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Poker Blogs by Adanthar in the General category

Below are all the poker blog posts written by Adanthar in the category of "General".

An introduction Posted April 2nd, 2007
Hello, everyone. I am a new writer here at Tworags and would like to introduce myself. My online nickname is Adanthar; I am a high stakes online tourn (more)
Unorthodox lines, Part I Posted April 5th, 2007
In my first blog entry, I wrote about the common 'decent player' fallacy of playing hands 'the way you are supposed to' rather than thinking about the (more)
Satellites: WSOP game selection Posted April 27th, 2007
In addition to sat strategy like the last post, over the years, I've made a couple of big satellite threads on 2+2. At one point, I promised I would u (more)
First impressions for this week Posted June 10th, 2007
Unfortunately, I'm continuing to run very bad (0 for 3 big 70/30's in just one Sunday tournament is impressive, honestly, as is running Ax into AA 4 t (more)
The good thing about being a poker player is the ability to set your own hours. A lot of people in and around poker have written a lot of things about (more)
Just moved Posted June 23rd, 2007
Nothing going on the last two days (other than me lasting exactly two hours before losing a big coinflip in the last 1500) since I needed to move into (more)
I'm still running bad Posted June 25th, 2007
...but my roommate, Matt, just won the 1K Sunday Million for 315K while playing and running very well. Ship 3K for getting him the chiplead while he w (more)
To set the record straight Posted July 5th, 2007
This is my first blog in quite a long time and the first that I'm taking seriously that has a real audience; sometimes, I forget that more than 2 peop (more)
Off to Turning Stone Posted August 11th, 2007
I'll be back to posting daily (or close enough to daily) for a while starting the day after tomorrow, as I'm taking a ten day trip to [url=http://www. (more)
Omaha is easy Posted August 16th, 2007
I'll be honest - I tried to figure out how to recap that tournament from a couple of days ago and couldn't really do it, because it winds up being one (more)
Sunday Posted August 19th, 2007
Wound up going back home last night and playing a full schedule tonight, where I proceeded to lose something like $60 on the day. Given the $1500 or s (more)
On a short break Posted August 25th, 2007
So, right after mentioning I was gonna go back to cash, I basically didn't play for a week except for a random night of razz somewhere in there. Part (more)
Not much going on right now Posted September 4th, 2007
Mostly, I'm waiting on the Cardrunners microphone to get here so I can play around with making some videos. I tried to do some stuff with the regular (more)
Absolutely ridiculous Posted September 18th, 2007
The Absolute tally thus far: three days, five clearly cheating accounts, upwards of half a million dollars, zero acknowledgment from senior Absolute m (more)
Still Absolutely rigged Posted September 21st, 2007
In what seems to be the final word - because they're definitely not doing anything else so far, and it's been over a week - Absolute is on the record (more)
Greetings from Korea Posted September 25th, 2007
After about 18 hours of travel time, I'm writing this from my hotel room in Seoul, where I'll be playing the APPT event in a couple of days. Initial i (more)
In the last week Posted October 13th, 2007
...I've played about an hour of poker, a 15/30 razz session that ended with me up $2. Jet lag can be brutal, and it seems like west -> east is a lot w (more)
When we last left off, we were talking about User #363: --- ..."[S]tarting 2 minutes into the tournament, Potripper's table was being observed for (more)
The latest 48 hour recap of the AP dramabomb: -Once upon a time, before the scandal ever broke, CrazyMarco (second to Potripper in the cheater's 1K (more)
[b]Latest breaking news:[/b] At this point, every AP insider is swarming over Nat Arem's (www.natarem.com) and my own instant messenger looking to (more)
Major and minor updates this morning in our developing story: -AP has announced a full internal audit by the Kawanakhe Gaming Council, their licens (more)
I spent a large chunk of today giving interviews to some surprising places after the Associated Press (the good AP, not the bad AP) picked up the stor (more)
We win Posted October 18th, 2007
--- At any rate, Nat tells me AP's ready to cave. --- 15 minutes later: PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirmin (more)
Aftermath Posted October 19th, 2007
First and foremost - major thanks to Nat Arem (who'll never get all the credit he should get for this - for those of you who haven't gotten the skinny (more)
Some thoughts in the interim Posted October 24th, 2007
Obviously, over the last week, the AP mess has more or less continued to spiral around the 'net. It's going to keep doing that for a while, while the (more)
AP: the last word Posted October 31st, 2007
At this stage, it appears as if the investigation from my own standpoint is largely over. AP has cleaned up as much as they could - I can't test them (more)
Before I play today Posted November 18th, 2007
I'm gonna set a little goal for myself. Namely, I'm gonna re-read part 10 of Bond's post and stop griping about variance :) Check out the whole ser (more)
Tournaments *are* silly Posted November 23rd, 2007
