Michael Mizrachi Wins Ninth World Series Of Poker Bracelet

In the summer of 2025, Michael Mizrachi eliminated any doubt as to his legendary status in the world of tournament poker. He took down his fourth career World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship, and then went on to triumph in the 2025 WSOP main event.

The incredible performance saw Mizrachi instantly inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, both in actuality and by any reasonable measure. Mizrachi struck again one year later, seizing the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship in a dominant performance. The Floridian poker pro claimed his ninth career bracelet and a $1,350,203 first-place prize. That stands as the sixth-largest result of Mizrachi’s career. It pushed him over $30.6 million in total career tournament earnings.

“Last year, on June 29, I won the PPC,” Mizrachi told 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 list. Glaser had his ninth bracelet win, also in the $50,000 PPC, just three days before Mizrachi’s milestone. In between, Nick Schulman got heads up for his ninth bracelet in the $10,000 limit deuce-to-seven triple draw championship, before ultimately finishing second.

All of these wild results also come on the eve of the 2026 WSOP main event, which kicks off on Thursday, July 2. Mizrachi, of course, will enter as the defending champion, fresh off this massive victory.

The WSOP $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship, which annually produces one of the biggest fields at that buy-in level each summer, drew 836 entrants in 2026. The total prize pool reached $7,774,800 by the close of registration and was shared between 126 players who reached the money on day 2 of the tournament.

By the end of the second day, 37 players remained, and Mizrachi held a serious chip lead. There were some heavy hitters among the closest contenders, including defending Card Player Player of the Year Jesse Lonis, who was in third place overnight. But when the field reached an unofficial table of nine just 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), though, Lonis had made an incredible comeback. He turned a straight to eliminate Kupin, and overtook Mizrachi for the lead.

There were eight players left heading into the final break of the night. By the time the chip bags came out, only three players remained.

An Unstoppable Mizrachi

Lonis further extended his lead over the field until he and Mizrachi played a gigantic pot with one pair each. Mizrachi was all in and at risk on a 7♥3♣2♥9♦ board with A♣A♠8♠3♥, one pair of aces. He was ahead of Lonis, but the latter’s A♦J♥10♦7♦ had some outs to come from behind, claim a massive chip lead, and eliminate Mizrachi. The K♠ river kept Mizrachi’s aces best, and he regained the lead— a significant one at that.

Mizrachi once again utilized pocket aces to maximum effectiveness, this time at the expense of Toby Joyce. The Irish pro, an online WSOP bracelet winner, couldn’t make much out of A♣K♥J♦3♣, while Mizrachi made a full house, tens full of aces, to eliminate Joyce in eighth place ($132,908).

Mizrachi took the rest of Lonis’ chips when Lonis once again failed to turn top pair and a straight draw into anything more on a blank river, as Mizrachi’s two-pair knocked Lonis out in seventh place ($175,233). This was the 10th final-table finish of 2026 for Lonis.

In a battle of short stacks, Michael Hahn made two pair, jacks and eights, to eliminate bracelet winner Raj Vohra in sixth place ($235,073). Mizrachi’s lead grew, as a busted flush draw turned into runner-runner two pair to eliminate another bracelet winner, Ian Matakis, in fifth place ($320,763).

On the final hand of day 3, Mizrachi added Martin Zamani to his list of knockouts. Mizrachi made two pair, tens and fives, to eliminate a short-stacked Zamani in fourth place ($445,080). Over the course of the final table alone, Mizrachi had eliminated four bracelet winners in Joyce, Lonis, Matakis, and Zamani, on his way to an almost insurmountable lead.

Closing It Out

To start the final day, Mizrachi had 40,225,000 against Hahn’s 4,450,000, and Zarvan Tumboli’s 5,500,000. Tumboli, who hails from India, had several notable results prior to this run. He won a World Poker Tour Prime title in Vietnam in 2022, and finished in seventh place in a $3,000 six-handed PLO event at the 2025 WSOP. Hahn’s previous career-best result came in 2017, when he won 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 adds another one to the collection, and the Mizrachi celebration did not disappoint. pic.twitter.com/WxqTVbBbLQ

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 30, 2026

But nothing, to this point, for either player came remotely close to battling Mizrachi three-handed, with $627,832 locked up and more than double that sum awaiting the champion.

While Tumboli managed a few doubles, Hahn’s run would end in third place ($627,832). He flopped a spade flush draw and a pair, but failed to catch up to Mizrachi’s pocket jacks.

Tumboli got as close as 2:1, but Mizrachi never ceded the lead. On the final hand, the chips got in on a J♠8♠8♥ flop. Tumboli’s A♠A♥6♦3♥ was ahead, while Mizrachi’s J♥10♦7♥6♠ needed a jack or a nine to win the tournament. The 4♣ turn gave Mizrachi four more outs, but the 9♠ was the card that made Mizrachi’s jack-high straight, and locked down bracelet number nine.

More Wins For ‘The Grinder’

With this win, Mizrachi earned 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year points. With 2,500 POY points for the year thus far, Mizrachi sits in 65th place in the yearlong race presented by CoinPoker. Lonis’ seventh-place finish puts him in eighth place in the Card Player POY standings, as he looks to go back-to-back.

At the $10,000 buy-in level, Mizrachi’s win also earned him a substantial 1,100 PokerGO Tour points. That brings his total to 1,220 PGT points on the season-long leaderboard. He is well-positioned to make his second-straight  PGT $1 Million Championship.

On the strength of this singular result, Tumboli shot up to 23rd place on the PGT leaderboard, though he’ll have to record results inside the PGT studio at some point this year to qualify. Lonis’ seventh-place finish tacked 175 PGT points onto his total for the year, bringing him just inside the cut line in 39th place.

Final Table Results

Photo credits: WSOP / Tyler Abrams, Dominic Iaquinto