Moneymaker and Fishman at final table

[2Tone]

For a pro widely considered (including by me) to more famous and less skilled than much of his competition, this is another impressive finish for Moneymaker.

Anyone know what kind of deal Stars has with their pros for these kind of events? Do Fishman and Moneymaker have to pay $500 + 30 like everybody else, or do they get free entries in exchange for endorsements, etc?

[jillaj]

I am sure Raymer and Moneymaker got a buy in to each event from Pokerstars. I imagine the more pro's the better for stars.

[Talking Poker]

I believe these two and only these two do, but I am not certain.

[Aequitas58]

I heard that all of "Team Pokerstars" gets free buy-ins.

Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Evelyn Ng, and Wil Wheaton (<-- lol).

[jillaj]

Just looked it up on his site.

$13,000 - World Poker Tour Aruba
18th place out of 647 enties

$21,000 - WSOP $5000 Pot Limit Omaha
10th place out of 145 entries

$200,000 - San Jose Bay 101 Shooting Star
2nd place out of 243 entries


2003

$2,500,000 - World Series of Poker Main Event
1st place out of 839 entries

[eejit101]

He plays poker everyday, he has recorded 4 finished in 3 years, out of say, 200 tourneys? he is da man!!!

[SirFWALGMan]

2.5 Million is all that matters!

[eejit101]

My opinion, if it matters, I never liked moneymaker. yeah he sparked the "boom" and whatever, but he got lucky to win, i havent seen him win anything since then, ive seen him on TV several times, making stupid moves, even i picked up tells on him FFS, i dont rate him, make stars make him pay the entry, he got lucky to finish that high anyway, i saw a monstrous bad beat he had, rivered a King or something, he had 2 outs, to stay in.

[jillaj]

Didn't Moneymaker take down another big tournament like a WPT event. It could just be bad memory though.