Chris Moneymaker Wsop

The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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Chris Moneymaker Wsop

Preliminary events[edit]

Chris Moneymaker has won 1 bracelets and 0 rings for total earnings of $2,584,979. See all events where they placed in-the-money. Chris Moneymaker poker tournament results, including recent cashes, lifetime winnings, WSOP and WPT stats. Chris Moneymaker ready for risky WSOP experiment. This could end in disaster, and nobody seems to recognize it. While everyone is smiling and doing a happy dance about tonight's World Series of Poker grudge matches, no one is paying attention to the metaphysical ramifications of what could happen.

EventWinnerPrizeRunner-up
$500 Casino Employee's LimitHold'emDavid Lukaszewski$35,800Paul Trieglaff
$2,000 Limit Hold'emMohammed Ibrahim$290,420Jon Brody
$1,500 Seven-card studToto Leonidas$98,760Rallis Peter Tanagiotias
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo SplitChris Ferguson$123,680Barry Bindelglass
$2,000 No Limit Hold'emJim Meehan$280,100Guy Calvert
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'emPrahlad Friedman$109,400Bernd Rygol
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo SplitMinh Nguyen$106,020Bob Mangino
$1,500 Pot Limit OmahaErik Seidel$146,100Men Nguyen
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E.Doyle Brunson$84,080Brian Haveson
$2,000 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Seven Card StudChris Ferguson$66,220Diego Cordovez
$2,500 No Limit Hold'emPhi Nguyen$222,800Jim Miller
$2,500 Limit Hold'emPhil Hellmuth Jr$171,400Young Phan
$2,500 Seven Card StudMichael Saltzburg$95,580Mimi Tran
$5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven DrawO'Neil Longson$147,680Allen Cunningham
$5,000 No Limit Hold'emJohnny Chan$224,400Surinder Sunar
$1,500 Limit OmahaEddy Scharf$63,600Dave Colclough
$1,500 Limit Hold'emJohn Arrage$178,600Kathy Liebert
$5,000 Seven-Card RazzHuck Seed$71,500Phil Ivey
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo SplitLayne Flack$119,260Men Nguyen
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'emMickey Appleman$147,280Brian Plona
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'emRon Rose$130,060Ron McMillan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo SplitJohn Juanda$130,200Shahram Sheikhan
$1,500 No Limit Hold'emAmir Vahedi$270,000Cleve Haley
$2,000 S.H.O.E.Daniel Negreanu$100,440Jim Pechac
$5,000 Pot Limit OmahaJohnny Chan$158,100Emmanuel Sebag
$1,500 Limit Hold'em ShootoutLayne Flack$120,000Annie Duke
$3,000 Limit Hold'emTom Jacobs$163,000Jan Sjavik
$1,000 Ladies' 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 StudBarb Rugolo$40,700J. J. Liu
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo SplitFrankie O'Dell$133,760Bill Schonsheck
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'emCharles Keith Lehr$225,040Chris Ferguson
$5,000 Seven Card StudMen Nguyen$178,560Mel Judah
$3,000 No Limit Hold'emPhil Hellmuth Jr$410,860Daniel Negreanu
$2,500 Pot Limit OmahaJohn Juanda$203,840O'Neil Longson
$5,000 Limit Hold'emJuan Carlos Mortensen$251,680Mark Gregorich
$1,500 Ace to Five Triple Draw LowballMen Nguyen$43,520Charles Keith Lehr

Main Event[edit]

There were 839 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time. Many entrants, including the overall winner Chris Moneymaker, won their seat in online poker tournaments. The 2003 Main Event was the first tournament to pay out at least $2,500,000 to the winner. Dan Harrington made the final table and looked to win his second Main Event championship, but fell short in third place.

Final table[edit]

NameNumber of chips
(percentage of total)
WSOP
Bracelets*
WSOP
Cashes*
WSOP
Earnings*
Chris Moneymaker2,344,000 (27.9%)000
Amir Vahedi1,407,000 (16.8%)14$314,950
Sam Farha999,000 (11.9%)12$193,140
Tomer Benvenisti922,000 (11.0%)000
David Singer750,000 (8.9%)08$93,115
Jason Lester695,000 (8.3%)011$128,200
Dan Harrington574,000 (6.8%)27$1,325,858
Young Pak360,000 (4.3%)04$33,819
David Grey338,000 (4.0%)17$306,664
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*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2003 Main Event.

