Chris "moorman1" Moorman Blog

First of all I’m going to apologise for the lack of updates throughout the WCOOP. On the whole thing’s didn’t really go my way and I was just trying to focus on the next up and coming tournament rather than bemoaning about my lack of luck in the last. For that reason I didn’t update on a daily basis as I didn’t have too many positive things to say.

I played close to a full schedule in the WCOOP which must of been around 30 events including the 10k hi roller tourney and various forms of poker I have little knowledge of such as Stud h/l etc. I only managed 3 cashes overall which was a very disappointing return (7th in the $215 1ra plo and 22nd in the $1k plo as well as a min cash in the 5 card draw lol). I played really well in the omaha and I’m definitely happy with how my omaha game is progressing, especially considering how rarely I play it. The final table was pretty sick with the likes of Menlo, Andy Mcleod and the mighty Chris Moneymaker lol. I managed to hold my own though and without this brutal beat here http://www.pokerhand.org/?3184941 may have been able to put up a real run at the bracelet and $100k ftw. Stil $17k ish was a great result in a game in which I’m still learning a ton everytime I play.

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to cash in one NLH WCOOP event….. seriously wtf! How can I not cash 1 of say 15 events in which I have a huge edge in and a great structure? I felt I played well in pretty much all of these events but things really didn’t go for me at all. This whole period was a dodgy period as far as nlh tourneys were concerned for me. I made a ton of deep runs but just couldn’t close at all. Partly my fault and partly the cards but at times like these you have to keep trying to grind it out. The 100r was one tourney I just couldn’t finish off until now……

Today I only played the early tournaments as I needed to get up early tomorrow in order to get a new passport so that I can attempt to play the WSOPE and EPT London in the next week. I managed to accumulate a nice stack early on in the 100r but this time things didn’t go as well for as they had been in the mid stages of this tourney lately. However things went a lot better deep in this then they had been and imo this is a lot more important. The moment when I really started to believe that I was going to finally do it again was on this soulread hand http://www.pokerhand.org/?3240193. If he turned up with an ace, a 6 or a boat here god I would look soooooo stupid but thankfully my read was spot on this time and I managed to hold. If the river is a diamond or a king then I can assure you my pc is getting smashed lol. From here on in things were pretty smooth with the game only ever coming in to doubt when headsup was a cagey long match but I felt incontrol for most of it. In the end it was just a case of getting over the finishing line in a big comp again. This added to a tilt $75 win earlier in the week puts me in line for a 6th triple crown lol. Also congrats to Pab who shipped the 100r the night before for around $30k…. sicko!. Uk 100r ownage imo.

Hopefully I get my I.d tomorrow or If I don’t they allow me to play the live events without it. These 2 events have huge prizepools and manageable fields. Also with them both being held in England it would be pretty news if I could go deep in one of them and hopefully It would open up sponsorship opportunities etc. Also after my deep run in GUKPT Luton I am feeling my live game a lot more and really want to test myself against some of the best. Fingers crossed I get to play, run good and play good.

Lastly I’d like to congratulate Alex ‘Ajkhoosier1′ Hoosier on a sick run in the WCOOP main event. If you haven’t been on the internet poker planet for the last week then he took 3rd place for $780k ish. Also he overtook me on the p5s rankings system and now has a huge lead over me oh well back to the grind and the impossible chase of Ajkhoosier. In my experience though Greater motivation normally brings greater results so lets hope this is the case

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So last Sunday I FINALLY managed a big score on a Sunday with a 3rd place in the $500k $500 freezeout on Stars. This tourney is a relatively new tourney and the field is very strong so to take 3rd in it is a top result. I was absolutely flying in this until this sick cooler http://www.pokerhand.org/?3128365. After I took this beat I just about managed not to tilt off and grinded to the final table with a shortish stack. At the final I had a bit of luck when I reshoved KJ into fishontilt’s Ak and got there and then grinded/laddered up until I managed to donk off a lot of chips 4 handed. Shortly into 3 handed play I ran my aj into Thugmoneymaker’s KK and that was that. $50k for my efforts though was great stuff.

This Friday the WCOOP started. I have only managed 1 mini cash in the four events I have played so far and that was in 5 card draw lmao. Me allinstevie and Titantom32 are taking part in a WCOOP contest as well and you can find the results here http://wcoop.pocketfives.com/.

