Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Moneymaker Gaming,
Moneymaker Gaming, [2] and began traveling to play in more numerous and larger buy-in tournaments. His autobiography, Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker was published in March 2005. Other poker tournaments[edit]On the World Poker Tour Moneymaker finished second at the 2004 Shooting Stars event and won $200,000.[8] During Event 5 of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker which was a $10,300 buy-in of No Limit Hold'em, Moneymaker finished in sixth place, taking home over $139,000. He also did well in Event 16, the $215 Pot Limit Omaha with ReBuys, where he finished fifth, earning over $28,000.
Moneymaker finished in first place
Moneymaker finished in first place in the Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha event of the World Poker Open tournament in July 2009 and won $15,889.[9] Moneymaker also placed 11th in the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, earning himself $130,000.[10] As of April 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,000,000,[1] the majority of which, $2,532,041, have come at the WSOP.[11] Bibliography[edit]Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker (2005) ISBN 0-06-076001-X Notes[edit]1.^ a b "Hendon Mob tournament results: Chris Moneymaker".