Chris Moneymaer Finishes in 3rd Place at the World Poker Open in Tunica

Despite going into the final table with forty percent of the chips in play, Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker could not close the agreement at the World Poker Open in Tunica, Mississippi on August 12th, 2009. Moneymaker took a significant lead on Day two of the $5K buy-in event at the Gold Strike Tunica that started with 126 participants on August 10th, 2009. He held that lead until forty year-old Tennessee business proprietor Steve Hamontree busted Monroe, Louisiana's Thomas Creel 5th to take control of the 4-handed play.

Moneymaker found himself cornered soon after, running ace-queen into the big slick of Jeremy Gaubert. Although fellow Team PokerStars Pro member Chad Brown busted first, finishing in 4th place when he shoved a river with air, the best the 2003 world series of poker Main Event champion could do was a 3rd place finish and take home a total of $60,110.

Gaubert, whose biggest win previously in 4 years as a poker pro was a part in the Sunday Million on PokerStars went on to take home the title, a total of $192,953 in cash prize and a $10,000 slot in the world poker tour Southern Poker Championship at the Beau Rivage coming up in January. Moneymaker won his slot by virtue of a 1st place finish in a $500 Pot-Limit Omaha preliminary event in Tunica last week.

08/23/2009, Sunday
Sherry Barlow

Chris Moneymaer Finishes in 3rd Place at the World Poker Open in Tunica

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