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Message: [QUOTE="YLAN, post: 6786892, member: 1012713"] If Chris Moneymaker had busted out in the 2003 WSOP Main Event and never became a household name in poker, the "Moneymaker Effect" would just be called by another name. The poker boom is still the inevitable result of the combined influences of media attention from ESPN, online poker, and the creation of the World Poker Tour. In my case, I grew up playing chinese poker which is very popular in our community & therefore was very interested when NLHE started being shown in TV. Then the concept of a world poker tour & online poker got me started playing the game. It was years after that I've already been playing poker when I heard about Chris Moneymaker. Tho I don't doubt that Moneymaker, by virtue of being in the right place at the right time with the right last name, played a role in advertising poker to a mass audience in many places with his win. [/QUOTE]