12-09-2008 16:25 UTC+2

Making his Mark

[user4144]

Mark Friedman is one of your early chip leaders with 25,000. As he pulled me aside momentarily, he basked in the glory of a triple barrel bluff against the highly competent Johannes Strassmann. "I raised it up with 7-4 off," he confessed, "and obviously missed the flop. On the river, he thought for five minutes, but eventually lay it down. Apart from that, I won a couple of smaller pots where I hit my hand."

Having played Friedman myself in the UK, I know that he can be tougher to handle than a hot potato with an aggressive, yet unpredictable style. If he continues to accumulate chips at this pace, then he could be a genuine dark horse for going deep in this year's EPT Prague.

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