The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

On this week's exciting episode of "ask a poker player things", Adanthar answers all questions, most of them totally unrelated to poker!

Fire away guys. Please note that 2+2 is slow as hell for me right now so answers may take some time.

Edit: We've been giving the wells spades.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

I think you could pre-empt a lot of questions and negotiate the delay issue by writing a long catch-all "My Poker Story" post to get us going.

Oh, and why "Adanthar" and exactly how Russian are you (and if much at all, views on Putin) and why the avatar?

Here I am all gooey kneed: my favourite poster is in the well.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

[Sob Story] I'm in the middle (well - hopefully at the end of...) a brutal downswing. I can't win a race, hell, I can't even win when I'm way ahead. (AK vs. A2, I ask my wife to guess if the two is coming on the turn or the river). I've seen my BR decrease by about 30% over these past six weeks or so...
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How do you handle the downswings? Do you take a break? Step 'down' and play cheaper tourneys? Just press on knowing that your decisions are good and therefore you'll win soon enough? What advise do you have for somebody getting pretty depressed with his luck (and feeling like he's making bad decisions because of it...)?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Which is harder law or poker?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Oh, and why "Adanthar" and exactly how Russian are you (and if much at all, views on Putin) and why the avatar?


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"Adanthar" is just an amalgamation of two online nicks I use, nothing special. Same deal with my avatar - I was about to go to law school when I originally went around looking for an 'attorney' pic to use and found that guy. I hope his descendants don't hunt me down and sue me, because he's awesome.

I am originally Russian and still speak it fluently/occasionally go back/have an uncle in St.Petersburg. My view on Putin...well, Russia's never had a functioning democracy before, so why should they start now?

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[Sob Story] I'm in the middle (well - hopefully at the end of...) a brutal downswing. I can't win a race, hell, I can't even win when I'm way ahead. (AK vs. A2, I ask my wife to guess if the two is coming on the turn or the river). I've seen my BR decrease by about 30% over these past six weeks or so...
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How do you handle the downswings? Do you take a break? Step 'down' and play cheaper tourneys? Just press on knowing that your decisions are good and therefore you'll win soon enough? What advise do you have for somebody getting pretty depressed with his luck (and feeling like he's making bad decisions because of it...)?

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One of the things I've realized over the past year is just how much mental toughness you need to do well in this game over the 'long term', where the 'long term' turns out to be 'way too freaking long'. It's worth it to mention that two years ago, nobody had a clue what 'too long' meant - people were basing big decisions on 10K hand samples, 100 SNG's, etc. (I'm not so sure they were wrong, honestly, because it's probably better for a talented player to move up too soon than to delay development too long, but that's another story...) Because of that, and the development of poker as a whole, people are just now realizing that the mental aspect of handling big, prolonged downswings is its own skillset. Irieguy in STT's posted a long thread about this that, unfortunately, I don't remember the title of...it's worth trying to find it, though.

Suffice to say that I think handling long swings and minimizing tilt is probably the most important thing you need to know after you are sure you're a significant long term winner. It costs you a little less money in MTT's than cash, but at the same time, the swings last longer and cause more burnout. Do I have any secrets for handling them? No. I do have a very calm personality (some might say level headed [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) that lets me weather them easier, but I've dropped 1500 bucks on tilt while learning cash just last week, so I'm not immune. I guess the bottom line is to keep analyzing your play and not sweat the results (this is also where good bankroll management comes in.)

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Which is harder law or poker?

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This is going to sound weird, but poker can actually be harder. The legal process for most attorneys is very formulaic, to the point where, say, drafting a contract or representing a client at a small administrative hearing is 99% copying other people's work and 1% actual effort. Furthermore, while playing winning poker is easy enough that you can probably teach an eight year old to do it, playing *high stakes* winning poker is something else. There are lots of people that can turn out to be good lawyers, but very few have the exact skill set (and this includes things like bankroll management and the ability not to care about quickly dropping six figures) that go into a Phil Ivey or Patrick Antonius.

I have no idea why I responded to this seriously BTW [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

1) How did you build your bankroll? What would you have done differently knowing what you know now?


2) I am considering law school. I am hoping to support myself by playing poker while in school, but I hear first year is a hell of a grind will either poker or law studies suffer no matter what? Any tips for balancing the two?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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I have no idea why I responded to this seriously BTW [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Haha. I dunno why I asked it either lol. It just popped into my head and I guess because I always hear about lawyers who hate their job for a lot of different reasons but there's also a lot of reasons to hate poker too so I dunno figured I'd get your take on it lol. Here's some more but you don't have to answer all or any of them:

Do you regret going to law school? What would you have done if not law? Are you going to quit when you win a big tourney? Would you tell your kids to be lawyers? How similar is/was your life to Mike McDermott from Roudners?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Are you going to quit when you win another big tourney?

