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The Moneymaker Effect -The Moment that Changed Poker w/Eric Raskin
Book Signing with
Eric Raskin
Saturday, July 26th @ 5:00pm
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Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old amateur
poker player with a name no one could believe was real, defied the odds
at every turn to win the World Series of Poker Main Event, at the
precise moment the twin inventions of online poker and the hole-card
camera combined to revolutionize the game. One of history's greatest
underdog stories lit the fuse. Millions of people around the world
couldn't look away. Poker exploded.
magazine and its website allinmag.com since 2005. He has been to the
World Series of Poker five times as a member of the media, and though he
has never bought into an actual WSOP event, he did eliminate Anthony
Michael Hall on the very first hand of the WSOP media/celebrity charity
tournament in 2006. He is also comfortably in the black as a
small-stakes online-poker player. Eric is a contributing writer to
countless magazines and websites, including Grantland.com, Playboy, ESPN The Magazine,
ESPN.com, and HBO.com. When he’s not writing or editing poker articles,
the majority of his work focuses on boxing. He is a six-time Boxing
Writers Association of America award winner.
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