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Chris Moorman has agreed to go "in the well" for the blondes for a week starting from now

Here's Chris' bio on Pocket Fives

"An incredibly consistent player, moorman1 has quietly become one of the most successful players on the Net. Has won several major events, including the Absolute Poker 1k and a chop of the Sunday 2nd chance on Stars.

He's also won several freeze out tournaments on FTP, Stars, and PartyPoker, including the $500 High Roller $30k Guaranteed in January 2008."

He's won over $500,000 in online MTTs since the beginning of 2006, is an Online Triple Crown* winner and currently ranks 11th on the Pocket Fives player database.


Still only 22 years old he has overcome the not inconsiderable handicap of hailing from Colchester to become very successful as, in his own words "a donkey" who is "trying to get out of the barn". You can see some details of Chris' exploits on his blog http://www.moorman1.com/

and here he is, prepared to answer questions from all comes until next Wednesday

Fire away.....
 




* The PocketFives.com Triple Crown celebrates a great accomplishment in online poker. The Triple Crown winner is the latest person to win three different tournaments on three different sites over the course of one week (any seven day period). The qualifications and rules for this award are as follows:

    * A player must win three multi-table tournaments, each of which start within the same seven day period across three of any of the sites we track for our player rankings.
    * Each tournament must have a prize pool of at least $10K.
    * Each tournament must have at least 100 players.

Are you the best player to hail from Colchester?

Stupid question, ban the asker.

I can avoid falling out with Kev here because I'm originally from Southend

Kev is the greatest in Colchester and always will be!!!

this has not started well Chris, try harder  ;) :D

In your opinion why has your online record not been duplicated live?

What was your initial bankroll and how did you go about growing it early?

Have you invested any of your online winnings so your not stuck in the future?

I watched you playing the $100 & $200 rebuy on Stars last week, same night you chopped the $5k and it seemed to me that after getting fairly deep you sort of hit a self destruct button and played a few crazy hands was this player dependent or had you just got pissed off?

Would you ever take a punt on yourself to win a WSOP event and what odds would you expect?

Chris, what is the secret of being so consistent and how would you describe your playing style?

How many MTTs do you play at once?

Do you use PT/other software whilst playing to keep tabs on players or are you just watching and making notes?

Congrats on your success and many thanks for taking the time out t do the well.

What would be the No.1 piece of advice you would give to someone starting out on lowstake ($5-$10) MTT's online?

I will be expected to ask this one after my decision in the £100 event at the Edinburgh GCBPT..........I've read a couple of notes where you are in deal bargaining and you do play hardball, what is your traditional stance on dealing and what do you take into account when trying to do a deal.


Appreciated
Geo

Do you think one day you will crack into the top 10 players living in Brighton?

Are you ever going to come out for a night on the piss?

1. To be honest I haven't played that many live mtt's (probably about 10) so this isn't really a large enough sample size. I think I have definetly been a litlle unlucky in them (lost chip lead flip in irish open last year with about 200 left and then ran kk into aa on the bubble :( ) and a couple I have tilted off mainly due to the greater patience required of playing just 1 table at a time (I initially found this hard to deal with but think I'm finally over it now). If after the wsop I still haven't done ANYTHING live then I will happily call myself an internet donkey.

2. I won $75 in a vc student freeroll built it up slowly to $200 in small stakes mtt's and sng's ($1 and $2 no limits!) then i proceeded to donk it all off playing 5/10c cash games just shoving my $20 in to win the 5 and 10 cent blinds.... obviously i won them a few times and then ran into qq+ and lost my $21 lol. At the time i thought I was the unluckiest person ever lol. After getting down to $20 i put it all on a $20 sng and somehow luckboxed myself to the win and then finally read a cash game article and succesfully started grinding up the cash games with a few mtt's here and there...

3. I put most of it in high interest savings.... hopefully I don't go busto at the wsop and will then be trying to buy a house with a few mates nr the end of this year which imo would be the ultimate investment.

4. I honestly don't remember much of those tourneys.... I know in the $200r I shoved tens into pocket aces maybe I spewed some before that. I'm pretty sure I donked the $100r but I can't really remember how lol. That day is all still a bit of a blur really.

5. I met John Tabatabai at this insidepokermagzine shoot I was doing yesterday and he told me how he didn't do anything in a live tourney for ages... The WSOPE tourney which he came 2nd in was about his 11th event and he hadn't cashed in one previously so maybe my 11th event will be lucky lol. Seriously though I wouldn't continue to play live if I didn't feel like I had a significant edge so I guess I would bet on myself still BUT not in a wsop event because there are too many runners so it would have to be some insane odds to tempt me into putting a score on it.

1. Lol Flushy I think I should be asking you that question

2. Oh i thought you just didn't like me and would never ask....

I thought you were married to the internet.

Come out tonight, me JP and one of my mates are going out.

Besides you haven't seen the new pad yet so come out!

I'm a nit and a crazy lag tard at the same time... I think I'm pretty good at applying pressure in hands and at certain stages of mtt's and minimizing my losses in hands where I'm beat... I'm also good at taking control of tables. I really suck headsup though!

The secret to consistency I think is to treat every tourney the same. I still play the full tilt $30r with as much focus as something a lot bigger.... basically I hate losing so thats what drives me to keep putting up results and not getting complacent

How many events are you playing at the wsop, Have you qualified for the ME yet or just gonna buy in?

Did you make a deal with the devil to run as hot as you do ;)

Cheers

What would you recommend to newer players who are playing lower stakes and looking to step up a level.?

thanks Chris  :)up

Just play simple ABC poker I know its said time and time again but it will really work for you. Try not to play many pots out of position and really focus on all of the players on the table.... who won't fold any pair?, who looks like they want to just cash? who likes to bluff big at the sign of weakness etc. I haven't played the low stakes mtt's for a while but I imagine that they aren't all that different to when I played them and this is exactly what I did.

