Michael Mizrachi
Michael " The Grinder" Mizrachi ( born January 5, 1981 in Miami, Florida) is a professional American poker player and the brother of Robert Mizrachi. Mizrachi studied medicine, but dropped out to devote himself completely to the poker game.
His career began when he won a poker tournament and $ 273,040 in December 2004, in Las Vegas. In January 2005, he finished fifth at the Jack Binion World Poker Open World Poker Tour. A month later, he managed to win in the main event of the LA Poker Classic. He won a cash prize of $ 1,859,909.
In the World Series of Poker in 2005, Mizrachi reached most rankings of all players in the price ranks.
In the fourth season of the World Poker Tour, he continued his success story in the tournament series. He initially lost against Scotty Nguyen heads up at the Gold Strike World Poker Open, but won the next tournament his second WPT title and $ 1,173,373 in prize money.
He participated in the second season of High Stakes Poker at the Palms Casino and received in 2006 from Card Player Magazine honoring the Player of the Year Award.
2010 Mizrachi got his first bracelet in the World Series of Poker when he won a prize money of over $ 1.5 million in the $ 50,000 " The Poker Player's Championship " event. In the " No-Limit Hold'em Championship" ( Main Event ) reached "The Grinder" in the same year the final table and finished the biggest poker tournament in the world at the end on the fifth place.
In 2012 was the Grinder - as in 2010 - winning the versatile 8 variants game " The $ 50,000 Poker Player's Championship" and is thus far the only player to have managed this twice. Overall Mizrachi reached in 2012 made three final tables at the WSOP.
To date, he has won over 11.8 million U.S. dollars in poker tournaments.
Family
Michael Mizrachi has an older brother (Robert Mizrachi ) and a twin brother (Eric Mizrachi ), which also play poker successfully. His younger brother Daniel Mizrachi is a professional magician.