Brandon Adams
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sorry. this link works....http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_de...n=0-595-37729-7
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thanks.unfortunately it will probably be a few months before i can play another event. -b
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"Sometimes that line is crossed by accident. "I'm pretty sure that's what happened. --BA
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this is what i look like after a day under siege. daniel alaei was one to my right and wetangled every fourth pot. ---ba
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OK, OK, I reluctantly admit --- DN is the man. I can't get over how well he played in Tunica. Day 3 was the first time I'd played with DN, and he left me with a bad first impression. I was talking with him about poker books (he has a non-fiction book coming out in late 06 or early 07 and I have a poker novel coming out in mid-06). He was pretty condescending during the entire conversation, and at one point he said to me, "So you've spent a long time on tour, have you?" Anyway, I like Daniel a lot, but I think he needs to be a bit more tactful in conversation. Why use a Southern accent the whole day? You're in Tunica --- are people from Tunica going to find the mock accent funny?DN takes it to another level in live play. I doubled him up with ten players left on a board of Q84 (two hearts). He raised to 20,000 with blinds of 6000-12000 and antes of 1000. I defended from the BB with Qc7c (Yes, I defend with hands such as this routinely, even against top players. Across the four days, I was dealt AA once, KK once, and JJ four times. Most of my chips came from stealing, or looking at flops with weak hands when I thought the price was right). When we went ten-handed, I thought to myself: "I'd love to put Daniel to a tough decision with chips in the pot." I thought that the final table bubble would weigh very heavily on him. From a $ perspective, a final table has to be worth three or four hundred thousand to him. DN bet 20k on the Q84 flop. I underestimated the size of his stack by 30,000 chips. I'm usually pretty good at eyeballing stacks in a hurry, but I was running on little sleep and way too much Red Bull. I would have just called if I knew he had 130k before the flop bet. There was 72k in the pot after his flop bet. When he bet, I had a few quick thoughts....-DN doesn't want to risk his tournament here.-I'm EXTREMELY likely to have the best hand at this point. -There are a lot of weak draws on board and more are coming on the turn. -There's 72k in the pot. He'll call with a set, two pair, AQ, KQ, AA, or KK, and possibly a couple of very strong draws. If he has anything else, I want to shut him down right here. Well, Daniel called with Q-T. Why? Because he's a gutsy player and b/c he makes unbelievably good reads. Apparently the fact that I showed him a bluff earlier also weighed in the equation. Folks, showing is never a good idea. It's a game of incomplete information. Try to keep it that way. Take a look at how Daniel got his money in at the final table. I can't remember a comparable performance. During the most important hands, he got the money in when the other guy was drawing DEAD or NEARLY DEAD. I'm thinking particularly of AA vs A3 (where 255000 went in post-flop) and AQ vs 88 with AQ on board (where, shockingly, 380,000 went in post-flop). I got my money in as a 7-1 dog. My interpretation the AA vs A3 and AQ vs 88 hands is that the two players involved were overly nervous and juiced-up, and DN took advantage of this by slowplaying and by acting weak. Brandon
