Relating to blended sport tournaments, few have a observe 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 Blended Video games sequence, a $5,100 8-game match. Friedman overcame a closing desk that featured fellow high 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 sport title to an already spectacular checklist of poker accomplishments.
Moreover, Friedman picks up 576 factors in the direction of the CardPlayer Participant of the 12 months race, offered by International Poker.
The 42-year-old already has 5 World Sequence of Poker bracelets, all coming in non-hold’em occasions. That features 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 because of the pandemic.
On the outset of the match’s closing day, Friedman’s shot at profitable didn’t look all that nice. He got here into the seven-handed closing desk because the quick stack, beginning with roughly three huge bets in restrict video games and 14 huge blinds within the huge guess codecs.
Friedman held regular throughout 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. However, 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 guess after the second. Heading into the third and closing draw, Friedman and Wong each drew one whereas Sternfield stood pat.
Then, Friedman guess and Wong known as off his closing guess 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 quick stack and gave Friedman the chip lead.
Sternfield doubled up as soon as by Schulman, however in the end gave the remainder of his chips to Friedman in a seven card stud hand the place the 2 acquired all of the chips in on third avenue. Sternfield began with cut up kings and Friedman had cut up sevens.
However 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 clean 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 palms earlier than Friedman completed the job. Avivi netted $107,200 for his runner-up end.
Closing desk outcomes:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Adam Friedman
$170,200
576
170
2
Tal Avivi
$107,300
480
107
3
Nick Schulman
$74,000
384
74
4
Samuel Sternfield
$55,500
288
56
5
Fu Wong
$44,400
240
44
6
Toby Lewis
$37,000
192
37
7
Anthony Arvidson
$29,600
144
30
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