Michael Mizrachi has as soon as once more raised the bar in what could be argued as poker’s most prestigious occasion.
Already sharing the document for many $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship victories with Brian Rast, Mizrachi now stands alone after capturing his historic fourth title on Saturday on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker. “The Grinder” conquered the 107-entry subject, incomes $1,331,322 from the $5,162,750 prize pool and additional cementing his legacy because the occasion’s most dominant power.
The now seven-time bracelet winner beforehand gained the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy in 2010, 2012, and 2018. However with this newest victory, Mizrachi has separated himself as the one four-time PPC champion, an achievement many take into account one of many rarest and most tough in event poker.
It was pure domination from begin to end for Mizrachi, knocking out 5 of the seven returning gamers inside Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
All-Time Cash Record chief Bryn Kenney fell quick in his bid to cease Mizrachi, ending runner-up for $887,542, whereas Esther Taylor made historical past by putting third for $595,136, the deepest run ever by a lady within the PPC, surpassing Melissa Burr’s seventh-place end from 2014.
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Mizrachi Eyes Fifth Title and the Corridor of Fame
Mizrachi was fast to confess that this newest victory might have been his most full efficiency but.
“I most likely performed higher than the final three I gained,” he mirrored. “The whole lot went my means this event. I used to be all the time on the high of the leaderboard, by no means actually acquired quick, and possibly performed my greatest total.”
The whole lot went my means this event. I used to be all the time on the high of the leaderboard, by no means actually acquired quick, and possibly performed my greatest total
Rast captured his third Poker Gamers Championship title in 2023 and was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame the next yr, a timeline Mizrachi now hopes to comply with. As he sealed his record-breaking fourth PPC crown, chants of “Corridor of Fame” echoed from the rail contained in the Horseshoe.
“Yeah, if I win the fifth one, possibly,” Mizrachi joked. “No, I’m kidding. However that is fairly an accomplishment, and I hope so. Hopefully, subsequent yr I get inducted too.”
The aggressive fireplace nonetheless burns, although, with Mizrachi not content material to cease at 4.
“Brian, I’ve acquired another, you’ve acquired to catch up now – I’m going for quantity 5!”
Ultimate Day Motion
Mizrachi’s bid for an unprecedented fourth PPC title couldn’t have began a lot better, as he eradicated the primary three gamers of the day inside the opening stage.
First to fall was Ben Lamb, who bowed out in seventh place on the opening hand after his low draw bricked in Stud Hello-Lo towards Mizrachi and Albert Daher. Mizrachi scooped the greater than 5 million chip pot with a flush to climb up the counts, whereas Daher was left on fumes. Regardless of a quick rally, Daher couldn’t get well. An enormous conflict in 2-7 Triple Draw with Taylor left him with lower than an enormous wager, and Mizrachi completed the job quickly after, his sixes holding in a flip towards the high-stakes money recreation participant in No-Restrict Maintain’em.
Mizrachi’s momentum didn’t sluggish there. In the identical orbit, he bluffed $100,000 Excessive Curler champion Joao Vieira off high pair with simply four-high, giving himself almost half the chips in play. The pair tangled once more moments later in Stud, the place Mizrachi made one other flush to depart Vieira on fumes. These previous couple of chips discovered their means into Mizrachi’s stack the next hand, finishing a clear sweep of eliminations within the first stage of the day.
Mizrachi’s dominance continued into the second stage, the place he downed Andrew Yeh in Pot-Restrict Omaha, establishing three-handed play towards Taylor and Kenney, who was rooted to the underside of the counts.
Taylor regarded poised to change into the primary feminine participant to achieve heads-up within the PPC, however Kenney mounted a comeback with doubles by means of her in Stud, Omaha Hello-Lo, and Restrict Maintain’em. The ultimate blow got here in No-Restrict 2-7 Single Draw, the place Kenney made a wheel to crack her pat-nine and remove Taylor in third.
Mizrachi had one hand on the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy heading into heads-up play with a commanding 15:1 chip lead. Kenney by no means got here near overturning the deficit, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Mizrachi etched his title within the poker historical past books as soon as once more.
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