In January, Bryan bparisParis (pictured) took home his very first Monthly PLBtitle. He amassed 3,824 PLB Points in the process, the most since Tyson POTTERMarks accumulated well over 5,000 back in September. Paris helped his cause by final tabling the Full Tilt Poker $100 Rebuytwice during the month for $85,000 total. In addition, he chopped the UB.com Sniper $80,000 Guaranteeat the tail end of January and even booked a Triple Crown. PocketFives.com caught up with Paris to recap his splendid month online.

Paris was camped out at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas when he won his Triple Crown. With the sixth UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) and Double Guarantees Week on Full Tilt Poker both transpiring during the month, Paris was able to put in a ton of volume.

Paris has a slew of highlights to choose from as his favorite for the month. He explained, however, that January 26th stole the show: “I was making new highlights on such a regular basis last month, but I’d have to go with the 26th, when I chopped the $200 Sniper on UB.com heads-up for the second week in a row and then went on to get fourth in the huge $100 Rebuy Six-Max a couple of hours later.”

Paris racked up $331,000 in tournaments tracked for the PocketFives.com Rankings last month in 133 qualifying cashes. As such, he’s had plenty of chances to perfect his heads-up game. Paris revealed, “I’ve battled other regulars for so many hands that we know each other’s tendencies pretty well, so I can largely go off that to start. Then, you both sort of fall into a pattern heads-up and I’ll try to adjust and really attack whatever weaknesses they’re showing.” His 133 cashes included four wins.

Double Guarantees Week on Full Tilt featured all guaranteed tournaments taking on a multi-entry format. Paris was active early and often during the promotional period and rehashed, “I definitely took full advantage of it. I played a ton that week. I felt like my strategy was to focus on the highest value tournaments. I played a ton of $100 Rebuys and mid-stakes games and tried to keep my table load relatively low so I could focus on exploiting the other regulars who were playing more tables than they were comfortable with.”

On opponents ramping up their table loads while Paris preferred to keep his small, the newest Monthly PLB winner told us, “I saw everyone on Facebook the week before talking about how they were going to try and cram 25 tables in, so I felt like the value was there in not getting above my normal load of 12 to 15 and trying to take advantage of auto-piloting players.”

In high school, Paris began playing in home games and finally got around to watching “Rounders” in 2003. Paris relayed, “I’d credit ‘Rounders’ more than Chris Moneymaker, but that epic 2003 World Series was definitely in my mind as well. I also started out playing nerdier games like Magic and StarCraft, so it was a kind of a natural transition for me to move to another online game that I could actually make money at.”

Given the influence of “Rounders,” we asked Paris about the forthcoming “Rounders 2,” which Miramax confirmed back in December. “I hope ‘Rounders 2’ has a wide enough appeal to draw in a newer generation,” Paris hoped. “Obviously, it’d be great for the game if it had the same effect as the original one, but I think it’d mostly just be fun for us older guys who grew up on the original one to see it re-done. I felt like ‘Rounders’ was a somewhat more realistic portrayal of how poker works than some of the other poker-based movies they’ve tried to make.”

In June 2009, Paris won the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl after defeating Shaun shaundeebDeeb (pictured) heads-up to bank $83,000. He also final tabled that tournament back in May 2010 for $60,000. He wanted to credit J.D. jpdc27Wheeler, Bryan IknewwwitLeskowitz, and NeverScaredB, whom he contended “has one of the higher level poker minds in the game. I think he deserves a share of the credit for my recent run of success. He’s helped me analyze a lot of the uglier spots in the game at a higher level.”

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