Posted  by  admin

Chris Moneymaker

Chris Moneymaker has found a new home. The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion will now represent US-facing site Americas Cardroom (ACR) after parting ways with PokerStars.

When Moneymaker announced his departure from the world’s largest onlinepoker site, he cited his intention to spend more time with his family as one of the reasons for ending his 17-year relationship with the brand.

ACR is currently serving the US market via an offshore license. The poker operator is looking to expand its presence in the U.S and signing Moneymaker is a strategic move by the poker room. Moneymaker will be donning the ACR logo in his future poker endeavors, both live and online, and will also help with their promotions.

Jan 08, 2021 Chris Moneymaker may not be the greatest poker player to have ever lived in terms of results, but there is hardly a more important name in poker history. It was his unprecedented victory in the.

  1. The man that started it all, Chris Moneymaker. The 2003 WSOP Main Event champion ignited the poker boom, but the journey to the top was not easy.
  2. Jan 04, 2021 Update: Chris Moneymaker has teamed up with Americas Cardroom, joining the US online poker site as ACR Team Pro. The announcement came on February 3. Together since 2003. Professional poker player Chris Moneymaker has decided to end a 17-year partnership with PokerStars, stepping down as brand ambassador for the company.
  3. Update: Chris Moneymaker has teamed up with Americas Cardroom, joining the US online poker site as ACR Team Pro. The announcement came on February 3. Together since 2003. Professional poker player Chris Moneymaker has decided to end a 17-year partnership with PokerStars, stepping down as brand ambassador for the company.

Moneymaker’s first appearance as ACR’s newest ambassador took place on 03 Feb, when he showed up during the final table broadcast of the $8 million-guaranteed Venom, doing the commentary.

AmericasCardroom

News of ACR signing Moneymaker as the latest member of its Team Pro comes as a surprise to many in the poker community, but the site will benefit from the move, considering that Moneymaker has remained among the most popular poker figures of all time, since his epic victory in the 2003 WSOP Main Event, a historic moment widely credited for the “poker boom“.

ACR has also recently become the go-to place for players using Bitcoin, making it one of the busiest onlinepoker sites at the moment. With Moneymaker joining on board, ACR is expecting to see an increase in U.S player registrations.

ACR Deal Coincides With Moneymaker’s Future Plans

Chris Moneymaker was off the road for most of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that allowed him to realign his priorities. While travel restrictions were ongoing in 2020, Moneymaker was restricting to playing pokeronline and during that time he realized the importance of staying at home and be with his family more often.

As a PokerStars ambassador, he needed to do a lot of travel from his home in Mississippi to states where PokerStars was licensed to operate like New Jersey. The timing was right when Moneymaker met with Phil Nagy, CEO of Winning Poker Network, the mother network of ACR. The talks resulted in a sponsorship deal, and Moneymaker took the opportunity with ACR.

Moneymaker is excited for this new chapter in his career, and is looking forward to making the most of it as an ACR ambassador.

Chris10:48
01 Jan

2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Poker Hall of Famer Chris Moneymaker has announced that he is ending his sponsorship deal with PokerStars, effective immediately.

Moneymaker announced the news in a minute-long video posted on his @CMONEYMAKER Twitter account:

“I will be leaving PokerStars effective immediately,” Moneymaker said. “I’m going to be at home more and play a little bit less poker potentially.”

First Flag - Chris Moneymaker - Episode 12 - GPITHM Podcast NetworkPokerfuse1 Week Ago

The popular Moneymaker also noted that he hadn’t traveled at all since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, and the continuing lack of live-poker opportunities surely impacted the mutual benefits of the sponsorship deal.

Moneymaker added:

“I want to thank everybody at PokerStars. It’s been an amazing 17 years.I was able to travel the world and play poker. I met a ton of wonderful people… . I want to wish everybody well at PokerStars. It’s been a great company to work for.”

PokerStars offered the following via social media, soon after Moneymaker’s tweet:

The announcements end a 17-year relationship between Moneymaker and PokerStars that effectively began with his industry-changing 2003 win. Moneymaker famously won his way into the Main Event through an online PokerStars satellite, then topped a star-laden final to etch his name into poker history. His all-in, heads-up bluff against eventual runner-up Sammy Farha remains one of the game’s most legendary hands.

In the wake of his 2003 triumph, he and his name became the unofficial moniker for the rapid growth of online poker in the early and mid-’00s. What is now known as the “Moneymaker Effect” humanized a part of what fueled the game’s rapid growth, in that a former accountant and amateur player from Tennessee could take on the best of the poker world and emerge a champion and a millionaire, inspiring untold others to try to do the same.

Chris Moneymaker

While Moneymaker claimed sole responsibility for ending his relationship with PokerStars, it’s also possible that the site and parent company Flutter Entertainment wanted to keep him on, but at a significantly reduced rate too low for Moneymaker to accept. Other players have left PokerStars after having been offered such cuts, notably including Moneymaker’s successor as the WSOP Main Event world champ, 2004 winner Greg Raymer. PokerStars could have wanted to keep Moneymaker on in some form because of his enduring name value, but sometimes changing market conditions can end even the most friendly business relationships. Moneymaker’s 17-year run with PokerStars will nonetheless go down as one of the longest sponsorship relationships in online poker history.

Chris Moneymaker Leaves PokerStars 2003-2020 - BestBetUSA

  • Want poker news as it breaks? Join the Poker News and Gossip Telegram channel!