Grinding Out Some Moor

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Chris Moorman's online record is second to none, so far he hasn't been able to hit the live game with the same success. Two years ago in an agonising pot on the bubble of the WSOPE main event, he found kings against Johnny Lodden's aces to lose a huge pot.

However, here he just won a big pot against WSOP main event finalist Michael Mizrachi. Moorman raised to 1,100 on the button and Mizrachi quickly defended from the big blind.

The flop came {5-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {8-Hearts} and Mizrachi check-called a 1,525 bet from his younger opponent. The {7-Spades} came on the turn and again Mizrachi check-called, this time to the tune of 3,200 to see a {9-Spades} river putting the straight on board but also completing a backdoor flush.

Now Mizrachi fired out a chunky 12,000, just over the size of the pot and an amount that was just a little less than the size of Moorman's stack. The British player, who had just won Online Player of the Year, the night before at the British Poker Awards took a couple of minutes before making the call.

"I play the board," said Mizrachi and Moorman turned over {K-Hearts} {10-Spades} for a highly unlikely but winning straight. Moorman is up to 35,000 while Mizrachi drops to 17,500.