God I'm no deal expert (I actually think i got a bad deal in the $5k winner takes all) but all I would say is to never suggest a deal because if it looks like you are not desperate to deal then you will be able to get something better for yourself. On the whole I wouldn't reccommend deals if you have a skill edge because they are -ev but sometimes when there is a lot of money at stake and you feel the other players are of similar standard to you then it is worth doing in order to reduce your variance.

appreciated

geo

1. Too many is probably the answer to this one. Normally 6-8 but in really busy times it can be over ten lol. I probably start losing a bit of edge when I get over 6 but I just can't resist playing most of the mtt's that are available on stars and tilt when I'm in a session because I'm a degenerate.

2. I would use pahud but my version isnt working properly and it lags my pc a lot when I play a lot of tables. I just try to look at big hands and the hand history of them and label people that I don't know from that. I have a pretty extensive system of notes though and in a lot of the tourneys I play there are a lot of regulars, so I know their games pretty well.

How important is tilt shoving as a multi tabling MTT player?

Do you rate yourself as one of the best at tilt shoving? Are there other players who you can still learn from when it comes to tilt shoving?

Make sure you are consistently beating the level that you are playing at the moment before you move up. In my opinion you should only move up when you are happy that you are one of the best at the level you are currently playing, for example.. you are crushing both the fish and beating most of the regulars at a 50/1 cash game then you can move up to 1/2. I don't think you should try to move up too quickly but should wait till you are crushing and feel like your no longer improving as much at the current level.

What about stepping up a level in MTTs?

I'm going for about 2 months this year and am really hoping to play at least 10 events. I haven't played any satellites online yet but from next week I will be playing the weekly $1k satellite to the main event on full tilt (as I run like god there and the structure and number of packages available is great).

I don't run as hot as you all think lol In tournaments no one remembers all the times you get bad beated out (apart from yourself obv) but they just remember the suckouts you pull out.... and the way I play I'm bound to suck out occasionally lol

I dunno really just when you feel comfortable I guess.... whats stakes are you currently playing? If your hitting a roi over 50% over 200 mtt's or so I think it would definetly be worth moving up. I think you stick to a minimum of 50 buyins for each size mtt u are playing so if you wanted to play $20 freezeouts u should have at least 1k... tbh 100 buyins would probably more ideal.

Where is the cash game article you mentioned!

I watched the tourny you posted a while back and noticed you didn't play PP's very often, can you explain your attitude to pocket pairs (low to mid) in mtt's and your thinking when dealt them?

Thanks Chris, that definitely got me thinking :)

1. I have no idea about the cash game article but it was just something basic from which I worked out that open shoving 200bb's when folded to was not a winning play lol.

2. Pocket pairs are often overrated.... I don't think you will see me open fold them very often but a small pocket pair to a raise deeper on in a tourney is normally a raise or fold spot because the stacks online aren't deep enough to set mine and they are nearly impossible to play post flop if you don't flop a set. Early on they are great hands because when you hit your set your in a great spot and if you don't you can just throw them away cheaply after the flop

Cheers for the well moomin

I was watching some of the $5K WTA Final replay on 'Stars. Are you planning on doing an analysis of it on your blog?

Do you think having your hole cards exposed on that will make it harder to cash in the bigger events?

Did many of your foes "big folds" surprise you when you see their holdings on the replay? :)

Every multi tabling mtt player has to be able to tilt shove... Say you have 6 tables and u tilt shove all 6 of them with 20 bbs you will probably suck out on at least one of them and now you will have 40bbs and be in with a great shot of getting a top 3. Also after you have sucked out you will have lucky chips and won't get any bad beats in big pots, so as long as you don't donk it the prize money is as good as yours.

Not wanting to big myself up too much but I am 1 of the BEST at tilt shoving. The WCOOP 2nd chance event that I got 2nd in for $45k (obv brag) I tilt shoved 20 bbs with 92 soooooted into ak and sucked out with 400 left. These lucky chips got me to second place... If i had played properly I would probably of got my aces cracked or something.

Best Advice Yet!

I was planning on getting camtasia and recording it and doing some kind of analysise but I didn't get round to it intime before it got removed :( because basically I'm a lazy fucker.

I don't think having my cards exposed for one tourney should be to much of a problem. The antes in that tourney were double the normal size so looser play was favoured. If anything it should help me get more action on my hands.

I was suprised at a couple such as brynkenneys fold of ak early to my re raise of the utg raiser when i had j5 off lol and also busto_soon's fold of pocket tens on the 468 flop to my j6 off.

Yes jx off is the nuts :)

Do you balance tilt shoving by faketilt shoving aces ever?

why are you so afraid of tequilla?

when I tilt shove I tilt shove everything..... The chatbox normally gets a lot of abuse 2 lol

I wish I had a good answer for this but all I can say is that 'IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I WANT TO DIE'

Has your Paigow improved since Vegas and do you still play drunk?

Do you play much cash? Why do you think you have excelled in tournaments rather than cash?

all good players play drunk ;D

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most) how rigged is stars?

Paigow owns my soul but I'm definetly gonna own Pab hard at bowling this year.....

I've played a bit this year was aiming for 100k hands total this yr... so far I have managed about 8000 lol (lazy fucker again obv) but I'm up nearly 30k playing 5/10 mainly, which is obviously an unsubstatinable win rate. The reason why I have gone the tournament route is probably due to me wanting to be the best at what I do... If I was to play cash I would have to be playing the big games and my tilt control isn't the best so there would be some crazy swings lol. Also I just LOVE winning tournaments no matter what the size of the tourney is..... you cant beat that winning feeling. Cash games are probably more profitable in the long run but it isn't really about the money to me.

