Moorman makes $13m earning milestone
By taking the 888 Sunday Challenge, the UK's Chris Moorman's online tournament earnings surpass $13 Million.
This weekend saw Chris Moorman once again set the online MTT winnings pace after he took 888's Sunday Challenge for $18,809 taking his all-time online tournament cashes beyond $13 million.
Back in 2013, Moorman became the first player to breach $10 million in online tournament earnings and now, in beating a field of 777, the Brit has once again set the standard, taking him over $4 million clear of second place Canadian Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski, who amassed $9 million back in December.
Playing under the 888 screen name "WhatWudJSay", Moorman won Sunday's $90 buy-in which generated a prize pool of $102,504, surpassing its $100,000 guarantee and ensuring the top 99 placed players all made money.
Online poker legend
Hit $13 million in online cashes tonight after taking down the @888poker $100k guaranteed. Best get some sleep b4 the EPT in a few hours...
— Chris Moorman (@Moorman1) February 15, 2016
It's been a distinguished career both online and at the tables, where he took the 2014 WPT L.A. Poker Classic for another $1.015 million. The online tournament tracking website, PocketFives have crowned him world number one 22 times having won their Triple Crown on 25 occasions and topping the leader board in both 2008 and 2009.
In total, he has three six figure wins to his credit, the biggest of which remains his 2011 victory at Full Tilt when, under the screenname "MoormanI", he won the special $1K Monday event, worth $235,592. That figure helps compile his impressive overall total at Full Tilt which stands at $3.842 million. He has also collected $6.58 million at PokerStars but insists his next career marker is $14 million and a major event.
That, and hopefully a call up for Liv Boeree's GPL London Royals for which he has registered himself for next week's draft.