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving :) After Sunday, I took another break this week for obvious holiday-related reasons - well, that, and too ma (more)
Back home and unjetlagged Posted December 19th, 2007
Feeling way better about poker in general (although, of course, the guy from my last post wound up finishing fourth obv.) I even put in a Sunday where (more)
Back after these messages Posted December 29th, 2007
Other than that one Sunday and a couple of tourneys today/tomorrow, I'm taking a break until the New Year. Nothing particularly important - I just wan (more)
Wait, *what*? Posted December 31st, 2007
Sunday was a relatively pointless 0 for 4, some tough breaks blah blah blah, whatever. That isn't really the point of this post. Since it's Dec 31 (more)
I've noticed something about the scene. Since UIGEA, it's a lot easier to find a nosebleed game - every site out there now has at least 50/100 NL and (more)
[url=http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adanthar&search=Search]Link to Adanthar MTT CardRunner vids on YouTube[/url] Check it out - it's (more)
Feeling like death Posted January 13th, 2008
Pretty much out of it since Friday. This is gonna be the first Sunday I've voluntarily missed in at least a year. Dumb flu :( Totally wrecks my sch (more)
Yay, new site design Posted January 18th, 2008
Very nice IMO :) My poker vacation's stretched to an unprecedented 2 weeks (granted some of that was involuntary and Wednesday was the first day I (more)
AC/weekend Posted January 18th, 2008
Quick update: -Played one big AC tourney, a 1K sat (too busy the next day to play the other one.) Won 0 hands in 3 hours. Highlight (also the only (more)
Bad news: 0 for Sunday Posted February 12th, 2008
In fact, I don't think I broke the 2 hour mark anywhere. Good news: I made the NY Times! [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/13leon (more)
The last week or so Posted February 17th, 2008
Sort of a good news/bad news type thing. Good news: I got a NY Times interview (see last entry) that apparently got reprinted in a few places that fri (more)
In the last few days, I've returned to playing more or less full time (and running terrible - I think I'm ~25% with overpairs since Sunday - but that' (more)
60 Minutes Posted March 11th, 2008
I wasn't going to post about [url=http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/10/60-minutes-considering-absolute-poker-story/]this[/url] until after the taping and (more)
Running bad, playing better Posted March 17th, 2008
I've finally returned to playing a full (for me - bond and shaundeeb leave me in the dust four times over) schedule; it feels good, even if I don't ha (more)
Yay, April Posted April 1st, 2008
The good thing about April from my POV is that it's not March. I think last month was my worst month ever tournament-wise, largely due to being down s (more)
In no particular order, but maybe I'll make a top 10 list out of this someday! 1)"AK is a drawing hand". I've never met anyone that took this phras (more)
Yay...tax season Posted April 9th, 2008
Stuff that everyone reading this should do if they haven't already: -Get an extension. Anybody know a gambling CPA in the NYC area? :( In case t (more)
No details other than what I'm reading on 2+2, but I thought I'd pass it on. It looks like they're still processing withdrawals if you have money actu (more)
Played only two tourneys today. #1 was a weird, tiny Cake gold card freeroll rebuy where, on the first hand post-rebuy period, I got AA in vs. KT for (more)
Intrade Posted May 7th, 2008
Now that the primaries are essentially over, I think I can safely post my Intrade experience. I just made a long post on 2+2 that I'll copy here. [ (more)
Skipped a few days Posted May 13th, 2008
Rather than slog through FTOPS, most of which wasn't stuff I really wanted to play anyway, I just caught up with some friends on Monday and otherwise (more)
In Vegas Posted May 31st, 2008
After an uneventful trip, I got to Vegas the night before last and have been chilling with SirWatts and grafyx ever since. Aside from fixing a bad rou (more)
Backsto Posted June 11th, 2008
Another short update...and I mean that pretty much literally. As I was getting out of a chair to go sign up for an event this morning, my back decided (more)
The Scotty Nguyen story Posted June 25th, 2008
Taking a couple of days off between NL events (I think my next one will be the 5K 6 max on Thursday.) In the meantime, here's the Scotty story I promi (more)
Last couple of days Posted June 29th, 2008
Not much to report. I very uneventfully busted from the 2K (there was some hilarious stuff at the table, but not much of it involved me), then felt a (more)
Networking > poker Posted July 2nd, 2008
My final 2 prelims turned out to be a standard 0 for 2 - I won 1 hand in one of them and 0 for'd the other. (When you 3 bet ~5 times in limit and wind (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/adanthar voice 1.mp3]Break 1 Update[/url] [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/adanthar voice 1 2.mp3]Busted[/url] (more)
On the 2+2 pokercast in two hours Posted July 15th, 2008
I'll be on the Pokercast discussing the UB scandal (special guest: Freddy Deeb) at 12:30 AM EST - check it out. (more)
For the last week, I've definitely been feeling the after-effects of the WSOP - namely, a lethargy and inability to play anything poker-related, espec (more)
OMG poker content! Posted July 28th, 2008
