Darwin Moon - From Logger to a Chip Leader

On July 15th, Darwin Moon was named one of the famous “November Nine” players, to play at WSOP Main Event’s final table later this year, after having proved his Poker skills in the WSOP Main Event as a Chip Leader with 58.93 million chips.

A native of Oakland, Darwin Moon is a Logger by profession and a Poker player by interest. In Maryland, he used to play in the fund raising tournaments for the fire department and for other charitable reasons. He never knew that the poker would one day take him to the Main Even of WSOP 2009.
His grandfather used to play with Moon when he was a young boy. During those days, he loved playing 7 Card Stud.
Moon is not like other entrants to WSOP. Actually, he has never cared about winning lot of money or earning fame. Just getting a chance of playing in one of the major tournaments of the year was a big enough reason for him to be happy.

In Wheeling, West Virginia, Moon took part in $130 Buy-In tournament and came out as a winner. He had two choices at that time, either to take the winning amount of $10,000 or the Buy-In for Main Event of WSOP 2009. In his family, everybody had different opinion, with his father wanting him to gather the money, his wife leaving the decision to him, and his brother, who was supportive and encouraged him to continue playing.

Darwin Moon then decided to take his chances at WSOP and has been since, been successful in defeating every player who has come in his way. He has a unique playing style and along with his chip stack, he surely looks like a hard player to be pushed from the Number One place.
Currently, Moon is enjoying his position as the Chip leader of “November Nine”.