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Adrián Mateos Díaz, alias Amadi_17

Adrián Mateos DíazWhen Adrián Mateos Diaz joined the Team in 2017, Winamax was already aware that it had recruited a phenomenon, a UFO that only comes along once in a generation. Seven years later, "la máquina" has more than justified his nickname, having accumulated over $50 million in live winnings, enough to reach top 10 in the rankings of the famous "All Time Money List". Feared, respected and adored all at once, the Madrilenian has established his dominance of the high-stakes circuit year after year. Like a shooting star that never stops shining.

Adrián Mateos Díaz was 16 when he came across a poker tournament on TV. Long before this, his parents and grandparents had already passed the passion for card games on to him: seduced by the mathematical aspect of Texas Hold'em, it soon became his obsession. Whilst not yet an adult, Adrián was up and running, reading up on the Internet and winning his first pots against other fans in the clubs of San Martin de la Vega. "I watched all the videos, everything I could find online: that’s all I thought about. I had already decided that my future would be in an activity where one was rewarded in proportion to the work done. Poker seemed to me the ideal discipline for this, and even before I played my first tournament, I already fancied my chances." Adrián already had a taste for competitions, due an adolescence spent on the tennis courts, where he used to face - and beat - players older than him. This scenario repeated itself during his first poker games against strangers: "I quickly realized that I was much better than them."

From then on, Adrián had only one idea in mind: to reach Madrid, the capital, and its casino. This was to occur immediately after celebrating his 18th birthday (and obtained his driving license, the “open sesame” for travelling the 30 kilometres from San Martin de la Vega!) "My first trips to Madrid were amazing," he remembers, "I was going, I was winning. I was going back the next weekend, I was still winning. And so on. I was really lucky in the beginning." One Friday night, the student announced to his colleagues that he was about to play his very first major poker tournament, a €600 event, funded from his winnings in the past month. Three days later, he returned to school with a victory: ahead of more than 300 players, he had just won €33,000!

Adrián had not yet realized it, but he was experiencing the first chapter of the most dazzling career ever observed in the history of modern poker. He spent his weekends in Madrid and climbed the rungs at full speed: "There were not many tournaments on the programme, so I began to work the cash game: first at €1/€2, then at €2/€4, then €4/€8 ..." Three months later, he won a second tournament, for another €100,000. One year after his debut, his work bore fruit in record time: Adrián was already ready to face the world elite who, stunned, were to see the Iberian tornado surge over them.

It was in Deauville, in the winter of 2013, that he would play his very first European Poker Tour tournament: Adrián was now facing the great figures of poker that he had still been watching on television a few months earlier and... he felt at ease! "There, I met other Spanish players, like Sergio Aido and Javier Gomez, and they quickly became good friends. In the Main Event, I tried a huge bluff in the second hour of play - and it worked! I could not believe it. I realized that I was not afraid. Then I won a €10,300 Highroller satellite, and reached the paid placings, against a lot of very good players: Kevin MacPhee, Jonathan Duhamel, Martin Jacobson ... At first, they tried to intimidate me, but they did not know me, and it did not take them long to respect my game. For all these reasons, this trip to Deauville changed my life."

Encouraged by this first successful experience among the pros, Adrián was to redouble his efforts. He left university, settled in London with his new pro friends and continued his online apprenticeship, together with travel. "This was not a difficult decision to make. In a worst-case scenario, if it did not work, I could always go back to school. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain." In October 2013, after winning $300,000 on the internet, he landed at Enghien-les-Bains, where the European edition of the World Series of Poker was to take place. He was to dominate from start to finish in one of the most important tournaments of the year, beating players of the calibre of Dominik Nitsche, Benny Spindler and Fabrice Soulier in the final, becoming World Champion and a millionaire. He was only 19 years old.

Adrián's first victory in Madrid had given him the confidence to try his luck on the pro circuit. Enghien-les-Bains enabled him to become a permanent fixture on the most expensive tournaments on the planet. Since then, he never stopped travelling, accumulating results in all the top European poker venues. In 2015, he conquered the other Major Tournament in the Old Country - the Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final - surpassing 563 players, for a new seven-figure prize. Since that time, he has been treated as a veteran on the circuit: found everywhere, always feared, and respected above all.

Adrián’s track record in finals kept increasing, as did his experience. It now remained for him to weigh in on the continent that saw the birth of poker: America. This was to be done on his second pilgrimage to Las Vegas. There, he won a second World Champion bracelet in an event that brought together 1,840 players and, in the aftermath, fighting in major Highroller finals throughout the city. He continued his undermining work back in Europe, with new finals in Malta and Prague, and drove it home in 2017 by setting a new record: with his victory in the WSOP heads-up event, he became the youngest player in the history of poker to hold three bracelets, at 22 years old.

