pokerdali it was a 70k call

congrats to moneymaker for his intimidation. it will be interesting to see how he plays in the first day and hopefully he will get past it unlike varkonyi

the reason he won was due to his ability of not letting players such as howard lederer read him. when you take that ability he becomes there equal heads up.

stop getting down on moneymaker, he won the wsp2003 on skill he got lucky on that one hand against brenes besides that it was all skill. against ivey why wouldnt he call his all in with three queens and an ace kicker? and against farha he made some real gutsy moves and it paid off.

Seeking opinion: On the bluff to Farha (busted flush draw versus Vahedi's top pair), afterwards they got talking and Vahedi claimed he folded Queens, and MM said something like "but the highest card was a ten...oh, you had them in your hand? Wow!" I thought this was brilliant acting on his part (someone wrote that he "couldn't remember" above), playing the role of dumb lucky amateur with aplomb to mess with Vahedi. What do others think?

Yes He did play well, he did get lucky but i think the thing that really made him was how the real pros were gunning for him. They wanted to bully him but he stood up against them and did it well thats how he won. As far for making it to the final table again this year. I dont think he will do but GOOD LUCK ANYWAY.

At least Varkhoni didnt win again...

lucky all the way through

johhny chan sucks and chris moneymaker kicks ass!!!

cris oh chris see you out in the first round this year ahhhh sooooooooo

i hate moneymaker.he gets so lucky .the guy got everything and was the luckiest player in the tournament .i mean the bastard took out Johnny Chan

lucky but cool, if i was on the final table at wsop i doubt if i could play that agressive and stay cool!!

There is only one way of measuringsucess in poker$$$

pure $%^*house luck, don't care for the way he plays and whats worse is how he looks and acts. look at his dad

The most controversial poker player in history. Personally, I think he's lucky, but still can hold his own. One does not master poker online.

Mark my words...he won't crack top 200 in this years main event. Good guy though, but his play won't stand the test of time.

Who cares... he's a millionaire now. If he quit today and just lived the rest of his life he'd still have my respect. He looks like the kind of guy who'll actually hang on to his millions...

Obviously Dumb Luck prevailed the last 2 years at the WSOP. Hopefully that all changes this year. And for those of you amatures out there who think that MoneyMaker won the tournament because he made all the right calls or because he played well, I hope to see you guys this year at the WSOP.

ukgekko, too bad i'm pretty sure he is a gambling addict and probably already pissed away all the money from the wsop on the ponies.

considering the actual time length of the main event and the amount of time that you morons got to watch on ESPN, do you think that you might have missed a few hands? lets see.... 7 hours on ESPN vs. about 40-50 hours of live play. i think you all missed something here. no one could get a read on him, and when someone tried to put a move on him, he recognized it and took down the pot. Luck? I don't think so. Even the regular tournament pros have said that he played very well all the way to the end. why wouldn't he have made the call against ivey? could any of you lay down those queens knowing for sure that you had the best hand at the time? NO! back to the original comments, of course ESPN is going to show the hand against brenes, he hit a two outer, however, he had just taken several hands from brenes and wanted to intimidate him. after they show this hand, all of you can sit here and say that he got sooooooooo lucky. it is called ratings! now all of you and every other amateur with a bankroll of $10,000 think you can go win. now, instead of just getting the same or slightly better ratings, everyone in the country watches to see if another one of their amateur heroes can win it all again! it is just like what any other tv station does with shows, edits them to project the picture they want to portray. in this case, ESPN showed 1, 2 at best, lucky hands that MM played. it is not a lottery people, but if you ever win a tournament without getting lucky or hitting a 2-3 outer, then you must by some psychic power know exactly what cards are coming every hand. have any of you ever gotten into a pot with 99, played it out, and had your opponent turn over AK? who got lucky here? did you make a good read and call his bluff the whole way with 2nd pair, or did he get unlucky not hitting an A or a K? well, the truth is you probably got scared when a Q hit the board on the flop and figured that he hit it perfectly. do any of you "MM sucks people" even know what the odds of making a pair on the flop are? good grief, i am sure that because you have all read super system, all of a sudden you think you know how to play like doyle. well, guess what, you don't. and as for the guy that posted saying that MM knocked him out at bay 101, good for you for showing some good sportsmanship to all of these whiny babies who can't win an online multi table event, much less a WSOP main event.

