There’s just one factor that would take the headlines away from Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi run within the 2025 World Sequence of Poker Essential Occasion and that’s Leo Margets’ journey to the ultimate desk. She’s the primary girl to make it this far since Barbara Enright did it 30 years in the past when she completed fifth.
By making the ultimate desk, she’s assured at the very least a $1 million payday and is barely eight eliminations away from the $10 million prize and the bracelet.
There have been a number of deep runs by ladies within the latest previous. Poker famous person Kristen Foxen almost made it to the ultimate 9 final yr, however stalled in thirteenth place.
Earlier than that in 2012, the WSOP almost scored a double with deep runs by Gaelle Baumann and Elisabeth Hille, who have been knocked out back-to-back in tenth and eleventh locations. Baumann is one in all 4 ladies to only miss the ultimate desk in tenth. The others are Annie Duke in 2000, Susie Isaacs in 1998, and Barbara Samuelson in 1994. However take into account this: The variety of gamers in all these fields mixed was 1,180.
This yr’s Essential Occasion was the third largest in historical past with 9,735 entrants.
The remainder of the women who completed within the high 20 are Marsha Waggoner (twelfth in 1997), Foxen, Tiffany Williamson (fifteenth in 2009), Tiffany Michelle (seventeenth in 2008), and Kathy Liebert twice (seventeenth in 1998 and 2000).
Margets, who turns 43 subsequent month, is the final girl to win an open WSOP occasion, which she did within the 2021 “The Nearer” that attracted 1,903. That is her second deep run within the $10,000 Essential Occasion after ending twenty seventh in 2009. She received some follow working by a big subject this summer time within the $1,500 Milly Maker and its 11,996 entrants. Margert completed twenty third.
A Enterprise Research main from Roehampton College of Surrey in London, she has a grasp’s diploma in Communication Enterprise Administration and focuses on human conduct.
A Winamax on-line professional, she is the co-winner of a Spanish actuality TV present known as Traitors Espana in 2023. And never solely that, she is an avid marathon runner who ran 10 of them. However this marathon is perhaps the hardest check she’s confronted within the aggressive world, particularly with the concentrated gauntlet of professionals and bangers she needed to get by because the subject shrunk to the ultimate 9 this weekend.
And it’s solely going to get tougher from right here contemplating the gamers who’re left:
The gamers have immediately off, and return again to the Horseshoe tomorrow to play right down to 4. The occasion will conclude Wednesday. Right here’s what they’re enjoying for.
