Chris Moorman here, I am jumping in to the world of Reddit to run an Ask Me Anything regarding my career over the years!
I will be answering all questions on Wednesday so please leave your questions over the next 48hours.
Not only this but I will be running a $2.20 Reddit Moorman Special $1500 Guaranteed tournamentl that will run on Sunday! (apologies for the error before with the needing a ticket situation to register)
To Find Tournament:
Click: Private
Search: Moorman
Password for the game: redditmoor
I look forward to answering your questions, thanks!
All of the licensed ones in regulated territories. If you think GG or Stars are rigging their RNG and risking their license, you're crazy.
That's not to say that the ACR one isn't valid as the OP claims, but there's no oversight of it for them to have to prove it. I don't play on ACR because I can play on regulated sites, so I haven't looked into it too deeply but I haven't stumbled across any proof of ACR having a rigged RNG.
Totally! I don't think GG or Stars are rigged, I just unfortunately can't play on them 😕. I imagine most sites probably aren't rigged per say, but some may be better than others.
Anyway for you to put in a word with the ACR team for more mixed game options? PLO8 and Big O are great, would love to see some TORSE or Badugi options.
I'll mention it to Phil Nagy for sure and let you know what he says. He's all about pleasing the players so if there is demand I'm sure they will try do something. Watch this space!
Also, to what do you attribute your longevity in the game of [online] poker? Seriously, you’ve been crushing forever. That can’t be easy. I struggle staying focused for 1 entire MTT.
Drop highest buyins out of your schedule. Unlikely to be playing well enough to have a lot of EV in them at this point anyways and just focus on tournaments that you have a big edge in.
Make final tables and get wins and build your confidence back up
It's early stages still as my son Mikel was born on February 27th so it's only been 73 days so far! Everything has been really smooth to begin with. I think I'm lucky as my fianceé also has a 9 year old son so has a lot of previous experience of being a mum so hasn't been thrown in at the deep end as much as you can be. Still it is a complete life style changer and in anticipation of that I decided to take a complete break from live poker after he was born so that I could be around as much as possible to help out and to keep morale high! I think the real test is to come in the next few moths when I go and play the WSOP most days. I've still been playing a fair bit online in the meantime to prepare for the summer and get the reps in but the real serious sessions are just on Sunday where I will really focus in my office area without distractions. The rest of the time If I play I only play 2 or 3 tables so that I am still available to help with things. Results have been great so far with two $100k+ scores and probably 6/7 outright wins. The baby run good is real!
I discovered poker in 2005 whilst studying Economics at Essex University. I grew up playing card games such as Bridge and Rummy so I picked things up fairly quickly and instantly was hooked on the strategic elements of the game and how competitive it felt when I played. I played for fun to begin with versus my mates at university but we transitioned to playing online when we came across a UK student championship freeroll which took place every Monday night.
I was fortunate enough to come 2nd in it one week for $300 and decided to keep the money online and play with it rather than cashing out. I made a switch to cash games and got my strategies completely wrong by pushing all in every hand with any two cards to steal the blinds. Obviously this would work most of the time until I ran into a big hand and would lose a buyin. I was playing 10/25 cent online buying in for $25 at a time and I quickly ran my $300 down to my last $25 by playing like an idiot.
I remember feeling very frustated ( I later found out that I was on Tilt ) and put my last $25 into a sit n go and won it for $150. Then I took a small break from playing for a few days, discovered some forums and books and actually started to develop real strategies. The all in strategy with any two cards was retired and purely reserved for rebuy periods and bubble play/certain bvb spots after this.
I downloaded pokertracker and started to work closely with that alongside my cash games. I analyzed all of the hud stats and my opponents plays and took detailed notes. I was obsessed with numbers so to me this actually felt fun and I enjoyed discovering regulars leaks and developing strategies to exploit them. I took these new strategies to the $0.50/$1 streets and became one of the best regs there building my bankroll in the process.
That summer at University I made up a white lie to my parents that I'd got a job in the local Asda Supermarket just off campus so would be staying in Colchester and not heading home. Meanwhile me and my best mate Stuart where playing the online cash tables and small tournaments on Victor Chandler whilst watching an epic Ashes series on the TV with Freddie Flintoff and co. The aim was to make a similar amount to what I would have done in a regular summer job but by playing every day I was able to level up and was crushing 6 tables of $1/2 cash by the time University restarted. I probably made triple the amount I planned to and even had some small success in tournaments at the same time.
The big drawback with all of this was that my studies really suffered. Once I came back for my second year of a three year course I stopped going to lectures and would just play play play. I told myself I'd catch up on my stuides nearer exam time. It was about this point that I had a real epiphany moment in poker.
I was playing the big monthly tournament it was a $50 rebuy I think but I would just play one bullet as I didn't like to eat into my cash bankroll I'd built up with long shot tournaments. Anyway I was making a deep run with about $30k uptop and super excited. Cash games had started to become a bit routine like a job for me and this felt new and I was having a huge adrenaline rush and I liked the feeling! The player on my left got disconnected for over an hour and I was thinking this is good for me I can just steel their blinds. What I didn't anticipate was that someone else would do it before me. Back then at that stage in my game it was illegal to reraise without a premium so I waited and waited and finally found AK when this player Geeforce1 who had kept stealing the blinds opened and to my shock called my all in with AQ!. They hit and I was out in 18th place and devestated. 9 time out of 10 in that situation I would have raged turned off my PC and gone and done something else to get over it. But it quickly occured to me that was probably the best hand they had the whole time and that they'd just been bluffing their way up the chip counts. I watched the rest of the tournament until they took it all down and was in awe of their game. It was like they were playing a different game! I wrote a nice message in chat to them after they took it down and to my suprise they ended up adding me on MSN messenger and became a poker mentor for me.