Are you a mormon?

Are you moor man than roger moore?

And any other questions with have a pun of your name in it.

i wish you put on a scale of 1-100 because 10 doesnt justify how rigged it is. The way to win on stars is to think of the right play and then do the exact opposite. The dumber the play..... the more likely you are to win. If you like the  ;all-in; button then stars is your site

LoL you won't believe the number of random us railtards who come up with stuff like I didn't know Moorman's were allowed to play poker and are you really the famous nfl player Brian Moorman etc. Can get pretty annoying lol. Probably nowhere near as bad as some of the stuff someone like Annette_15 gets though

Chris, where do you think the best place to play is for decent structured regular $1-$25 freezeouts?

Easy.... one of the Full Tilt double stacked tournaments. Plenty of time to chip up in those. Low level rebuys on there are great too because there is still plenty of play deep in the tourney so the better players have a distinct adavantage

Other than Kev, who is the best online player you regularly come up against?  What makes them so good?

haha WestmenloAA aka Mr Menlo. The guy just doesn't make mistakes and runs like GOD. Pretty unbeatable combination.

Do you think playing so many tables at once affects your appreciation of the game? Doesn't the conflict of interests/focus lead you to play proficiently rather than excellently?

Some interesting answers Chris.

What do you reckon you will be doing in 10 years time? I am just curious how young & successful players see their future. 

Good Luck & Thanks.

The Colchester magic roundabout.............whats that all about ?

on a scale of 1-10 how hard do i own you at heads up low stakes cash?

Stevie its not much of a brag to pwn Moorman, rumour has it he is 0-9 against his grandmum.

Do u have any distractions in the backround while multi-tabling, ie. footy on tv, radio  etc.  Do u go into a room of your own for maximum concentration.      

its only because your a calling station and we aren't playing for big money.... If you had to call those rivers and the money meant  life or death to you then you would bottle it and fold

The tv is always on but i normally listen rather than watch. Normally listen to some shitty trance music when I play lol and always on msn/aim chatting to ppl about hands etc when im not playing '2 many tables' Its pretty hard to have maximum focus day in day out. Only tend to focuse really hard when we get down to the last few tables.

Congrats on P5's 9th

Is reaching your goal of top 5, now more important than the money that, that will give you?

Do you get bored with poker?

(http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/41/barbie1la.jpg)

What do you think of multiaccountaments?

Whats your strategy on MTTs rebuys. Do you go rebuy crazy to try an accumulate a good stack in the 1st hour?

1) How the fk do u step it up to start pwning $50r and $100r going from $20r's and $75-100fo's.  I suck @ making this step.  Is it just rolling urself hard enough for it, or are there any specific changes.  What roll would u want before playing $50r's and $100r's respectively?

2) Are you actually a Moomin?

3) I am now a sick ass tilt shover, im pretty sure its ur fault aswell.  But i really enjoy doing it, u cant actually beat shoving for no reason with 94o utg+1 with 30bb's. ducy?

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

World Class Q's imo.

Does shoving with 78off with 10 BBs utg justify the tag tilt shove?


or is it more a value bet?

cos i just tripled through in a mtt crushing far superior hands

not only is this post entertaining but it could be a right lil money spinner

currently waiting for 45os out of position

Can you offer some advice on handling that awkward stack size in the mid stages of donkaments, you know the 12.5-22ish BB stack. Re-steal ftw?

Are the mid-high stakes donkaments on sites other than stars and tilt really that much softer?

leknave potw, in stitches over here.

 Moorman Owns.
I find it interesting that Stars' RNG hates him (until he shipped the 5k Winner takes all) and FT seems to love him. Weird!
Q1  - your top 5 game adjustments to compete successfully in high BI mtts versus midstakes mtts pls sir?
Q2-   Do you think stars is rigged? lol.

1). Is This you? (see picture below)
2). HU Tennis Match for Rollz?
3). Are you jealous that i have a date with Annette_15 and you dont?
4). What car do you have?
5). Why are there no black Moomins? Racialist imo.

golden

What time do you get up / go to bed

Do you have good blinds in your room

What do you think of chad batista, he scares me a little

Are you going to bb6, if so will you play me hup, ill give you odds

Why do you waddle when you bowl?

What looks prettier,  9h 7h,  5c 7c, or  6d 8d?


Where and what levels did you start out at and how did u become so unbabbaballa?

Is this your house?

lol, definitely not the hearts, probably the diamonds tbh.

Yeah 4 sure but extra tables means a higher $ per hour profit until i get to at least 8 tables... if the worst comes to the worst and I'm deep in something big I can always sit out of something that hasn't got to the ante stage. Extra tables also stop you doing silly things. Fortunately in poker people are bad enough that you can get away with not playing 100% most of the time.

Thankyou. As much as it shocks people recognition is more important to me than the money. Obviously if I was broke this wouldn't be the case and obviously if we were playing for say $1million it would be more about the money lol. However its not the money that motivates me to play its the thrill of beating out 100's of other players to win a tournament.

I get bored with poker all the time. The best way to deal with this is play different games such as cash, omaha and sng's (actually scrap that fuck sng's!). The great thing about poker though is that you are always learning and as long as you are always learning and improving you don't ever really get bored.... Now if I was 16 tabling 45 man turbo's that might be a different matter...

Pretty disgusting tbh. I can safely say that I have NEVER multiaccounted and NEVER will and if I knew anyone who did would call them out for sure.