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FYP.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

what are the main holes in my game? (joke, just asked cause you cant say "dude, I don't know who you are")

is it wrong for my to hate you when you talk about bad runs, when I know you play less and make more/hour at mtt's than anyone other than Jamie Gold?

50 sng's played in the last year, over or under?

whats the % breakdown these days on lawyering/playing poker? (ie you ever go get that "real" job?)

Steve

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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after you are sure you're a significant long term winner.

[/ QUOTE ]How can a player be certain he or she is a long term winner? I see posts all the time from players who started with $50, ran it up to several thousand, and then went busto. Some of this was bad BR management, but others are clearly not good players (even I can tell). Is even a years worth of consistent within-bankroll play enough to be certain that a player is a long term winner?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Is it wrong of me to have a hard on for Putin because he's just so incredibly cool and monstrous?

Was Stalin good for Russia?

Favoutite book, film, play and band?

My best mate, the best lawyer in our year, quit Law to become a primary school teacher and is now really happy, although, to be frank, he has lost much of his mental acuity. Would you rather be a happy pig or a discontented Socrate?

As you are level-headed, where do you find your 'buzz' in poker?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

I would also be interested in your "poker-life" story.

I have always enjoyed reading your posts and I think it is interesting learning about the past and development process of good players (and teachers). Maybe it's just the fact I'm a history major, but I would like to hear how you got started, etc.

Thanks!

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Fire away guys. Please note that 2+2 is slow as hell for me right now so answers may take some time.

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Jesus me too, it crawls.....
So my question is, why is 2+2 so damn slow...

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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1) How did you build your bankroll? What would you have done differently knowing what you know now?


2) I am considering law school. I am hoping to support myself by playing poker while in school, but I hear first year is a hell of a grind will either poker or law studies suffer no matter what? Any tips for balancing the two?

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1)I built my roll the easy way...ran hot when it counted. Basically, by the time I figured out that I was winning because other people sucked at poker more than me and not because I was good, I had a few thousand dollars already saved up. I also have a talent for running hot every time I get bored with running bad at something and switch games - eg, I broke even for a couple of hundred SNG's once (which was like 2 months for me at the time, lol), switched to multis and instantly started a nice five figure cash streak. I totally recommend you do that.

Seriously...I wouldn't change much myself, but I do wish I had given myself a more solid cash game grounding when I was first coming up. I'm a winner at the softer 5/10 and even 10/20 NL games online, but I still have a handicap vs. HSNL and will for a long time, because my instincts are that of a more cautious SNG/MTT player.

2)Boy, I'm such a wrong person to ask this one...honestly, I *personally* did nothing in law school that was law-related or involved studying, except for about a month during 1L. There is a book out there called "Brush with the Law", about two law students slightly ahead of the poker boom that nonetheless had time for an orgy and a blackjack team respectively. That would be me, minus the orgy and the blackjack. So basically, I wouldn't take my advice for anything law school-related.

That said, if you have a handy supply of outlines, live in a law fraternity (with its own house), and have a girlfriend that you later wind up marrying, I recommend you stop going to class around the second month or so. Oh yeah, and buy E&E for your contract prof; he gives his exams straight out of there so when you open it the night before the final, you'll get your only A of law school. It's really sweet.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Any new updates on how much your Cake poker % is worth? Do you see yourself becoming mostly a NL cash player in 2007? btw it was good to meet you at PCA, I think we have very similar styles, I basically find myself agreeing with every strategy post of yours that I've read.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Do you regret going to law school? What would you have done if not law? Are you going to quit when you win a big tourney? Would you tell your kids to be lawyers? How similar is/was your life to Mike McDermott from Roudners?

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I don't regret going to LS - actually, if nothing else, it's where I learned poker, met my wife, and did exactly what other people do in college, which is live in a frat house and sleep in till 12. Just going off those things, you can probably tell that I loved law school and would happily go back again for another 13 years or so. It's just that I had nothing to do with the whole 'law' and 'school' parts.

What I'd have done without law? I dunno...be miserable in a cubicle somewhere I guess. That's where I'd be *with* the law, though, and probably getting paid more. So, to answer your question, I'm happy that it turns out that people will sit at home and spend thousands of dollars at virtual card lessons, then not pay attention to them.