After a multitude of trophies, the Spaniard's fourth bracelet arrived in 2021, on the $250,000 Super Highroller, for a whopping prize of $3,265,000. Adrián's love affair with the world's most expensive tournaments is no secret. Having become the “final boss” of the Highroller circuits (Triton and Super High Roller Bowl) and of all MTTs with €25,000 entry fees and above, he continues to rack up 6 and 7-figure winnings. So much so, in fact, that he's now firmly established in the Top 10 of the All Time Money List, with over $50 million in live tournament winnings. A figure that's set to rise rapidly. The Team Winamax leader is putting in performances at such a pace that this biography will certainly be requiring weekly updates.

After a career spanning over ten years, Adrián Mateos isn't just one of the best poker players in the world. He's an ambassador, a role model for many and, without getting too far ahead of ourselves, a future Hall of Fame member and very likely number one on the All-Time Money List in the not-so-distant future. And the bad news for all his rivals is that the Spaniard is as hungry for victory as ever. It's a fact: there's no end in sight. And neither are our updates to his bio. But how can you blame him?
 

Biography updated on 29th August 2024


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  •      Live tournament accomplishments

    08/2024 Super High Roller Mystery Bounty $25,750 - Cypruse Winner ($327,000)
    06/2024 WSOP High Roller $50,000 - Las Vegas 4th ($681,554)
    05/2024 Triton Super High Roller $212,000 - Montenegro 2nd ($3,292,000)
    05/2024 Triton Super High Roller $53,000 - Montenegro Winner
    ($1,761,000)
    03/2024 Triton Super High Roller $31,800 - Jeju Winner
    ($1,175,000)
    10/2023 Triton Main Event €132,500 - Monte-Carlo 2nd (€2,818,264)
    10/2023 EPT $25,000 - Chipre Winner ($157,946)
    09/2023 Aria High Roller $25,200 - Las Vegas Winner ($216,000)
    06/2023 WSOP High Roller $100,000 - Las Vegas 3rd ($1,142,147)
    03/2023 Triton Main Event $100,000 - Vietnam 4th ($1,201,000)
    01/2023 PCA Super High Roller $99,000 - Nassau 3rd ($1,095,903)
    12/2022 EPT $25,000 - Prague Winner ($75,243)
    10/2022 Aria High Roller $10,000 - Las Vegas Winner ($50,000)
    06/2022 WSOP Super High Roller $250,000 - Las Vegas 4th ($1,367,206)
    05/2022 EPT Super High Roller €100,000 - Monte-Carlo Winner
    (€1,385,430)
    11/2021 WSOP Super High Roller $250,000 - Las Vegas Winner
    ($3,265,362)
    10/2021 Aria High Roller $10,000 - Las Vegas Winner ($113,199)
    03/2020 partypoker MILLIONS Super High Roller $250,000 - Sotchi 5th ($800,000)
    12/2019 EPT Super Highroller €50,000 - Prague 3rd (€320,170)
    11/2019 EPT 8-Handed €10,300 - Prague Winner (€177,500)
    11/2019 partypoker MILLIONS Bahamas Main Event $10,300 - Nassau Winner
    ($1,162,805)
    11/2019 partypoker MILLIONS Bahamas Super High Roller $25,500 - Nassau Winner ($520,464)
    07/2019  WSOP High Roller $50,000 - Las Vegas 5th ($367,186)
    12/2018  Super High Roller Bowl $300,000 - Las Vegas 5th ($972,000)
    10/2018  WSOP-E Super High Roller €10,000 - Rozvadov 7th (€331,943)
    07/2018  Aria High Roller $26,000 - Las Vegas Winner ($249,880)
    06/2018  Aria High Roller $26,000 - Las Vegas Winner $(253,240)
    06/2018  Aria High Roller $26,000 - Las Vegas 2nd ($189,000)
    06/2018  WSOP High Roller €100,000 - Las Vegas 8th ($295,066)
    05/2018 Aria High Roller $25,000 - Las Vegas 3rd ($120,000)
    05/2018 Winamax SISMIX Main Event MAD6,000 - Marrakech Winner (MAD1,000,000)
    05/2018 European Poker Tour €25,000 - Monte-Carlo 3rd (€114,100)
    04/2018 partypoker MILLIONS Super High Roller €25,500 - Barcelone 4th (€215,000)
    04/2018 partypoker MILLIONS Super High Roller €25,500 - Barcelone 4th (€204,000)
    01/2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open High Roller $25,500 - Hollywood 2nd ($403,125)
    01/2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Super High Roller $50,000 - Hollywood 2nd ($308,125)
    01/2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event $10,000 - Paradise Island 4th ($372,600)
    12/2017 PS Championship 8-max €25,500 - Prague 4th (€134,800)
    12/2017 PS Championship Super High Roller €50,000 - Prague 3rd (€244,900)
    12/2017 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $25,000 - Las Vegas 3rd ($185,500)
    12/2017 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $25,000 - Las Vegas 3rd ($156,000)
    11/2017 Partypoker Caribbean Poker Party Finale $5,300 - Punta Cana Winner ($250,000)
    10/2017 Triton Super High Roller Series HK$80,000  - Macau Winner (HK$2,325,000)
    10/2017 Triton Super High Roller Series HK$300,000 - Macau 6th (HK$1,190,000 )
    10/2017 Triton Super High Roller Series HK$1,000,000 - Macau 4th (HK$6,950,000)
    09/2017 Poker Masters $50,000 - Las Vegas 6th ($150,000)
    09/2017 Poker Masters $50,000 - Las Vegas 7th ($127,500)
    08/2017 PS Championship €25,500 - Barcelona 7th (€122,100)
    07/2017 WSOP Heads-Up Championship $10,000 - Las Vegas Winner ($336,656)
    05/2017 Aria Super High Roller $50,000 - Las Vegas 2nd ($293,340)
    05/2017 Aria Super High Roller $100,000 - Las Vegas 7th ($264,600)
    04/2017 PS Championship €50,000 - Monte Carlo Winner (€908,000)
    03/2017 Seminole Hard Rock $50,000 - Hollywood 2nd ($413,567)
    03/2017 Aria High Roller $25,000 - Las Vegas 2nd ($186,000)
    12/2016 European Poker Tour €25,500 - Prague 3rd (€260,300)
    12/2016 WPT Five Diamond $25,000 - Las Vegas 2nd ($247,680)
    07/2016 WSOP High Roller $111,111 - Las Vegas 11th ($310,550)
    07/2016 Bellagio High Roller $25,000 - Las Vegas 3rd ($131,040)
    06/2016 WSOP Summer Solstice $1,500 - Las Vegas Winner ($409,171)
    04/2016 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker $10,000 - Hollywood 4th ($200,510)
    12/2015 European Poker Tour €25,500 - Prague 4th (€193,050)
    05/2015 European Poker Tour €10,600 - Monte Carlo Winner (€1,082,000)
    13/2013 WSOP Europe Main Event €10,000 - Enghien-les-Bains Winner (€1,000,000)
    01/2013 Estrellas Main Event €1,100 - Madrid Winner (€103,053)
    10/2012 CNP 770 Main Event €600 - Madrid Winner (€32,699)

