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Phil Hellmuth has 17 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. Johnny Chan went back-to-back in the Main Event. Michael Mizrachi has three Poker Players Championship wins. Stu Ungar won three Main Event titles, his third coming 16 years after his second.

Those are all objectively among the best accomplishments in WSOP history, along with a few other performances. Go ahead and put Adam Friedman on that short list (if he wasn't already).

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Friedman has reached the unofficial final table in Event #18: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship. He's one of seven players still vying for the bracelet and the $354,444 first-place prize.

Sure, there are six others at this very same final table. So, what's the amazing accomplishment here? Friedman won this same tournament in 2018, 2019, and 2021 — three consecutive years (there was no live WSOP in 2020, due to COVID) — and he also took fifth place in 2015. That's five final table appearances in the past 10 tries, in the same high-stakes WSOP event. Why's he had so much success in this game?

"I just understand when it's correct to pick certain games, at different times in the event," Friedman told PokerNewsThursday evening during a break. "A lot of the weaker players in this tournament, you can figure out really quickly what they're not as experienced in, and you can get a really big advantage in certain spots."

Friedman said, when asked what winning the Dealers Choice event for the fourth time would do to his legacy, he said his legacy is something he cared about when he was younger, but "I don't care too much about it now."

"It would just mean that, as little as I'm playing nowadays, I'm still able to compete at a pretty high level."

No poker player has won the same WSOP event four times. Friedman could make history on Friday when this tournament concludes. The five-time bracelet winner with over $5 million in live tournament cashes sat sixth in chips with seven players remaining, at the time of publishing. Philip Sternheimer was in the chip lead.

If Friedman wins the bracelet, he'll set a record. But if he doesn't, what he's already accomplished is legendary.

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