Hall Shakes His Moneymaker
After Team PokerStars Pro and 2003 WSOP Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker opened to 140,000 from under the gun, Galen Hall three-bet to 220,000 from the cutoff seat. Action folded back over to Moneymaker. He four-bet to 525,000. Hall made the call to put that pot over one million going to the flop.
The flop came down and Moneymaker checked over to his opponent. Hall checked behind and the turn brought the . Moneymaker checked again, passing the action to Hall after being the more aggressive player preflop. Hall fired 550,000 for a little less than half the pot and Moneymaker called.
The river completed the board with the and Moneymaker checked. Hall moved all in for 1.75 million. Moneymaker thought and then made the call. Hall turned over the for top set and Moneymaker mucked is hand.
Hall was pushed all the chips and increased to a nice 5.8 million. Moneymaker stumbled back down to 2.65 million and was left talking to himself. "C'mon Chris, you're better than that." he said while walking it off.