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This is the story behind the most dramatic World Series of Poker ever and its lasting effects, told by the players, the TV execs, the tournament directors, techs, writers, and the 2003 WSOP champ himself, Chris Moneymaker.<\/p>\n

Moneymaker, an amateur poker player with a name too good to be true, defied the odds to win the 2003\u00a0WSOP\u00a0main event, just as the twin inventions of online poker and the hole-card camera simultaneously arrived to\u00a0revolutionize\u00a0a game long-relegated to smoky bars and living rooms.\u00a0More than a decade later, with the online-poker world in an ongoing state of flux, the “Moneymaker effect”\u00a0continues to reverberate\u00a0while the recollections and insights of the\u00a0more than 30 eye-witness contributors remain as relevant and insightful as ever, whether you’re a player yourself or simply interested in a great real-life narrative.<\/p>\n

“Chris Moneymaker’s improbable tale comes to life in this fabulous oral history of the journey that changed poker forever.”<\/i>\u00a0—Norman Chad, ESPN poker analyst<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I skeptically wondered what new territory could possibly be uncovered on an all-too familiar subject known to just about anyone who\u2019s played a hand of poker within the past decade\u2026Talented veteran freelance writer Eric Raskin\u2019s genius comes in the clever layout of the subject matter and easy-to-digest presentation of material which is far more comprehensive than anything previously released. The same story gets retold again, of course, but from angles which are at times strikingly different. Highly recommended.”<\/em>\u00a0—<\/em>Nolan Dalla, WSOP\u00a0Media<\/strong> Director\/Senior Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

About The Author<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Eric Raskin<\/strong> is no stranger to covering poker: He has been the editor-in-chief of ALL IN<\/em> magazine and its website allinmag.com since 2005. Eric is also a contributor to countless magazines and websites, including Grantland.com, Playboy<\/em>, ESPN The Magazine<\/em>, ESPN.com, and HBO.com. When he\u2019s not writing or editing poker articles, the majority of his work focuses on boxing. He is a six-time Boxing Writers Association of America award winner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most fascinating, thrilling, and unbelievable underdog stories in the history of sports, Chris Moneymaker defied astronomical odds to win the 2003 World Series of Poker, as online poker and the hole-card camera revolutionized the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[52,27,33,53,38,1918,378],"product_tag":[327,158,149,326,325,324,157,323,322,321,320,319,152,318,317,316,554,228,226],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}