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Poker Blogs by Adanthar in the Tournaments category

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

Sidebar: Satellite play Posted April 27th, 2007
Today, I'm going to take a break from posting in lesson format and just talk about satellites. I love sats. They are my best game and almost everyo (more)
Where to find the biggest edges Posted May 19th, 2007
Taking a long break always makes me want to play more poker right after getting back. I've been playing a decent amount since Thursday and should have (more)
I'm going syndicated :) Posted May 29th, 2007
A quick announcement - a new quarterly magazine is picking up this blog as a syndicated column, along with some additional content from yours truly. W (more)
Quick update Posted June 9th, 2007
Not much happened today. I went to the Venetian to play their 1K deep stack event (instead of the WSOP 5K pot limit event, which is supposedly harder (more)
June 9'th - another quick update Posted June 10th, 2007
Today, unfortunately, was pretty much a wash. I busted out of the main $1500 event fairly early with AQ against AA on an ace high flop (yuck), then we (more)
15 or so straight hours of poker Posted June 12th, 2007
Most of those hours, unfortunately, were not in the $2500, as I busted out of that at the 150/300/25 level. My actual bustout hand was fairly uneventf (more)
Also, I got no pocket pairs, AK's or AQ's in 90 minutes. Busto! Meh, there's always the limit shootout next month. The good news is, other than a (more)
I guess I'm running better Posted June 17th, 2007
Well, when it comes to sats, anyway. I didn't get anywhere in either of the last two big tournaments - once due to a bad bluff on my part, once due to (more)
Made it to day 2 Posted June 18th, 2007
I've got 7100 chips with ~134 people left, right around the average. I was completely controlling my first table for a while before going card dead, s (more)
It sucks when you do, though. 0 for 3 in big pots with a medium stack/winning one pot overall will do that. I didn't play particularly well, but there (more)
Another day off Posted June 20th, 2007
Well, mostly. I had time to chop another satellite in between sweating Nath and a couple of other people. The 525's are getting a bit harder as the WS (more)
Tournament summary - 1500 NL Posted June 26th, 2007
There's too much stuff for me to put into one post, so I'll just start off with the trip report from Saturday's 1500. Most of us coming from the SA (more)
Sunday/Monday Posted June 27th, 2007
I was going to do a full update of these two days, as well, but as it turns out, I actually played a full day today so that will have to go on the bac (more)
Tuesday Posted June 27th, 2007
Today's also known as "the day I played the best hand of my live poker career and have nothing to show for it". Sigh. There won't be any good tour (more)
Thursday 5K 6 max report Posted June 29th, 2007
Unfortunately, my PC ate the first version of this, so, a quick recap: after not playing yesterday, I decided to play the 5K 6max today. I got from 10 (more)
Cash no. 2 Posted July 1st, 2007
I skipped Friday's 2K event due largely to lack of sleep, but played in today's 1500 event. Despite starting the day as an alternate 2 hours in (meani (more)
Step 1: Get dealt 66x1, 55x2, 22x1 and no other pairs or AT+ in 4 hours Step 2: Drift down from 93K at 1/2K to 43K at 2/4K Step 3: Lose a race Ste (more)
Rebuysto Posted July 3rd, 2007
The rebuy results = pretty uneventful. I busted 370-ish out of 1000 after misplaying a hand, but in retrospect it was a pretty tough spot to avoid. I (more)
Sick addendum Posted July 3rd, 2007
I just realized I said '2 for 13' in my last entry but didn't explain what that actually means. Most people don't understand how ridiculous the tourna (more)
Limit shootout: the short version Posted July 3rd, 2007
[22:09] Adanthar: so I have a limit shootout table with matt matros, david levi, shawn keller and 2 other guys who aren't supposed to suck [22:10] Ad (more)
On a lighter note Posted July 6th, 2007
[url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=11083579&an=0&page=0#Post11083579]Iweargoggles runs worse than me.[/url] Not that bei (more)
LOL donkament? Posted July 8th, 2007
