Talk:Moneymaker effect

A fact from Moneymaker effect appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 July 2009. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2009/July.

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Gambling: Poker Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Gambling, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Gambling on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GamblingWikipedia:WikiProject GamblingTemplate:WikiProject GamblingGambling Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Poker (assessed as Mid-importance). This article has been marked as needing an infobox. An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article. WikiProject Gambling To-do: edit history watch purge Current collaborations: Improve an article to FA Improve an article to A Help with the Gambling articles needing attention. Tag the talk pages of Gambling-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gambling}} banner. The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated. Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.

I know there is debate about the money maker effect. I want to say mike sexton claims that the WPT does not get enough credit for making poker popular during the 03 era. In addition, Howard Lederer predicted a boom in poker before the money maker effect. He was commentating a final table match before the boom, I don't remember the specifics of the hand, but during HU a player bet with top pair and a guy flat called with mid pair, Lederer predicted that if an Ace came one the turn the tournament would be over giving both players two pair. An ace came on the tournament and the chip leader won the tournament with top two pair. Later, Lederer commented that he thought that poker on TV could flourish. I believe Ledered said all of this on an old poker road radio episode.

• Please note I have moved the above unsigned comment to a proper place on the page.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 14:33, 9 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

This article and the article on the Poker boom are very similar; would it be a good idea if this article were to be merged? JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 21:05, 11 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

As long as the lead sentence uses Moneymaker Effect as a synonym for a boom, then it should be merged. If the article's scope was reduced to be focused only on Moneymaker, I could see keeping it, but this article just smacks of slang for poker boom. I'd support you merging it into the boom article. 2005 (talk) 00:18, 12 May 2011 (UTC)Reply