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Monday, April 11, 2005
WSOP Watch: There's Equal Opportunity in Poker
Not so long ago, Chris Moneymaker came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) World Championship after gaining entry from a $39 buy-in satellite mini-tournament. Now there is this thing called the Moneymaker effect-- amateur poker players entering satellite tournaments to gain seats in the WSOP world championships.
WSOP officials admit this phenomenon helped make the tournament, and poker in general, a houselhold name. Plus allowing no-name poker players to share the limelight with already poker greats like TJ Cloutier, Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, etc.
One certain player infected by the Monemaker Effect was Henry Tran, winner of the 2005 Atlantic City Circuit Tournament. He decided toplay poker after watching Moneymaker in the 2003 WSOP championships, read some poker books to improve his moves, and played regularly with his co-workers to further develop his game. The next stop was Atlantic City and the rest is, as we say, poker history.
Far from causing dismay to professional poker players, some amateur players may have been "lucky" but luck won't always win you the acclaim. In the end you have to have the right skills and experience to become a genuine poker master.
But this is not to dismiss the amateur players' skills, by the way. Yet the fact that many amateur winners are still very far behind and nowhere near the number of wins that poker greats have collected speaks for itself. In the WSOP there are many events leading up to the World Championship where the World Champion is crowned. Each event has a winner and they are awarded WSOP bracelets as proof.
Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth each have 9 bracelets, but only Chan and Brunson have won the Championship Event more than once. Over two hundred players have won bracelets throughout the history of the WSOP along with amateur winners like Moneymaker and Tran on the bottom of the list with one each.
One has to start somewhere, though. Soon some of these amateur players may graduate to professional poker and live to be poker greats in the future. Poker is always anybody's game, and to quote Amarillo Slim: "Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
At every start of a hand, there's an equal opportunity to win the pot. Doesn't matter who you are.
--selzki
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