Seat 1: Charles "Woody" Moore (65,500)
Charles “Woody” Moore qualified for the National Championship by winning the Main Event at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana for $99,878, which brought his lifetime earnings to over $800,000
In 1995, Moore final table the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event at the WSOP, placing third for $79,800. In February of 2008, Moore raked in over $625,000 for placing third in the LA Poker Classic WPT event. That final table included Phil Ivey, Quinn Do, Nam Le, Scott Montgomery and Phil Hellmuth – quite the colossal lineup. That same year, Moore took ninth in a $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event at the WSOP for over $11,000.
On the first stop in this season on the WSOP Circuit, Moore made the final table and went on to finish in fifth place for $21,795. He went on add four more cashes at two more Circuit stops, Choctaw and Rincon. Moore, who is the elder statesman at the table, begins on the short stack and will have his work cut out for himself if he hopes to capture the $300,000 first-place prize.