LOL i might be the biggest rebuy nit behind Pearljammer. The value on rebuys imo is that people cant handle deeper stacks and donk off their chips to you. Even if I have the minimum stack after the addon period (so 5k on stars) I still feel confident that I can do well in the tourney. However, if i was in for 10 buyins this would be a different matter and I'd probably start looking at the payouts to see that I had to final table to make a profit and then as a result play really bad and tilt off.

1. You just have to play with no fear still. The big difference is that there are a huge amount of regulars in these tourneys and you have to know their game more than they know yours. Therefore you have to mix up your lines with certain hands and stack sizes welll to keep them guessing. A lot of 'good' regulars still have big leaks that you can definetly exploit.

2. LoL at junior school one of my friends used to call me Moomin PAPA so I guess I am :P

3. Oh yeah its sick. The real beauty of it is that you have nothing to lose. If you don't suckout then you happily go and do something else. If you do you can play properly and have a big stack and a good shot at the serious money.  You also get the whole table giving you shit in the chatbox which you obviously have to reply back to which takes most of your time leading to you coming off tilt and taking down the tourney... SIMPLE

As most people know I'm a huge fan of the overshove. Nearer 20bbs you want to be reshoving more than opening, and nearer 10 bbs its basically fold or all in.  Don't overshove weak offsuit aces too much though as they suck when your called. Shoving 12 bb's from the cutoff with 67 sooted though I think is fine. Also plz dont shove your bad hands and just raise your good hands..... oh and NEVER LIMP ACES (blind on blind its ok :) ). Basically sooted stuff is the nuts though that extra 3% really makes a difference!!

So I can build up the power for my strike obviously.... duh!

Or maybe its because I've had a few too many white russians

I've been going to bed at 8am lately.... And I know it really isn't clever. As far as getting up 4-5 pm sounds good. I have to make sure that I don't miss neighbours!

No my blinds really suck. Been meaning to get new curtains for 6 months but I'm a lazy fucker obviously lol. Often I end up sleeping on the sofa instead.

Chad is a crazy player. I've never met him in real life but I've heard that he's actually a well alright guy. I've owned him a few times in big tourneys too which is always nice and always makes me like a person more!

When is it? I'm really going to try and make it this time...(but what I say and do are normally two different things!)

1. I'm not sure how to attach the picture to this but yeah I like it. My belly is probably about that big at the moment.... If only I could make it to the gym for the first time (even though I signed up 2 months ago!)

2. I'm actually alright at tennis. if I was allowed a training period to get my fitness up I could be up for this! (your probably some ex uk n1 junior or something lol)

3. Ah but have you spoken to her in real life and have her on msn?

4. LOL I STILL CAN'T DRIVE

5. I dunno how to answer this one lol

10/11 may, congrats on the results tonight, thought you were gonna FT both the 100rs at the same time

TONIGHT SUCKED!!!!

Wow they all look pretty good. Would definetly have to be number 2 or 3. 46 Clubs used to be my favourite hand but now after using the 4 colour deck for ages Diamonds are definetly better and 57 diamonds is my new fav hand so on that logic I will go for number 3. God that was long winded!

Hey I'm not that unballa I only live in a flat and don't drive and sleep on the sofa more than my bed. I started right from the bottom... none of this deposit $50 shit. I should be so lucky!

Btw that is my 2nd dream house.... I'm sorry but the pink one owns its soul.

I have A question

What time ru flying on Fri? Aim to get here for about 530pm, to Luxembourg Airport. Fly anytime on Monday you want

Ill message you on facebook in a bit

1.40pm so gonna get there about 3.50pm.... going to be hungover pretty bad because going back for a night out at university tonight. Cya on friday... yeah make sure you do put your number on facebook again otherwise i'll be fcked

wow I've no idea really. Maybe I'd look to get involved in more of the business side of poker such as backing players in live events etc. Or maybe something away from poker altogether. I still see myself playing poker for fun on the side if I got involved in something else. 10 years is a long time who knows. Just over 10yrs ago I passed the 11+ :)..... just thought I'd throw that one in

I can answer that one ... Chris and I used to live right near it ... its like one big roundabout, surrounded by 5 small ones ... its a case of shut your eyes and drive... when they first built it, people would go and stand there for hours watching cars crash, seriously it was that bad.

But as moomin is a lazy sod and hasnt learnt to drive yet, he only ever goes over it on a bus (too tight to pay for cabs).

I have one more question.

What was it like to live under the shadow of Kev?

Unbearable.... Thats the real reason why I had to move out of Colchester....

Chris

Are you patient by nature? I'm thinking about how you mastered the game of poker. I noticed you said something about wondering why you kept losing at cash when you first started but didnt have the knowledge you do now. When did you have the lightbulb moment to give you a more structured approach to your game? Was it all down to reading or did you have any coaching?

thanks

1) Do you miss OverTheGun at all?

2) 1808 or MMM?

3) Do you think learning how to play KK profitably is the final step in you becoming a world celebrity?

4) Rather play Flushy HU or have a money tree that grows £50 notes in your back garden?

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Good thread imo. Liking the photoshop moomin work.

Did you have a eureka moment where you went from being meh ok to balla or was it a steady progression?

Do you have a favourite tournament that you must play daily/weekly?

If you are playing a high buy in tournament, say $100r and you are playing with somebody who you percieve to be a nit and they raise UTG and you hold AK in MP. What is your play

a)  fold

b) call

c) 3 bet fold to shove?

d) 3 bet, call 4 bet and bemoan your luck when he turns over a superior hand?

Would you EVER fold KK pre-flop in a tourney that is not a sattelite?