I'm probably, but not definitely, quitting to play full time/pursue investment opportunities sometime around this summer.

Mike McDermott is hotter than me, but probably also didn't cash in the World Series of Poker, so it roughly evens out.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

do you have any control/influence at cake poker? coud you be hired as a consultant ala jurollo w/ stars? how often are there $600 average pots at the 5/10NL game?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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is it wrong for my to hate you when you talk about bad runs, when I know you play less and make more/hour at mtt's than anyone other than Jamie Gold?

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Well, keep in mind that because I play less, my bad runs last longer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I am putting in serious hours this month and from now on to play cash, though.

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50 sng's played in the last year, over or under?

whats the % breakdown these days on lawyering/playing poker? (ie you ever go get that "real" job?)

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I'm proud to say my '06 SNG records break down as follows:
-13 actual NL SNG's
-3 HORSEaments
-2 live SNG's
-4 UB blackjackaments

My goal for this year is to play 13 less SNG's.

Job/poker %...technically, my job (at an immigration non-profit, I've had it for about eight months now) is ~4 hours a day, but except for client interviews I do about 5 minutes of actual work, so, 10/90 or so? Dunno. My goal for this year is for it to be 0/100 Real Soon Now.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

I dropped out of school this past semester, and after living at home for a month have decided I'm going to move back to Dallas. I'll be supporting myself, at least for the first 3-4 months, playing low-limit SNGs at $25-30/hr.

Will I kill myself?

Do you have any advice for the next few months in general for me?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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after you are sure you're a significant long term winner.

[/ QUOTE ]How can a player be certain he or she is a long term winner? I see posts all the time from players who started with $50, ran it up to several thousand, and then went busto. Some of this was bad BR management, but others are clearly not good players (even I can tell). Is even a years worth of consistent within-bankroll play enough to be certain that a player is a long term winner?

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Short version: if you post hands here and I don't flame you, you probably don't suck [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Long version: the thing is, the long term is freaking long. On the one hand, Daniel Negreanu probably hasn't played enough lifetime hands to know he's even a winner at poker, much less the stakes he played (this is only a mild exaggerration.) On the other, he is clearly really good at poker. So, overall...I'd say when you can look at the table you're at and say "ok, this guy sucks, this guy's OK but makes bad pushes, this guy overplays top pair..." and be right, you've arrived.

Unless you're deluding yourself, in which case, umm, running hot at the right times is always good.

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Is it wrong of me to have a hard on for Putin because he's just so incredibly cool and monstrous?

Wait until the gulags start up again (probably when his successor turns out to be evil and not just dictatorial), that should be fun.

Was Stalin good for Russia?

I could strain myself and find a "cancer killing AIDS" metaphor somewhere, but really...no

Favoutite book, film, play and band?

I always hate these because I always leave something out...I'll just say I read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy/horror, watch tons of cheesy sci-fi, too, and listen to Scandinavian black metal. Yes, I'm weird.

My best mate, the best lawyer in our year, quit Law to become a primary school teacher and is now really happy, although, to be frank, he has lost much of his mental acuity. Would you rather be a happy pig or a discontented Socrate?

If we're talking hypothetically, obviously, happy anything > discontented anything. IRL...I'd rather dump both and be a space pirate. I hear that pays well.

As you are level-headed, where do you find your 'buzz' in poker?

Level headedness only goes so far when you win $100,000 dollars in one night, man.

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Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Adanthar,

I really enjoy your satellite posts. I have been wanting to ask this since I read your satellite post.

When it gets down to crunch time and you are a middle stack in the Cutoff with 2 middle stacks in the blinds, or any ideal steal situation, do you ever make a 3XBB raise, or do you always just push? What I gathered from your post is that you never raise 3XBB, you always open push. Did I understand it correctly?

One more question: What do you see happening in the future for online poker?

Thanks

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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it's probably better for a talented player to move up too soon than to delay development too long, but that's another story...)

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Elaborate.

2. What are your long term, big picture poker goals? I.e., assuming you plan to still be playing in five to ten years, what would you consider success at that point?

3. You talk about quitting your day job. What are your thoughts on online poker's longterm viability? I assume you've done some weighing of "relative chances the ban is enforced/games dry up/everything is fine" with your ability to get a real job if necessary with live poker options and whatever investment opportunities you are looking at. Just curious what your thought process is.

4. How many hours of poker did you play in 2006? How many do you expect to play in 2007? For both what is the breakdown between nl cash games/other cash games/tournaments.

5. If you have to get a fulltime law job would you prefer big firm or working for yourself?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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I would also be interested in your "poker-life" story.

