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2008 World Series: Moneymaker surrounded by his own experience

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

The story of Chris Moneymaker's trip to the 2003 World Series has been told so many times, it almost doesn't have to be repeated. Thing is, there are more than a dozen players here trying to do just that.

Earlier this year, PokerStars ran a series of tournaments aimed at giving players a chance to repeat Moneymaker's storybook $39 to $2.5 million tale. Thrity-nine bucks and a good finish got players a spot in the $215 final.

Fifteen players won their way onto Team Moneymaker for the 2008 World Series. As we reported yesterday, those players were treated to a Moneymaker Masterclass over at the Palms.

Today, around half of Team Moneymaker is in the field and vying to repeat the Moneymaker experience. m The other half will join us on Day 1D Sunday.

The situation has certainly changed since Moneymaker booked his revolutionary win back in 2003. Today's Day 1C flight has twice the number of people as the whole Main Event in 2003. By the time the surviving members of Team Moneymaker go to bed tonight, they will have outlasted as many people as Moneymaker did five years ago.

Sitting with the members of Team Moneymaker today is the man himself

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Moneymaker is back in the field, playing the last of a few World Series events he chose to play this year. He started this day a couple of hours ago with 20,000 chips like everybody else. He ended the first level of play with 27,000.


2008 World Series: Moneymaker relishes his lack of cashes

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker has made exactly zero dollars this World Series, and he is pretty happy about it. Why? Well, just ask him.

by Chris Moneymaker

I have been playing a lot of poker the past to weeks on PokerStars.com gearing up for the WSOP. As I played, observers asked tons of questions. The most common recently is how many cashes do you have this year? The answer has been the same for two weeks now.

ZERO.

That’s right ZERO cashes at the 2008 WSOP.

This sounds really bad/sad for a professional poker player 39 events into the Series to not have cashed. Well, thankfully for me it is not that bad, since you have to play to win. If you have been in the Rio this month, you have seen tons of poker celebrities roaming the hallways, but you haven’t seen me. I have been at home with my family during the WSOP. I did make a trip out to Vegas and played in Event #1 the 10k PLH event. I busted out with 11 min left in Day 1 and played very well to make it that far, so I was pleased.

So why am I not playing many of the preliminary events? Well there are two reasons. First, historically I have never played many preliminary events at the WSOP. After winning in 2003, I played:

  • In 2004 five events cashing once getting 10th in the PLO 5k with re-buys.
  • In 2005 only the Main Event and didn’t cash. (My daughter Taylor was born in June this year).
  • In 2006 three events and cashing in 1 event, the limit hold-em shootout.
  • In 2007 four events cashing once in a no-limit event.
  • In 2008 1 event so far, but planning on playing 4 more leading up to the main event.
  • Secondly, I am having the best time of my life with my family. In 2006, my wife and I rented a house out in Las Vegas and planned on moving out there for the entire WSOP. We landed the day before Event #1 and got into our rental car. It was 115 degrees when we landed and miserable.

    After one day in the heat we decided it would be better if our one-year-old daughter was back home in a cooler environment. I stayed at home with her and from that point forward I made a decision that I wanted to enjoy seeing my daughter grow up.

    I travel a lot as it is and being gone for a month from my family is not something I choose to do. It doesn’t help the fact that my daughter’s birthday is in June, making it impossible to travel during that time. Anyway, I am making the trek to vegas on Sunday to play in the five remaining events of the WSOP. Hopefully, in a few weeks when someone on PokerStars.com asks how many times did you cash at the WSOP? I will say something other than ZERO.

    Good luck on the tables