LOLOLOL

moorman, would you say you deal with tilt well, and do you have any advice on how to keep your cool when things are running bad?

lol i can answer that one. last night moomin pings me and say $109 stars table xx he has raised a limper been 3 bet he made it 300 and the guy 800 at 10/20

Rick : QQ?
Moomin :  KK
Rick :  you know what he's going to show
Moomin : fold then?
Rick : lol dunno (hedging bets)
Moomin : fk it


guy turns over AA, sounds daft but i said if i was playing one or two tourns id pass preflop, but since he plays like 12 per night then i just shib it in.

Moomin : agreed

crap that actually makes sense :(

How much do you analysis your opponents from your tracking software?
Is this analysis done while you are playing or while you doing analsysis from the previous sessions?

ps keep up the good performances

Keep the questions coming... next two days going to be really hectic though as I'm flying to luxemburg etc. I'll be back answering them all probably on Saturday and on Sunday at the latest.

Only if you do play that many tournaments though.

of course...I'm just sad that it makes sense

Used to play pool tournies in Swindon and they have the same, just put your foot down and hope u reach the other side!!

Hi ,
Whats the average amount of tournies you play each week, and how much would you expect to shell out on buyins in a week?
Do you like Currys, if so what your favourite dish.
Have you been approached for a sponsorship deal yet?

Cheers
And best of luck in the WSOP.

Jason

Lol nope I'm not patient at all, actually one of the least patient people arround (which I'm sure a lot of ppl will vouch for). I owe a lot to Dave (Geeforce1) and a tiny bit to Pab (Nit) i guess. Tribecca had a weekly Sunday tourney which I think was a $100k prizepool once a month. I would satellite it every week after i started moving up the cash games and would allow myself 1 rebuy and addon (I think I was playing 50/1 or 1/2 full ring at the time). This tourney was the biggest thing ever for me and I was always exicted/nervous... constantly checking the prizepool etc. Anyway this time I managed to hit a lot of hands, get them to hold up etc and managed to make it deep. With 30 left I had an ok stack but I coudln't find a place to steal many blinds because the big blind was disconnected and other stacks would constantly raise his blind. Me not having learnt the resteal back then (thx pab for that :) ) kept saying to myself well hopefully I get a good hand in the small blind one time because I should get action. Anyway asif by magic AK arrives in the Small Blind and the constant cutoff raiser Geeforce 1 raises. I shove all in and he calls me pretty quickly with ace queen.... I flop a King but lose to running diamonds. I continued to watch the tournament as I had been impressed with this guy's play and to prove that poker is no fluke he took the tourney down for around $27k. HUGE MONEY!! So there I am on the rail congratulating him and optimistically ask him for his msn to chat about poker some time and he gives it to me.... wow great!! maybe he can help me I think. I then proceed to listen to everything he has to say, take occasional shots at 3/6 cash games which he said were particularly weak and everything goes pretty smoothly tbh. He then introduces me to this mug called Pab who introduces me to the resteal (before he became a nit) and things just go from there reallly.... Its pretty nuts how a bad beat probably was +ev in the long run.

Overthegun was a great community as well as 1808, I don't think I was a part of the other1. I liked how there was a mini community and that we would rail each other deep in tournaments and it sort of helped me to put up good results because I knew other people were watching me. I also looked up to a lot of the players because they had been playing a lot longer than me and had put up some big scores. It had its time and place though and it was probably best that it stopped when it did because the place got really empty for a while.

KK is not as bad for me as it once was lol. Now its more of a case of any hand LOL. In all seriousness though that was one hell of a sick run I had with king king for about 9 months straight. Typing this paragraph is giving me nightmares so I'm going to stop it there.

I'snt it the same thing? In all seriousness though.... FLUSHY IS A LUCKBOX!  I wouldn't mind playing him at hu omaha after the advice he was giving me round your old house that time lol

sort of answered part 1 of the question at the bottom of page 7 but I will go into a little more detail. At the start of 2006 (yes feels like years ago) I made the jump from 1/2 nl full ring cash to 3/6 6 max and obviously my game underwent a total reconstruction. When I first made the jump I was a solid tag/robot lol.... a few months down the line I evolved into a semi-loose aggressive regular and one of the biggest winners at that limit. I grinded around 30k hands a month for a while and really built my roll at this time (avoiding a lot of big shots at the bigger games such as 20/40 unlike a lot of others in a similar position to me). One target that was really important to me was that when I ran bad for a session I would still try to be at least even. If you cut out the losing days and only have break even or winning days then your roll increases very nicely (obviously this isn't as easy as it once was).

Probably the full tilt $100r 6 max on a wednesday night. It starts at 2am and has a really sick deep structure. A lot of top regular players who are thought to be some of the best out there are actually quite exploitable in the 6 max format. With my laggy game and my 6 max cash game experience I feel like I have a nice edge in this tournament with the deeper stacks compared to most other donkament grinders (I proved this with back to back final tables a few months ago :) ). Also the nightly $30r on full tilt which plays very deap and has attrocious players in it who just hand me their chips on a plate! My record in this tournament is by far my best online and has even lead to it becoming nicknamed the MOORMAN amongst the uk mtt regulars haha

Just from a quick look at thepokerdb I'm estimating that I have played 1000 tourneys so far this year in 81 days which works out to around 12.5 a day on average (I normally play 5 nights a weak so that would actually be 65 days of play which works out to just over 15 tourneys a day on average). Tourney buyins for a week are pretty sick. My rough estimates for buyins so far this year are about $165k so that works out to over $2k on average for each day, therefore the pressure is always on to pick up results

I love curry's anything thats got a bit of a kick to it but not 2 crazy (no vindaloo!) and hasn't got vegetables in it. Lamb rogan josh, Chicken Jalfrezi and Chicken Tikka Massalla usually hit the spot.

