Poker America, behold your new folk hero.
Darvin Moon was born on a mountaintop and raised by a bear. Or he will have been, by the time the World Series of Poker finishes in November. The local Las Vegas Sun headlines his story "Humble logger could become people's champion." Not convinced?
He is a 45-year-old pine forest logger who proudly displays scars caused by chainsaw accidents.
He is from such a small town that the entire population would barely take up half of the hotel rooms at the Rio.
He speaks fondly of his favorite pair of work boots and he always wears a New Orleans Saints hat despite living in the heart of Pittsburgh Steelers territory.
He is Darvin Moon and he could be the next World Series of Poker Main Event champion.
The lumberjack from Oakland, Md., worked his way up from a qualifying round in West Virginia to a seat at the WSOP Main Event. That comes with guaranteed haul of $1,263,602. Moon, who says he'd never been to Vegas before this week, will return as the leader of a very tough field. Whatever happens, he says, he'll return home as the same guy. "As soon as I get home, I'm going back to work in the woods," he told the Sun. "We won't change. We'll stay the same. We're pretty humble. We're small-town people and we like it that way."
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