- [Chris] Once I made the
switch to tournaments,
I just became kind of obsessed with them.
I was playing every
day, seven days a week,
almost canceling plans.
It was a dangerous
obsession, looking back,
but I was in my young 20s,
and just wanted to become
the best I could be,
and I finally got number
one ranking on PocketFives
which was always a dream for me in 2008.
But from there I just was like,
"I got to create a legacy."
We got this $55, $30K guaranteed
DeepStack Blizzard event.
Amazing value tournament.
Definitely there'll be a lot of
inexperienced players in this tournament
who've never really played
200 big blinds deep.
I don't play 200 big
blinds deep very often,
to be honest, so I might be one of them.
So far no one's really seen my cards,
so I've been in quite a few hands.
You could see, I've played 36% hands.
It's the third highest at the table.
So I'm just gonna hope this guy
got a good hand, to be honest.
He could just call from the
big blind with a lot of hands,
so when he raises, it's
actually pretty strong.
So I'm just hoping that
he's got a big hand.
I've almost flopped too good there.
Flopping the ace kinda sucks,
but obviously, I have the best hand.
I have the nuts,
But it's very unlikely he has an ace.
It's obviously a very scary card for him.
He could put me on a hand like ace-king.
We've only got one and a
half times the pot as well.
Nothing really to protect.
I've got the ace of hearts,
so I'm just gonna check back
and hope maybe he puts me on a hand
like queens, and tries to bluff.
And obviously, he's betting 1/16 pot,
which is not really the kind
of bluff we were hoping for.
We're just gonna call with the nuts,
hope that he puts in a
real bluff on the river.
He did put in a real bluff,
and obviously no option
other than to go all-in now.
No point.
Really.
Oh, there we go.
Perfect.
- Chris Moorman has been
ranked number one a record
13 times during his career,
for a total of 24 weeks.
He's won 29 PocketFives Triple Crowns,
eight more than any other player.
In 2013, he became the
first player to break the
$10 million earnings mark,
and in 2018 he became
the first, and yet, only
player to hit $15 million.
He currently sits alone
atop the all-time earnings
leaderboard with $15.8
million in lifetime earnings.
In 2017, he won his first
World Series of Poker bracelet
and he has $5.7 million
in lifetime earnings.
It is my honor and pleasure
to award Chris Moorman
with the PocketFives legacy award.
(audience applause)
(music)
- Yeah, I got to Vancouver
on Saturday night.
I actually was really tired.
I got a 7am flight after
the Global Poker Awards,
so I came down here, got a
nap, actually woke up and
one tabled a turbo and won
that, so I started off strong.
Started making a run in
the 888 Tune Up Event
which was a $160 buy-in, $100k guarantee.
Ana Marquez was also at the final table,
and I actually ended up putting
a pretty bad beat on her.
Sorry, Ana.
It was $160, and I ended
up winning it for $21,000.
There's not many tournaments
you can do that in.
There was a time when I first started
back in the day in poker,
the $160 buy-in would
be a huge event for me,
biggest of the night.
I think now playing all the
bigger stuff is kinda crazy.
With regards to turning pro
or doing this as a living,
I think it was in the second
year of my university.
I'd been playing quite a
lot, going to less lectures,
and that summer, I was
going to go home and
do a summer job, and I'd
done that the previous year,
and it's been some really terrible,
mundane, minimum-wage job, and I hated it.
And I worked out that I could
actually earn a similar amount
basically playing poker,
but I knew my parents
would never go for it.
So I ended up telling them
that I had a job already,
but really, me and my
friend, we just played poker.
I exceeded my targets by 4x.
I was loving it,
and I just sort of went
full gung-ho into poker,
and realized that I had
to make this work really,
'cause I didn't have
anything to fall back on.
(music)
In poker, I still feel like
I have a lot to achieve.
I really wanna get a live Triple Crown,
I need to win an EPT.
I wanna win more bracelets,
not just have one,
play in more events,
give myself more shots.
Yeah, the World Series
of Poker is definitely
something I'm really targeting this year.
- [Interviewer] So you're not retiring?
- No.
Not anytime soon.
