Chris moneymaker before poker

Chris Moneymaker knows the type. The player whose eyes widen when the World Series of Poker champion brings his chips over to a table.

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If that sounds appealing, you have your chance to do just that this weekend in Charles Town, W. Moneymaker, an event ambassador, comes into Charles Town fresh off a victory at the St.

Louis regional event earlier this month. Well, yeah, some kid told me at the last tournament I was in playing that, "When you won, I was And of course the body feels old. Back when I was 28, I could play hour sessions. You mentioned the young guys. Back in , there were a handful of [poker] books and most of them had bad information.

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Mostly I played soccer and wrestling, so I was real competitive. So, I turned on to poker. It sounds really great when you put it in the paper.

Does it ever get cumbersome or annoying when you go to a tournament and everyone wants to shake your hand or take a photo or get an autograph.

Because it was a big accomplishment and I know that I am representing the game of poker, and it is cool to have fans. What was the biggest challenge in trying to follow up that high of winning the World Series?

That literally was my biggest fear, so getting over that hump personally was the biggest challenge. What is the state of the game, from your vantage point. The TV side probably got a little bit saturated with probably too many shows going on. So, that needs to get back on. The numbers [of entrants] in tournaments are probably still pretty consistent with where they were in We could never have maintained the growth that we had.

It seems like, especially around here, there are so many more places you can play poker. It use to be, people here in Baltimore might go to Atlantic City. How do you think that affects poker and gambling in general? You get a lot of choices. There are so many different poker tours out there. Back in , you had five or six tours that served for the whole year. A lot of the good guys that travel around the world are from this general vicinity.

And as poker is growing, you have rooms opening up. Literally, you start at noon and you play till midnight, and you get those adrenaline rushes once every five hours. Everywhere I go, people are trying to bust me.

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I happen to be one of those people. People play really weird against me. They either go out of their way to try to bust me, or they go out of their way to stay out of my way. Some people want a story. Some people just want to survive. Do you feel like your game is at a good place now? I thought I had the game figured out. Any big bets on the NCAA tournament?

I lost my billion, which sucks. I was alive [with a perfect bracket] until the night games on the first day. I actually picked Harvard and Dayton, so I was feeling all big and bad about myself. I actually live tweeted that I was going to win a billion dollars and then N.

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