@cheifmappster thnaks. Yes. I was working at the world's largest card casino, Commerce Casino when the magazine decided they wanted to do an article on the casino's tournament staff so me and my fellow tournamnets staffers got on the cover. Trivia: Prior to 2003 (when Moneymaker won the World Series and changed poker forever) poker magazines would exclusively feature someone who worked in the industry for one of the major card rooms (it was the card rooms who were paying the mags for advertising so mags would feature each month casino on the cover). In this case it was Commerce and its tournamnet staff.
After 2003 when an ordinary joe who parlayed a small amount of $$$ to win the World Series, poker became a big deal. Everyone wanted to know about these players who play tournaments. So after 2003 magazines no longer put casinos on the cover, instead they would feature a famous poker player. To get on the cover now, you would have to win a major tournament.
Holy smokes man I did not know that. What a wild progressionand you got to see all of it first hand thats incredible. Yeah I remember when Moneymaker won make in 03, our home games really got busy after that haha.
Hope to see you on the cover of a magazine again one of these days :)
@cheifmappster thnaks. Yes. I was working at the world's largest card casino, Commerce Casino when the magazine decided they wanted to do an article on the casino's tournament staff so me and my fellow tournamnets staffers got on the cover. Trivia: Prior to 2003 (when Moneymaker won the World Series and changed poker forever) poker magazines would exclusively feature someone who worked in the industry for one of the major card rooms (it was the card rooms who were paying the mags for advertising so mags would feature each month casino on the cover). In this case it was Commerce and its tournamnet staff.
After 2003 when an ordinary joe who parlayed a small amount of $$$ to win the World Series, poker became a big deal. Everyone wanted to know about these players who play tournaments. So after 2003 magazines no longer put casinos on the cover, instead they would feature a famous poker player. To get on the cover now, you would have to win a major tournament.
Holy smokes man I did not know that. What a wild progressionand you got to see all of it first hand thats incredible. Yeah I remember when Moneymaker won make in 03, our home games really got busy after that haha.
Hope to see you on the cover of a magazine again one of these days :)