I'll let my 2+2 posts speak for themselves: 8:13 PM: [quote]11K @ dinner break after a (two card) boat < quads and AT < 66 on an A43 board. pret (more)
Sunday/WSOP recap Posted July 9th, 2007
Big news today: the house has yet another 100K winner, as JCarver won the FTP 500K tonight while making some absolutely spectacular calldowns. Congrat (more)
Well, this one hurts Posted July 16th, 2007
Looks like I've got 3 recaps to write instead of 2. I set tonight aside to finally get to work on the blog after I busted out of the Sundays, but mana (more)
Fortunately, it keeps on not happening because instead of having time to write a long entry, I keep making deep runs. Tonight was a nice monkey off my (more)
Still no recap Posted July 19th, 2007
Another day, another FT - this time, 4'th/231 in the UB 129 bounty-ment for $2,000. I ran and played pretty well up until the final table, where 66 < (more)
The long awaited 1500 WSOP recap Posted July 25th, 2007
Before I start, yet another "congrats", this time to my friend Leo (Pechorin/Superfluous Man on this site), who FT'd both the $1050 and the $162 MTT's (more)
In my last blog, somebody asked me what tricks I've learned over the last couple of months. I wasn't going to talk about it much - there are some thin (more)
Twice in three tries Posted August 5th, 2007
I didn't play the Sunday Million last week and went out early the week before, but tonight, I made another deep run in the biggest tourney of the week (more)
TS Event 1 Posted August 12th, 2007
The one problem with these tournaments (I'll have a trip report up at some point this week - this room and series are both very well run) is their sta (more)
More Turning Stone Posted August 14th, 2007
Short update: I wound up not playing Event 3 (the bounty tournament) for sleep reasons, either. I did play the 6 max this morning (and the 1K 6max (more)
After the < 2 hour run at TS, I put in a full tournament schedule tonight but quickly busted out of everything except the FTOPS LO8 event I entered on (more)
Well, this is a (negative) first Posted August 17th, 2007
In four years of playing poker, I've never managed to outright bubble a big satellite until today. 35'th/169 with 34 paid - they tried their best to b (more)
Three hands against the same opponent Posted August 29th, 2007
There's no particular overriding theme to these hands, but I think they're worth posting and make for a good read... This is a story of 3 hands fro (more)
Four Sunday tourneys, two deep runs Posted September 9th, 2007
Also got a bunch of videos out of it, but still trying to figure out how the software works. I might have something up later. Anyway...77'th/3499 o (more)
Been a week since I posted Posted September 17th, 2007
Most of this week's been pretty uneventful, with the exception of me blowing lots of chips in the WCOOP 5cd event (not that anyone knows how to play 5 (more)
Goodbye, Korea Posted October 7th, 2007
After a nice two mostly poker-free weeks (although I've put in a few hours in the last several days), I'm finally leaving Seoul tomorrow. It's been a (more)
Okay, back to poker Posted November 9th, 2007
Since the AP thingamajig started, I've played very little and have gone on a very peculiar streak. On the one hand, I'm "almost" playing well - making (more)
Sunday Posted November 12th, 2007
Keeping a promise to myself to at least briefly update the blog after Sundays: Everything considered, it was a pretty mediocre day, one of those "o (more)
After I played today Posted November 19th, 2007
lol tournaments. Jeez, can I stop losing with AA to Ax for a week? I think that's three in a row now. :( Oh well. In lieu of anything resembling a (more)
Tournaments are *so* silly Posted November 26th, 2007
[img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9153/56kwindx1.jpg[/img] Step 1: suck out hardcore ~5 times Step 2: play pretty well Step 3: set up, then (more)
In between taking a couple of days off (I always do this when I play so late it messes up my sleep schedule) I've been analyzing my play in the donkam (more)
Another Sunday FT Posted December 3rd, 2007
Short version: I went 1 for 6 today, but the 1 was a 7'th place in the UB 200K for 7,000. This one's bittersweet; I sucked out on the first hand of IT (more)
Live poker is also silly Posted December 7th, 2007
The 3K yesterday was amazing - I actually managed to go 0 VPIP for the first 90 minutes. Given I showed up a little late, it means I went into the fir (more)
Weekend results Posted December 11th, 2007
Today counts as a weekend because I say it does and because it equally went nowhere, heh. I didn't play either of the Bellagio 5K's (under the weather (more)
I read souls Posted December 12th, 2007
I'll have more about Vivek's hand in my next entry since he still hasn't posted it online yet. In the meantime, here's a brag post about the satellit (more)
Okay, where do I start with today? Umm...let's start with yesterday, instead. I lasted 90 minutes in yesterday's sat (thus, 0 for 3 on seeing the 2 (more)
Placeholder Posted December 14th, 2007
On second thought, I can't really sleep yet (soon, though!), so briefly, good hands from today: -Re: Vivek: He calls PF. I think this is okay again (more)
Bellagio 15K, day 2 Posted December 15th, 2007
Short version because I'm a little tired: I have 119,700, right around the average with 152 people left (paying 100). The blinds will be [edit: 1500/3 (more)
Bellagio Day 3: lol, donkament Posted December 16th, 2007
Buuuuuuuusto ~54'th for 29K (which, minus staking and makeup, means I made 1K on the series. Ship it?) There were a bunch of hands, but the key fou (more)
Suuuuuunday Posted December 23rd, 2007
Short version: Went nowhere, only played one least bit interesting hand all day. JackPotter2 is at seat 0 with 2770. [b]korrupt911 is at seat 1 wi (more)
Weekend results Posted January 6th, 2008
Nothing of note this Sunday. I did go deep in the only thing I played on Saturday, a big event, but, you know, mess up a hand, lose half your stack, w (more)
Busto (and busto) Posted January 25th, 2008
Got here last night and just played the $5200 event ("just" as in "busted an hour ago".) It was another non-starter where I never got over my starting (more)
Day 1 results Posted January 27th, 2008
I've got 69K heading into Day 2 (~45K average, 360 of 500-odd left, 54 paid.) It was a tough table/seat draw, with John Hennigan (last year's winner a (more)
Borgatasto Posted January 30th, 2008
This is a couple of days late largely thanks to lack of laptop, but I busto'ed on Day 2 in an impressive fashion, first getting to 157K (2x average) l (more)
Day 1 recap Posted February 2nd, 2008
Enough being lazy...time to post hands! At this point, the details of Day 1 are sort of blurry. Most of the action early on was focused on John Hen (more)
Day 2 recap Posted February 3rd, 2008
For whatever reason, Day 2 is easier to remember than Day 1... My first table had several decent players, including WacoKidd with an identical stac (more)
Hey, I made money on Sunday Posted February 5th, 2008
Only $200 or so, but hey, money's nice. I only played about four tourneys, bubbled the UB 200K, but went very deep in the Stars 1M again before bustin (more)
Yeah I definitely need to play more Posted February 7th, 2008
Good news: I made my first '08 final table last night. (That sounded really bad until I realized I'd played 30 donkaments all year, lol. Which leads m (more)
Sitting and going in LA Posted February 20th, 2008
Confession: when it comes to travel, I'm pretty incompetent. Oh, I (read: my wife) pack light, don't sweat the small stuff, and haven't ever done anyt (more)
Two for two in the LAPC* Posted February 21st, 2008
*in busting out before the first break, heh. The Commerce is a very good cardroom; my impression is that the games are as soft as anything outside (more)
Mid-tourney blogging Posted February 24th, 2008
Getting this entry in fast because day 2 starts in 25 mins :) Played a big sat on Friday, lasted long enough that it was too late for SNG's but did (more)
Day 2 (short, not that sweet) Posted February 25th, 2008
To be honest, there really wasn't even much to say about today. Very early on, I made my once a month customary bluff with total air. Usually, that st (more)
Sunday: 109r: I didn't have time to rebuy on the first hand, so when I picked up aces, I naturally shoved (I love shoving monsters on the first han (more)
[d][d][d][d] Poker content here [d][d][d][d] The lack of entries in the blog this week is largely because, for the first time all year, I'm playing (more)
Finally got something worth posting Posted April 21st, 2008
