| Name: | Chris Moorman |
| Age: | 24 |
| Birthplace: | Brighton, UK |
| Career Earnings | $1,805,374 |
FTOPS and Charity Haiti Fund
2010 February, 10.
Ok finally got motivated to start blogging again and figured the FTOPS would be a good time to start up again as I'm going to be playing a bunch and there is a lot of big tourneys to win. Also as part of ftops 'week' (actually like 10 days) me and Pab (paolo69/Leadboots on stars and ftp) have decided on a charity initiative for the period involving my horses. Over this period If one of my horses busts Pab in a tournament then he has to give $500 to charity but if he busts one of them then I have to give the $500 to charity. This should provide a good amount of banter as well as we are sharing a house at the moment in Australia and sometimes playing every day with full sessions can become pretty grueling. Also we are doubling the amount to $1k if either of us busts each other. There is a 10k limit for each of us and after day1 of FTOPS it looks like we will probably both be hitting it! after Pab managed to bust me in the $102 hyper turbo hu on stars, after folding every hand with 10bbs and an ante hu and then getting it in bad twice for the win, well played m8. Along with this he bust 1 of my horses in the tilt $30r, fortunately two of my horses managed to bust him so It wasn't too one sided of a start.
After day one the standing are as follows:
Me $1500
Pab $1000
Unfortunately not much in terms of deep runs for me in anything although I did only start with the late stuff. FTOPS1 I did look to be gearing up for a very deep run in as I found myself with over 60k chips at 250/500 but it was never to be as I lost a few nasty pots on the bubble before running AQ into AK shortly after we got into the money for a dissapointing min cash.
Tomorrow I'll be playing a full schedule though and the ftops events look quite appealing with a $240ko plo hi lo and a $500 triple shootout. I've been working on my other games a bit lately and managed a 2nd place in the GSOP plo hi lo last week so I'll be looking to go one better in the ftops, and shootouts are always fun as only first place matters, I feel they suit my game pretty well :)
I'm Back I promise!
2009 June, 6.
Apologies for not blogging for so long but I will be back blogging about the WSOP and Vegoose (plus after its all done I will go back and update the old stuff, just too busy right now though). I'm also going to be using twitter from now on for live updates on the events I'm playing and you can follow that either on here or www.twitter.com/moorman1
Tomorrow is the $5k and with around 700 runners and a sick strucure of 15k stacks at 25/50 to start represents a good chance at going deep and getting a shot at a bracelet, gl me and once again sincere apologies for being a lazy bastard before. Now lets go and win a bracelet!
2009 So Far (Part 1 PCA)
2009 March, 1.
Ok my fault for being so lazy and not updating at the time so I'm going to try and roundup the first 2 months of 2009 for me and then I promise to get back to more regular updates (at least once a week) Ok here's part 1 of 3 updates, PCA, enjoy!
I didn't wait long to have my first crack at live poker in 2009 when I made the trip to the PCA (Poker Carribean Adventure) on 4th January. The PCA is one of the most prestigious events of the year due to its amazing location http://www.atlantis.com/ and the minimum age being 18. As a result pretty much the whole online community flocks to the Bahamas for a week. This was my first time playing the event due to having no passport last year so I was eager to put up a good showing. It would also be cool to meet some more of the online regs who I play against all the time.
Me and Allinstevie made the marathon trip over the atlantic ocean stopping off at Miami along the way and finally arrived at about 10pm Sunday night. With us playing the very next day this wasn't ideal but I'm sure most of the time I play online I'm in a far worse state of sleep deprivation. Over the two starting days there ended up being 1347 entrants which equated to $3million ftw, kinda sick! My starting table seemed decent with mostly middle aged recreational players and a couple of young internet players but no big names.
I started off kind of quiet with a few well placed moves and a few bad ones and got upto 25k from the original starting stack of 20k. Unfortunately hand details escape me now as its not fresh in the memory (I promised no more lapse updates in future blog updates). The fast structure of the tournament (50/100, 100/200, 100/200/25, 200/400/50 etc) meant there was little time to be waiting around so after the first break I began to up the aggression and try to accumulate, one hand which I do remember that was particularly interesting occured at the 100/200/25 level.
A loosish opener opened in middle to early position to 600 and the french guy to my immediate right flat called. I looked down at q9 offsuit and elected to squeeze to 2400 as I felt neither of my opponents was particularly strong and I had position and a playable hand. The action folded around to the original raiser who after some thought chucked in a few higher value chips. The frenchman quickly passed and the action was back to me, obviously I briefly considered the ridiculous 5 bet shove but this wasn't really a serious option so I essentially was going to hollywood fold when all of a sudden the dealer dealt out the flop!
No one blinked an eyelid so I assumed that he must just be getting change from the pot after the hand. The flop came a pretty useless 347 with 2 clubs and my opponent surprisingly led into me... I really sensed weakness but the stack sizes were pretty awkward (I didn't have enough to float his flop bet, but a shove might be pretty spewy as I could be drawing dead). In the end I grew some balls and stuck it all in with just my 2 shitty overs and queen of clubs runner runner draw. Much to my relief he quickly folded and I took down a nice pot. After the hand was completed there was a lot of fuss though as it turns out my opponent had actually 4 bet me pre flop, in the end I ended up giving him back the extra money he had put in pre flop. At least I was on my way to a nice stack and feeling good about my chances for the rest of the day.
