moorman1 Wins 24th PocketFives Triple Crown

[Magic817]

Moormans a good generous lad that deserves everything he gets. Can't believe I wasn't asked to write the foreword tho

As far as I am aware the book hasn't been finalised...get your effort in now!

[tikay]

Cheers for doing this Chris

In terms of live poker, was the biggest initial target to get a bigger score than your dad?? ( That was a fun night in Manchester way back!)

Oh yes, what a wonderful thing that was!

[pleno1]

Do you have a list of contents about topics you cover in your book?


I'm really intrigued about your bubble play as you seem to play completely different to any winning reg I've seen. I think I made a thread on blonde where you called off on the pure bubble with 44 and then tonight you called off 55 with decent stack in the big 109 where I think no other reg would call/potentially open depending on who is behind. If you speak about this in the book is definitely buy it and be interested in reading more.

 http://www.boomplayer.com/de/poker-hands/Boom/10255171_297AA0505C

[GreekStein]

What do you think about Patrick Leonard ?

[The Wycher]

What poker book would you recommend (other than your own of course).

[Doobs]

Do you have a list of contents about topics you cover in your book?


I'm really intrigued about your bubble play as you seem to play completely different to any winning reg I've seen. I think I made a thread on blonde where you called off on the pure bubble with 44 and then tonight you called off 55 with decent stack in the big 109 where I think no other reg would call/potentially open depending on who is behind. If you speak about this in the book is definitely buy it and be interested in reading more.

 http://www.boomplayer.com/de/poker-hands/Boom/10255171_297AA0505C

But the 44 shove was good?  The 55 doesn't look obviously bad to me either.  Maybe marginally bad, but once you have put money in and have a pair in late position, the maths is going to be ok a lot of the time isn't it?  Some nationalities I am definitely more prone to call here.  Russian, yeah ok I'm calling.  Chris has got a lunatic image to protect too.

[pleno1]

i didnt call it bad at all, i just meant different to most people who will fold in these spots close to 100% of the time.

[Moorman1]

Do you play cash games or strictly MTT's only?

I started with cash games but now play strictly MTT's. The feeling of winning that you get from shipping an MTT is much more exciting to me and less of a grind than cash games imo. It also helps that tournaments are much softer!

[Moorman1]

Thanks for doing this ! I have a feeling the answer to my question might be different for each person but I'd like to pick your brain anyways. I've been grinding MTT's for 7 years now and have made money each year. I've never been able to make enough to soley do poker so I have a little business on the side selling crap on eBay lol. I balance the two together and scrape by but my dream is poker full time. I can honestly say I'm working 60 hours a week between the two trying to have some gtd income as well as keep chasing my dream. I watch training vids nightly, I've literally probably watched weeks worth of WSOP, EPT coverage. I try and find live streams with no hole cards, anything i can to learn. I guess my question is... how important is that 1st big score in propelling a player to the next level ? I've had a ton of 1K-9K scores but everytime i hit one i need to take out the money for bills because of my lack of other income. I have an 11th and 13th in tournies paying 60K+ to 1st and i feel like if either of those came through I'm in a totally different place in my life. I think some people think being a losing player is the worst but I'm convinced being a small winner takes the cake. It's torture

Building a bankroll through MTTs is very tough and not really something I would recommend if you are strapped for cash. Having to play through thousands of players at the low stakes to get a good score means a ton of variance and a lot of heartache along the way. I think it is better to play low stakes cash or SNGs until you have a more comfortable financial situation and then move back to MTTs where there will be much less pressure on you for instant success.

[Moorman1]

What do you consider you best moment in poker? Any particular poker aspirations left that drive you on?

I read previously about you tilt shoving, do you still do this? Do you consider yourself one of the best around at tilt shoving?

I think the LAPC win was undoubtedly my finest moment in poker so far. To finally win a huge live tournament after a number of near misses was incredible. As far as poker aspirations go I would love to win the live triple crown one day.

I read through my old well on here the other day and laughed hard at those tilt posts. It was all true but I've now learnt to have a lot more control whilst playing and no longer tilt shove or go nuts in the chatbox.

[Moorman1]

Do you actively target triple crowns or are they just a byproduct of your schedule?

Favourite place you have played poker?

On a typical grind I load up Stars, Full Tilt, Party Poker, Winamax, .FR and Ipoker. Playing 5 main sites I get plenty of opportunities to win on multiple sites. Once I have won two tourneys on different sites I obviously actively target the third by adding a few extra tourneys into my schedule on eligible sites. For example this week I am two thirds of the way to my 22nd triple crown with the first two legs locked up on Stars and Tilt. This has meant adding more euro site tourneys with smallish fields to my schedule which I normally wouldn't play. Unfortunately I'm still searching for that elusive 3rd win though, with Monday nights grind being my last opportunity to make it happen.

My favourite place to play live poker has to be the Crown Casino in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. I've not been the past couple of years but am excited to go back in 2015. It has a special place in my heart because the first big live final table I made was there.

[Moorman1]

How many HHS do you look over a week?

If you have a super tough hand and want to get instant feedback who do you send to on skype?

Have you ever been staked?

How good is your girlfriend? I heard she plays really well have you intensively coached her or?

I don't look over HHS as such but prefer to watch Runitonce videos and save boomplayer hands that I've played and ask people whose opinion I respect about potential lines and possible what ifs.

If I could only send a hand to one person it would be Chris Brammer.

I've never been staked but have obviously sold pieces before for certain tournaments.

My fiancee has been playing poker way before she met me. She used to live with AMAK and Roothlus and learned a lot from them (particularly AMAK who she spent a lot of time discussing hands with and who imo is one of the most underrated players in the game.) She is always watching me deep in tourneys and asking questions of why I make particular plays and is very keen to learn more. Poker is more of a hobby for her but has been a profitable one thus far.

[claypole]

Do you review every lobby and look at results like a human computer? Thing is last week I luckboxed the low profile "Turbo Thirty" and had Trigg on the e phone at 9am Monday looking for ways to help me spend $4k on random horses as I had binked - and I am like how so you know and the reply was Moor told me

[Magic817]

Triple crown no. 22 has now been won!

[TopReggg]

What do you you think about state of poker right now? I mean what do you think,are the games dying? How beatable are the high stakes Mtts these days?