Adrian Mateos

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Adrian Mateos
Adrián Mateos (2019)
Adrián Mateos (2019)
  Personal information  
Date of birth July 1, 1994
place of birth SpainSpain Madrid
Nicknames
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Amadi_017PokerStars

Amadi_17Winamax
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 1,351,661
Total prize money $ 21,384,436
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 19th
Best main event 750th ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 6th
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 2
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 5
Last updated: March 15, 2020

Adrián Mateos Díaz (born July 1, 1994 in Madrid ) is a professional Spanish poker player .

Mateos is considered to be one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned almost US $ 21.5 million playing poker in live tournaments , making him the most successful Spanish poker player . Mateos won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe in 2013 and the Main Event of the European Poker Tour in 2015 . In 2017, he became at age 22 the youngest ever triple bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker . Mateos was at the top of the Global Poker Index for 20 consecutive weeks from November 30, 2017 to April 17, 2018 , which is synonymous with the world poker ranking. As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , he was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Poker career

Career

Mateos lives in London . He plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname Amadi_017 . Since October 2017 Mateos has been sponsored by the French platform Winamax , where he appears as Amadi_17 . Since 2012 he has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

At the end of January 2013, Mateos won the main event of the Estrellas Poker Tour in Madrid and with it over 100,000 euros in prize money. In mid-October 2013 he won the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe in Enghien-les-Bains, France . For this he prevailed against 374 other players and received one million euros in prize money and a bracelet . Less than two months later, he placed himself in the money for the first time at a main event on the European Poker Tour (EPT) and finished 93rd in Prague for around 11,000 euros. At the beginning of May 2015, Mateos won the EPT Main Event in Monte-Carlo and secured a prize of more than one million euros. In July 2015 , he was also successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and landed in the main event in 750th place. In the WSOP 2016 won a tournament Mateos in the variant No-Limit Hold'em and received his second bracelet and a prize money of 400,000 US dollars . At the end of April 2017, he won the Eight Max Shot Clock of the PokerStars Championship in Monte-Carlo for 908,000 euros. At the 2017 WSOP , Mateos won the Heads-Up Championship and a prize of over $ 330,000, as well as a third bracelet as the youngest player to date. In mid-October 2017, he finished fourth at the main event of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Macau for the equivalent of almost 900,000 US dollars. Overall, Mateos collected the most points in the GPI Player of the Year ranking in 2017 and was also named Player of the Year by Card Player Magazine . In mid-January 2018, he reached the final table at the main event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures in the Bahamas and received prize money of almost 400,000 US dollars for his fourth place. In April 2018 Mateos came to the final table of both € 25k Super High Rollers of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona and finished fourth for each of the € 419,000 in prize money. In mid-December 2018, he finished fifth at the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, endowed with 972,000 US dollars. In November 2019 Mateos won the Millions Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions World Bahamas and received prize money of around 520,000 US dollars due to a deal . He then also prevailed at the main event of the tournament series and secured more than 1.1 million US dollars due to a deal with two other players. At the Super High Roller Bowl Russia in Sochi , Mateos took fifth place in mid-March 2020, worth $ 800,000.

Bracelet overview

Mateos cashed 19 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in competition Attendees Prize money
2013 E € 10,450 Main Event - No-Limit Hold'em 0375 € 1,000,000
2016 E. 0.$ 1500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold'em 1840 0.$ 409,171
2017 E. $ 10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship 0129 0.$ 336,656

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2012 00.042,894 1
2013 01,630,868 2
2014 00.411.093 -
2015 01,784,406 3
2016 02,499,220 1
2017 05,881,229 4th
2018 04,995,651 3
2019 02,739,583 3
2020 01,399,500 -
total 21,384,436 17th

Web links

Commons : Adrián Mateos  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Adrián Mateos in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Adrián Mateos in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Adrián Mateos in the World Series of Poker database, accessed June 25, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ Thursday Thrill: Adrian Mateos wins on pokerfirma.com on November 8, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ Mustapha Kanit and Adrián Mateos Diaz join the Winamax team on winamax.fr on October 16, 2017, accessed on October 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ ESPT - 4 - Madrid (€ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  8. ↑ 2013 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 10,000 + 450 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ EPT - 10 - EUREKA - 3 - Prague (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 5 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event (Event # 27)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em Summer Solstice (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 25, 2016.
  13. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Eight Max Shot Clock (Event 32)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 1, 2017 (English).
  14. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up Championship (Event # 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series - Macau (HK $ 960,000 + 40,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Macau Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ Adrian Mateos wins the GPI 2017 Player of the Year rating on hochgepokert.com on December 22, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  17. ↑ Adrian Mateos Wins 2017 Card Player Player of the Year Award on cardplayer.com from January 3, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2020 (English).
  18. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 9,700 + 600 # 7 No Limit Hold'em - PCA Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2018.
  19. ↑ partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - € 25k Super High Roller # 2) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 9, 2018 (English).
  20. ↑ partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - € 25k Super High Roller # 3) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 9, 2018 (English).
  21. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2018.
  22. ↑ partypoker Millions World Bahamas ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 20, 2019.
  23. ↑ partypoker Millions World Bahamas ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Millions Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 24, 2019.
  24. ↑ Adrian Mateos Goes 0 for 3 in Flips to Bust in 5th ($ 800,000) on pokercentral.com March 15, 2020, accessed on March 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Mateos, Adrián
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mateos Díaz, Adrián (full name); Amadi_17 (nickname); Amadi_017 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish poker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain