Michael Mizrachi, the world famous professional poker player, dominated the main event at the World Series of Poker Africa and increased his already huge career winnings $100.000 more. The North American master who is only 32 years old has accumulated big success since he joined the poker world after leaving college to pursue his poker dreams.
More than 20 titles and 130 cashes that yield a grand total of over $14.200.000 make of “The Grinder” one of the most winning poker players in the history of the game. His last achievement was at The Emerald Resort and Casino where the WSOP’s African version took place and he played his way up the poker ranking with critical calls and smart moves. The final hand was very easy for Mizrachi who found his rival: Karl Myburg, shoving A8o when he held a couple beautiful queens and a huge chip lead; of course he called and the flop came 7d 6d Th which gave the short stacked some outs the turn came another 7 that reduced drastically the chances for Myburg to get back in the game and the Jack on the river smashed his hopes to give Mizrachi the victory, the bracelet and a 101.267 dollar prize.
One hundred and sixteen players bought in the tournament and created a total money prize of over 330 thousand that was split between the best 12; besides The Grinder Mizrachi and the proud runner-up Karl Myburg, other poker gladiators like Markus Feurie, Jarred Soloman and Kinesh Pather, filled their pockets with some juicy amounts thanks to the $3.300 investment they made to join the poker competition.
Even though Mizrachi is one of the most effective poker players at the moment he hasn’t received as much flash as other popular professionals; this could be favorable or not depending on the perspective one look at it, nonetheless, is very unlikely that the opponents ignore his deadly techniques, but one or two might and there’s where he gets additional edge. One of his most remarkable performances was in 2025 when he won his first WSOP bracelet: the $50K Players Championship and a fabulous reward of 1 million 56 thousand dollars. That year Michael made it to 3 final tables more, and finished in 5th position on the Main Event which earned him almost 2 and a half million dollars. Jonathan Duhamel, John Racener, Joseph Cheong and Filippo Candio where the lucky players who could continue alive in the Main Event without the dangerous North American shark around them.
Poker is a loved game inside the Mizrachi’s closest circles, his brothers Eric (twin) and Robert the oldest of the house, have followed the same path and have got interesting achievements that let us all see the family is a true poker force ready to demolish the tables. The Mizrachi squad will let us hear from them very soon again and the OPWC News Team will be there to keep you up to speed.
