Chris Moneymaker was a celebrity host for the WPS cruise in 2005. 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. His story is fit for a Hollywood movie, beginning with winning his entry into the Series via Pokerstars. His total investment was $40, and he ran it up to $2,500,000. After winning his way into the event, he realized it would be difficult to scrape together airfare and hotel costs. His father, Mike and a friend, David Gamble (also his real name) put up some money to cover the cost for the trip in exchange for a portion of his winnings. He also donated $25,000 of his prize to cancer research.

Christopher Brian Moneymaker took the World Series of Poker 2003 by storm. There are many people who insist that it was the luck of the cards that earned Chris his victory. Although, luck played a part in his victory, he showed that he has the skill to play with the big boys. He had been playing three years before he won the Series, but had never played a live tournament. The first day he had Johnny Chan sitting on his right and Phil Ivey on his left. He said that he got outplayed and that night decided to not be afraid anymore. If he got beat, he got beat, but he was going to play his game. Indeed he did. He mixed it up beautifully and made some great plays along the way. The one hand that sticks in a lot of people's minds is when he went all in with his pocket 8's against the Costa Rican Godfather Humberto Brenes' pocket A's. He caught the 8 giving him a set and sent a dumbfounded Humberto to the rail.

An interesting play that Chris made was against Russ "Dutch" Boyd. Moneymaker was holding pocket 3's while Dutch held KQ. The flop came 925 and Chris bet $100,000 into the pot. Dutch Boyd thought, and then moved all in. After thinking for awhile, Chris called the bet. Before the cards were flipped, Chris asks for low cards proving that he read Dutch correctly in having high cards, no pair. This key move crippled Dutch and helped give Chris the chips he needed to win the tournament.

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.