A player who should know says the 2011 winner of poker's biggest tournament is almost certain to be like Chris Moneymaker in 2003: an unknown who wins millions of dollars and the World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet. That's the terrific thing about poker -- you get hot for a week, and anything can happen," said Moneymaker, who was an accountant hoping to cover credit card debt when he won $2.5 million in his improbable run through the 2003 Main Event, his first live poker tournament. He qualified for the $10,000-a-seat competition through a $39 online satellite tournament.
This column is dedicated to the memory of the great Bud Furillo, who passed away last week at the age of 80. Upon reading a recent poker column of mine, Furillo - Ohio-born and -bred - e-mailed me: "In Youngstown, if a guy checked and raised, he wound up in Milton Dam." I dare anyone to check-raise Bud Furillo in the afterlife. LAS VEGAS - First came the American Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution, then - somewhere between the birth of Amarillo Slim and the death of disco - the poker revolution. Then came online gaming, the hole-card cam and Chris Moneymaker, and nowadays you can't walk down The Strip without tripping over some pimply Internet wunderkind with a mouse pad, an iPod and a buddy named EFrog45.
THE managing editor walked into my office last Tuesday and started talking. Now the managing editor is a man who could play five-card stud with Chris Moneymaker of ESPN's "World Series of Poker" fame and win because you couldn't tell if he was holding four aces or the instructions for canasta. Likewise when the managing editor, Art Lenehan, discusses news. You have to listen to the words and not rely on facial expressions, which come around as often as Haley's Comet. Managing editors are second in command in most newsrooms, so you need to listen to them when they speak.
The gallery isn't meant to be a moneymaker. [Chris Buckingham] and [Kendra Larson] live in a small studio apartment, and they've used some of their savings on rent for the venue's expenses. Along with income from the jobs both hold down outside of the Project Lodge, gallery rental fees should also help cover costs. On the visual-art front, the couple plan to host a number of one-week shows on the gallery's freshly whitewashed walls. Larson says sculpture and painting are good fits for the 1,110-square-foot storefront but adds that she's open to anything. And she notes that back in Portland, one show consisted of friends holding a tailgate party outside the couple's house. The gallery's current exhibit features an eclectic grouping of art and mementos contributed by neighboring stores on...
A lot of people say the whole thing -- the poker tables for sale in supermarkets, the proliferation of Texas Hold'em tournaments, the way poker supplies flew off the shelves this Christmas season even in Salt Lake City -- started with a man whose improbable name is Chris Moneymaker. Moneymaker is the Ken Jennings of poker, an ordinary guy who won big in front of millions of TV viewers, in Moneymaker's case $2.5 million on the World Series of Poker on ESPN in 2003. A year and a half later it's now possible to watch poker on TV sometimes eight hours a day: Celebrity Poker, World Poker Tour Ladies' Night, even reruns of 11-year-old poker games, with NBC planning to air the two- hour finale of Poker Superstars right before the start of the Super Bowl in February.
So, when we say someone had two aces in the hole but lost after the flop when a 10 walked down Fourth Street or came down the river, you think we're not playing with a full deck upstairs? You've never heard of Chris Moneymaker? Never seen the poker face of "Spider-Man" actor Tobey Maguire on Bravo Channel? Never considered wearing sunglasses like the pros and celebrities to keep an opponent from reading your eyes for clues to your hand?
Unfortunately for Tyson Gay, America has lost track of track. In the new millennium, the sporting public is much more concerned with the hands Chris Moneymaker is dealt than with the fleet feet Gay was born with. Once upon a time, Gay's feats at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships - a 9.84 in the 100 meters and a 19.62 in the 200 - would have been the lead story in sports sections across the country. But that was before the Ben Johnson revelations and the Marion Jones suspicions and the tales of former Eastern German athletes giving birth to deformed babies.
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