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I'm a lawyer turned poker pro, playing high stakes MTT's, cash games up to 10/20 NL and a fair bit of midstakes razz/HORSE. If you have any questions or comments on this blog, feel free to comment here or drop me a line at adanthar@gmail.com.

Poker Blogs by Adanthar
Writing well is hardPosted 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)
I'm no Tony DunstPosted 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)
Oh hello again/razz is funPosted 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)
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)
Officially on vacationPosted 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)
Is it still possible to make a living playing online MTT's? A couple of days ago, Gobbo posted this thread in HSMTT. So far, it's gotten a couple o (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)
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)
Happy HolidaysPosted December 29th, 2008
Little belated, but better late than never, right? Good fortune, good wishes and good times to everyone. (more)
Working/a quick badugi analysisPosted 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)
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)
Hey, I'm famousPosted 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)
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)
Playing again, and it feels goodPosted 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)
According to this 2+2 thread that quotes a NY Times article, the incoming attorney general has played cards for what looks like at least a couple of d (more)
UIGEA regulations are out: "Whew"Posted November 12th, 2008
The final regulations are 66 pages long and there's no way I'm immediately reading them when other people can do it for me (I'll do it later), but the (more)
Yes, we didPosted 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)
T-24 hoursPosted 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)
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)
Getting back into CardrunnersPosted 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)
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)
These two hands happened within an orbit of each other: http://cakepoker.com//HandHistory/?Hand=xcLAwMaywbDAw8TExMzGwYjFxcbMxcc%3d http://cakepo (more)
Back playing, in good formPosted 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)
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)
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)
Still here, short vacationPosted 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)
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)
CNBC vidPosted August 25th, 2008
The CNBC interview aired today. Since 60M hasn't aired yet, this is my first major TV interview ever. Yay! Granted, I kinda hoped it'd be for winning (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)
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)
Woo, 60 MinutesPosted 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)
Back from FresnoPosted 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)
In FresnoPosted August 8th, 2008
After a week largely spent playing PLO (and giving an interview. brag: I get to be on NPR talking about AP/UB in a couple of weeks. watch this space), (more)
Sundays < PLOPosted 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)
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)
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)
On the 2+2 pokercast in two hoursPosted 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)
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)
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)
Break 1 Update Busted (more)
Day 1 tomorrowPosted 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)
Networking > pokerPosted 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)
Last couple of daysPosted 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)
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)
The Scotty Nguyen storyPosted 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)
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)
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)
This space for rentPosted 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)
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)
BackstoPosted 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)
Oh hey, a dinner breakPosted 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)
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)
...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)
WSOP 4: Quicker and painlesserPosted 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)
WSOP 2: Quick and painlessPosted 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)
In VegasPosted 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)
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)
A pretty decent ending to FTOPSPosted 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)
Skipped a few daysPosted 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)
FTOPS 2-5Posted 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)
FTOPS1 - a good startPosted 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)
IntradePosted 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)
FTOPS/WSOPPosted 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)
Right, yeah, that hope thingPosted 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)
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)
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)
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)
Yay...tax seasonPosted 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)
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, AprilPosted 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)
[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)
Running bad, playing betterPosted 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)
60 MinutesPosted March 11th, 2008
I wasn't going to post about this until after the taping and/or when we had an air time, but since the story apparently already broke, Nat's blog pret (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)
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)
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)
Mid-tourney bloggingPosted 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)
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)
Sitting and going in LAPosted 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)
The last week or soPosted 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)
Bad news: 0 for SundayPosted February 12th, 2008
In fact, I don't think I broke the 2 hour mark anywhere. Good news: I made the NY Times! NY Times article It's not about poker, but hey, I'l (more)
Yeah I definitely need to play morePosted 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)
Hey, I made money on SundayPosted 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)
Day 2 recapPosted 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)
Day 1 recapPosted 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)
BorgatastoPosted 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 resultsPosted 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)
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)
AC/weekendPosted 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)
Yay, new site designPosted 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)
Feeling like deathPosted 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)
Weekend resultsPosted 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)
Link to Adanthar MTT CardRunner vids on YouTube Check it out - it's not the best vid I've done, but it's a pretty good one and has a nice summary (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)
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)
Back after these messagesPosted 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)
SuuuuuundayPosted December 23rd, 2007
Short version: Went nowhere, only played one least bit interesting hand all day. JackPotter2 is at seat 0 with 2770. korrupt911 is at seat 1 with (more)
Back home and unjetlaggedPosted 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)
Bellagio Day 3: lol, donkamentPosted 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)
Bellagio 15K, day 2Posted 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)
PlaceholderPosted 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)
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)
I read soulsPosted 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)
