Chris Moneymaker Making Moves. Moneymaker and Americas Cardroom announced their partnership on February 3 ahead of the Venom IV final table. As expected, the reaction from people on social media was positive. Even though Moneymaker isn’t regarded as one of poker’s elite, he’s done more for the game than most. Chris Moneymaker: WSOP Gold Bracelet Winner Moneymaker is probably best known for winning the 2003 World Series of Poker main event. After qualifying for the WSOP in a satellite tournament, this inexperienced player was one of the most unlikely candidates to win.

2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Poker Hall of Famer Chris Moneymaker has announced that he is ending his sponsorship deal with PokerStars, effective immediately.

Moneymaker announced the news in a minute-long video posted on his @CMONEYMAKER Twitter account:

“I will be leaving PokerStars effective immediately,” Moneymaker said. “I’m going to be at home more and play a little bit less poker potentially.”

The popular Moneymaker also noted that he hadn’t traveled at all since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, and the continuing lack of live-poker opportunities surely impacted the mutual benefits of the sponsorship deal.

Moneymaker added:

“I want to thank everybody at PokerStars. It’s been an amazing 17 years.I was able to travel the world and play poker. I met a ton of wonderful people… . I want to wish everybody well at PokerStars. It’s been a great company to work for.”

PokerStars offered the following via social media, soon after Moneymaker’s tweet:

The announcements end a 17-year relationship between Moneymaker and PokerStars that effectively began with his industry-changing 2003 win. Moneymaker famously won his way into the Main Event through an online PokerStars satellite, then topped a star-laden final to etch his name into poker history. His all-in, heads-up bluff against eventual runner-up Sammy Farha remains one of the game’s most legendary hands.

In the wake of his 2003 triumph, he and his name became the unofficial moniker for the rapid growth of online poker in the early and mid-’00s. What is now known as the “Moneymaker Effect” humanized a part of what fueled the game’s rapid growth, in that a former accountant and amateur player from Tennessee could take on the best of the poker world and emerge a champion and a millionaire, inspiring untold others to try to do the same.

While Moneymaker claimed sole responsibility for ending his relationship with PokerStars, it’s also possible that the site and parent company Flutter Entertainment wanted to keep him on, but at a significantly reduced rate too low for Moneymaker to accept. Other players have left PokerStars after having been offered such cuts, notably including Moneymaker’s successor as the WSOP Main Event world champ, 2004 winner Greg Raymer. PokerStars could have wanted to keep Moneymaker on in some form because of his enduring name value, but sometimes changing market conditions can end even the most friendly business relationships. Moneymaker’s 17-year run with PokerStars will nonetheless go down as one of the longest sponsorship relationships in online poker history.

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The world online poker legend, the author of its first boom — American Chris Moneymaker, announced the end of his cooperation with PokerStars. The player in his social networks said that after 17 years of work for this room, he will not sign a new contract. Today we will talk about all the reasons and consequences of this step.

PokerStars lost Moneymaker

Recently, the most famous Russian-speaking streamer, Mikhail “innerpsy” Shalamov, left the PokerStars team, and yesterday another of its members took a similar step:

The 2003 ME WSOP winner, American Chris Moneymaker, won't renew his contract after 17 years of cooperation with the PokerStars team, .

On this occasion, Chris specially recorded a small video, which he posted on his Twitter:

The PokerStars player isn’t going to continue cooperating with the room starting January 2021.

Why is Moneymaker leaving PokerStars?

Having spent almost a year without poker travel with his family due to the pandemic, he had a lot of time to think about his life and decided to try himself in some new field.

True, which one? The poker player doesn’t say. And to a direct question about what he would make money on, he joked that he would start a modeling career.

At the age of 45, Chris decided to settle down and not commit himself anymore to any obligations. Besides, the player got many words of support and help offers on social networks from such famous people as Bertrand Grospellier, Rob Yong, Maria Ho, and Joey Ingram.

Regarding his, now — a former, place of work, the poker player said that 'it was a phenomenal experience of communicating with an excellent company, I will miss you guys, and thanks for everything.'

What's happening at PokerStars?

Although Moneymaker's decision, in his own words, was entirely a personal initiative, and the question of whether he will continue any activity in the poker industry remains open, it is fascinating what happened to Stars' plans regarding Team PRO and marketing policy.

The team of the room has dropped too much in recent years, and we think that if its management wanted to keep the players, it could find the necessary support for this. At least concerning such stars as Daniel Negreanu and Chris Moneymaker.

At the end of 2020, PokerStars signed a contract with the e-sports team Furia Sports and even returned footballer Neymar to their team. The activity of the room changed to attracting famous personalities from other areas of the gaming industry.

Classic Team Pro isn’t needed by Stars, and soon there may be only a few streamers in the company of various media people who are far from poker.

Thank you, Chris!

Chris Moneymaker Now

If we return to Moneymaker, then such an iconic figure cannot just leave one room and, for example, start dealing with his family and small live episodes in the USA. While Chris has played very little in current years and hasn't made many headlines in the media, his importance to online poker will never change.

Even in today's reality, Chris Moneymaker can continue to be a vibrant image that attracts new fans to the online poker industry simply because, as a regular accountant, he was able to win the Main Event of the World Series after he entered it via an online satellite for $39 and that ultimately led to a massive increase in the popularity of games on the Internet. Such stories shouldn’t be broken up.

No matter how an American decides to change his future life, we express our deep gratitude to him for his work in poker development and wish him long and abundant years in any field!

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