Daniel Negreanau moved to my table soon after and seemed like a genuinely nice guy. Obviously he was pretty much in every pot so it was inevitable we were going to clash pretty soon :). I called a raise with 44 and Negreanau and another player also called. I binked a set on the flop but it was pretty raggy 942 rainbow or something. All of us checked to Daniel who obviously bet which I felt he would do with any two cards, back to the pre flop raiser who tank folded which really helped for me to sell a bluff with a check raise. I had been really aggressive at the table previously and Daniel had picked up on this even calling me the craziest English guy he had ever played! lol so when I checkraised here I felt it was gonna look like I was full of shit. Anyway Daniel called and the other player folds and the turn comes a jack. Now I didn't actually think he was floating me here but just had some weak 9 or something and if I checked he would check behind and then a river bluff from me would look just dumb and he would probably give me credit. Therefore I decided to fire again but unfortunately he didn't take the bate and folded, someone later asked him if he folded a 9, he laughed pretty hard and said he'd be straight in there with a 9!, oh well nevermind I had over 50k now and was flying. That was until......
The button put in a fake mini raise and loose passive french guy flats in the small blind, I looked down at 59s in the bb but felt a squeeze would earn no respect plus the button had a perfect 4 bet all in stack. I probably should of just folded cos my hand is such a suckers hand in a 3 way pot and things were gonna get really awkward if I was to flop a flush draw (because they had 2 many chips to just check raise and get it in) but seeing Negreanau playing every soooted connector going convinced me into calling. The flop came j62 with 2 of my suit.... uh oh! Both check to the button who continuation bets and now I'm think I have to just check call here because he had to much to re raise and call a shove but then the small blind flats and he looked real weak and I was pretty sure he'd fold to a raise so I decided to gamble and just hope the button doesnt have a jack,overpair or set. I raise and the button much to my annoyance jams. I obviously have to call and pretty much throw up when he says he needs a spade (oh great nut flush draw I think, I need a offsuit 5 or 9 1 time lo) but even better he has kj spades so I'm virtually drawing dead and no miracle comes. Way to play a 150bb pot with less than 1% equity Chris!
That massive pot really set me back and I had to sit back as my reputation was in tatters at this point, fortunately/unfortunately I found two kings in the cutoff on Daniel's Big blind I raised and before he even looked at his cards he assured me he was at least going to call lol. He called and the flop came aq4, not ideal but with the way I had been playing I figured I could get two streets of value from kq or or qj and if I checked the flop behind it would actually look stronger than betting. He check called my bet like I full expected and I planned to check the turn and either call his river bet or bet when checked too. The turn came a 5, check check and the river a 2 and now he bet wtf!. Obviously any 3 makes a straight but also a ton of things missed such as kj jt etc. Also a flush draw on the flop bricked, the deciding factor which ended up in me calling was his betsize which looked like either a nut type hand like a set or straight or an airballl, obviously I got owned tho and he had a3 :(.
Now down to just 20bbs I really had to tighten up, however, it wasn't long before I was exiting to the rail. I raise two tens in early position and got two callers. The flop came down 534 2 spades and I really didn't have enough to get away if I was beat. I decided to just jam because I look pretty tilted and I would def get called by 6s-9s plus there was a fd etc and I didn't have enough to be bet folding the flop or giving free cards. Unfortunately the 2nd caller had called with 54 sooted and he managed to hold and that was that. 55k chips at 300/600 and I didn't make 400/800 welcome to the life of Moorman1 lol.
I decide to just chill and have a good time at the resort rather than playing a bunch and skipped the hi roller event and the 1k but I had the bug back enough to play the 5k side event. I didn't get the ideal preparation as a drunk allinstevie managed to keep me awake all night with his constant whinging of being 'all red bulled up' and i actually overslept and missed the first hour!
Once I arrived at my table I saw a few familiar faces, Randallin, Stamdogg and Rizen but the rest of the tables seemed pretty soft. I decided that not only would I get there late I would also bluff off half of my 10k starting stack, so with half a stack in level 2 I decided to start trying and managed to get jacks in versus queens on a low flop...... no problem jack river, Stamdogg later said he had passed qj, 1 outers thatss how we roll!
From here things went really well and I built upto around 30k before my table broke and I moved to a somewhat table of death. This table had 6 really good aggro players in a row, Tufat, Chronic420, RubenRVT, Me, Kadabra and some German guy. The rest of the table pretty much blinded away as we took it in turns to go to war with each other. Kadabra pretty much owned my soul on this table and I was never really able to get going. However, I did almost fold to cash and finished the day about 24 out of 27 and ITM ship the min cash $11.2k not bad for stars payouts.
Day 2 I came back knowing if I could double I was very much still in the game. There was still a very strong field left including ZeeJustin, Randallin, Mendieta, Peter Eastgate etc etc. First hand though I found Jacks and a raise infront I shipped in and he was priced in with a4 sooted and bricked out, back in the game!. I obviously immediately lost my chips as fast as I got them but managed to double up again when I found queens versus ace jack, right time to hold onto them this time!
Table break and we are down to two tables and upto $16k payday (oh and my biggest ever live cash lol). On my new table I had just started to open up a bit and take down a few pots when I get jacks but unfortunately the most aggressive guy on the table found kings and that was that 16th or whatever. Oh well another deep run/near miss but a bit of a confidence boost live and almost broke me even on buyins for the trip. Plus bahamas was great fun and I met so many of the online pro's who I hadn't met before. I'll leave you with some prop bet videos of DJK, Antonio Esfandiari, his hot gf and the whole pca lobby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hhYMiN57I (race1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm89Kq6Kpjg (rerun of race1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvu6S4BYAYs&feature=related (push up contest, DJK gets owned by a girl :P)
Think he lost 3k in all... wtg dan
