Adam Friedman Leads After Day 1a of the MSPT Showdown Series $1,100 Main Event
Day 1a of the MSPT Showdown Series $1,100 Main Event at San Diego’s Sycuan Casino attracted 131 runners, but after a little over 14 levels of play the field was whittled down to the final 15 with three-time WSOP bracelet winner and MSPT JACK Cleveland champ Adam Friedman leading the way.
His monster stack of 816,000 is more than double that of Nic Getzen (322,000), his next-closest competitor. Others to bag were Jimmy Donuts (305,000), 2004 WSOP Main Event champ Greg Raymer (271,000), Adam Demersseman (188,000), and Minnesota’s Tony Hartmann (106,000).
Among those to fire and fall on Day 1a were Nick Yunis, Alex Winter, Andrew Moreno, Hannah and Happy Spaulding, Brad Sailor, WSOP bracelet winner Ben Moon, MSPT champs Chad Bjorkman, Ken Baime, and Rich Alsup.
There are still two more starting flights to be had with Day 1b and 1c taking place at 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday respectively. PokerNews will be on hand to capture all the action, so be sure to join us then.
flop saw Donuts continue for 7,000 and both his opponents called to see the 
turn.
river was no help to Gorenc and he headed for the exit.
flop, Alsup bet 10,000 and Friedman called to create a side pot. The dealer then burned and turned the 
, which saw Alsup bet 23,000, leaving himself 54,500 behind.
on the river. It was a safe card for Friedman, who scored the double elimination and chipped up to 570,000, nearly seven times the current average stack.
was run out on the river.
on the button.
