Moorman is an incredibly consistent player who won the 2009 Yearly PLB. Moorman has four cashes in the online realm for over $100k. Moorman is now starting to play more live events having final tabled an Aussie Millions main event. He recently scored his biggest live cash on June 15th in Event #15 $2,500 NLHE Six Handed event of the 2011 WSOP where he took third for $271,800 in the 1,378 player field. He has four cashes so far in the 2011 WSOP and over $600k in live winnings on top of his online winnings. Chris Moorman was born in 1986 in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom and lives around Essex currently.
Things you might not know:
- Moorman went to Essex University to study Economics but his interest waned as he got further into poker.
- Moorman was in a pool team at university and on a trip home one of the guys suggested we all played in a weekly student freeroll online. He took 2nd place and won $70 in one of the freerolls and that was the catalyst to start playing online.
- Moorman captained his University team to the national championships of pool.
- Moorman has been playing since 2005 and turned pro in 2006.
- Moorman paid off his student loans with money he won while stumbled to a third-class degree.
- Moorman received early poker assistance from several players including paolo69, leadboots, and sexygee/geeforce1.
- Moorman has never been backed.
- Moorman has always been able to play many tables at once, averaging eight, but maintaining focus hour after hour and day after day.
- Moorman started out as a mid-stakes cash game grinder before making the successful switch to tournaments.
- Moorman win a Full Tilt Sunday Brawl in March 2009 for $109k.
- Moorman final tabled the April 2009 SCOOP High Stakes Main Event for $113k.
- Moorman won $204k in August 2009 for Event #17 of the FTOPS XIII.
- Moorman won $235k for finishing third in the March 2011 Full Tilt $2 Million $1k buy-in tournament.
- Moorman's favorite destinations that he's traveled to include Amsterdam, Australia and Prague.
- Moorman used some of his winnings to stake 6 players in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, with one of his stakes 21-year old Tyler Reiman winning $1.75 million (of which Chris got half). The score was more than he had made year the previous three years combined. Chris caught the bug and now backs more players on a regular basis.
- Moorman staked his father to play the GUKPT Manchester, Simon plays as an amateur, which he won for over $100k which was bigger than any live score Chris had until June of 2011.
- Moorman is a passionate football fan, growing up rooting for Coventry but pulling for Arsenal as an adult.
- Moorman's favorite beer is Stella.
When asked why he made the switch to playing tournaments, he said "I made the switch because I was playing $5/$10 and $10/$20 no-limit hold’em and even if I had a good day and played well I could still lose a lot of money because the standard was so good… I knew that if I wanted to play high-stakes cash I was going to have to go up and up the stakes and the swings would be crazy and I didn’t think I could handle it mentally so I decided to switch to tournaments.
I like the fact that with tournaments, relatively in terms of your whole bankroll, if you have a bad day or a bad week, it’s not the end of the world.”
I like the fact that with tournaments, relatively in terms of your whole bankroll, if you have a bad day or a bad week, it’s not the end of the world.”
When asked what separates himself from other LAGGY players, he said "The main thing is experience. Also I feel like I'm pretty good at getting inside other peoples heads and knowing what their breaking point is. As I said before I'm pretty sure sure you'd be better off learning from someone else. I'd recommend railing some more solid taggy regulars who win big such as tmay :)"
When asked on some wisdom for newer players, he said "Don’t try to move up too fast. Obviously, there are going to be other people, like some of your friends, playing higher games and they’re going to have bigger wins and you’ll be jealous, but you need to move up gradually. When you’re a big winner at the level you’re at, you can move up.”
Three Moorman videos featuring a two part interview and one during a WSOP break:
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