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 Moneymaker
turns $39 into $2.5 Million and a World
Series of Poker Bracelet.
Chris had been playing
at Poker Stars under the handle of Money800,
playing mostly regular buy in tournaments
for around $20 bucks or so. Chris was doing
fairly well in some of the normal tournaments
at Poker Stars when he started to notice
all of the different satellite tournaments.
If you haven't played a Poker Stars before,
they have more tournament variety than I've
found anywhere, and I've played and nearly
every online site at one time or another.
So Moneymaker takes some of his recent winnings
and decides to try out one of the Poker
Stars daily $39 satellite tournaments. These
are 2 table tournaments, consisting of 18
players each and they are found under the
'Event' tab and then the WSOP button. The
winner of this tournament wins a seat into
a tournament that is a direct qualifier
into the $10,000 main event of the WSOP
plus some spending cash.
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Step 1 - Win the PokerStars $39 Satellite
So - Chris's first step is to win the $39
satellite. Moneymaker said he decided to play
in the satellite mostly to get some experience
playing satellites, not that he expected to
win even the first round, and especially not
the second round. He admits that he really
assumed that he would get get some experience
and use some of his recent winnings to try
out the satellites series worked.
To find the satellites, open up the PokerStars
software, and click Tourney > Satellite
> Scroll down to your tourney and double
click it.
About two and a half hours after the first
satellite was over, Chris looked down and
realized he had completed step 1. He had just
won his seat into the direct WSOP qualifier.
Along with just over 60 other players, he
was about to take his shot in a tournament
that qualified directly into the $10,000 Main
Event at the WSOP and $1500 in spending cash.
If he can win this next tournament he get's
his shot on pokers biggest stage, the World
Series of Poker.
Moneymaker had successfuly completed Step
1 of his epic journey, he won the first qualifier
and earned his seat into the direct qualifier.
Step 2 - Win the PokerStars direct WSOP
Qualifier
 The
direct qualifier tournaments work slightly
different than the 1st round qualifiers. The
WSOP Direct qualifiers do not have a cap on
the number of entrants like the round 1 qualifier.
Instead, these allow for as many players as
qualify to play in this event, up to 5000.
They award WSOP packages for every 30 players
in the tournament.
When Moneymaker qualified these events were
normally drawing around around 60-70 players
and awarding 2 WSOP packages and some change
to 3rd place finishers, expect these tournaments
to now consist of upwards of around 120 players,
awarding 4 WSOP packages.
Moneymaker registered for the direct qualifier
scheduled for the next evening and prepared
to play in a pretty big tournament. Any event
that had a first and second place prize of
over $10,000 was serious change for an accountant
who was pulling down around $40k per year
from his full time job.
So, the following evening Moneymaker logged
into Poker Stars and took his seat in the
tournament that would win him a chance at
$2.5 Million Dollars and poker fame.
As the tournament progressed Moneymaker collected
more and more chips, eventually winning the
whole thing. When the tournament was over,
he looked and the screen almost in a little
disbelief realizing that he just turned his
$39 dollar satellite seat into a seat valued
at $10,000 in the World Series of Poker.
The only thing left for Moneymaker to do was
to go to Las Vegas and win the World Series
of Poker.
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Step 3 - Win the World
Series of Poker
You all know the story now, so we won't repeat
it here but more or less this average guy
pulling down around $40k per year turned his
$39 bucks into $2.5 Million, a World Series
of Poker Championship Bracelet, instant poker
fame and a sponsorship from Poker Stars. Chris
Moneymaker was a major catalyst for the explosion
of poker across america and around the world
when he won the 2003 World Series of Poker,
besting a field of 865 players. Beating poker
professional Sammy Farha once it was heads
up.
After winning the 2003 WSOP, Moneymaker is
now endorsed by Poker Stars and promotes them
in TV commercials advertising Poker Stars.net
as a great place to play poker and work on
your game. He credits playing online poker
as giving him the experience to win in a live
setting like the WSOP. Now Poker Stars pays
pay his way into some of the major events
and other undisclosed sponsorship deals. Poker
Stars.net also endorses Greg "Fossilman
Raymer and Joe
Hachem, the 2005 WSOP Champion.
So, that's it everyone. If you are looking
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World Series of Poker then look no further
than Poker Stars. In 2005 Poker Stars sent
1 out of every 5 players in the WSOP main
event. If you want to learn more about Chris
Moneymaker, check out his newest venture,
Moneymaker
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