Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi won WSOP $50K Poker Player’s Championship and 1,559,046 dollars

• Author: News2
• Filed under: Michael Mizrachi, Uncategorized, WSOP
• Date: Jun 2,2010

The perhaps toughest tournament event of the World Series of Poker, the Event #2 Poker Player’s Championship $50K 8-game, has ended up in Michael Mizrachi’s victory celebration.

The final table was only about No Limit Hold’em and went to heads-up as Mizrachi eliminated David Oppenheim in the following deal:

Vladimir Schemelev opens from the button 225K, Mizrachi 3-bets total 600K from the small blind and Oppenheim goes all-in from the big blind total 3,3M. Schemelev folds and Mizrachi ponders for a long time and finally calls with Kc-Qs in hand. Oppenheim shows the snowmen, 8c-8d.

• Flop: 9d-6s-4c
• Turn: 7c, Mizrachi has 6 outs
• River: Qd, The supporters of “The Grinder” start a wild celebration, and Oppenheim is eliminated and headed to the rail with a day of 603,348 dollars behind.

Heads-up began from Mizrachi’s 10,6M chiplead against Schmelev’s 6,7M. However, Schemelev got into 12M vs 4M chiplead from where “The Grinder” grinded himself even after receiving lucky doubles after 4-betting all-in preflop holding Ac-7c in hand - which Schemelev snap called with Ad-Jd.

• Flop: Kc-9c-10d
• Turn: Qh
• River: 5c and the game is even, both players have about 8 million chips.

After this Mizrachi started his slow but steady rise, and in the end Mizrachi got to press his opponent with a bigger stack. The following hand probably sealed the tournament:

Mizrachi opens 225K, Schmelev calls:

• Flop: Qd-8s-As was checked by both players
• Turn: 3c was checked as well
• River: 3h, Schmelev bets 250K, Mizrachi considers for a while and raises 2M total, after which Schemelev is forced to make a tough decision: “Call”. Mizrachi shows 3d-2d which was enough for winning the game. After this hand Schemelev had only 600K chips left.

Mizrachi secures his victory soon after going all-in with Qs-5c in hand. Schemelev calls this with Qd-8s. The board is 9h-6h-4c-5h-4d, and Mizrachi is the winner of the tournament event.

Event #2 results and prize pool:

1. Michael Mizrachi 1,559,046$
2. Vladimir Schemelev 963,375$
3. David Oppenheim 603,348$
4. John Juanda 436,865$
5. Robert Mizrachi 341,429$
6. David Baker 272,275$
7. Daniel Alaei 221,105$
8. Mikael Thuritz 182,463$
9. Nick Schulman 152,739$
10. Alexander Kostritsyn 152,739$
11. Abe Mosseri 129,957$
12. Lyle Berman 129,957$
13. Brett Richey 113,030$
14. Allen Bari 113,030$
15. Ilya Bulychev 98,330$
16. Andy Bloch 98,330$

- The prize pot surely delights Mizrachi, as he was foreclosed in May.

- I am the champion!

Source: PokerNews, TheHendonMob and SunSentinel.com