Michael Mizrachi wins $50k 8 Game Championship! | Online Poker Club MPC

Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi has just won the 8-Game Players Championship Event at the World Series of Poker. After two World Poker Tour titles, this is first WSOP bracelet. And not just an ordinary bracelet, but the one which is regarded by the players as the most important bracelet to win because there is the most skilled involved out of all the WSOP Events.

‘The Grinder’ lived up to his name by overcoming a 3 to 1 chip deficit to his opponent Vladimir Schmelev during the heads up stage. Mizrachi however grinded his opponent down slowly with solid play and collected $1,559,046 in prize money.

The final table including prize money:

1 Michael Mizrachi $1,559,046
2 Vladimir Schmelev $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