Ratings is the only smart dude to post, the rest of you idiots are all talk. He was there the rest of you were not, end of discussion.

You people who bash him are ridiculous. Everyone who has ever won one of these events has gotten lucky at some point. The "Ivey" hand was a bad beat for Moneymaker on the turn to begin with, so that's justice in my opinion. I'm not saying he's as good as the top pros, he did get real lucky, but he did not play BAD. The bluff on Farha was great, and so was the call on Boyd (I know I would have mucked that one, but he put him on a hand and stuck to his guns). I'm fairly confident that he will never win this event again, but who knows. I wouldn't say he's terrible.

this guy is a total poser

badass93cobra, you really are like the rest of these losers who dislike Moneymaker. The only reason you and these other cockhounds feel obligated to tear him down publicly is because of your own lack of confidence in your own game.

It takes luck to make it to the final table against a field of 200 plus players... ... but to win at the final table takes skill, whether you want to admit it or not...Let's face it, Moneymaker isn't the greatest poker player in the world, but I'll be damned if he ain't one of the wealthiest right now. He could sit down now at the tables now for the next fifty years and steady lose $10k a year for the rest of his life and he STILL would still be ahead by some 2 million overall. So correct me if I'm wrong, but if poker is all just one long game, then Moneymaker has to one of the most successful poker players in the world (well at least for the next 50 years, but whose counting?)...

By Definition, your ignorant if you think MM will only lose 10k/yr playing poker. I just saw him last week playing in a $1k buy-in NL game, 30-60 blinds. You can make a killing in a game like that, but MM was in for 4k at the time. He won't be able to get away from the big games with all his money. I'm not saying he'll lose it all, but he's definitley a gambler. Go work on your gorilla math...late.

I agree...'By Def.'...consider yourself corrected!

Most of you are pissed. What you all have failed to mention, or realize do to lack of research, is that CM can play tourneys. The man cashed out a 2nd place $200,000 win a couple of months ago. He now has a track record, and perhaps his WSOP win wasn't a fluke.

hes aight...sam farha should have taken him to school tho

Chris Moneymaker Is My Fav Poker Player, Because He Is A Serious Poker Man!i Called Him "john Daly" He Keep His Glasses On While His Tournament Start So No One Knew Who He Look At! Someday I Want To Met Him And Play Some Poker With Him.or Maybe I Want To Beat Him So, It Will Be Deaf's First Championship In The World !!i Will Be The One, If I Get My Support For Me To Go There To Wsop.

Hey geniuses, check out who just placed 10th at the WSOP Pot limit Omaha tournament...your buddy Chris Moneymaker. I think people need to wake up and realize it's not luck to win this thing, all players need luck, but skill takes it down. Moneymaker recently won another big holdem tournament, and his 10th finish in Omaha also proves he's not a one trick pony. Get a clue haters. Incidentally, Omaha is supposed to be Farha's game but I did not see his name on the money list.

The best post was, "Posted by: Jake on Mar 26, 2004 - He has proven to be the greatest of all time." That's like saying LeBron James is the best basketball player of all time. I love Money but that't just comical.

must be the double chin that gave him all the luck

it's offical..MM was knocked out 2 hrs into the 2004 WSOP

i agree with Fatboy...MM sux..but i cant knock him to hard he won the 2003

Do Any Of You Idiots Know Anything About Poker? Luck Can Not Win You The Whole Damn Wsop! Mm Is A Good Player!!! So What If He Can't Win It Two Years In A Row, He Took Out So Many Players Last Year And He Is One Of The Best Out There!

moneymaker is a degenerate gambler...and his father is the most annoying fuck ever....they both should be killed .....LONG LIVE HELLMUTH

Will MM ever take up Hon Le on his million dollar heads up challenge? I'd have to give the edge to Hon Le, that guy is frightening!!

hes mad lucky, made some nice calls but in the end he just got so many good flops i mean Q/2os and hits Q/Q/?/2/? to amke fullhouseand the hand against phil ivey, full house beaten by a better full house too much luck

no MM had a AQ and Ivey had a 99, the flop comes Queen Queen something and then the turn card comes another 9 giving Ivey the full house. so we went all in and the the hell wouldnt MM call? and he did and he got an Ace on the river