to date i have been a predominantly cash game player on ftp, but recently got onto stars to play with some poker friends from another online poker community - riu.

havent had much success on the site with the exception of my recent success satting my way into the aussie millions main event- my goals are all surrounding preparation for the event in january 2015 as im a terrible mtt player

my goals are:

- play at least 100 mtt's per week
- read a poker book a week
- review hand histories at the end of every session
- study the tournament structure and create a game plan
- get good enough results in mtt's to sell some of my action
- become active on 2p2 mtt forum discussions
- MOST IMPORTANTLY be that guy- the guy that turned fpp's into a 1.6 million dollar score so i can drop the ****ty degree i hate and do something i will actually enjoy for the foreseeable future.

Good luck my only problem with ur goals is the reading a poker book a week. It may sound good to study that much but different books have different concepts and trying to apply them all in such a short time won't work out well. What U should do is read a book apply the concepts and then review ur HH and even retread parts of the book that u might be lacking.

sounds like sensible advice - taken under advisement.

Yeah +1 to the one book advice, don't get too many different game plans at once. Though if you find a book that deals with modern MTT strategy well, let me know.

the ones i have line up to read are the harrington series, tournament tactics by roy rounder, small ball by dneg, super systerm by brunson,texas holdem poker tournament strategy volume 1, poker brain -beat the poker pro, play poker like the pros by hellmuth, i have a folder of books by nguyen and cole south, holdem for advanced players by sklansky, caro's book of tells, body language and how to read it by allan pease bluffing beyond poker by johannes horner.

ill keep the thread updated on how helpful and in what aspects of my game the books are

^ Can def drop a few of those books

which ones?

most of them imo, very old school stuff

could probably learn 10x more useful things online

GLGL with aussie millions, hoping to be there myself, though prob not in the 10k event lol

tbh I don't play mtt and don't know half of these books. But def drop super system and phil hellmuths book imo.

Cliffs on hellmuths book
- Poker players can be described as different animals
- only play top 10 hands
- most of it is about limit hold em iirc
- book sucks


Edit: oh and GL ofc

thanks guys,
debacle - you should try to sat in, the $22 tournament had literally 70% of the field sitting out because they all got in with fpp sats then about 50% of the 200+r was players from the 22 dollar sat.
do either of you have any idea which site would have the best material on mtt's? i used to be on bluefire poker but didnt renew my membership there.

Haha, sick! That would be a real cheap way in.

As far as good sites for MTT content goes, I can't give an official recommendation as I have not checked the site out too much, but I have heard good things about Tournament Poker Edge.

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/

You might have better luck browsing through the MTT subforums on 2+2 to see what training sites others have used, and of course you can always pony up the cash for coaching