Back in February and March of this year, I wasn’t sure what my future in poker was going to be. I was coming off a frustrating period where I played about 3,000 SNGs without having very encouraging results. Then one night in March I “accidentally” won a $10 buy-in MTT and won like $450 bucks. I decided then that MTTs were the way to go and I knew I had to dedicate myself to them. That was also the point when I started this blog. Lol if you look back to my very first posts in March you will see confirmation of this story. I was so silly then Anyway, I knew that the first step was to find some players who were winning a lot. PearlJammed immediately caught my eye as being a guy who played a lot of tourneys with a lot of amazing results. I wanted to know exactly what he was doing right so I looked up his stats and saw that he was basically a junkie, playing 10 to 20 MTTs per day across multiple sites. It was then that I realized I had a long way to go before I would achieve success, but I had a very specific goal in mind: To become an awesome, profitable MTT player. Six months later I have more than achieved that goal… at least by everyone else’s standards.

My exact results for the last four months look like this:

Total Cashes: $48,425
Total Profit: $29,236
Total Tourneys: 323
Avg Buy In (ABI): $59

Obv these are very encouraging results and anyone who has read my blog on a semi-regular basis over the last few months prbly thinks that I have MORE than achieved my own expectations. Its true, I have. I have come UNBELIEVABLY far from where I was just two months ago, let alone six months ago. Most ppl in my life can’t believe the kind of money I’m making by playing poker online. But heres the problem: I’m the kind of person who is almost never satisfied until I get EXACTLY what I want. So, what DO I want exactly? I mean, if results like these aren’t good enough for me, what WILL be good enough? Ok, here it is. Back in March when I got obsessed with MTTs, PearlJammed was the main guy I was most impressed with. But now that I’ve come so far in poker, I’ve got a new source of inspiration:

Scott “SCTrojans08″ Freeman -
The Most Successful Online Tourney Player The Last Four Months

Total Cashes: $611,918
Total Profit: $304,755
Total Tourneys: 1902
Avg Buy In (ABI): $160

These are some unbelievable results. Some ppl think he is a God. Maybe he is. All I know is that he follows the same exact two-step formula to having consistently good MTT results as everyone else:

1) Play a shitload of them. Scott played over 1,000 MTTs in the month of August. Think about it, the players who always make FTs and wins tons of money are the ones who are playing at least 10 MTTs/day. Its all about the math/odds.
2) Play TAG early and LAG late. And if you’re willing to get maniacally aggro at the very end of the tourney, you’ve got a pretty damn good shot at winning 1st place. Most ppl, however, don’t have that level of fearlessness in them. Thats a good thing. Thats why there is only a small percentage of players out there who are really tearing it up.

In my mind, what makes Scott stand out more than any other online player is the sheer volume of tourneys he puts in. He mentioned in a cardplayer.com interview recently how he used to play an insane amount of tourneys every day but recently tapered off and only plays the big buy-in evening tourneys during the week and of course all the big weekend monsters. I checked his stats to confirm what he was saying and he isn’t lying. He played more than 1K tourneys in August! I did the math and that breaks down to playing about one tourney every forty-three minutes of the month, non-stop. Lol, it took me four months to play 323 tourneys! Between Stars and Tilt, he cashed for a total of $203,000 that month, with $87,000 of it being profit. There may not be a harder working player in online poker right now than Scott Freeman.

Anyway, when I see all the work he puts into poker and the subsequent results he gets out of it, I can’t help but feel motivated to achieve results like those. It will obv take me awhile to get there, but look what happened to me the last time I started with only a dream and turned it into reality.

Within the next couple weeks, I will be putting a BR on Stars and playing a minimum of eight MTTs per day between both sites. I am going to continue to stick with the medium buy-in tourneys ($26 to $100) until I at least get my feet wet or feel comfortable enough to add in the evening $163 tourney on each site. My schedule right now, however, consists of playing four tourneys on each site which ALL start between 5pm and 7:30pm my time. This allows me to get through all my tourneys within a seven hour period so I don’t get burned out and tilty like I used to when the tourneys were spread throughout the day. The total buy-ins for the eight tourneys are exactly $250 on each site, which is a total of $500 per day. All eight tourneys have 1st place prize money of at least 5K, most being well above that. I have crunched the numbers several times and this plan looks to be about the best as far as my BR and comfort-level goes.

I feel this post getting insanely long. It doesn’t really matter to me if ppl read these long posts of mine. I love to write and plan things out… its part of what makes me tick. This blog is as much for me as it is for my readers. Putting my thoughts into words is very important to me. Besides, I figure that the person who puts the most into something has the best chance of getting the most out of it. I think I’ve been proving that over the last six months and I think I’m going to continue proving it as things get better for me and I get ever closer to my goal of being one of the greatest online MTT players.

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