Adam Friedman Reaches Unofficial Final Table in WSOP Event He’s Won Three Times

Phil Hellmuth has 17 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. Johnny Chan went back-to-back within the Predominant Occasion. Michael Mizrachi has three Poker Gamers Championship wins. Stu Ungar gained three Predominant Occasion titles, his third coming 16 years after his second.

These are all objectively among the many finest accomplishments in WSOP historical past, together with a couple of different performances. Go forward and put Adam Friedman on that quick checklist (if he wasn’t already).

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Friedman has reached the unofficial last desk in Occasion #18: $10,000 Sellers Alternative 6-Handed Championship. He is one in all seven gamers nonetheless vying for the bracelet and the $354,444 first-place prize.

Certain, there are six others at this exact same last desk. So, what is the wonderful accomplishment right here? Friedman gained this identical match in 2018, 2019, and 2021 — three consecutive years (there was no stay WSOP in 2020, attributable to COVID) — and he additionally took fifth place in 2015. That is 5 last desk appearances up to now 10 tries, in the identical high-stakes WSOP occasion. Why’s he had a lot success on this recreation?

“I simply perceive when it is appropriate to choose sure video games, at totally different occasions within the occasion,” Friedman advised PokerNews Thursday night throughout a break. “Quite a lot of the weaker gamers on this match, you may work out actually rapidly what they don’t seem to be as skilled in, and you will get a extremely huge benefit in sure spots.”

Friedman stated, when requested what profitable the Sellers Alternative occasion for the fourth time would do to his legacy, he stated his legacy is one thing he cared about when he was youthful, however “I do not care an excessive amount of about it now.”

“It will simply imply that, as little as I am enjoying these days, I am nonetheless in a position to compete at a fairly excessive degree.”

No poker participant has gained the identical WSOP occasion 4 occasions. Friedman might make historical past on Friday when this match concludes. The five-time bracelet winner with over $5 million in stay match cashes sat sixth in chips with seven gamers remaining, on the time of publishing. Philip Sternheimer was within the chip lead.

If Friedman wins the bracelet, he’ll set a report. But when he does not, what he is already completed is known.

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