Where would poker be without the "Moneymaker Effect"?

[gon4iypes]

Imagine that Chris Moneymaker had busted out before the bubble in the 2003 WSOP Main Event and never became a household name in poker. Where do you think poker would be today if the "Moneymaker Effect" had never happened?


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To my mind it all depends how you look at it. First of all. he was an unknown amateur who satellited in and won against all the odds. So, seeing this everybody started thinking "Jeez , if he can do it so can I "......this wouldn't have happened if Farha had won , a professional player winning a tourney is nothing special, entertaining perhaps but not really inspirational to the masses to get them playing. I mean how many main event winners from days gone by do you remember? But Chris Moneymaker woke something in the souls of people the world over that got us thinking "SHIT A BRICK.....I can do this" , without this the poker boom would not have happened the way it did. So very much slower growth.

But here's another thought. To accomodate the massive influx of players, new poker rooms were popping up like mushrooms and online poker became really big business pretty quickly.....enter BLACK FRIDAY. That would probably not have happened if there was not this incredible buzz, with the attendant millions upon millions of dollars floating around.

So at the end of the day , to answer the question, where would online poker be today without the "Moneymaker Effect" calls for speculation, and no-one can say with any certainty.

 

[EmptyHouse]

In my opinion, if the "Moneymaker effect" had not happened, poker would be in the same place it is today. About 20 years ago, there was a rapid expansion of the Internet, and consequently poker rooms sprang up like mushrooms. I believe that Chris Moneymaker's win was not necessary for this, or if it was, it had minimal impact on it.

 

[nighton]

Imposible to know what would happen but certainly was an explosive impacto to the poker world.
Probably would take more time to reach so many players worldwide

 

[hamon08]

It's hard for me to talk about it because I was only a year old in 2003😂.
But I read a lot and watched a lot of different videos about it. Of course, this tournament in 2003 made the biggest boom in the history of poker, immediately after that people's interest in playing poker increased to the maximum, new poker rooms began to be created and developed, and there were even more live tournament series and even bigger prizes in these tournaments. But the most important thing is that the world saw that an ordinary accountant who qualified for the main tournament through a satellite was able to win it and win a lot of money. That's why it was such a breakthrough, because anyone can play poker and win. However, if this hadn't happened, I think poker would have developed in the same way, but not as fast. At that time, there were already many famous players promoting our favourite game, and I do not exclude the possibility that if it had not happened in 2003, it would have happened in 2009 or even later.

 

[redboy23]

Hello Poker Fans,



The "Moneymaker Effect" was very important to the game of poker, more so the story than the man, and goes hand in hand with the televising or coverage of the game of poker. Just like the head of the Gorgon, if is was not Chris Moneymaker, it would have been someone else! What's crucial to growing the game of poker, is that the masses get to see and read about the Cinderella stories poker has to offer and thanks to the internet and other mass media - it is happening. The beauty of the game is that, everyone has a chance of winning even though there is a vast difference in overall skill. Imagine the poetry that a professional player can bust out first or early, if the hand is tempting enough and lady luck smiles on the villain. Think about the message being sent out there when the cameras capture a casual player bluffing a professional out of a hand. Every poker player out there now believes within themselves "I can do this" - and that is powerful in and of itself. We are all at the mercy of the cards and held captive by our habits, tendencies and mental reasoning. More importantly, each person has a chance of winning the poker lottery!



The long and short of it is, assuming that the coverage of the game continued - poker would have been just fine without the victory of Chris Moneymaker - we would have just crowned another Cinderella Story and it would have been the "John Doe Effect"! . The wheels were already set in motion and could not be stopped. Poker is here to stay

 

[Aballinamion]

Imagine that Chris Moneymaker had busted out before the bubble in the 2003 WSOP Main Event and never became a household name in poker. Where do you think poker would be today if the "Moneymaker Effect" had never happened?


