Adam Friedman Dominates Late Stages, Wins PokerGO Tour Mixed Games Title

When it involves blended recreation tournaments, few have a monitor report as spectacular as Adam Friedman’s. The veteran poker professional added to that already prolonged résumé on Thursday afternoon when he bested a 148-entry area within the second occasion of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Games sequence, a $5,100 8-game match. Friedman overcame a last desk that featured fellow prime professionals Nick Schulman and Toby Lewis, and completed the job by defeating Tal Avivi heads-up.

He earned $170,200 and a trophy for his efforts. The victory introduced the Ohio native’s profession match earnings to just about $5 million and added one other blended recreation title to an already spectacular checklist of poker accomplishments.

Additionally, Friedman picks up 576 factors in the direction of the CardPlayer Player of the Year race, offered by Global Poker.

The 42-year-old already has 5 World Series of Poker bracelets, all coming in non-hold’em occasions. That contains back-to-back-to-back victories within the prestigious $10,000 sellers alternative occasion from 2018-21, with the occasion not having been held in 2020 as a result of pandemic.

At the outset of the match’s last day, Friedman’s shot at successful didn’t look all that nice. He got here into the seven-handed last desk because the brief stack, beginning with roughly three massive bets in restrict video games and 14 massive blinds within the massive wager codecs.

Friedman held regular in the course of the first two ranges, whereas Avivi and Schulman dominated the motion and different gamers hit the rail.

Anthony Arvidson was the primary to go when his small two pair in seven card stud hi-lo was no match in opposition to Samuel Sternfield’s kings-up.

Sternfield despatched Lewis to the rail in that very same stud hi-lo rotation when the short-stacked British professional was all in on third avenue and solely had king-high by the river. On the opposite hand, Sternfield made a full home to win the pot and eradicate Lewis in sixth.

Friedman chipped as much as the center of the pack with none vital showdowns, after which moved to the highest of the counts by eliminating Fu Wong in fifth.

There was a three-way 2-7 triple draw hand between Friedman, Wong and Sternfield. The trio put in a number of bets after the primary draw and one wager after the second. Heading into the third and last draw, Friedman and Wong each drew one whereas Sternfield stood pat.

Then, Friedman wager and Wong known as off his last wager earlier than Sternfield folded. Friedman confirmed 7-6-5-3-2 and bested Wong’s 8-6-4-3-2.

Wong’s elimination left Sternfield because the brief stack and gave Friedman the chip lead.

Sternfield doubled up as soon as by means of Schulman, however in the end gave the remainder of his chips to Friedman in a seven card stud hand the place the 2 obtained all of the chips in on third avenue. Sternfield began with cut up kings and Friedman had cut up sevens.

But Sternfield by no means improved and Friedman rivered two pair. Sternfield earned $55,500 for his fourth-place end.

By the top of the extent, Friedman held about 75% in play and it was easy crusing from there. Friedman busted a short-stacked Schulman in stud with buried tens to take a greater than 4-to-1 chip lead in opposition to Avivi.

Heads-up solely lasted a pair fingers earlier than Friedman completed the job. Avivi netted $107,200 for his runner-up end.

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