WSOP: A Good Year for Michael Mizrachi, Brothers

It’s been a great WSOP for Michael Mizrachi and his poker-playing brothers.

There are few tickets to easy money at the World Series of Poker, but the closest thing this summer was to share a particular last name. Four brothers from the Mizrachi family from southern Florida have had themselves quite the run at the WSOP.

Michael Mizrachi was the first of the brothers to make a name for himself on the poker scene when he won the 2005 LA Poker Classic. He followed that up with the 2006 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year award. But it wasn’t until this summer that he finally won his first gold WSOP bracelet, taking down the $50,000 Poker Players Championship event for $1,559,046. 

That single score was enough to make Michael the winningest player of the Series outside the Main Event, but he made two more final tables in stud games and grabbed one more cash to boost his winnings by another $125,000 or so. He is currently second in chips in the Main Event with just 78 players left, and if he can win the tournament he will tie Frank Kassela for WSOP Player of the Year.

Eldest brother Robert Mizrachi saw his Main Event run cut short on Day 6 when he ran A-T into A-K. His 116th-place finish was worth $57,102 and marked his sixth cash of this WSOP. Previous to that finish he made three final tables, including a fifth-place finish in the Poker Players Championship won by Michael. All told his winnings this summer total $500,144.

Michael’s fraternal twin brother, Eric Mizrachi, had just one cash during this summer’s preliminary events, a 43rd-place finish in one of the first $1,000 donkaments. But he finished up his Series on a good note, cashing 718th in the Main Event. His two cashes combined gave him winnings of $35,224.

And last but not least was brother Danny Mizrachi. A professional magician by trade, Danny showed up to play the Main Event and for a time looked as if he might outdo all his older brothers at the tables. He eventually busted out in 345th place, earning himself a $36,463 payday.

In all, the four Mizrachi brothers have won $2,130,877 at the 2010 World Series of Poker – and with Michael Mizrachi still alive in the Main Event, that number could eventually climb as high as $11,075,015 if he were to win the tournament and his second career WSOP bracelet.