In the summer season of 2025, Michael Mizrachi eradicated any doubt as to his legendary standing on this planet of event poker. He took down his fourth profession World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship, after which went on to triumph within the 2025 WSOP foremost occasion.
The unimaginable efficiency noticed Mizrachi immediately inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, each truly and by any affordable measure. Mizrachi struck once more one yr later, seizing the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship in a dominant efficiency. The Floridian poker professional claimed his ninth profession bracelet and a $1,350,203 first-place prize. That stands because the sixth-largest results of Mizrachi’s profession. It pushed him over $30.6 million in whole profession event earnings.
“Last year, on June 29, I won the PPC,” Mizrachi informed WSOP’s Natalie Bode following his win. “And it’s June 29, 2026, and we won something different. I wanted to change it up a little bit.”
“I just push myself harder and harder. This year, I got my health back. I feel much better. Lost 40 pounds since last main event, training twice a day, so I feel good. I’ve never felt any better than this, at 45.”
The Great Game Of Pot-Limit Omaha
With this PLO win, Mizrachi ties Benny Glaser and the late Johnny Moss for sixth-most on the all-time WSOP bracelet-winners record. Glaser had his ninth bracelet win, additionally within the $50,000 PPC, simply three days earlier than Mizrachi’s milestone. In between, Nick Schulman received heads up for his ninth bracelet within the $10,000 restrict deuce-to-seven triple draw championship, earlier than finally ending second.
All of those wild outcomes additionally come on the eve of the 2026 WSOP foremost occasion, which kicks off on Thursday, July 2. Mizrachi, in fact, will enter because the defending champion, contemporary off this large victory.
The WSOP $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship, which yearly produces one of many greatest fields at that buy-in degree every summer season, drew 836 entrants in 2026. The whole prize pool reached $7,774,800 by the shut of registration and was shared between 126 gamers who reached the cash on day 2 of the event.
By the top of the second day, 37 gamers remained, and Mizrachi held a severe chip lead. There had been some heavy hitters among the many closest contenders, together with defending Card Player Player of the Year Jesse Lonis, who was in third place in a single day. But when the sector reached an unofficial desk of 9 simply after the dinner break on day 3, Lonis had slid to the shortest stack.
By the time 2025 WSOP bracelet winner Aaron Kupin went out in ninth place ($102,599), although, Lonis had made an unimaginable comeback. He turned a straight to get rid of Kupin, and overtook Mizrachi for the lead.
There had been eight gamers left heading into the ultimate break of the night time. By the time the chip baggage got here out, solely three gamers remained.
An Unstoppable Mizrachi
Lonis additional prolonged his lead over the sector till he and Mizrachi performed a big pot with one pair every. Mizrachi was all in and in danger on a 7♥3♣2♥9♦ board with A♣A♠8♠3♥, one pair of aces. He was forward of Lonis, however the latter’s A♦J♥10♦7♦ had some outs to come back from behind, declare an enormous chip lead, and get rid of Mizrachi. The Okay♠ river saved Mizrachi’s aces finest, and he regained the lead— a big one at that.
Mizrachi as soon as once more utilized pocket aces to most effectiveness, this time on the expense of Toby Joyce. The Irish professional, a web-based WSOP bracelet winner, couldn’t make a lot out of A♣Okay♥J♦3♣, whereas Mizrachi made a full home, tens filled with aces, to get rid of Joyce in eighth place ($132,908).
Mizrachi took the remainder of Lonis’ chips when Lonis as soon as once more failed to show high pair and a straight draw into something extra on a clean river, as Mizrachi’s two-pair knocked Lonis out in seventh place ($175,233). This was the tenth final-table end of 2026 for Lonis.
In a battle of brief stacks, Michael Hahn made two pair, jacks and eights, to get rid of bracelet winner Raj Vohra in sixth place ($235,073). Mizrachi’s lead grew, as a busted flush draw changed into runner-runner two pair to get rid of one other bracelet winner, Ian Matakis, in fifth place ($320,763).
On the ultimate hand of day 3, Mizrachi added Martin Zamani to his record of knockouts. Mizrachi made two pair, tens and fives, to get rid of a short-stacked Zamani in fourth place ($445,080). Over the course of the ultimate desk alone, Mizrachi had eradicated 4 bracelet winners in Joyce, Lonis, Matakis, and Zamani, on his strategy to an nearly insurmountable lead.
Closing It Out
To begin the ultimate day, Mizrachi had 40,225,000 in opposition to Hahn’s 4,450,000, and Zarvan Tumboli’s 5,500,000. Tumboli, who hails from India, had a number of notable outcomes previous to this run. He gained a World Poker Tour Prime title in Vietnam in 2022, and completed in seventh place in a $3,000 six-handed PLO occasion on the 2025 WSOP. Hahn’s earlier career-best outcome got here in 2017, when he gained a Heartland Poker Tour title in Indiana.
The Mizrachis Know How to Celebrate a Win!
Make that bracelet #9 for 2025 Main Event champ Michael Mizrachi!
The @TheGrinder44 provides one other one to the gathering, and the Mizrachi celebration didn’t disappoint. pic.twitter.com/WxqTVbBbLQ
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 30, 2026
But nothing, up to now, for both participant got here remotely near battling Mizrachi three-handed, with $627,832 locked up and greater than double that sum awaiting the champion.
While Tumboli managed a couple of doubles, Hahn’s run would finish in third place ($627,832). He flopped a spade flush draw and a pair, however did not catch as much as Mizrachi’s pocket jacks.
Tumboli received as shut as 2:1, however Mizrachi by no means ceded the lead. On the ultimate hand, the chips received in on a J♠8♠8♥ flop. Tumboli’s A♠A♥6♦3♥ was forward, whereas Mizrachi’s J♥10♦7♥6♠ wanted a jack or a 9 to win the event. The 4♣ flip gave Mizrachi 4 extra outs, however the 9♠ was the cardboard that made Mizrachi’s jack-high straight, and locked down bracelet quantity 9.
More Wins For ‘The Grinder’
With this win, Mizrachi earned 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year factors. With 2,500 POY factors for the yr up to now, Mizrachi sits in sixty fifth place within the yearlong race offered by CoinPoker. Lonis’ seventh-place end places him in eighth place within the Card Player POY standings, as he appears to be like to go back-to-back.
At the $10,000 buy-in degree, Mizrachi’s win additionally earned him a considerable 1,100 PokerGO Tour factors. That brings his whole to 1,220 PGT factors on the season-long leaderboard. He is well-positioned to make his second-straight PGT $1 Million Championship.
On the energy of this singular outcome, Tumboli shot as much as twenty third place on the PGT leaderboard, although he’ll should report outcomes contained in the PGT studio in some unspecified time in the future this yr to qualify. Lonis’ seventh-place end tacked 175 PGT factors onto his whole for the yr, bringing him simply contained in the reduce line in thirty ninth place.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Michael Mizrachi | $1,350,203 | 2,280 | 1,100 |
| 2 | Zarvan Tumboli | $900,088 | 1,900 | 900 |
| 3 | Michael Hahn | $627,832 | 1,520 | 628 |
| 4 | Martin Zamani | $445,080 | 1,140 | 445 |
| 5 | Ian Matakis | $320,763 | 950 | 321 |
| 6 | Raj Vohra | $235,073 | 760 | 235 |
| 7 | Jesse Lonis | $175,233 | 570 | 175 |
| 8 | Toby Joyce | $132,908 | 380 | 133 |
Photo credit: WSOP / Tyler Abrams, Dominic Iaquinto
