Adam Friedman got quite an education Tuesday - WSOP

Sam Farha

LAS VEGAS -- On Tuesday, 23-year-old Adam Friedman of Gahanna, Ohio, had a day he'll never forget at the World Series of Poker. Right now he'd like to forget it. But some day he'll look back on it -- if not fondly, then at least with appreciation -- for all he experienced and learned.
Friedman, a recent graduate of Indiana University's business school, began Day 3 on Table 124, tucked away in the far corner of the Brasilia Room.
Red-headed, bespectacled and wearing a yellow "Gahanna Tennis" T-shirt, Friedman's bearing and behavior screamed "College Boy." Something about him announced he was a good player, but that he lacked a certain amount of maturity, even humility, in the presence of the older, more hardened players. Friedman, whether this be a fair assessment or not, looked like the type of kid whom life had never really spanked before.
That would change.
Day 3 of the main event began with 568 players, with eight yet to be eliminated before all remaining players finished in the money. Remember Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, so named because that is the temperature at which paper burns? Well, you could have called the first 100 minutes of yesterday's action Fahrenheit 561, because that is the number of players at the WSOP above which your $10,000 buy in burns. That is, the 561st player to be eliminated gets nothing. The 560th player knocked out earns the minimum cash prize of $12,500.

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