Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Adelstein moved to Santa Monica after graduating from the University of Arizona.
A professional poker player Adelstein specializes in high-stakes cash-games. Adelstein admits that when he found online poker he became “obsessed” with the game.
The 27 year old claims that he’s one of the most successful online poker players in the world. Notably he played online as GMan.
A huge Survivor fan Adelstein said that he’s spent over 2,000 hours mastering the game’s strategy.
Adelstein also did work for training site DeucesCracked and did a segment on playing the WSOP Main Event on the Deuce Plays podcast with Bart Hanson. You can listen to it here.
Jason Senti and Phil Galfond are amongst Adelstein’s friends in the poker world. Mike “Timex” McDonald and Ryan Daut also gave their approval of his poker-playing ability.
GL @GarrettAdelstei in survivor. Only guy Ive ever seen sell action, see how soft WSOPME is, run up chips & buy pieces back @ MU #Confidence
— Mike McDonald (@MikeMcDonald89) January 23, 2014There's a poker player on the next survivor, and hes actually really fucking good. Played with him in a WPT at the bike, very very tough.
— Ryan Daut (@rcdaut) January 22, 2014Primarily a cash-game player, Adelstein does have a few live tournament results, for a total of $122,766 lifetime profit according to HendonMob.com:
Date: Event: Place: Prize: 29-Jun-2011 $5k WSOP NLHE 25th $25,919 05-Jul-2010 $10k WSOP Main Event 222nd $48,847 05-Jan-2008 $8k PCA 24th $48,000Adelstein Fits into Brains Team in All-New Survivor Concept
Adelstein will be a member of the Brains team on Survivor: Cagayan, which is the 28th season of the show. This year the show is split into three different tribes at the beginning based on Brains, Beauty and Brawn.
The show is set to premier on Feb. 26, 2014.
Adelstein is not the only expert game player on Survivor: Cagayan. He’ll start Survivor on the same team as former high school chess champion Spencer Bledsoe.
It’s worth noting that Jean-Robert Bellande made it to eighth place in Survivor: China so Adelstein would certainly do his best to last even longer.
Here's a video interview of Adelstein for CBS:
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