Final table results[edit]

PlaceNamePrize
1stChris Moneymaker$2,500,000
2ndSam Farha$1,300,000
3rdDan Harrington$650,000
4thJason Lester$440,000
5thTomer Benvenisti$320,000
6thAmir Vahedi$250,000
7thYoung Pak$200,000
8thDavid Grey$160,000
9thDavid Singer$120,000

Other Notable Finishes[edit]

PlaceNamePrize
10thPhil Ivey$82,700
11thMinh Nguyen$80,000
12thDutch Boyd$80,000
13thKassem 'Freddy' Deeb$65,000
14thMarcel Lüske$65,000
15thBruno Fitoussi$65,000
18thScotty Nguyen$55,000
19thHoward Lederer$45,000
23rdDennis Waterman$45,000
25thMen Nguyen$45,000
27thPhil Hellmuth Jr$45,000
29thVictor Ramdin$35,000
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If you were to pitch a story about poker and name the protagonist Chris Moneymaker, nobody would greenlight the project. Gamblers often have incredible nicknames as a result of associations, most of which they probably won't want to discuss, but Chris Moneymaker? You've gotta be kidding me.

That's certainly what I thought. I was a 'Rounders' kid -- someone who fell in love with poker after watching the movie hundreds of times. Captivated by the strategy, excitement and potential fame and glory, I just needed to know all I could about that world.

I remember reading in a newspaper that someone named Chris Moneymaker had won the World Series of Poker. I thought for sure there was a typo somewhere or perhaps the editor just took a few liberties involving a nickname to talk about the result of a game that wasn't yet mainstream. But no -- that guy, Chris Moneymaker, had actually won. My life, along with millions of others, had changed, but none of us knew it just yet.

That summer, Moneymaker became a most intriguing figure on ESPN, as the combination of his unlikely story and the ability to see player hole cards combined to set the world on fire. The accountant from Tennessee won his buy-in into the $10,000 World Series of Poker main event on PokerStars and turned fantasy into reality as he earned $2.5 million and the most coveted prize in poker. He was a recreational poker player and gambler who simply wanted to take fourth place in the satellite and bring home the $8,000 in cash in order to pay some debts off. During that satellite tournament, where three players would earn WSOP seats, one of his friends called him and offered him $5,000 cash for half of his action. Moneymaker was off to Las Vegas to change the world.

Seriously.

In the latest 30 for 30 podcast, 'All In: Sparking the Poker Boom,' Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan and other pivotal voices involved in the 2003 World Series of Poker take you on a tremendous ride through the event that brought poker into the mainstream.

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It created a boom filled with an influx of dead money, celebrity involvement, sponsors and tremendous characters who captured the imagination of those at home week after week. It also created jobs (like mine), poker sites (like the ESPN Poker Club), instructional camps and shows (like ESPN Inside Deal) and so much more. The 2003 World Series of Poker launched a highly volatile industry that relied on new players taking their shots with hopes of living the 'Rounders' dream.

To those who think that poker is dead, this year's main event, won by John Cynn, was the second-largest main event in history, with 7,874 players. It certainly doesn't get the exposure it once did, and the games certainly aren't filled with tons of dead money any more, but the circuits continue to run, and the rings, bracelets and trophies still get hoisted by those that excel most.

Hindsight being 20-20, this all seems like a simple opportunity that screamed excitement and full buy-in and collaboration from all involved. But the truth is that 441 Productions, the company hired to produce the WSOP for ESPN, didn't have any experience in the space. They began shooting with a few ideas and a book filled with information on players to focus on. Very early in the tournament, those faces began to disappear from the tables. They began to do what poker reporters do after each day of every tournament -- find a new story to tell.

Nolan Dalla, the media director for the WSOP, made that discovery as he was typing up a list of those that made it through Day 1 of the event.

'So I thought, here's a poker player whose name is probably Chris Smith and maybe Moneymaker is his nickname. Chris 'Moneymaker' Smith. Chris 'Moneymaker' Jones. ... [The next day] I said, 'Excuse me, could you tell me your real name please?'

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker pulled out his wallet and showed his Tennessee license. Game on.

'If I go out there and play in the World Series main event and I bust, and I don't pay off any of my credit card debt, all of this is for naught,' Moneymaker said. 'I'm not joking when I said I was probably number 800 out of 839 in terms of skill level in the tournament.'

After a strong Day 1, Moneymaker just wanted to fold into the money. That didn't happen. He had his 'Johnny Chan' moment when he bested the legend of the game. He miraculously rivered Phil Ivey on the final table bubble and found his way through the final table to become poker's world champion. During that time and, more importantly, after the event had ended, Matt Maranz of 441 Productions tried to figure out how to tell this story on TV, contemplating what to do as time after time the 'main character got killed off.'

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Maranz and the crew succeeded. Broadcasts captivated audiences around the world and turned Moneymaker into a star.

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'I thought I would play a poker tournament here and play a poker tournament there and go back to work,' Moneymaker said. 'That nothing much would change.'

That was one read that Moneymaker couldn't have missed more.

He has spent the past 15 years traveling around the world, playing hundreds of poker tournaments as an ambassador for both the game of poker and PokerStars, the poker site that completely changed his life.

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So put on your headphones and listen to how the 2003 WSOP main event came to be. Just as Norman Chad said as Moneymaker claimed victory, 'This is beyond fairy tale. It's inconceivable.'