A few weeks ago, we told you that several players were fast approaching $10 million in online winnings; none more so than Bryan ‘bparis’ Paris, who led the pack in the race to join Chris ‘moorman1’ Moorman in that elusive club.

After finishing second in a PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker event for $52K on January 22, Paris was only $50K away from reaching the goal.

Just two weeks later, he did it.

“It feels great,” Paris said. “It’s a fantastic feeling to be only one of two people who has accomplished something like this.”

To get to this point, the grinder, Twitch streamer, father, husband, and poker coach believes it came down to a combination of “consistency and longevity”.

“I was never the absolute best at any given time,” he said. “But I’ve maintained a spot close to the top throughout nearly a decade of sweeping changes to the online MTT landscape.

“I liken it to the all-time hits record in baseball; you don’t necessarily need the best batting average, but you have to show up to play consistently and put in a solid performance over a prolonged period.”

Paris, whose biggest career cashes come from a fourth place finish in a 2013 World Championship of Online Poker $1K event for $111K and a Super Tuesday win in 2014 for $108K, realized he was creeping up on $10 million earlier this year, when he started his popular Twitch stream.

“I was looking for things to put in my bio and saw that I was very close to overtaking second place in all-time cashes (p0cket00 at the time), which I managed to do in the first month of streaming. He re-took the lead after a Sunday Grand win during WCOOP, but I took it back in October and have maintained the #2 spot since.”

The aforementioned TCOOP score was a big launchpad in Paris’ run-up to eight figures.

“I got incredibly lucky down the stretch, as is required to win a big field hyper turbo. The biggest hand was beating AA with AK-off all-in pre. We only had about six big blinds each but that kick-started my hot run and a few minutes later I was making a deal three-handed. That was definitely some of the best luck I’ve had in a tournament, but if you play the Supersonic every week for years and years, you’ll hit that streak at the right time eventually.”

Another good streak has come since that tournament. Notching up $50K in a couple of weeks in no small feat; was it just business as usual or did he amp up the grind?

“It was a little of both,” Paris says. “I have put in a lot more volume the past three weeks or so, but part of that was due to the combination of TCOOP, Super XL, and Powerfest going on. I definitely played a few extra high stakes buy-ins on top of what I normally would to hit the mark faster, but nothing too extreme.”

Having moved from Canada to Amsterdam in 2013 with his wife, Paris spent two or three years traveling to European Poker Tour events and other big poker stops. But after the birth of his first son, Alexander, in July 2016, he decided to focus more on his online game – something he’s always looking to improve.

“The renewed focus online has helped me become a stronger player,” he said. “I do frequent hand reviews with a couple of coaches, a high-stakes cash player and a high-stakes sit-and-go player. Getting these perspectives from outside the MTT realm has helped me round out my game quite a bit.”

Paris believes that studying consistently is essential these days, particularly as there’s some tough competition out there.

“The Swedes are killing it – Lena900, C Darwin2, Eisenhower1 etc. They’re very consistent and tough to play against. Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard is also very good when he plays, but he’s been focusing more on live and his stable management lately, thankfully.”

Although his strategy lately has been to try and avoid those guys (by focusing “more on the mid-stakes weekday grind on non-Stars sites”), it’s impossible to avoid them entirely. But when you’ve got $10 million in earnings to your name, a little competition clearly doesn’t hurt.

“I’ll definitely keep playing online MTTs until someone tells me I can’t anymore,” Paris said.