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it's me...Hand #9174295-5419 at Blundeston (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 27/Oct/05 18:28:36 mierbi is at seat 0 with $5263.50. The Awesomest is at seat 2 with $6280. Give_ME is at seat 3 with $4341. BrandonAdams is at seat 5 with $20230. Chaazz is at seat 6 with $6030. leafsfan16 is at seat 7 with $4750. The button is at seat 0. The Awesomest posts the small blind of $25. Give_ME posts the big blind of $50. mierbi: -- -- The Awesomest: -- -- Give_ME: -- -- BrandonAdams: 9d 9h Chaazz: -- -- leafsfan16: -- --Pre-flop: BrandonAdams raises to $100. Chaazz calls. leafsfan16 folds. mierbi calls. The Awesomest re-raises to $550. Give_ME folds. BrandonAdams calls. Chaazz folds. mierbi calls. Flop (board: 9c Kc 3s): The Awesomest checks. BrandonAdams checks. mierbi checks. Turn (board: 9c Kc 3s 5h): The Awesomest bets $150. BrandonAdams calls. mierbi calls. River (board: 9c Kc 3s 5h 3h): The Awesomest bets $450. BrandonAdams raises to $2800. mierbi folds. The Awesomest calls. Showdown: BrandonAdams shows 9d 9h. BrandonAdams has 9d 9h 9c 3s 3h: full house, nines full of threes. The Awesomest mucks cards. (The Awesomest has Js Jh.) Hand #9174295-5419 Summary: $3 is raked from a pot of $7850. BrandonAdams wins $7847 with full house, nines full of threes.Hand #9174295-5381 at Blundeston (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 27/Oct/05 18:08:30 mierbi is at seat 0 with $5125. The Awesomest is at seat 2 with $6336. Give_ME is at seat 3 with $9083. BrandonAdams is at seat 5 with $10912. Chaazz is at seat 6 with $3734. David59 is at seat 7 with $925. The button is at seat 7. mierbi posts the small blind of $25. The Awesomest posts the big blind of $50. mierbi: -- -- The Awesomest: -- -- Give_ME: -- -- BrandonAdams: Kd Kc Chaazz: -- -- David59: -- --Pre-flop: Give_ME raises to $175. BrandonAdams re-raises to $600. Chaazz folds. David59 folds. mierbi folds. The Awesomest folds. Give_ME calls. Flop (board: 8c 4h 7d): Give_ME checks. BrandonAdams bets $425. Give_ME raises to $850. BrandonAdams calls. Turn (board: 8c 4h 7d 4s): Give_ME bets $1500. BrandonAdams calls. River (board: 8c 4h 7d 4s Ks): Give_ME bets $2500. BrandonAdams goes all-in for $7962. Give_ME goes all-in for $6133. BrandonAdams is returned $1829 (uncalled). Showdown: BrandonAdams shows Kd Kc. BrandonAdams has Kd Kc 4h 4s Ks: full house, kings full of fours. Give_ME shows Ac Ah. Give_ME has Ac Ah 4h 4s Ks: two pair, aces and fours. Hand #9174295-5381 Summary: $3 is raked from a pot of $18241. BrandonAdams wins $18238 with full house, kings full of foursHand #9173942-4654 at Bhipak (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 25/Oct/05 17:59:56 BrandonAdams is at seat 5 with $41621. LFISGD is at seat 6 with $20166.50. Green Plastic is at seat 7 with $10000 (sitting out). The button is at seat 6. LFISGD posts the small blind of $50. BrandonAdams posts the big blind of $100. BrandonAdams: 2s 2h LFISGD: -- --Pre-flop: LFISGD raises to $200. BrandonAdams re-raises to $600. LFISGD calls. Flop (board: Qh 9h 2c): BrandonAdams bets $1200. LFISGD raises to $4800. BrandonAdams calls. Turn (board: Qh 9h 2c 4h): BrandonAdams checks. LFISGD bets $10800. BrandonAdams goes all-in for $36221. LFISGD goes all-in for $14766.50. BrandonAdams is returned $21454.50 (uncalled). River (board: Qh 9h 2c 4h 6c): (no action in this round) Showdown: BrandonAdams shows 2s 2h. BrandonAdams has 2s 2h Qh 9h 2c: three deuces. LFISGD shows 9d Qd. LFISGD has 9d Qd Qh 9h 6c: two pair, queens and nines. Hand #9173942-4654 Summary: $.50 is raked from a pot of $40333. BrandonAdams wins $40332.50 with three deuces.----------------------------------------------------------------
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ok, first, unlike dreamclown, i think daniel is one of the best young players in the world. further, he is willing to play anyone at any game for up to 500k. no one else can say that.he wrote a column recently bemoaning the death of mixed games among the new generation. i'd be interested in testing my mixed game skill against daniel, but not for 100k. if daniel is game, i'd like to play five freezeouts in one session...limit henl he 08stud8PLOwe'd each put up $25,000 per freezeout. each freezeout would be designed to last a max of two hours.i know these are low stakes relative to the other challenges, but if daniel wants to test the new young players, he might have to slum it a bit.Brandon Adams
Broke: A Poker Novel
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Guys, I'm tyring to spread the word on my new book, Broke: A Poker Novel. Check out...http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_de...n=0-595-37729-7Brandon