On May 21st, 2003, a little white lie was told and that ignited the "Poker Boom." Whispers amongst World Series of Poker (WSOP) staff and ESPN crew got around that there was a player on Day 3 of the $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event named Chris Moneymaker. The problem with that whisper is that it wasn't true.
"I had a fake ID in my wallet and I showed it to the WSOP and ESPN people," Moneymaker explained in an exclusive interview with PokerNews. "You should have seen their jaws drop.