title: The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament That Forever Changed Poker
author:  Eric Raskin 
description: Chris Moneymaker's improbable tale -- amidst the backdrop of old-school gamblers, Binion's casino and the WSOP -- comes to life in this fabulous oral history of the journey that changed poker forever. --Norman Chad, ESPN poker analyst<br /><br />Do you love it when the underdog wins big? If so, then Eric Raskin's The Moneymaker Effect, which recounts in eyewitness detail Chris Moneymaker's epic victory in the 2003 World Series of Poker, will blow you away. Not since the 1980 Winter Olympics, when the unheralded United States hockey team smoked the world- champion Soviets to win the gold, has a long-shot amateur so thoroughly thrashed the big-time professionals in the world of sports. In so doing, Moneymaker also set off the sonic boom that is today's multi-billion-dollar global poker industry. --Terry Hummel, former Rolling Stone publisher
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  **From** New York Times **bestselling author**  
  **MAISEY YATES**
  
  
  This wealthy rancher has placed his bet…  
  And it’s winner takes all!
  
  
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  No one gets under Jackson Cooper’s skin like fellow ranch owner Cricket
  Maxfield. Now, facing off at a charity poker game, the stakes get personal.
  Jackson finds himself on the losing end… And paying up means being the ranch
  hand at Cricket’s beck and call. In close quarters, tempers flare—and the fire
  between them ignites into a passion that won’t be ignored…
  
  
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  Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  No one gets under Jackson Cooper’s skin like Cricket Maxfield. When he goes
  all in at a charity poker match, Jackson loses their bet and becomes her
  reluctant ranch hand. In close quarters, tempers flare—and the fire between
  them ignites into a passion that 