Chris Moneymaker's Quotes

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch,' a Will Smith thing.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

You have it or you don't... I think I have it.

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.