F.T.S.

Distilled to its essence, my advice for how to succeed at MTTs is a mere three letters: F.T.S. It stands for "Fold That Shit!". The vast majority of hands you're dealt will be shit, and you should fold them. Imagine if everyone knew that, and acted on that understanding! That would be a tragedy for the minority of poker players, including myself, who do act on it. Fortunately, the chance of a snowball surviving in hell exceeds the chance that a majority of poker players will act on that understanding. In a perverse way, you actually almost have to want not to win in order to be able to fold all the times that you should. Just as perversely, it's this avoidance of winning which will virtually guarantee you of making the money :-)

buy_in entry players hands entries places_paid place winnings

   900   100       6    67    1072         264   162     2170

delta: $1,170
MTT NLHE balance: $-12,480
balance: $7,436,564