As promised to myself earlier, I'm temporarily done with MTT's except on Sundays (for the record, yesterday was pretty ugly, but mostly unavoidable - (more)
Sundays < PLO Posted August 4th, 2008
As is getting par for the course for me these days, the only tournaments I played all week were the Sundays just now. Results: four total bricks, one (more)
Back from Fresno Posted August 13th, 2008
The second half of my stay in Fresno turned out to be a lot of fun. It was divided into three parts - the main event (lasted an hour; got two pair in (more)
Woo, 60 Minutes Posted August 14th, 2008
The interview was a long time coming, but it did finally happen today. I'm proud to say I think it went well. ETA: sometime this fall. Fun fact: i (more)
Right after I got back home from the 60M thing, I got a strange email in my inbox from CNBC asking me to contact them. Turns out they read the NY Time (more)
...waiting for a particular text message is getting old. Since being on the scene for this is probably worth several grand, it's more than worth it (more)
CNBC vid Posted August 25th, 2008
[url=http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=831859206&play=1]The CNBC interview aired today.[/url] Since 60M hasn't aired yet, this is my first major T (more)
Every year should be an election year Posted August 30th, 2008
My ROI for poker this year: some puny, not particularly high number. (In fact, if you count live poker, it's pretty spectacularly negative, but that's (more)
Still here, short vacation Posted September 9th, 2008
Nothing in particular is going on - I just got some signs of tournament burnout and am taking a couple of weeks off except for Sundays and the occasio (more)
Still on vacation/he did what now? Posted September 19th, 2008
The last couple of weeks have been a little hectic. As I said earlier, I had a bunch of real life stuff to do, especially the CLE classes ("I'd like t (more)
While I'm still only playing a little bit, I couldn't really justify not doing much poker-related stuff to myself, so in the interim before I ramp up (more)
Back playing, in good form Posted October 4th, 2008
While everyone should check out Bond's new post about MTT grinding, I've never been the kind of guy that does very well playing an 8 hour a day - or 4 (more)
I'd like to say that something interesting happened for me in poker last week, but no, not really. I only played extensively on Sunday. Results: my da (more)
T-24 hours Posted November 3rd, 2008
Tomorrow will bring two things: the election of Barack Obama (no jinx plz) and the end of my year-long Intrade experiment. Although I'll leave some ca (more)
Yes, we did Posted November 5th, 2008
I think it's a great outcome. Many of you undoubtedly disagree. Let's set that aside from now on and hope Obama is a good leader (and, oh yeah, fixes (more)
[url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation/new-ag-eric-holder-346518/]According to this 2+2 thread[/url] that quotes a NY Times artic (more)
Playing again, and it feels good Posted November 24th, 2008
A few of my politics cashouts are still outstanding, but the other day, I got a very big check from Intrade in the mail. I've gotten bigger ones than (more)
It's been almost a year or so (!) since the story's been announced, six months since it was going to wrap (cereusly, you can blame any outright negati (more)
Hey, I'm famous Posted December 2nd, 2008
And so, after a year and a half or so, the story draws to a close...well, no it doesn't, because I'd give good odds on some DA deciding to charge Russ (more)
Before I go on with this entry, I once again want to thank Gilbert Gaul from the Washington Post for writing an excellent two part piece. He'll almost (more)
Working/a quick badugi analysis Posted December 17th, 2008
Despite spending a couple of days stuck in airports (did you know Houston could have blizzards? Yeah, neither did I. Too bad that was a filthy lie and (more)
Happy Holidays Posted December 29th, 2008
Little belated, but better late than never, right? Good fortune, good wishes and good times to everyone. (more)
Too busy playing to update :) Posted January 6th, 2009
Okay, not really, but kinda. Since NYE, I've only had one day without at least 90 minutes' worth of cash games. Baby steps, right? Things are going (more)
Are they Cereus? Posted January 15th, 2009
In all honesty, I have (had) no intention of continuing to spend X amount of time every day documenting more Cereus scandal(s) fallout and/or security (more)
Officially on vacation Posted February 8th, 2009
I spent the last few weeks dealing with some non-poker related life stuff and having a good time. For the next 10 days, I'll be in Mexico with my wife (more)
This entry marks the first time I've gone more than a week in between updates since I've started blogging on Tworags two years ago. Throughout this ti (more)
Oh hello again/razz is fun Posted May 16th, 2009
So, to make a long story short, the finance startup thing went nowhere. It was an interesting experience and I wish those guys well, but to be a littl (more)
I'm no Tony Dunst Posted May 28th, 2009
While I don't usually want to admit defeat on anything before even starting to take it seriously, I have to give mad props to Tony Dunst and hereby co (more)
Writing well is hard Posted June 9th, 2009
In between regular sessions playing videogames and figuring out what I'm going to do Vegas-wise (current status: definitely playing the razzament, up (more)
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