Weekend resultsPosted 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)
Live poker is also sillyPosted 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)
Flying is a bad beatPosted December 5th, 2007
It turns out that scheduling a 1 hour, cross-airline layover is not a good idea when you're flying from NY through Minneapolis in bad weather. Not onl (more)
Another Sunday FTPosted 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)
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)
Tournaments are *so* sillyPosted November 26th, 2007
Step 1: suck out hardcore ~5 times Step 2: play pretty well Step 3: set up, then lose a big flip for 2/3 the chips in play 3 handed Step 4: mas (more)
Tournaments *are* sillyPosted 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)
After I played todayPosted 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)
Before I play todayPosted 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)
SundayPosted 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)
Okay, back to pokerPosted 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)
AP: the last wordPosted 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)
Some thoughts in the interimPosted 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)
AftermathPosted 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)
We winPosted 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)
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)
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)
Latest breaking news: At this point, every AP insider is swarming over Nat Arem's (www.natarem.com) and my own instant messenger looking to spill t (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)
In the last weekPosted 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)
Goodbye, KoreaPosted 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)
Quick reaction to the UIGEA regsPosted October 2nd, 2007
The proposed regs are out. Here's the 2+2 discussion. I haven't read these yet and am not planning on it until I get back from vacation, but I've r (more)
Speaking of pokerPosted October 1st, 2007
Since I'm a Cardrunners pro now, I took half a day off today and made a few videos. Good news: I made a final table! Bad news: I read souls :( (more)
I went to Korea to play a poker tournament and then go on vacation for two weeks. The tournament part turned out to be quick and painless - three hour (more)
Greetings from KoreaPosted 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)
Still Absolutely riggedPosted 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)
Absolutely ridiculousPosted 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)
Been a week since I postedPosted 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)
Four Sunday tourneys, two deep runsPosted 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)
Not much going on right nowPosted 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)
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)
On a short breakPosted 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)
SundayPosted 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)
Well, this is a (negative) firstPosted 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)
Omaha is easyPosted 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)
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)
More Turning StonePosted 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)
TS Event 1Posted 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)
Off to Turning StonePosted 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 Turning Stone f (more)
Twice in three triesPosted 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)
I haven't put in much time at the tables these last couple of weeks, largely due to writing, running errands and being lazy (okay, not in that order.) (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)
The long awaited 1500 WSOP recapPosted 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)
Still no recapPosted 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)
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)
Well, this one hurtsPosted 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)
Sunday/WSOP recapPosted 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)
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)
On a lighter notePosted July 6th, 2007
Iweargoggles runs worse than me. Not that being out in three hands doesn't make plans easier, but that's just hilarious. I'm playing tomorrow - wi (more)
To set the record straightPosted 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)
[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)
Sick addendumPosted 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)
RebuystoPosted 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)
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)
Cash no. 2Posted 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)
Thursday 5K 6 max reportPosted 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)
TuesdayPosted 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)
Sunday/MondayPosted 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)
Tournament summary - 1500 NLPosted 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)
I'm still running badPosted 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)
Just movedPosted 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)
DealmakingPosted June 21st, 2007
It turns out I had just enough time to go to the Rio and play one satellite, which I won outright. I'd asked for a chop twice - once at 100/200 when I (more)
Another day offPosted 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)
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)
Made it to day 2Posted 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)
I guess I'm running betterPosted 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)
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)
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)
15 or so straight hours of pokerPosted 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)
First impressions for this weekPosted 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)
June 9'th - another quick updatePosted 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)
Quick updatePosted 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)
Final tally - 63'rd/15xx for (40% of - I'm fully backed) $8,359. I started out at a pretty decent table and quickly chipped up to 5500 from the st (more)
1 for 1 so farPosted June 7th, 2007
Short update since I just got back from a long day: I'm in the money at my first WSOP event of '07, the 2K NL (Event #10.) 125 of 1500-odd people rema (more)
I had a bunch of interesting hands this weekend, but one ultimately totally inconsequential one stood out. In the Absolute 150K, with effective 5K sta (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)
Getting back to bread and butter for a while, until I get back from the WSOP I'm going to focus more on specific hands and tournament summaries. T (more)
Where to find the biggest edgesPosted 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)
Note: Because of the nature of this post, it's more applicable to MSNL than HSNL, and won't help you much at nosebleed stakes. Getting the most out (more)
Satellites: WSOP game selectionPosted 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)
Sidebar: Satellite playPosted 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)
In my last blog entry, I wrote about a couple of basic online poker tells. Like I said in that entry, these tells shouldn't really be new to you if yo (more)
Thus far, my posts have dealt with how and when to play a hand in an unorthodox way. Most of the time that I play a hand in a strange fashion - especi (more)
Last time, I wrote about an HSNL hand where putting your opponent on a very exact range made it mathematically possible to determine the best line. In (more)
Unorthodox lines, Part IIIPosted April 9th, 2007
The bad news: I haven't seen a hand on the topic worth posting in the last couple of days. The good news: 2+2 is back up and does have something inter (more)
Unorthodox lines, part IIPosted April 7th, 2007
Since 2+2 is down today, I want to post this today to get some writing practice in, heh. In my last post, I talked about the importance of knowing (more)
Unorthodox lines, Part IPosted 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)
An introductionPosted 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)
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