Chris Moneymaker partied prefer it was 2003 in the course of the two-day No Gamble, No Future livestream on PokerGO.
The Poker Corridor of Famer ran sizzling and proved he can nonetheless crush a troublesome lineup 23 years after successful the World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Primary Occasion. There was no scarcity of motion Saturday or Sunday, not with lineups that included Shaun Deeb, Phil Hellmuth, Erick Lindgren, Tom Dwan, Jared Bleznick, and Alan Keating.
None of these nice poker gamers, nonetheless, might compete with the person largely answerable for the poker increase greater than 20 years in the past. The world champ was so dominant that commentator Nick Wright dubbed Sunday’s livestream as “The Chris Moneymaker Present.”
The Chris Moneymaker Present
Moneymaker gained $75,400 on Saturday within the $100/$200 no-limit maintain’em money recreation. He wasn’t the largest winner — Lindgren gained $113,600 and Dwan profited $98,800. However the 2003 Primary Occasion winner got here again on Sunday and crushed the sport as soon as once more, though he ran right into a tough patch following a sizzling begin.
Many of the huge pots he performed went his manner. In a type of arms, he known as a four-bet all-in shove preflop with A♥Q♣ towards Bleznick’s A♣10♣ for a $76,000 pot. The board ran out 6♣4♣7♦2♦Q♦, a teaser for Bleznick with the flush draw on the flop, however bricks on the flip and river.
Moneymaker’s dominance, nonetheless, took a nosedive. At one level in the course of the second day of play, he was up almost $150,000. However the heater started to fade, and his income had dipped all the way down to below $70,000 for the session. He’d bounce again and win a few late small pots to finish the sport up $74,400, almost the very same outcomes he produced a day earlier. That put him at a $149,800 revenue for the weekend on No Gamble, No Future.
Hellmuth, however, performed tight, resulting in Wright, making his NGNF commentary debut, to repeatedly rip the “Poker Brat’s” play. However the 17-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner earned a late double-up towards Lindgren to complete the session within the black, albeit with solely a $2,600 revenue. He gained $14,400 over two days regardless of hardly ever elevating preflop, a continuing criticism of Wright.
Wright trashed Hellmuth for elevating preflop in solely 6% of the arms. So, the Fox Sports activities speak present host determined to go away the sales space in the course of the center of Saturday’s livestream to enter the sport, the place he proceeded to lose $17,100.
Hellmuth misplaced his preliminary buy-in after which raised the $200 huge blind with Jx6x to $10,000 the primary hand after rebuying into the sport. Moneymaker wakened with pocket jacks within the small blind and took down the pot with none additional resistance. Keating, who solely performed on Saturday, was the largest general loser, dropping $197,300 in simply 5 hours of play. However he did pull off an epic bluff towards Dwan with queen-high towards high pair.
Deeb was the one participant to have misplaced each periods. The reigning WSOP Participant of the Yr misplaced $85,200 on Saturday, and one other $13,700 on Sunday. However when he arrived for the Sunday recreation, he knowledgeable the desk he broke even for the day from wins in a separate post-livestream money recreation that bumped into the early hours of the morning.