I have talks ongoing with a few parties.... Can't really say anymore on the topic though.

Oh and a shameless brag..... I shipped my wsop main event seat last night in the $530 qualifer on Party Poker WEEEEEEEEEE.

I would do option D because I always give a nit more credit than they deserve. I always think that just maybe one time they will make a move on me but obviously they dont. I guess they just rely on mug's like me to pay them off oh welll nevermind. I later found out that this guy wasn't a nit after he donked off all his chips with something like 92 off, so I guess in that sense I was right to 3 bet call a shove and was just unlucky to run into AA rather than 92 off which he inevitably would of 4 bet shoved versus me.

I've folded Kings preflop in a tourney between 3 and 5 times. Most people say you should never fold Kings online. Sometimes its just way too obvious though.

I don't really use tracking software such as pahud as I said in a previous answer. I normally write down notes on the bad players and in what way they are bad and most of my notes on good players are all kept in a little book inside my head. All note taking is done when I'm playing, sometimes when I'm railing a friend deep in a tourney I will note take on the other players involved as if I'm not playing at the same time I can pick up some really good reads.

very well done :)  ;hattip;

and thanks for all your replies.

vwd. Ill probs have a bet on you at the time.

Which Football team do you support, and if so do you ever go?

Unfortunately Coventry. Its too far for home games really but I'm definetly going to try and get to some of the nearer away games next season. Hopefully we aren't in League1 by that time  ;grr;

Cheers for the replies and best of luck for the wsop.

Congrats on the WSOP seat ;applause;

Hey Chris

congrats on the recent 5k freezeout on stars, i watched basically the whole thing live and then on the replay to try and improve my game by watching sum of the best

i just wondered how u cope with bad beats and real bad spells where nothing goes right

do u sports bet or play casino games? (even tho theyre -EV) if so how much? ( i lost my wholl roll when i was 17 on poker heaven playing blackjack after grinding up from my originall 10 euro deposit to 120 euros playin 5/10cents)

i know on ur blog u say your chop of the stars second chance was a massive achievement as well as ft the mulligan and 750k gaurenteed at the same time, but how does the chop of the 5k freezout rank?

i know ur a busy guy but i would love 2 talk about hands with u to try and improve my internet game as i have just turned 18 and am looking 2 play poker seriously over the summer and try and build a sik roll b4 going 2 uni.

im not an arrogant kid who thinks hes god at pkr as i have soooooo much 2 learn but i would like to learn from a sik dog.

i watch u on stars most nights in especially in the 100r and 50r as well as super t and sunday majors, i was jus wondering who u think some of the underrated mmt players are  (johne147???)

anyways im going 2 get pissed in oxford so keep grinding and tearing up the mtt's!!!!!!

matt w 7d 5d

congrats on antoher 50r win m8

Why does John Gale own your soul?

looooooool

and have any live 'pros' such as Mr Gale had any words of inspiration during your rise to number 9 in the world?

Chris,

On forums such as P5s I've read that a lot of the top tournament players who would be classed as an 'internet' player think that most of the established live circuit players are 'horrible'. But after interviewing a couple of them who have had success in both fields, it's quite probable that there's a lack of respect on both sides (prob best exemplified by Hellmuth calling Zeejustin an internet donk at the 07' WSOP). So, in your small sample size of live play, when playing live what are:

A) the fundemental things that you believe most internet players do better playing live, than live players

B) the fundementals that live players do better than internet players who start playing live

C) Please list some of the emotions you go through on a standard sunday!

CONGRATS ON ANOTHER 50r WIN, TWICE IN 1 WEEK.... NOT BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MATT W 7d 5d

Hi Moorman,

I am after some strat advice. I could post it in Learning centre or somewhere, but youre better than most of those donks..................

Ok, online, i have abs no idea OOP.

Scenario is Im quite deep in a tournament, buy in ranging from $75 to $256 on Full Tilt (i can handle this spot ok vs $26 donks) and I have a decent stack at a decent blind level with antes and theres arond 15% of the field remaining (150 out of 1000 for ex.).

Im in the cut off or hijack, or spot just before the hijack and make it like 2.7 - 3.2 BBs. The Cut Off or Button flats it or any1 else who has position on me Flats It!!! They know im weak and read my soul basically.

I hate this, coz i cant seem to win the pot now. I find this spot so impossible.
I have no notes on the players as there are like 1000 entrants, I have no info on the table coz im like 6 tabling at least.

I have AK, AQ, AJ, KQ or anything and the flop always comes Ten or Nine or Eight etc etc. high.

1) If i bet out on the flop he flats it, then takes it down when i check the turn by betting.
2) If i check, he just bets me off it.
3) If i try to check raise, he just calls the check raise, then i have nower to go on the turn.
4) If i get it in by 3 betting or 4 betting the flop or pushing the turn or check pushing the turn he just calls with Top/second/sometimes even third pair.

I cant just check/fold this spot because it happens so so often.

What the fuck do i do pls C-Dog.

I can play this spot easily live, thru live donk reads and doing shit, but i find it v v hard online v decent players.

Out of the Pocket Fives top 100 who do you honestly rate as being the best players?

What do you think about my MTT game? Biggest leak/strength?

Have you ever employed a poker coach? If so, who, and how did it help/hurt your game?

Are you up lifetime in PLO?

If you have the time, go into your thoughts for leading into the pre-flop raiser.

How much do you balance ranges and play 'unexploitable' in MTTs or do you feel that is over-rated for tournies?

