Christopher Bryan Moneymaker

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Christopher Bryan Moneymaker Wiki Biography

Chris Moneymaker was born on the 21st November 1975, in Nashville, Tennessee USA, and is a professional poker player. In 2003, he became world champion of the World Series of Poker. He has won the Main Event of the WSOP, and became the winner of $2.5 million. Currently, he is part of a group of poker professionals sponsored by PokerStars called Team PokerStars. He plays online under the pseudonym Money800. He has been playing poker professionally since 2003.

How rich is the professional poker player? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Chris Moneymaker’s net worth is as much as $16 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016. Poker winnings is the main source of Moneymaker’s wealth.

To begin with, Chris was educated at Farragut High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, then Moneymaker graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Master’s degree in accounting, after which he worked as an accountant in Tennessee.

Chris Moneymaker rose to fame when he won a seat in the main event of the 2003 WSOP to play a promotion tournament online; afterwards, he was invited to take part in the main event. However, Moneymaker had no money for flights and accommodation in Las Vegas, so he borrowed money from his father and a friend, promising a portion of any winnings from the tournament in return, which turned out to be a much larger amount than any of them could imagine. In the tournament, Chris managed to conquer all 838 competitor, and eventually he won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, his first live tournament. The prize was worth $2.5 million, and in addition to this, Chris received the status of a poker superstar. His net worth rose considerably.

Among other poker achievements Chris Moneymaker won the second place at the World Poker Tour’s 2004 Shooting Stars tournament, where he won $200,000 as well as the sixth place in the World Championship of Online Poker 2005 winning $10,300. Additionally, he won No Limit Hold tournament, from which he took over $139,000. At the beginning of 2010, his poker winnings surpassed $3 million – the largest part $2,532,040 of course, comes from the WSOP. In the World Series of Poker 2011, Moneymaker defeated Sam Farha.

Since the beginning of 2016, Moneymaker has been playing as Team Manager of the Las Vegas Money Makers in the Global Poker League. Overall, playing poker has added huge sums to the total size of Chris Moneymaker’s net worth.

It should be said that Chris Moneymaker has written his autobiography entitled “How An Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker” (2005). In 2015, his second book “A True Story” was released.

Finally, in the personal life of the professional poker player, he has married twice. He has a daughter with his first wife whom he divorced in 2004 as she couldn’t live the type of life he was leading. In 2005, he married Christina Wren. The two reside in Nashville, Tennessee.

IMDB Wikipedia “2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure” Main Event $16 Million 1975 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 Chris Moneymaker Chris Moneymaker Net Worth Chris Moneymaker:A True Story (2015) Christina Wren (m. 2005-) Christopher Bryan Moneymaker Farragut High School Moneymaker Moneymaker (2005) National Heads-Up Poker Championship November 21 Richest Celebrities Tennessee The “Moneymaker Effect” ( All In Magazine United States United States of America University of Tennessee World Championship of Online Poker (2005) World Championship of Online Poker (2008)

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker Quick Info

Full Name Chris Moneymaker
Net Worth $16 Million
Date Of Birth November 21, 1975
Place Of Birth Nashville, Tennessee USA
Profession Poker player
Education Farragut High School, University of Tennessee
Nationality American
Spouse Christina Wren (m. 2005-)
Nicknames Christopher Bryan Moneymaker
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/cmoneymaker
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cmoneym21/
IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm1957487
Awards 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Championship of Online Poker (2005)
Nominations The “Moneymaker Effect” ( All In Magazine, 2005)
Movies Poker for Dummies
TV Shows National Heads-Up Poker Championship, No Limit Hold tournament, World Championship of Online Poker (2008), “2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure” Main Event

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker Important Facts

  • Won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, earning him $2.5 million. This was Moneymaker’s first time in a live poker tournament. There were 839 players in the 2003 WSOP Main Event.

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2011 TV Series Actor
Rounders: Champion Poker Tips 1998 Video short Professional Poker Player Actor
Rounders: Inside Professional Poker 1998 Video short Professional Poker Player Actor
Pokerography 2015 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Shark Cage 2015 TV Series Himself Self
2010 World Series of Poker 2010 TV Series Himself Self
2009 World Series of Poker 2009 TV Series Himself Self
All In: The Poker Movie 2009 Documentary Himself Self
National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2008 TV Mini-Series Himself Self
Deal 2008/I Himself Self
£50 Says You’ll Watch This 2007 TV Series documentary 2007 Self
Poker After Dark 2007 TV Series Himself Self
No Limit: A Search for the American Dream on the Poker Tournament Trail 2006 Documentary Himself Self
National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Poker Superstars III 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Poker Superstars II 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Poker for Dummies 2004 Video documentary Self
World Poker Tour 2004 TV Series Himself – Poker Player Self
Poker Kings 2004 Documentary Himself Self
TV total 2004 TV Series Himself Self
Winning Texas Hold ‘Em 2004 Video documentary Himself Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2003 TV Series Himself Self
Late Show with David Letterman 2003 TV Series Himself Self
World Series of Poker 2003 TV Series Himself (2003) Self