Michael Mizrachi is the freaking man.
Mizrachi won his ninth World Series of Poker bracelet in the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship in dominating fashion last night, seizing the chip lead on the first day of the event and never let it go.
In an event that attracted 836 of the world’s best PLO players, it really shouldn’t be this easy for a player to go rail-to-rail — that is, unless the player is named Michael Mizrachi.
Last year, he gave maybe the greatest pair of poker performances by winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship (for the fourth time) before going on to win the 2025 Main Event.
The accomplishment was so rare and so impressive — and done by a man who is simply one of the best working — WSOP officials put him directly into the Poker Hall of Fame moments after he hoisted the Main Event bracelet.
“Obviously every bracelet is amazing to win, to win the (Poker Players Championship) four times, to win the Main Event is crazy. But I was tired of winning the PPC. I had to do something different. So we mix it up this year. I think I would take the PLO over the PPC right now just to have something different on my belt,” he told PokerNews.
The $1.3 million cash gives him a tad over $30 million on his career, which began while playing online poker while working as a poker dealer in Florida, where he still makes his home. Like all of his final tables, it became a family affair on the rail, with his brother Robert and the a large portion of his kin cheering him on.
It gets a little weird when Mizrachi starts rolling like he did the past several days in the PLO Championship. It’s like the game flows around him like water, and when he moves, everything bobs in the waves, like he’s some sort of Poseidon, controlling the weather.
When it rolls for him, he starts to sort of laugh and giggle, feeding off the good vibes from his rail, and at least nine times since 2010, the chips seemingly can’t stay away from being stacked by his enormous hands.
The odds of Mizrachi repeating at the WSOP Main Event, especially in these days of the five-figure fields are longer than a runway, and he knows it. But does he really?
It doesn’t matter. He says he’s focussed on the $10,000 Stud Championship which begins today.
$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Mizrachi | United States | $1,350,203 |
| 2 | Zarvan Tumboli | India | $900,088 |
| 3 | Michael Hahn | United States | $627,832 |
| 4 | Martin Zamani | United States | $445,080 |
| 5 | Iam Matakis | United States | $320,763 |
| 6 | Raj Vohra | United States | $235,073 |
| 7 | Jesse Lonis | United States | $175,233 |
| 8 | Toby Joyce | Ireland | $132,908 |