<3

Bikocruz

HI. do you use card runners or pockerxfactor to improve ur game ? do u spend time reviewing your game looking to improve ?

congrats on all the success. enjoy the blog 2

will post more reply's after this session (which at the moment is going disastrously lol)

Yeah it went real bad huh - only one win and one second, sigh!

ty for your support. Bad beats and bad spells really suck obv. I get a lot of people sending me bad beats on msn the same as I send a lot of them to other people looking for sympathy. I think you need to be able to laugh at them in a kind of sick way and not take things too seriously. Obviously it really sucks when some donkey gets lucky on you.... but what is more important is whether you played the hand optimally or not. Poker is a long term game and if you keep making the correct decisions and playing fundamentally well then you will get results. I dont buyin to all this ul and run bad shit (however, you can run better in the less important tourneys which obv sucks (coughs). There are a lot of good up and coming players out there, but I have to be biased and say that the top uk players that i speak to regularly such as the stevie's johne147 and doctor_fun are all capable of big things. In particular refecrence to Johne147 he plays a slightly different style to most of the successful internet players I talk to a lot but it seems to work for him and he is definetly a good person to discuss hands with.

thx and thanks for your chips! lol

because he pulled a sick bluff on me and I am just a calling station who will be broke within 12 months? (this was nearly 2 years ago fwiw)

Don't give up your dayjob, You will never make it and You've got a lot to learn are all things I was told over a 10 minute period at the wsop in 2006. I'm not gonna go on a rant about John Gale though...... I'll save that for when i knock him out of the WSOP :P

A) Internet players are really good at playing certain stack sizes and playing against certain stack sizes. Most also have a much more optimal short stack game than live players.

B) Greater patience and Better reads on live tells etc

C) Normallly it starts off with great hope, then I bust a few and go  back to a reality check...... Then I get a stack somewhere and get donked out and moan about it to a lot of people. Then it starts all over again for the later tourneys. Throw in inbetween all this multiple 100r's and a 200r which I'll prob run bad in the rebuy period in and be in for a bunch and you have a very fun day. Basically it normally ends in tears but its soooo addictive and just makes you come back for more even though you don't know why. There is always that hope that one day it might just be your turn........

Maybe this well is making me run good so that I don't look like a donkey that you wouldn't want to know the answers to the questions posed lol

Menlo is obviously the best, the results he picks up with the volume he plays is unreal. There are a lot of good solid TAG's who have been playing for years and don't have many leaks if any at all but I still feel they are exploitable. IMO the greatest players are the players who are capable of anything, can have any 2 cards etc. If you are ever railing then watch djk123 he is absolutely insane and one of the toughest players to play against. Charder30 is also very good and made back to back ept final tables earlier this year. But my favourite is probably RDCRSN (whom I talk to a fair bit on aim). His understanding of the game is great and he rarely makes a bad decision and balances his ranges so well.

I feel harsh for writing such a short reply to this long question. But seriously is there any other plays you can make in poker other than the ones you listed? maybe you just have a virus on your pc and everyone can see your wholecards? I don't know sorry :(

Hey mate I don't actually remember playing that many mtt's with you. I would say you are a solid player with good hand reading ability but maybe you could be a little more aggressive? (this might be well off the mark because I really don't know your game that well)

I think I am just about up still,  even though I've lost a few $3k pots lately. My game is ok.... nothing special but I think theres enough fish to be able to make decent money at it without being exceptional. My understanding of poker gets me through it and also the cardrunners videos I have watched. The variance in the game is sick though..... So I could really be a big loser in it I guess.

Leading into the pre flop raiser is a weird one because you have to know how your opponent reacts to it. A lot of people lead strong draws so if they get raised they can 3bet all in. They also balance this with leading sets. These types of hands are obv easy to play so leading seems like a decent idea if your opponent likes to check the flop back a lot to pot control. The problem with leading is that I feel you should also lead some marginal hands, difficulties arise though when you get raised or called when you do because different people react so differently to leads so unless you know your opponent really well its hard for you to know where your at with a marginal hand. I dunno if that makes sense but leading is very complex and not something that I do that often tbh.

You need to balance your ranges in tourneys where you play the same people daily such as the 100r. Also you need to play your stack size differently as well because if someone knows for example that you never raise fold with 15bbs and you end up getting AA you aren't going to get any action (not that im advocating raise folding with 15bbs!). In a regular $50 freezeout balancing ranges means fuck all. A lot of the times the best way to beat the donks is to play like a donk yourself. Flat calling a guy who raises with 15 bbs when you have AA he wont think that is suspicous and will probably just end up open shoving the flop and gifting you all his chips, whereas if you re raised him pre flop he might of found a fold button with his queen ten. In bigger tourneys you really need to try and take less obvious lines and make your value bets look bluffy etc.

thx I enjoy writing the blog (got a big update to do soon...) I'm a member of cardrunners pxfactor and pokersavvy aka cardplayerpro. They are all very useful and I still learn something in each video I watch. I think cardrunners is probably the highest standard of play. Just watching a cash game player such as Green Plastic or CTS play really teaches you a lot about the game of poker. I don't really review my game too much, I normally know when I'm playing well or not but I do ask people what they think of certain hands etc

Trust me it was going horribly.... turned around nicely though wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

hey chris

congrats on the sik deep run in the stars million, only 19 away from over 200k!!!!!

jus got a few moooor questions!

wat do u think of tom dwan?

wats the sickest beat u have ever put on somebody/ wats the worst u have had on u?

hav u just been signed to a sponsorship deal??? who is it???? ladbrokes, betfair, blonde??????? ( u said uve got 2 announce something on ur blog)

anyways i will keep railing u on stars and might actually get sum play done when i get round 2 depositin! (parents are being BITCHEZ coz of my A2s)

oh yea if u want to play the biggest fish EVER try poker heaven, the play is sik weak even at 3/6, 5/10 and they have 33% rakeback!!! $$$$$$$$$$$ lol

keep grinding!