Unfortunately this week has been a bit short of scores but I feel I’m playing well and things will hopefully turn soon. Tomorrow is probably the biggest day of poker for me ever with approx $20k worth of buyins! including the $10k hi roller WCOOP and the $2.5 million on Ipoker. Fingers crossed I can run good tomorrow and put up a huge score. On that note I better get some sleep so I feel 100% for tomorrow. Hopefully good news to report soon……

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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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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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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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Monday didn’t really go according to plan for the most part until in my last tournament the $100 1ra on Full Tilt I managed to RUN LIKE GOD and took 2nd place for around $8500. I lost to Jason Gray headsup who is a great player and got the better of me this time (nxt time Jason!).

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So I decided to start my main event on day 1a so that I could have a bit of time if the unlikely happened and I made it to day2. Also I would still get to play Sunday’s online :P.

My start table could of been better as it included the likes of Julian Thew (probably the best player in the UK right now and a great guy too), Chad Brown and two decent online pro’s. We also had plenty of eye candy with Maya Antonious in the 2 seat. I started off okay chipping upto about 25,000 from the original 20k in the first level with a few small pots here and there. After the first break I went super card dead and folded a lot, spewed a lot and basically rinsed and repeated this until i was down to about 7000 at 150/300 with a 25 ante….

Dinner break came and went and I tried to pump myself up because I knew I was still in it with over 20 bbs and was really just 1 double up from a healthy stack again. Nothing much happened for a while (a reshove here and there) until I open shoved 4200 at 300bb with JJ in mid position not really expecting any calls as I had been super tight for a while. To my suprise the small blind snapped me with k4 clubs!!! wtf, somehow I managed to hold and now I could start my main event over….

Unfortunately me being me spewed some of my chips back when I 3 bet an aggressive player with rags and had to fold to their 4 bet shove. Not much of note from then on until I managed to double up with a9 sooted versus the king4 guy who actually had ak somehow… after this suckout I thought I was due a big comeback and maybe a deep run but it wasn’t to be as i busted out an hour before the end of the day…

To understand the situation I need to give a bit of background history on the player. The player in question was the same king 4 soooted guy and had a habit of flat calling raises out of position, donking the flop for 1/4 pot and getting raised and then floating out of position with 5 high and no draw and then post oak bluffing 1/10th of the pot on the river when the turn had gotten checked through… I can quite honestly say I have never played with someone so bad lol. So the hand before my bust hand he raises his 4th pot in a row and this time its from utg. Unlike the other times he gets a bit of resistance when he gets cold called in mid position and the sb and then the bb jams in his 15bbs. He reships in his stack and the first caller snap calls his 25bb off with qq which he had obv been trapping with. The big blind has kk and mr k4 donk has t6 sooooted lol. Somehow kings hold up and queens scoop the side pot and mr k4 is looking tremendously tilted….

So to the bust hand. Its folded around to me on Mr K4’s bb and I tell myself before I open with my 12k stack at 400bb that If I’m not calling a shove from that guy I won’t open. I look down at 6’s and make it 1200 and it folds around to him and he makes it 8000 lol. I sighed and stuck it in and he goes ‘I guess I’m pot stuck now’ and calls off with q9 and binks the queen on the door card and thats the end of the main event for me. obviously calling off on a race with 66 for 30 bbs isn’t ideal but I really felt his range was 90% of the deck and when he made it 8k I knew the best hand he could really have was 77 so I actually felt like a favourite in the hand because he could easily have 1 under card or possibly 2 lol. Oh well fuck liver poker lol.

After the live washout I really needed some results online and they have started to come again with a win in the 100 1ra 6 max on Sunday on Full Tilt and also a 2nd place in the 100r 6 max on Full Tilt on Wednesday. These results earned me around 17k and 23k respectively and along with a 4th place in the stars 100r and a 3rd in the Tilt 50-50 means I’m on a real heater online. Every 6 max tourney I play in online I am feeling super confident and I really love the greater freedom 6 max allows… why cant all online tourneys be 6 max?? :(. I moved up in the rankings to 4th place this week and hopefully If I can keep up my recent play I can continue to move towards that number 1 spot. Its my birthday tomorrow so a group of us are going to go out to the club in the Wynn tonight called Tryst… should be a great night. Hopefully I can come back on Sunday and take down the stars $2 million… that would be a pretty sweat 23rd birthday present. Until then gl at the tables Chris

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