The Ambassador on the Attack

We've hovered around Chris Moneymaker's table for minute after minute, hoping to catch the 2003 WSOP Main Event champ playing for a monster pot.

Instead, all we've seen is a steady surge to the top of the chip counts, as Moneymaker wins two or three pots per orbit. None of the hauls have been huge on their own, but strung together in succession these wins have catapulted Moneymaker to more than quadruple the starting stack.

Recently, after losing a small pot to the champ, an unidentified player looked across the table and told the dealer jokingly "you keep pushing the pot to him!"

Moneymaker quietly stacked his chips and added them to his castle, but when the opponent asked him "you can't hit every flop can you?," the Hollywood Poker Open's Ambassador lived up to his title.

"Well, sure I can..." offered Moneymaker, before the conversation turned his book Moneymaker, written in 2005 during the heyday of the Moneymaker Boom.

"I read in your book that players kept trying to take you on after you took down the Main," said the man, clearly quite pleased with the chance to play with and talk to a World Champion. "Is that still a good thing ten years later?"

"You bet it is..." replied Moneymaker in his distinctive drawl, a sly grin spreading across his face. "Although not always in tournaments, but yeah, its not a bad problem to have."

Apparently not, as most of the players who have tried taking Moneymaker on here today have slid a slice of their stack in his direction.