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.

This has been referred to in the press as the "Moneymaker Effect. His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site. Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21 1975 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP).