, shuffled the cards and told me that part of his new life as a poker celebrity is humoring other players who aim to take him down.
		Most of them, as in my case, stay in on bad hands for lots of bad reasons, including the wishful thought that they can be just as good or lucky as Chris Moneymaker.
	www.poker.net /headlines/news/archive/moneymaker.htm (382 words)

	Chris Moneymaker: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moneymaker attended the University of Tennessee[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] and earned a masters degree in accounting.
		Moneymaker won his seat into the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker World Series of Poker quick summary:
		The world series of poker is the most prestigious set of poker tournaments in the world....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chris_moneymaker.htm (613 words)

	Chris Moneymaker Poker Biography - Moneymaker Bio
		After all, Chris, a one-time accountant who pulled down around $40,000 a year, found a way to turn a lifetime of gambling into the biggest contest and payout of his life.
		Chris managed to make it into the World Series of Poker, scrap through a record field, and rise to the very top for a $2.5 million payday.
		When it was over Chris stared at the screen and realized he was about to play for the chance to be a world champion.
	www.chrismoneymaker.com /poker/bio (873 words)

	UPF - Phil Ivey and Chris Moneymaker hand
		I think on the flop Moneymaker had a set of Q's and Ivey had the pocket nines with the pair of Q's on the board.
		So, yes he wasn't getting proper oodds to call to hit his two outer (23-1), but the chance was good enough given the other factors to risk $60k out of his $470k or so stack to make it worth the chance.
		I thought Moneymaker's error there was making a relatively weak bet with the set of Qs which I can only guess was an attempt to extract more money rather than drive Ivey off the hand.
	www.unitedpokerforum.com /archive/2003-08/13/22957 (644 words)

	playboy.comversation - chris moneymaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among them was a 29-year-old Nashvillian with a preternaturally appropriate last name whose recent rise from humble, anonymous IT accountant to millionaire poker world champ is one of American pop culture's true 21st-century Cinderella sagas.
		Chris Moneymaker, who began playing in earnest after watching the 1998 poker flick Rounders, bagged his place in the 2003 World Series of Poker after plunking down a measly $40 in a PokerStars.com online qualifier.
		Eventually, he would be the last man at the green felt table in Vegas, lording over a monstrous stack of chips worth two-and-a-half mil.
	www.playboy.com /features/dotcomversation/moneymaker (257 words)

	Chris Moneymaker @ Brooks International Speakers Bureau
		And even though there were a few times where he got very lucky, he definitely seemed to play a solid game where he could mix it up and get very aggressive.
		Chris had been working two jobs - as an accountant and part-time in a local restaurant - and playing poker for three years before he won big, but had never played a live tournament.
		He is from Spring Hill, Tennessee and is the father of a baby girl and plans to use his money to put his daughter through college, and of course return next year to defend his title.
	www.brooksinternational.com /chris_moneymaker.htm (338 words)

	Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship for PC Review - PC Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship Review
		Admittedly, its latest effort, Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship, is an improvement over its first attempt, but only because it isn't the worst poker game ever produced, which the first effort most certainly was.
		Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship is a Texas hold 'em-focused game that happens to feature a few other games like five-card draw, seven-card stud, and Omaha hold 'em.
		Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship does, at the very least, feature a decent poker interface that's easy to use and manage.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/puzzle/chrismoneymakersworldpokerchampionship/review.html (981 words)

	Amazon.com: Moneymaker : How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		So Chris Moneymaker, a kind of not too sophisticated young guy, an accountant from Tennessee with credit card debt and a wife and kid to support, would not seem the sort of guy who would suddenly discover an incredible ability to read players or to be unreadable himself.
		But what Moneymaker proves, as he narrates this unlikely tale (filtered through skillful wordsmithing by professional writer Daniel Paisner), is that for one tournament, you may not need all the skills.
		I feel somewhat sorry for Chris Moneymaker because in reading this book I know he still hasn't a clue--well, he has a clue, but he just hasn't developed the character yet to come to grips with the truth and deal with his sudden, largely fortuitous success.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006076001X?v=glance (2689 words)

	POKER PLAYER PROFILES - Chris Moneymaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chris Moneymaker was the underdog accountant from Tennessee who won the 2003 World Series.
		Many people think Chris won because he got lucky.
		He had been working two jobs - as an accountant and part-time in a local restaurant - and playing poker for three years before he won the Series, but had never played a live tournament.
	www.homepokergames.com /moneymaker.php (162 words)

	Chris Moneymaker wins 1st Prize - 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event- World Series of Poker
		Moneymaker emerged from complete obscurity, qualifying on the strength of a $40 online satellite, to win Poker’s most sought after prize, as well as cash winnings of $2.5 million.
		Chris winning is a big thing to the little people playing on the internet.
		Moneymaker made his millions at the WSOP Main event and also won the Blind Mans Bluff wsop event which payed out fairly well.
	www.blindbetpoker.com /subfolder/forum/t201-chris-moneymaker-wins.html (740 words)

	Poker Personalities - Howard Lederer, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chris attended the University of Tennessee and majored in
		Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP Championship, beating out such final table veterans as Phil Ivey
		Chris donated a portion of his WSOP winnings to cancer research.
	www.pokermaniaonline.com /PokerPersonalities5.html (493 words)

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