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[QUOTE="gon4iypes, post: 6796898, member: 124669"]
To my mind it all depends how you look at it. First of all. he was an unknown amateur who satellited in and won against all the odds. So, seeing this everybody  started thinking "Jeez , if he can do it so can I "......this wouldn't have happened if Farha had won , a professional player winning a tourney is nothing special, entertaining perhaps but not really inspirational to the masses to get them playing.  I mean how many main event winners from days gone by do you remember? But Chris Moneymaker woke something in the souls of people the world over that got us thinking "SHIT A BRICK.....I can do this"  , without this the poker boom would not have happened the way it did. So very much slower growth.

But here's another thought. To accomodate the massive influx of players, new poker rooms were popping up like mushrooms and online poker became really big business pretty quickly.....enter BLACK FRIDAY. That would probably not have happened if there was not this  incredible buzz, with the attendant millions upon millions of dollars floating around.

So at the end of the day , to answer the question, where would online poker be today without the "Moneymaker Effect" calls for speculation, and no-one can say with any certainty.
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