Michael Mizrachi

Michael Mizrachi

aka "The Grinder"
Nationality
United States
United States
GPI Rank 7,670
WSOP Bracelets 5
WPT Wins 2
Total Live Earnings $17,572,500
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Biography

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is known as one of the best overall poker players in the world. He has three WSOP bracelets in his collection two of which he won in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship events in 2010 and 2012.

Intro

Michael Mizrachi was born in 1981 in Miami florida. He is the younger brother of another famous poker player Robert Mizrachi, who was Michael's poker guide and mentor. Although Robert has a WSOP bracelet himself as well as 24 money finishes, his younger brother made it way further in the poker trophy list holding three WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles to his name.

Background

Michael Mizrachi learned to play poker from his older brother, Robert. Robert showed his younger brother the ropes and helped him cut his teeth. Before long, Michael was working his way through the limits online becoming more and more successful. “The Grinder” got his nickname for having a solid, consistent style of play; always steadily “grinding” his way through tournament fields.

When he realized he could make some real serious money playing, Michael let his aspirations of becoming a doctor take the back seat to poker. He dropped out of college to play full time.

World Series of Poker

Cashes piled on year after year for “The Grinder”, but despite all his tournament success, he was yet to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. Michael came close in 2008 when he held the chip lead going into the final table of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship, but ended up finishing third. But then in 2010, Mizrachi finally won his first bracelet in the $50,000 Player's Championship event, winning $1,559,046, with his older brother, Robert Mizrachi, finishing 5th in the same event. Michael then proceeded to make the November Nine of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.

In 2011 Mizrachi won his second bracelet, only this time he did it on the European soil at the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes, France. He ended up winning the €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format) event taking home the bracelet along with the €336,008 cash prize. Then 2012 Mizrachi came back to Las Vegas for another great run at the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for his third bracelet and a cash prize of almost $1.5 million.

Michael Mizrachi's Top 6 WSOP Results

YearEventPlacePrize
2010$50,000 Poker Players Championship1st$1,559,046
2011WSOPE €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)1st€336,008
2012$50,000 Poker Players Championship1st$1,451,527
2011$2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better2nd$158,148
2008$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship3rd$331,279
2012WSOPE €5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha3rd€62,749

World Poker Tour

Michael Mizrachi made his name known in the poker community towards the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005. In December of 2004, The Grinder won an event at the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic II and followed that up with a fifth-place finish at the WPT’s World Poker Open. Just about a month later, Mizrachi grinded back to another WPT final table in the L.A. Poker Classic. This time around, he won the first place prize of over $1.8 million. Then in 2006 he scored another WPT title at the Borgata Winter Open $9,700 Championship where he outplayed the field of 381 players and took home more than $1.1 million in cash.

Michael Mizrachi's Top 5 WPT Results

YearEventPlacePrize
2005L.A. Poker Classic $9,603 Main Event1st$1,859,909
2006Borgata Winter Open $9,700 Championship1st$1,173,373
2006Gold Strike World Poker Open $10,000 Championship2nd$566,352
2012WPT World Championship $25,000 Championship3rd$424,618
2005Jack Binion World Poker Open $10,000 Championship5th$288,241

Other Achievements

Mizrachi has also been featured on the television show High Stakes Poker. In 2006 Michael Mizrachi received the CardPlayer Magazine's Player of the Year Award. He’s a regular along the tournament circuit worldwide and has over $14 million in career winnings.

Did you know?

  • Michael Mizrachi has a twin brother Eric Mizrachi who is also a poker player.
  • Mizrachi is fluent in Hebrew, as his father is of Iraqi Jewish origin.

PokerNews Covered Events

Event Place Prize
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (8-Handed)
44th $31,242
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (7-Handed)
12th $102,299
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #27: $1,500 Big O
94th $3,706
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (8-Handed)
74th $3,304
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship
596th $32,500
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
12th $33,011
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #71: $1,111 One More for One Drop
356th $2,815
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #67: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout
25th $18,625
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold'em
27th $35,573
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
71st $2,421
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack
396th $1,600
2022 World Series of Poker
[Online] $400 No-Limit Hold'em Ultra Deepstack
150th $909
2021 MSPT Venetian
$1,100 Main Event
161st $2,352
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #23: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed
11th $8,167
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #14: $500 No-Limit Hold'em
124th $839
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #13: $1,000 NLH Freezeout
54th $1,868
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #9: $400 NLH 6-Max
149th $701
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #89: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
30th $13,911
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
95th $4,594
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #84: The Closer - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
169th $3,500
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #60: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
27th $8,122
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
9th $19,954
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #27: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
1st $142,801
2018 888poker LIVE Festival London
£1,100 Main Event
61st £2,300
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #74: Big Blind Antes $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship
38th $16,911
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #11: $365 PLO GIANT Pot-Limit Omaha
5th $31,304
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
1st $1,239,126
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha
254th $876
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
61st $2,559
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
31st $13,159
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
17th $6,390
2016 888Live Poker Festival London
£880 Main Event
25th £1,780
2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK
Main Event
24th £8,000
2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK
High Roller
4th £30,000
2015 partypoker WPT National Cyprus
Main Event
17th €3,800
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
44th $11,141
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #15: $3,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
86th $5,041
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
473rd $24,480
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #59: $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
9th $12,683
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud
4th $43,188
2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
$10,000 Main Event
77th $21,000
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha
3rd €62,749
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 45: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
1st $1,451,527
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
4th $28,198
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better
5th $41,447
2012 DeepStacks Poker Tour Seneca Niagara
Western New York Poker Championship
14th $4,415
2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #5: €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)
1st €336,008
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #47: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better
2nd $158,148
2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
11th $30,000
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
5th $2,332,992
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event
26th $6,324
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
8th $49,733
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #10: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
6th $68,949
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #2: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
1st $1,559,046
2009 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas
$5,150 Circuit Championship Event
2nd $143,512
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 50 - $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship
3rd $331,279
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship
15th $30,738
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 25 - $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship
12th $36,096
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
11th $42,946
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 10 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better
8th $24,095
2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
$20,000 Heads-Up Championship
16th $25,000
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 47 - $2,000 No Limit Holdem
155th $4,451

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