I have always enjoyed reading your posts and I think it is interesting learning about the past and development process of good players (and teachers). Maybe it's just the fact I'm a history major, but I would like to hear how you got started, etc.

Thanks!

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I've posted this a couple of times, I think, but it's gotten mistier with age so let me see if I can remember this properly...

Up until 1L, I'd probably played 30 minutes of poker in my life. When I started law school, though, I'd happened to be accepted in the only law frat house in America and wound up with 25 very cool roommates, a couple of whom played poker. I therefore signed up and immediately blew around a hundred and fifty bucks in multiple $25 deposits on UB. At that point, I got pissed and decided to read my roommate's books instead of just losing money. After a month of that, I officially broke even in my poker career, left UB (which sucked back then about as much as it does now) and took an affiliate's 50 dollars to go play at Party.

Being an affiliate seemed like a good idea, so I also signed up for that, got about a dozen people to claim *their* free 50 bucks and got a free entry into a 5K freeroll. As it turned out, only half of the 200 people showed up, my game was slightly less crappy than their game, and I wound up taking second place for $800 (after giving up and check/calling a turn all in with a straight draw) with my girlfriend and roommate watching. We were high fiving and yelling so loud that I was hoarse the morning after. It was a completely ridiculous finish that made me move up from .50/1 to 2/4 limit! Yay!

Then I ran hot there, ran hot at 3/6, broke even at 5/10 limit but had a few grand to go play (limit!) SNG's with, eventually switched to unlimited hold'em SNG's a few months later, yadda yadda. Incidentally, limit SNG's are still the softest game on the planet, not least because, all these years later, everyone still only plays them by accident.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Thanks for the answers man.

OK, first hand of a LIVE 5 table tournament. You have 2000 chips blinds are 25-50, levels raise evry 25 mins You are UTG, it's the first hand and you have no reads what do you do with:

1) AJo
2) suited connector
3) PP (22-77)
4) KQ

Do you answers change if it's an online tourney, if so how?

Again my thanks

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Any new updates on how much your Cake poker % is worth? Do you see yourself becoming mostly a NL cash player in 2007? btw it was good to meet you at PCA, I think we have very similar styles, I basically find myself agreeing with every strategy post of yours that I've read.

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Thanks man [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If things go well, ideally I want to do a 60/40 mix or so of cash to tournaments, but it's totally going to depend on my mood, busto/robusto, and the phase of the moon. I'm committed to playing more and becoming full time this year, but not necessarily playing a specific game. On top of switching games for variety, it's going to be more important to be well rounded in the near future than it already is.

Cake %...I still have no idea, but I wouldn't sell it for any amount right now since it's such a high risk/high reward gamble. Five years from now, it could be worth nothing or a million, and I somewhat feel like what I personally do will have something to do with that.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Which is your best game, both absolutely and against the standard internet player of that game?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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I dropped out of school this past semester, and after living at home for a month have decided I'm going to move back to Dallas. I'll be supporting myself, at least for the first 3-4 months, playing low-limit SNGs at $25-30/hr.

Will I kill myself?

Do you have any advice for the next few months in general for me?

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100nl ftw. you can easily make at least twice as much 8 tabling .5/1

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Have you read any poker books? If so, which ones? and which ones helped you the most?

What are some key concepts of poker that you know now that you wished you knew when you first started?

Any advice for someone who just can't seem to win?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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do you have any control/influence at cake poker? coud you be hired as a consultant ala jurollo w/ stars? how often are there $600 average pots at the 5/10NL game?

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While I can own stock of a poker company in the US, I definitely cannot make business decisions while here. I can ask them to do things as a player and make bug reports, and they've been awesome with that, but to do anything else, first and foremost I'd have to leave the country (and, oh yeah, they'd have to want me to do it). Whether that will happen or not in the future...who knows.

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I dropped out of school this past semester, and after living at home for a month have decided I'm going to move back to Dallas. I'll be supporting myself, at least for the first 3-4 months, playing low-limit SNGs at $25-30/hr.

Will I kill myself?

Do you have any advice for the next few months in general for me?

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Well, first and foremost, I would never drop out of school for poker for the basic reason that, as I am living proof of, it is possible to do nothing in school and still get B's. Therefore, you may as well "go to college" and get a degree, even if you happen not to know what rooms your classes were in when the semester ends. If you can't do this, you're attending the wrong college (and it's entirely possible that you are)...but regardless, IMO, passing up all the perks of college for a whopping 30 bucks an hour is pretty lame*.

