  As with any black hole, asymptotically anti-de Sitter Kerr black holes are
described by a small number of parameters, including a "mass parameter" $M$
that reduces to the AdS-Schwarzschild mass in the limit of vanishing angular
momentum. In sharp contrast to the asymptotically flat case, the horizon area
of such a black hole increases with the angular momentum parameter $a$ if one
fixes $M$, this appears to mean that the Penrose process in this case would
violate the Second Law of black hole thermodynamics. We show that the correct
procedure is to fix not $M$ but rather the "physical" mass $E=M/(1-a^2/L^2)^2$,
this is motivated by the First Law. For then the horizon area decreases with
$a$. We recommend that $E$ always be used as the mass in physical processes:
for example, in attempts to "over-spin" AdS-Kerr black holes.
