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Mizrachi claims WSOP Poker Players Championship, $1.5 million prize2 June 2010
Mizrachi defeated a final table that included his brother Robert as well as established pros John Juanda and Daniel Alaei to claim the World Series of Poker's Poker Players Championship, a $50,000 buy-in event that attracted 116 of the best players in the world. The tournament ran over five days, with most of the pro-laden field eliminated over the first four days when the tournament was played with eight games in the rotation. When the eight-player final table convened on Tuesday just before 4 p.m. PT, the only game dealt was No Limit Hold'em. Mizrachi eliminated five of the seven other players at the final table, including his brother. Robert Mizrachi finished fifth when his Ace-10 fell short against Queen-Jack when a Jack came on the turn. He won $341,429. The duo made history as the best combined sibling finish in a WSOP event. Annie Duke and Howard Lederer previously held the record with sixth- and ninth-place finishes, respectively, in a Pot Limit Hold'em event in 1995. (By comparison, Duke and Lederer's combined take in that event was less than $20,000. The Mizrachi brothers combined to take home more than $1.9 million.) ![]() Michael Mizrachi celebrates his $1.5 million score (photo by GreasieWheels) Mizrachi held a 3-2 chip lead going into the heads-up battle with Vladimir Shchmelev of St. Petersburg, Russia. The heads-up battle lasted about three hours and the Russian had the better of the play early on. In fact, the tournament would have gone the other way had Mizrachi not rivered a flush against Shchmelev's straight to even the chip stacks an hour and a half into heads-up play. After that hand, Mizrachi lived up to his nickname, grinding away at Shchmelev's chip stack until he finally won the title more than 12 hours after final table play began. Shchmelev won $963,375 for his second-place finish. Mizrachi's recent financial troubles were detailed in the Sun Sentinel on May 12, which reported that he had been issued a $339,711 lien from the Internal Revenue Service, and that a condo he owned with his brother Robert had been foreclosed and sold on an online auction. Mizrachi has amassed more than $8.6 million in total tournament winnings according to the poker database The Hendon Mob. Other WSOP notes
Mizrachi claims WSOP Poker Players Championship, $1.5 million prize
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