*in no small part because, yes, playing low level SNG's has been proven to cause insanity in lab mice.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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I dropped out of school this past semester, and after living at home for a month have decided I'm going to move back to Dallas. I'll be supporting myself, at least for the first 3-4 months, playing low-limit SNGs at $25-30/hr.

Will I kill myself?

Do you have any advice for the next few months in general for me?

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100nl ftw. you can easily make at least twice as much 8 tabling .5/1

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yeah but unlike sngs you have to actually be decent at poker

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Adanthar,

I really enjoy your satellite posts. I have been wanting to ask this since I read your satellite post.

When it gets down to crunch time and you are a middle stack in the Cutoff with 2 middle stacks in the blinds, or any ideal steal situation, do you ever make a 3XBB raise, or do you always just push? What I gathered from your post is that you never raise 3XBB, you always open push. Did I understand it correctly?

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If I'm at a table with people that 'get' satellites, yes, I always open shove there. If not, a standard raise is better.

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One more question: What do you see happening in the future for online poker?

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In the long run, I think we'll see it stabilize at somewhere around the level it's at now. I don't think that the US will place any more barriers around it than there already are, and eventually, I think some of the ones that are there already will be lowered. However, this is all over a 5-10 year+ term.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

Any advice about bonus whoring? I am not sure if this is correct but I remember you advocating or recommending it someone?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

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Which is harder law or poker?

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This is going to sound weird, but poker can actually be harder. The legal process for most attorneys is very formulaic, to the point where, say, drafting a contract or representing a client at a small administrative hearing is 99% copying other people's work and 1% actual effort. Furthermore, while playing winning poker is easy enough that you can probably teach an eight year old to do it, playing *high stakes* winning poker is something else. There are lots of people that can turn out to be good lawyers, but very few have the exact skill set (and this includes things like bankroll management and the ability not to care about quickly dropping six figures) that go into a Phil Ivey or Patrick Antonius.

I have no idea why I responded to this seriously BTW [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I am not a lawyer, but it seems strange to compare Ivey or Antonius to an ordinary lawyer. I am not sure if what the very top level of lawyer does is that formulistic. What the typical grinder poker pro does is different from what Ivey or Antonius does.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

FT of some WSOP event. You, Ansky, MLG, and Nath are there. All have equal chip stacks of 75BBs. Who wins?

Is it true that some people just "get it" and some don't?

If you had to break these things down, in terms of how important they are to be a long-term winning player, what would the breakdown be? (yes, they're not mutually exclusive, but deal with it --- I guess just rank them or something).
- Mental discipline (i.e., tilt control and control of the gambling instinct)
- mastery of the mathematics of poker
- good poker "feel"
- solid bankroll management
- experience
- having poker buddies to discuss poker with
- hand reading
- confidence
- being ranked on p5s
- being a well-rounded poker player
- poker/work/life balance
- happiness in other aspects of life

Do you find yourself getting bored with poker ever? Honestly, is it something that challeneges/intrigues you equally, decreasingly, or increasingly over the past 4 years?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

adanthar,
I didn't drop out of school to play poker. I dropped out of school because I, for whatever reason, had God bless me with great natural intelligence, and even greater laziness/apathy/lack of focus. I nearly failed high school, and I earned 4 credits my first semester at school. Right now, at this point in my life, I'm not where I need to be to make college a good choice for me.

skiier,

i would have to learn to play cash. even 100nl, as sad as that sounds. granted i dont have a meaningful sample size, but based on "that feeling" that adanthar described earlier, i'm just not comfortable playing 100xbb deep.

AE6,

[censored] you. if this was posted in MSNL or something then fine, but this is the MTT forum and I'm better at MTTs than you are.

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

adanthar,
you have a very different style than many of the typical winning online MTTers...both on this board, and playing in general. What do you think the biggest differences are, and why do you think you developed a different approach?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

adanthar,

Grats on your success.

As a lawyer, is this legal: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/article/8111
Is the sky falling?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

A legal question for you adanthar...

In a legal sense, can [censored]' Steinbrenner just move the Yankees? Does he have the [censored]' right to just move them?

Re: The Well: Adanthar (1/16/07)
 

are you the best tournament player in the mtt forum (define that however you will)?

I had this conversation with someone at the pca who thought you were too tight, but (at least from your posting, since I've played very little with you), I would pick you as the best tournament player on 2p2. Maybe it's just cause of the extreme confidence you give off in all of your strategy posts, I dunno. Who's better than you, and why? And are you too tight?

also, nice to meet you at the pca. I like your style.