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?

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).