mm is a very good player....not as good as forest or ungar...but is just as good as the other top players these days like negreanu,,,,look out for mm making the final table again in the years to come

moneymaker sucks he got lucky to beat sam farha

i know a guy who knows money maker i sware to god and i know for a fact that he lost well over half of the 2.5 mill at online sports books he bought a house shared some of the money and is pretty much broke again, he was the champ and no one can take that from him but a good poker player wouldnt switch his game completely to sports handicapping and loose his bankroll BOTTOM LINE he is an ameture and nothing more you dont get two chances to put together a bank roll that big how many of us would kill for that money i could play poker forever with that money lol

mm did loose most of his money on sports betting, that is true.

Real is that true? Hey I was wondering does the IRS take their cut at the time of the winning? I hear it's something like 50%? What a drag...I thought they gave you the full amount and you claimed it later.

not as bad a player as you think, in experinced eye may look like that..but he gambled sometimes and made some tough calls..its not gambling if theres no luck

Chris must love Greg Raymer because Chris is now known as the skinny, good looking online player who won the WSOP.

Poker Is Gambling When You Gamble You Get Lucky Or Not Lucky So Yes Its Luck Like Winning The Lottery. He Doesn't Give A @#$$ If He Is Fat At Least He Has Got The Money To Feed Himself And He Dosen't Care About Poker He Has A Rich Family And His Cpa From University Of Tennessee He Worked For Everything He Has And Just Got Lucky Once Now He Is Set For Life He Doesn't Need "poker" And His Family Runs A Wine And Liquor Store Not A Towin Service

I am Chris sister and all of you are so wrong you all don't know @#%# about him and never will. All he is to you all is a fat lucky poker player. Well he isn't fat anymore never really was "FAT" just healhty and who really care what you all say its all hearsay, hearsay just like the bible and your religion all hearsay no total truth or fact and he has tripled his money but you all can think he is broke that just mean no one will ask for money..

Strong rumors that he blew his WSOP winnings on a McDonald's bender. This guy can EAT.

does everyone know phil ivey should have won the 03 wsop if moneymaker didnt out draw him on a final river card

Moneymaker would have thought to himself once he won the wsop that "Hey I can mix it with these big guns!!"Goes to the Taj to play in a big limit game and gets cleaned out by a dead money moron who in turns gets cleaned out by Phil Helmuth who in turn gets cleaned out by Annie Duke. Then Phil goes home to sulk!As Phil is walking out of the Taj to go home to sulk how he lost to Annie Duke, he bumps in to Sam Grizzle who is busking outside the Taj for money to play the $1/$2 table inside the Taj and makes Sam drop his harmonica. Sam is annoyed and punches Phil in the Face. Phil screams like a little girl and starts crying there and then while Sam Grizzle gets picked up by the police who are enforcing a new law that bans hobo busking midgets standing in front of casinos!

I love how you all shoot the guy down. Nothing but a bunch of 4 am free roll losers. You go win a world title, then feel free to criticize. Lucky or not, he is a world champ , and you aren't

I say no matter what, the guy can play cards whether or not he wins everyday or he loses. I met him the last time I was in Vegas, and he's a good guy as well.

nice card player - not great

Chris Moneymaker is a clown he got lucky.he will never win first place in anything anymore

He won a world title, for that you must be lucky sometimes and know how to play against pro players.

Moneymaker should be given credit for his achievement. Yes luck does come into play, but if any of you here were to win it then I'm sure you would be floating on cloud nine. Give the guy credit he deserves it!! He did place second to Phil Gordon like Sammy above stated....

ARE YOU GUYS ALL DONE NOW? He got lucky, you won't see him again. (just like countless others)

Honestly, hats off to Chris for his play. The only thing I can't stand (and not just him) is all the stupid commericals about poker left and right making it look so corporate. I enjoyed the game much more 10 years ago when it was kind of a special "society"

This guy has a ridiculous drinking problem. I'd love to catch him playing drunk sometime.

This guys sucks. He got lucky to win the main event in 2003 and then made one final table in San Jose where he came in second. Wow great job Chris a possum can play better than that. Keep up the lousy work and continue thinking you are a good player.

Real lucky that his last name is catchy. No matter if he ever does anything in the poker world ever again, some online site(s) will throw him a few bucks to use his name until his arteries finally clog up and his fat ass keils over.

Anyone can catch cards...but not everyone can act and dress like Sammy Farha

Boy I wish I could get pocket 8's go all in against p aces and catch an 8. Lets face it, MM is a lucky tool that shouldn't even have his name on this website. Lose some weight Chris.

The thing about luck, we all been there...bad play pays off sometimes... we all have bad bad beats... but the one that bad beats us.... usely get busted out after a few hands ...there bad play get them self out in the end... but this dude... he just made a deal whit the devil and he got good player out whit bad play! to win in this way is an Insult To the poker world!

One time LUCKY FLUKE!! Wish that would happen to me just once!

Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer are excellent role models to the poker community. They have class and skill and are feared by most of all the top poker players today. They even are famous for their wins at the WSOP and have their website which you see on TV everyday. I feel that all you should respect them and admire their true ability to play cards at such a high caliber. I lso feel that they should have a signing session iwth Greg and Chris before every major tournament. Chris and Greg are NOT lucky...they are extremely skilled.....

Lets face it Moneymaker is not a great player and im sick of this talk about the great bluff he made. It was an easy play to make cause he knew that the only way Sammy could call the bet was if he had the straight or a flush. No way Sammy could call with just top pair cause if he makes a bad read hes out in 2nd. If anything moneymaker showed the power of a big stack. I will say this for moneymaker though he played not just good but great in the shooting bay tourney but getting lucky in the big one and one other tournment does not make him a great player. On the other hand he can always be glad that he is not Robert Valoser or what ever his name is. On a side not im sick of everyone talking about the Phil Ivey hand. What the hell was Phil doing calling on the flop with pocket 9's anyway. He got lucky to hit a 2 outer then moneymaker got lucky to hit a 4 outer whose luckier???

Ivey called on the flop because he didnt have the luxury of viewing Moneymakers hand by way of the tabletop "lipstick" camera behind his hole cards. But I suppose we are all world champions when we can see everyones cards in hindsight.