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This is a very good question and I will answer it for pleasure, not because of the VIP Chips. Chris had demonstrated that anyone, absolutely anyone can be good at poker and that caused a domino effect in the whole world by that time where people where somehow suspicious about poker. If now people don't believe imagine back then, where people had the belief that only those who have some ultimate imaginary skill could possibly be good at poker or as usual it was a "rigged" game as slot machines.
The effect was quite clear because I remember that in 2004, Cristiano Ronaldo e Roberto Carlos were making propaganda for pokerstars. By the time I had no idea about poker but that was the glorious and golden epoch to play this game, most of rooms were giving away $10, $20, $30 dollars for anyone who signed up to the poker room and that increased the amount of curious people and of course, the amount of recreational players.
Chris is a one time hero of poker, although this happens every time nowadays, everyday we have information that a newcomer got there, in the Sunday Million or another major poker event, and we own that to this guy who had nothing to lose but had a lot of discipline and psychological control to face a bunch of satellites and finally get there. Chris is an inspiration for many players, even me, because he had demonstrated that dreams are possible, that we must fight for what we believe and we should never be ashamed of our current social position, because when we are dealt two hole cards, our social position means nothing.

 

[finaltable1]

I think Poker would be moving in the same direction. Increase of popularity was caused by online poker platforms, where everyone can try to become "Moneymaker" by playing from home. If not online poker sites then "Moneymaker effect" might be easily forgotten by society in like 5-7 years. But since social media platforms evolved together with poker sites - this "effect" was used to advertise poker sites and poker in general.

 

[Jdawglet]

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Poker was already on the rise in 2002 thanks to the WPT and the pocket cam. Moneymaker was the perfect story to push poker over the top, however…without him…ESPN would have found some other story line to keep people engaged. Additionally, the 2004-2005 NHL lockout meant that there was TV programming needed and poker took those time slots. (Including replays of the 2003 World Series.). The Moneymaker effect helped build poker, but it was just a of the puzzle…maybe the final piece, but a piece none the less. Poker popularity would have still grown.

 

[BentleyBoy]

Planetary alignment causes a great stir in the world of astronomy. Generally the planets roam around the solar system and make up what is always there. However, on occasion, things happen that bring them into alignment and we all go WOW. how is that even possible.

Such a significant event also typifies less natural phenomena such as what happened to create the Moneymaker effect. A whole load of individual circumstances that were milling around the poker world at the time came together in alignment and Mr Moneymaker was fortunate to be the person right at the heart of it and BOOM..... we have a n unnatural event taking shape from what is ordinarily just another day.

Such instances surely create an opportunity for every one that that one big win is possible and if the circumstances are just right can propel you and the game into an orbit that you had never appreciated.

Is poker the better for this. Hell, yeh. It was a once in a lifetime incident and Chris was lucky enough to be the person involved. Also lucky to have the name that he has. Imagine if his name was Smith or Jones....it just wouldn’t feel the same.

However, poker certainly has developed from those early internet days and who knows what might have happened in what way if someone else had won that game, someone with a long standing reputation in poker? Not a lot maybe, but soon after something would have happened because if not Mr Moneymaker, the whole of poker would have moved on differently as the timeline would have shifted and who knows what could have followed. We could be even more developed now if something else had happened and we hadn’t been blinded by the Moneymaker effect.

Damo

PS. By the way, Loki Season ll starts on Wednesday!

 

[iceheart888]

Moneymaker gambled and won. Not only wsop but also many contracts and implicitly more money. Those who were stolen by this mirage only had to lose, I have not heard of other players who followed his example and won

 

[millya5]

Honestly, it's hard for me to imagine this because I don't know Chris Moneymaker.
I'm very interested...that this is "Moneymaker Effect
I still don’t know a lot of things because I’m still new to poker.

In 2003, a 27-year-old accountant from Nashville qualified for and won the world series of poker Main Event via a $40 online satellite, multiplying his modest investment by 62,500 times.
I found an article on the Internet that is more interesting and interesting to me

 

[Toruk Makto]

Without a doubt moneymaker, it was the evolution of poker, perhaps without it poker would not have reached where it is at the moment, being the fastest growing sport of the mind in the world, and the trend is to improve more and more!

 

[ammje]

I don't think I would change much, poker is just as popular today.

 

[jhonacage]

I think that has a major impact for the amateurs or recreational users and was an inflection point to motivate them to play online.