MATT W 7d 5d

Hey Chris,

Before you climb out of the well i'd be grateful if you could answer a few of my questions:

1. Do you stereotype certain nationalities as being generally better players / play in a certain way? I find that i have a lot more success on sites where burger munching yanks aren't allowed to play.

2. In order of most profitable to least how would you rank SNG's, MTT's and cash games?

3. I appreciate that you stated earlier that you learned how to play from trial and error / advise from other players. As a bit of a bookworm (me that is not you) are there any poker books that you would recommend reading?

4. Danni Behr or Donna Air?  ;kev;

Cheers  :)up

Snook

Moor, by the tyme u read this u will have shipped the super tuesday!!!!

lets hope so lol :)

if u make the final table u r officially my lifetyme HERO!

gl mate

matt w 7d 5d

To your knowledge how many of the hi-stake mtt regs are staked by bax/sheets, timex etc

Are you staked/if not would you ever condsider it, what in your opinions are pros/cons.

Chris, how does your family react to you being a full time internet player?  Did they accept it and support you when you first started, or did they tell you 'to get a proper job'?

Do you share all your wins with them, and do you think they'll always have doubts that you'll blow the lot, 'gambling' as none poker players call it?

Tom Dwan aka Durr is a huge sicko.... unreal player from what I have seen.

Had top set versus lower set all in with one to come a couple of times in MTT's only to lose to quads (1 was yesterday actually). The worst in terms of importance was definetly AA v AKs for a HUGE chiplead in the original $2.5k ftops buying with 25 left and $430k for the winner :(

No sponsorship deal yet.... maybe something Is around the corner I don't know hopefully I can do something at the WSOP to help my causes.

1. If a Scandi 3 bets me or raises my BB I find it hard to find the fold button lol. There should be a 'ship any Scandi' button! Brazilians, Germans and French tend to be crazily spewy and pretty bad in general. A lot of yanks I play with are good but there are still tons of bad ones.

2. In general its Cash, Mtt's, Sng's. For me Cash could be more profitable if I played it regularly however, I prefer tournaments. If I were to play sng's I'd probably lose my whole roll knowing how bad I am at them lol

3. I read Supersystem and the Harrington books. They were good at the time and got me thinking. I wouldn't take anything you read in there as gospel though. You just want to read stuff about the game to get you thinking more in depth about it.

4. Danni Behr I think.... But your really not going to say NO to either of them.

I think around 25% of the top 100 players in the p5s rankings are staked by Bax and Sheets. Its pretty sick the empire they have got with that and pxfactor.

I see a lot more con's of staking tbh. Giving back 50% of your profits is a huge thing and although they cover your makeup... if your really THAT GOOD you shouldn't really be having losing months. If you have bankroll management leaks such as blackjack etc staking can be very helpfull.

I was very scared to tell them to begin with but when I did my dad was actually really alright about it. He's taken up the game himself and is probably even more enthusiastic about it than me. He practically thinks he's my manager. He plays on Blonde and Party as Moorman12 if you ever see him. He rails most of my final tables and even calls me sometimes after to say what did you have on that hand....  I knew you were bluffing etc. My mum has just about accepted it now.... She used to send me cutouts from the paper about other jobs I could go and get every week; at least she's stopped doing that now. She can see I'm doing well and although she doesn't know much about it all she is proud of me being successful I think. The rest of my family think my luck will run out soon lol

we all do mate ;)

the well will conclude on Thursday

Many many thanks to Chris for doing this..its been a great thread


so last minute questions in before Chris gets out of the well pls, ty.

No more questions, just a thank you, and who's next?!

who do you want?

(still thinking here)

I'm happy with absolutely anyone TBH, whether its a high-roller or a 0.10-0.25 player, people intrigue me, and im just plain nosey...

yes thx moorman, and im the same as chipprince anyones exsperiance is good. what about the biggish fish on blonde portsmouth- kev

Fantastic thread and a really good learning tool
how about next up chriswan ?

Smart Money

thats a good idea

There is a new well starting on Monday. Not Smart Money, but I do like that thought.

+1. Think he would be v good, full ring nitaments ftw.

Ariston

 rotflmfao

Sample extract from Smart Money's well.

Q. Anything to do with playing internet poker.

A. I don't know because I'm playing 16 tables.

 ;fishing;

 ;iagree;

Ohhh me too after last nights fun and games that would be an interesting well!!  :)

last nights fun and games??

An argument between Russ and myself (mostly) which was laid to rest last night.

anyway, returning to the well

Its now closed

New well on Monday.

Well...

link plz?

Too late all posts removed at the back of 3 this morning :)

Bandit never sleeps

Cliff notes plz?

Joe Strummer IMO

;iagree;

or Chriswan. gogogo.

Flushy!

plz plz not one of tk's creations!

? not sure what you mean

but the player concerned is extremely successful, popular and i think will make a good subject

you must be right then PokerRam :D

Is it Mark S?

I mean is this person a standalone successful poker player?

Throughly enjoyed the thread. Thanks Moorman.

Yup.

Fantastic thread, thanks Chris

Geo

is it chile

no, Peru

Honduras?

No, she went of her own accord.

rotflmfao

Enjoyed the well - didnt realise so many were staked.
I think the Omaholic is one of the most underatted players and my favourite of all is jcamby33 (Pokerpro).

Thanks for your thoughts and Tighty Quality idea...

Foxy

Gl !