American - Celebrity | November 21, 1975 -
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
Chris Moneymaker
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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.
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Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.
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Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.
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If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.
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You have it or you don't... I think I have it.
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I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing.
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I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
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