By: Dan Cypra of PocketFives.com
Published on Aug 12th, 2014
Chris moorman1 Moorman (pictured) now has 22 PocketFives Triple Crowns, the most of anyone on our site by a mile, and just racked up his second award of August, a month that’s only a dozen days old. With 22, Moorman has more Triple Crowns than the second and third place players on the Triple Crown leaderboard combined.
Here’s a fun fact: Moorman accounts for 2.5% of the 892 Triple Crowns awarded in the history of PocketFives.
His latest award came by virtue of winning three $10,000 prize pool tournaments in a seven-day span, each boasting at least 100 players. On August 5, he won the $82 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Hyper-Turbo on PokerStars for $4,600. The same day, he took down an FTOPS event on Full Tilt Poker for another $6,200. Yes, no Triple Crown is complete without an FTOPS jersey.
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The final tournament tracked for Moorman’s latest claim to fame came on August 11 in thePokerStars.fr Monday Night on Stars for $9,200. He is up to 264 wins in online poker tournaments and has almost 650 top-three finishes.
Moorman said on Twitter after Triple Crown #22 was in hand, “Another week of poker, another Triple Crown. This time I did it on my very last tournament that was eligible, #22.” That Tweet was re-Tweeted 17 times and marked as a Favorite 42 times.
As we mentioned, this is Moorman’s second Triple Crown of August. His first Triple Crown bid ended two days before his second Triple Crown bid began with a thunderous win in the Winamax High Roller, a two-day event, for $20,000. That Triple Crown came on the heels of Moorman taking almost two months off to attend the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
All told this month, Moorman has 92 in the money finishes online for a total of $137,000, or an average of $1,500 apiece.