Chris Moneymaker was a celebrity host for the our first WPS Caribbean Poker Cruise in December, 2005. Chris Moneymaker is truly a poker legend.  Here's a little background on the WSOP World Champion.

Chris Moneymaker is the real name of the 27-year-old who won the 2003 World Series of Poker No Limit Hold'em Championship. Any recreational poker fan in America has heard his story before.  It has been retold millions of times, and that's what makes him legendary.  Moneymaker bought into a satellite with $43 and after winning several qualifying satellites and tournaments, ultimately parlayed that into a $2,500,000 WSOP Main Event Championship.  

Moneymaker's legendary status among the poker community is made up of three primary reasons:  1) A common man took the $43 and parlayed it into $2,500,000 as described above, 2) The strength of his real name:  Moneymaker!  What are the odds that a man named Moneymaker would be the WSOP World Champion?  His name alone brought him natinal and even international fame, and 3) The fact that a man named Moneymaker won the World Championship propelled millions of players worldwide to hone their poker skills and try their luck and, hence the Moneymaker Effect was a huge contributing factor to the overall spike in online and offline poker popularity that was starting to take place in 2003. 

Chris has a reputation for being a great sportsman at the table. He is not only a sportsman at the table, but a gentleman away from it. Chris has earned his place in the poker history books.