Brandon Adams (poker player)

Adams got his bachelors' degree and Master's degree at the University of Florida, before attending Harvard University and obtaining a doctorate.[1]

Adams finished a book titled "Setting Sun: The End of Economic Dominance". He previously published a poker novel, "Broke: A Poker Novel" in 2008. He co-authored a book on behavioral finance, "The Story of Behavioral Finance", with Brian Finn.

Brandon Adams was first introduced to poker during his college years.

Adams first cashed in the World Series of Poker in 2006 in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event and again in the Main Event the following year, winning a cash prize of $130,288 for his 69th-place finish.[2]

He played on Season 4 of High Stakes Poker, on seasons 5-7 of Poker After Dark, and participated in the World Series of Poker circuit tournaments.

His best finish in a tournament at the WSOP came in 2019 when he won the $3,200 Online No-Limit Hold'em High Roller (Event #74) event for $411,561.[3] In total, Adams has cashed twenty-three WSOP events and has made seven WSOP and WSOP Circuit final tables as of the end of the 2019 series.[4]

Adams has appeared on over sixty poker TV shows on NBC, ESPN, and ESPN2, and the Game Show Network.

Although he primarily plays cash games, as of 2019, his poker tournament earnings exceed $5,100,000.[5] His 23 WSOP cashes account for $2,517,613 of that total.[6]

In 2011, Adams founded Expert Insight at a cost of $450,000.[7] The website allowed its customers 1-on-1 video chat sessions with experts in various fields, such as a chat with Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker, for $5,000 an hour.

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