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Chris "moorman1" Moorman

August, 2008 (4)

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8/29/2008 12:34:16 PM EST
My Mood: Chip Leader
Number 1 finally!!
So after a long struggle (which began on the 13th December 2006! when I first became ranked) I finally made it to the coveted number one spot on pocketfives. Obviously the system has its flaws (every ranking system does) and it doesn't mean I'm the best mtt player in the world but hey I can't be that far off and It was a huge long term goal for me in online poker so I'm pretty happy right now.

2008 pokerwise has been great for me. I've established myself from a solid grinder to one of the best players out there. I'm not quite sure how I actually made that final jump as a player but I would put a lot of it down to hard work. I listed my poker goals at the start of the year and here are a refresh of them and an analysis on how I'm getting along with them




  • Top 5 ranking (made number 1 was secretly my long term aim but didn't want to publicly aim too high)

  • A significant Live Result (yet to come near miss in the gukpt Luton if only I didn't hero call sigh)

  • Roi on all 3 main sites (Stars, Tilt, Party) above 50% (the year so far full tilt 143% roi weeee , stars 34.54% sigh, party 98.26% love you party donks)

  • 100k cash hands on ipoker/full tilt ($3/$6-$10-$20) with over 5bb/100 (bb/100 was sick good shame I haven't managed 10k hands yet lol)

  • Top 10 of OPOY on cardplayer (56th shows how good I run in those Sunday majors/ftops)

  • Top 10 on internetpokerankings.com (smashing the euro schedule with an unassailable lead and 6th in the u.s race)

  • $500k profit (should do this providing I don't go too crazy with my wcoop rebuys lol)

  • Top 5 in p5s yearly plb (number 1 by a distance atm)

  • Win a Sunday Major (negative for life obv)

  • Win the January Monthly Plb on p5s (any month would do actually) (its more fun coming 2nd and 3rd every month imo, ok I'll be positive and predict a September win when I take down a wcoop and a Sunday major lol




So overall I'm pretty happy with how my goals for the year are taking shape and there is still time to turn around the ones I haven't been so successful with. I'm planning on playing quite a few live comps between now and the end of the year (finally got a new passport appointment sorted lol) My tentative live schedule for between now and the end of the year includes the WSOPE, EPT London, The masters Classic in Amsterdam, LAPT Costa Rica and EPT Prague. Will maybe sell %s for some of these if I don't hit anything big before then.




As far as my future plans are I'm still going to play a lot online but I will definitely be cutting my volume a bit and trying to focus more on live poker. Having said that I gotta try and hold on to that number 1 spot for a while to prove its no fluke so I won't be retiring just yet :)

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8/22/2008 12:16:48 PM EST
My Mood: content
A Final Table A day Keeps the Bank Manager away....
In all seriousness though with the volume I have been putting in on a typical session its important to keep putting up numbers or the buyins will catch up with you. Fortunately I have been able to maintain my run with the highlights since my last update being a 2nd place in the Nightly 100k on stars for just under $20k, a chop with Flushy in the Party Super Monday for $6200, a win in the shitty tilt 6 max for around $5k (won me a 5th triple crown!) and a 2nd in the Party Saturday Special for around $10k. Right now I feel like I'm playing the best I ever have and that's really shown in the consistency of my results....

Yet still another Sunday passed without the big score :( In fact the day was a total disaster for me and I actually ended up quitting the session early due to life tilt after bubbling an EPT London satellite. But there will be more Sunday's, more big shots and more chances; just gotta keep putting yourself out there...... like I did in the 1k last night until this cl pot with 30 left http://www.pokerhand.org/?3072092. Sigh life tilt again.... However, wake up the next day and you remember its just a game at the end of the day and these things happen to everyone it's just how you deal with it. You have to be more determined and comeback stronger for the next time and hopefully this time things will go your way......

So anyway I'm not really sure where I'm actually going with this post but basically what I'm trying to say is that I'm fortunate to be doing something I love for a living, fortunate to have the freedom to do what I want to do on a certain day or time (even if that does make me a lazy fucker a lot of the time) and fortunate to know that everyday and every hand I play I am improving and that the WCOOP is around the corner... all I need now is my stars account to be ready... I hope your reading this Lee Jones

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8/15/2008 10:35:34 AM EST
My Mood: confused
Dunno what to think....
Well I'm back winning which is obviously a good thing. Since my last post I took down the stars $50 freezeout $70k guaranteed for $12k and change, won the Mansion $20k as well as taking a 5th place in FTOPS Horse lmao.

FTOPS HORSE was pretty much the funniest thing ever. I wasn't even going to play as I wasn't particularly keen on just blowing $500 in a tourney which I hardly knew the rules of a couple of the disciplines, however, thanks to late registration I decided to eventually join the tournament and mainly saw it as a chance to finally learn all the disciplines of the game. Basically my plan was to learn as I went and with the great structure at the start of the tourney I had a bit of time to work out what was going on and to try and go from there..... plus I was a limit holdem pro after my 20th finish in the ftops lhe event the other week lol.

Well I exceeded all my expectations and actually had a decent stack going into the bubble. To be honest I was just ecstatic to cash in this competition and thats pretty much the only time that has been the case in my poker career (apart from say my first ever cash etc). I played really well in the limit holdem rounds deep in the comp (helped that it was shorthanded quite a bit when we got to these rounds) and I also felt my stud hi game was decent as well. The hi lo games I was pretty wank at but managed to get by and as for Razz well anyone with half a brain can play that one lol.

On the final table I managed to ladder to 5th place for around $13.5k. I got really lucky to double up whilst shortstacked in stud hi versus Rex (special mention to her for a great run t0o) but my major downfall came when I missed a low draw in omaha 8 and got snapped off. Eventually I busted in Razz to the eventual winner Yuvee04. Such a sick accomplishment from him that day by winning two ftops on the same day (tilt turbo as well). I know little about the game of HORSE still but I could tell he was a different class to the rest of the table at the game.

So all is great right? Well no not really lol. That fifth in the HORSE was a great feeling. It was probably the only 5th I have ever been 100% happy with, I didn't even once think about the difference between first and 5th (70k to 13.5k) and I was so happy to finally have a great day again and then came the FTOPS $300r 6 max event....

Wow this was brutal! Maybe even up there with my bust in the original $2500 FTOPS event where I lost AA to AK sooted all in pre for a monster pot with 25 left and $400k for the win. The 6 max comp got off to a slow start and I was pretty much grinding all tournament. I got really lucky when I made a bad reshove with 95 sooted blind on blind when I was semi-tilted and got looked up by a3 but got there. I then said to Rex on Aim (who was ghosting most of the tourney) that I need to make the most of that bit of fortune and I certainly set about doing that as I began to chip up in the mid to late stages. After the bubble burst I was moved to a tougher table but things continued to go really well and despite playing 1 pot particularly horrible I found myself as the chipleader with 40 left

From here on in I managed to stay in the top 5 till we got to 13 left. Despite having what appeared to be a very comfortable stack with 520k at 6/12k I knew that one flip could easily make or break my tourney and shortly after the hourly break I got royally screwed here to bust out in 13th http://www.pokerhand.org/?3046660. $250k ftw and I get $9500.... NICE.

To be honest I hate empiremaker2000's line here. The much better play would be to raise and then 4 bet shove when I obviously re raise him. That way when Im bluffing he gets like an extra 100k chips. This way he obv takes the pot down like 95% of the time but I can assure you when I call I have Aj+ 88+ which Aj obv plays terrible against. And although he wins the pot 95% of the time he is not exactly winning a massive pot when I fold to his limp shove. Also his hand has a ton of value post flop if I do just flat call in position and If an ace were to flop and I had just called with a low sooted ace for example he could get 3 streets of value as I would most likely put him on trying to barrel me off middle pair on the flop as it was unlikely that I had an ace with my flat call pre flop.

So I'm still awaiting that HUGE score. Soooooo many near misses in the big ones now and nearly all of the time I have been screwed right in my eye :( I've had a lot of people say to me don't worry its just a matter of time etc but people have said that for over a year now and it still hasn't happened. Sure I've had loads of big scores and I'm grateful for them but I just really want to win that Sunday Major, That Ftops, That Wcoop and even that Live tournament. It's not even about the money to be honest (obviously it would be nice!!) but its really just about being the best, thats what I want to be..... Lets see if I can do it in the FTOPS $2500 2 day event which starts on Saturday....

Until then take it easy Chris.

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8/12/2008 5:08:36 AM EST
My Mood: determined
Record 4th Triple Crown and Gukpt Report/Near misses Galore
Back in March 2007 I won my first triple crown on pocket fives an accomplishment I was incredibly proud of. As my volume and level of play have increased over the past year or so I have naturally replicated this feat a number of times and in the first week of August I managed to become the first player to ever get four triple crowns. There are a couple of articles about the feat and I'll list them here if your interested.

http://www.pocketfives.com/online-poker-scene/chris-moorman1-moorman-wins-fourth-triple-crown-3153660

http://www.pokerverdict.com/Poker-Players-Club/Interviews/95819/moorman1_wins_fourth_triple_crown.html

So that was all good and that but I really wanted to not only be one of the most consistent winners online but also shipping the real big ones ie ftops, wcoop, Sunday Majors and doing something in the live arena.....

Well I thought the seconds of those two was going to come true last week. I played the £1k Grovesenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (gukpt) event in Luton and managed to amass a ton of chips before falling just short when I busted in a MONSTER pot to Sam Trickett, (perhaps the only player I feared that was left in the tournament). Obviously he went on to win and ship the £109k. Congrats Sam. Here is the end of the bustout hand where I think in end I confused myself into calling with a rivered set of queens :(

http://www.thenutz.tv/videodetail.php?video_id=67267.

The hand went down a really weird way though and Sam could definitely of been bluffing in this spot imo. I would talk about the hand more but I'm kind of sick of thinking about it tbh lol.The highlight of the event was finally getting my own back on my nemesis John Gale (who berated me in my first wsop for a sick call down I made and promised me that I'd be busto in 6 months lol)

So back to online action.... Thing have been pretty shitty :( I missed a bunch of FTOPS events but managed a frustrating 20th in the limit event today for $750 when first paid $45k, also had a near miss in the mansion 150k when I took 9th for $2500 with first paying $41k. Sunday was a complete washout and pretty much every other tourney I have been coolered in (favourite occurrence is kk into aa for the cl atm), the few I have run good in I have proceeded to donk myself lol so hopefully that changes sooner rather than later. I've never been one to give up so I'm determined to come back with a Bang....

On the positive side of things, I'm playing good, getting to grips with live play and ready..... now it's just down to the poker gods :)

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