After a really frustrating month and a half, I finally have a major FT to show for it, the UB 200K. That tournament's been very good to me over the ye (more)
Right, yeah, that hope thing Posted April 29th, 2008
Since my last entry, I've played 2 full tournament days (by "full", I mean "very little", because I suck at volume) and a half day on Sunday. The Sund (more)
FTOPS/WSOP Posted May 7th, 2008
Last night, I finalized my WSOP living arrangements - all I need to do now is finally buy flight tickets and I'm set. As some people can tell you, the (more)
FTOPS1 - a good start Posted May 8th, 2008
It's not a great one because I always hate finishing in this area for a little while after I bust, but 40/4100-odd runners for ~2K isn't bad. (Add up (more)
FTOPS 2-5 Posted May 9th, 2008
Unfortunately, I only had time to play one event in the last two days, FTOPS4 (the 200 PLHE event), which went nowhere after a promising start. Who kn (more)
A pretty decent ending to FTOPS Posted May 19th, 2008
After my last entry, I wound up only playing a handful more events - the razzament (made it deep, but to no avail), a few other midstakes NL tourneys, (more)
Last week was pretty gruesome, culminating with today, when, in addition to playing my B or C game most of the time, I managed to take my first 3%'er (more)
WSOP 2: Quick and painless Posted May 31st, 2008
For the last day or so, the rumor was that day 1 of the $1500 event (Saturday) would be sold out, as every online pro picked it over playing live on S (more)
WSOP 4: Quicker and painlesser Posted June 3rd, 2008
So, I broke my own record and bustoed the 1500 pot limit event (that I decided to play at the last minute) on the...fifth hand or so. The hand: Wi (more)
...but 0 for 2 on making the second break. I'm working on that, though! The major interesting hand was, once again, the fifth of the day. With 4K c (more)
Make that 2 for 5 on first breaks Posted June 6th, 2008
Last entry, we left off with me accidentally turning top two pair into a bluff. Yesterday, I followed up on that with this hand about 45 minutes into (more)
Oh hey, a dinner break Posted June 8th, 2008
Still not an actual Day 2, though. Quick update because it's late: today's event went better than the ones before it and I'll post some hands later, b (more)
As expected, I was mostly fine the next day, but wound up skipping the 5K event (which a friend of mine won - congrats) to hang out at home and watch (more)
This space for rent Posted June 17th, 2008
Long story short, 0 for the last 2 as well, but there was a third break and a legitimate bad beat or two in there so things were, theoretically, movin (more)
Played 2 tourneys in the last 3 days - the Bellagio 1080 (uneventful, busto, etc.) and today's $1500 at the Rio. Long story short, I finally have a (more)
Long story short: I have 70K at 1500/3K and make it 8500 with kings in EP. The next guy to act, with a 60K-ish stack, makes it 20K. I flat because (more)
Out of this one in about 6 hours, but did play a bunch of interesting hands. I'm going to post pretty much everything I remember from memory without m (more)
Day 1 tomorrow Posted July 6th, 2008
I had a couple more really productive meetings in the last few days and got a lot of work done, so, regardless of what happens tomorrow and afterwards (more)
Short update - I was planning to do a recap of the ME (all 2.5 hours of it), but my laptop is pretty busto at the moment/there's a significant chance (more)
My flight from Vegas was overnight, so I got back home at around 10 AM EST (7 PST) after not being able to sleep at all on the plane. My wife had just (more)
These two hands happened within an orbit of each other: http://cakepoker.com//HandHistory/?Hand=xcLAwMaywbDAw8TExMzGwYjFxcbMxcc%3d http://cakepo (more)
Getting back into Cardrunners Posted October 23rd, 2008
I never really "quit" doing CR so much as I just quit playing tournaments (outside of Sundays, at any rate.) As you guys know, for the last two months (more)
First, the very short term: I'll most likely have another article on P5's either this weekend or on Monday. It'll be about Obama and poker - I'll have (more)
Is it still possible to make a living playing online MTT's? A couple of days ago, Gobbo posted [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stake (more)
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