Michael Mizrachi Turned a Huge Final-Day Lead Into a Ninth WSOP Bracelet
He held 80% of the chips with three players left in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship before finishing the job at Paris Las Vegas.
Michael Mizrachi carried a massive lead into the final day of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at the WSOP, sitting on 40.225 million of the 50.175 million chips in play when three players returned. That gave him about 80% of the chips, with Zarvan Tumboli on 5.5 million and Michael Hahn on 4.45 million.
The gap was so wide that conventional wisdom made Monday’s finale look close to a formality, though one report still noted that Omaha can swing quickly and that a short-stack rally would rank among the biggest comebacks in WSOP history.
The event drew 836 entries, and Mizrachi had been in control for most of it. He bagged the biggest stack on Day 1, then turned 946,000 into 5.655 million on Day 2 and finished that day 78 big blinds clear of his nearest challenger.
By Day 3, he was still the player to catch. He sat on 9.5 million, close to 20% of the chips in play, while the field had already been trimmed to nine players before the final-day three-handed setup.
The deep run also mattered because it came in what Mizrachi described as a relatively quiet summer by his standards. He said, “Right now it’s probably close to breaking even,” and added that moving a few ladders up would likely leave him ahead after the series.
The final table was about more than one title, too. If Mizrachi won, he would become just the eighth player ever to reach nine WSOP bracelets, and Benny Glaser had become the seventh player to do it the previous week in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Nick Schulman had also been on the verge of joining that club before finishing second in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship.
When play resumed, Mizrachi eliminated Hahn in third for $627,832 and moved into heads-up play with Tumboli. The Review-Journal reported that Tumboli then won a huge pot early in heads-up action when both players had a full house, cutting into the lead.
Mizrachi finished it in the last hand by making a straight and cracking Tumboli’s aces. He won the title, the $1.35 million top prize, and his ninth career WSOP bracelet, while Tumboli took $900,088 for second.
The victory came exactly one year after Mizrachi won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2025. Afterward, he said he had lost 40 pounds since his last Main Event, was training twice a day, and felt better than ever at 45.