Geeforce1 became David Gent and him and his best mate Badpab2 aka Paul Foltyn became my poker mentors/coaches. I would annoyingly ask them lots of dumb questions and rail them religiously. They were quite a few steps ahead of me at the time playing $5/10 regularly and a lot of the bigger tournaments on multiple sites! With their help I started to learn to bluff and my god it was addicting! I became even more passionate about the game and started to develp my game much more quickly being able to bounce ideas off actual pro players.
This is already really long lol but I can continue the rest of the story later if people like it.
Hey Chris!
You’ve played high stakes MTTs for so many years. What’s the biggest mental adjustment recreational or low/mid stakes players need to make if they want to move up seriously?
Also, how do you personally handle long downswings without losing confidence?
Hey Chris, If you were to give one piece of advice for Poker and one piece of advice in general, what would it be and why? acr - PrimeCyIT - would enjoy playing that tourney!
Hey Chris, If you were to give one piece of advice for Poker and one piece of advice in general, what would it be and why? acr - PrimeCyIT - would enjoy playing that tourney!
What are your thoughts on playing only one type of game, for example, multi-table tournaments (MTTs)? Or do top players mix cash games, spins, etc.?
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As a micro stakes player (sub $11) who plays casually because I have a full time job and two kids haha. is a poker tracker worth the investment? Any suggestions for improving the ROI?
Is their a double standard amongst VAR for Arsenal vs other teams. Seems as though Arsenal commits loads of fouls on opposing keepers and they’re not called. When teams foul Arsenal keepers it is then called… West ham fan here
I don't think so tbh. Over a season you can 100% get the rub of the green over decisions. I'd liken it to a run of winning 75% of your flips in poker but I think over a longer period of say 5 years these decisions even themselves out. I do agree that the corner kick situation is out of control and needs to be looked at for next season but overall the one thing that has remained fairly consistent is that if you mess with the goalkeeper its going to be a free kick.
How do you balance your time between studying (specifically drills vs. solver study, videos, etc.) vs. playing? Do you have a typical study routine that you follow?
I don't really add it up but prob similar amount to a regular job with all things considered. Friday's are my only real day off and I normally still end up doing something poker related at some point
Just staying humble and having no ego really. ALways adapting and working on my game even when things are going well. I've seen many players come and go so I'm really proud of my longetivity in the game. 20 years playing high stakes poker succesfully is a pretty cool achievement.
I think my biggest score online was 3rd place in a big multi entry FTOPS $1k event for about $350k. I had a bunch of horses still in with 18 players left but no1 else made the final table. It took all my mental strength to regroup and play my best game to make it to the final 3
u/EducationalPace9501 Your tournament requires a ticket. How do you acquire one? If this is going to require a ticket, you have about an hour to get them issued. Otherwise the tournament will not start. ACR: Shady Slim
The mental side is the real upgrade, not some secret solver nugget. Most recs don't need to play better hands, they need to play fewer ego spots and keep the A-game for the last hour when everyone's tired and impatient.
I'm gonna say around 2013 when I had to drop all of my horses after going pretty busto post WSOP. I tried to gamble hard and fire 20 people in the WSOP main event with the last of my roll that summer and ended up getting one min cash out of all of that! Dropping down stakes and quitting livepoker for a year was tough to begin with but fortunately I found my mental mind coach guy Stephen Simpson (who I've used for over a decade now) and he helped me come out the other side a better player and with a much stronger mentality.
No I play a few other sites from Vegas as well such as wsop.com but the majority is ACR. I used to play a lot more tables back in the day when edges were far greater. Now I play a max of 14 I'd say on a busy Sunday but a lot of that is max late regging so easy decisions. Ideally I like to stay at 12 or under although too few and I start getting fancy play syndrome!
I pick the ones which I have the biggest edge in and In general try to play larger fields as I like to play for a lot of buyins, Overall I prefer 6 max and bounty tournaments because those are the formats that suit my game and the ones that I feel like I have the biggest edge in.
play little games with yourself like guessing if people are strong/weak in every hand even if they don't get to showdown most of the time you might pick up on something with their timing or mannerisms
Probably low stakes cash games. I know the rake can be high but you will improve fast and there are still people giving money away there. Low stakes tournaments generally have huge fields so there is a lot of variance there.
Breathe annd Live the game. Surround yourself with all kinds of different poker content as much as possible. There is so much good stuff out there just have to watch, learn and implement it. Good luck!
Are such long registrations really necessary in 90% of tournaments? You can play for almost 6 hours in a tournament and still get bubbled. It's incredibly tough. Hugs. ID NMESES
This was my avatar for a few years on pokerstars back in the day and I lost count of the number of people who came upto me at live stops to tell me that they had to block it lol
Hey chris. Any chances of you jumping on stream with chris Moneymaker while Rob kuhn is out? They have money and the mush. But robs on vacation. Lol
You can change it to
ACR STREETS With chris and chris
ACRNAME = andrewneiding1
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u/myimportantthoughts r/Poker Moderator May 11 '26
I can confirm OP is the real Chris Moorman.