I think I mentioned this somewhere on this forum but if I didn't I know I said something in chat the other night during radio but Chris Moneymaker gets paid to do appearances regularly. For example over the past year and a half they built four casinos down in Ohio (Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, and Cincinnati) and I know for certain he has appeared at three if not all four of these. Now what do I mean by this? Well I know some dealers at two of the casinos who pretty much told me that during a big tournament or promotional weekend that they paid Chris Moneymaker $5k to come play there.

It's likely they put comped Chris with hotel, meals, and other misc. expenses to play there as well along with an MTT entry which these are about $300 to $600 tournaments.

Now lets say Chris does 2 or three of these a month that is a sweet gig an extra $10k-15k per month to just appear at these casinos but I also hear he's a massive degenerate who plays $5/10 or higher PLO and isn't very good.

With that said Chris has had at least some money coming in outside of poker and that whole thread proves how much of a degen he is and 2003 is a decade ago which is a ton of time for a guy who gambles on random stuff to shoot off the $2.5 million or I should say like $1.7 million after taxes. I'm sure with all the years at Pokerstars Chris made a few times that in money and entry fees but just saying.

From 2004-2013 Chris has only earned another $1 million in MTT cashes according to his hendon mob results page:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=18826

Now it's clear Pokerstars put hm up in several MTTs and Chris may or may not have sold action in others but his results since the epic 2003 win haven't been that impressive. I mean playing 10 - 10ks a year for 10 years without any cashes and their goes a million but Chris is likely playing way more then $100k in buyins each year and has the added travel expenses to go with it.

All In Poker documentary segment with Chris (starts about 9:15 into clip):



25:40 into clip Chris Moneymaker comes back on to tell the rest of the story. Moneymaker goes on about stiffing bookies in this part of the clip.

36:00 - Chris back on again continuing his story (this movie jumps all over the place)


Now in part 2 of the clip Chris is back on 3:20 into the clip:



27:00 into the clip is when Moneymaker is back again for a longer segment about winning the 2003 WSOP Main Event.

So in quick summary Chris Moneymaker was a HUGE degenerate before becoming a house hold name among poker players and appears to still be.

Whether he should pay this money is a sticky situation but both Jason and Chris were not honest about everything so in ways both broke their own terms so I kind of side towards them working out a deal in the middle if not just forgetting about this thing like it didn't happen due to the dishonesty and freerolling that appears to have gone on.

NOW I have to ask WHY in the hell did Jason Young not post these texts sooner???