     

  •      Tournament accomplishments on Winamax

    11/2023 Highroller €250 3rd (€4,411)
    11/2023 Highroller €250 2nd (€7,827)
    08/2023 Grand Tournament €1,000 Winner (€35,627)
    02/2023 Mystery KO €250 Winner (€2,907)
    11/2022 Battle Royale €200 2nd (€3,633)
    11/2022 Highroller €250 4th (€3,403)
    04/2022 Battle Royale €200 Winner (€3,682)
    03/2022 Highroller €250 4th (€2,897)
    02/2022 Grand Tournament €1,000 3rd (€23,639)
    01/2022 Battle Royale €200 Winner (€4,061)
    01/2022 Rush Hour €50 2nd (€1,637)
    12/2021 Purple €500 2nd (€5,847)
    12/2021 Highroller €250 2nd (€5,529)
    12/2021 Highroller €250 3rd (€3,577)
    09/2021 Winamax Series - HU Championsip €250 3rd (€3,115)
    09/2021 Winamax Series - 6-max Super Championship KO €500 7th (€4,796)
    06/2021 Highroller €250 4th (€2,385)
    06/2021 Purple €500 3rd (€4,499)
    06/2021 Battle Royale €200 2nd (€2,390)
    03/2021 Highroller €250 2nd (€3,341)
    03/2021 Highroller €250 4th (€3,165)
    02/2021 Highroller €250 Winner (€9,993)
    02/2021 Purple €500 2nd (€3,175)
    01/2021 Highroller €250 3rd (€6,060)
    12/2020 XTASE €100 Winner (€2,473)
    12/2020 Highroller €250 2nd (€6,707)
    10/2020 Highroller €250 2nd (€5,724)
    09/2020 Grand Tournament Funday €500 4th (€8,726)
    02/2020 Highroller €250 2nd (€4,840)
    02/2020 Grand Tournament €1,000 7th (€5,172)
    01/2020 Winamax Series - Evento 171 (€250) 8th (€1,442)
    04/2019 HighRoller €250 Winner (€5,006)
    01/2019 Battle Royale €200 4th (€2,751)
    02/2018 HighRoller €300 Winner (€14,960)


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