Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is easily the player in this tournament with the most live winnings. To date Mizrachi has won a staggering $14,074,764 and he will be looking to add to that here in Cyprus.
Part of the reason for Mizrachi's huge winnings total is his ability to make big laydowns. He was just in a hand with Suleyman Ciftsuren that demonstrated this; at least we think it does!
Joining the action on a board, Ciftsuren checked to Mizrachi who then bet 4,500. Ciftsurn paused briefly before check-raising to 10,000 and sending Mizrachi into the tank. He stayed "submerged" for around 90-seconds, constantly staring at his opponent in an attempt to gauge the strength of his hand. Eventually he came to the conclusion that Ciftsuren was strong and he folded his hand.
"Ace-deuce," informed Mizrachi in a manner that he was telling Ciftsuren what he held rather than what he thought he held.
"And you ten-nine," bellowed Adi Krispin from across the table to which The Grinder just shrugged.
Martin Finger has rocketed up to the top of the pack after he won a substantial pot on the river in a three way fight against Chris Moorman and Bernard Samaha.
The board was reading and it had been checked to Samaha who'd bet 8,700 on the river into a pot of nearly 20,000. Finger dwelt up and then made the call and it looked for a moment as if Moorman might make the overcall but instead he released his hand.
Samaha sighed unhappily and, slightly frustrated, showed for the missed double gutshot and straight flush draw, but perhaps it was a blessing as Finger showed having a lot of Samaha's outs covered.
Finger is up to 105,000, Moorman is on 36,000 while Samaha dropped to 12,500.
The flop read and Malik Abu Nasir was seated in the cutoff having bet 3,100 and waiting for Michael Mizrachi to act. Mizrachi opted to call.
The turn brought the into play and Abu Nasir fired again, making it 4,700 to play. Mizrachi was prepared to pay that price, in fact he more than paid it because he raised to 10,025.
Abu Nasir was stopped in his tracks and after 30-seconds he decided Mizrachi has him beat and he let his and go.
Michael Mizrachi is quietly going about his business at the moment, he fired out 1,000 into a pot of 1,800 on the turn of an board against one opponent. The latter made the call but quickly folded when Mizrachi bet 4,000 on the river.
Fresh from this hand involving Martin Finger and Chris Moorman, Bernard Samaha got involved with the poker superstars once again.
Finger had opened to 500 from the hijack seat only to see Moorman three-bet to 1,300 from the button. The action was then on Samaha in the small blind who moved all-in for 11,575. Unsurprisingly both Finger and Moorman got out of the way; neither prepared to risk their entire stacks at this stage of the tournament.
Yes, we know it's become mostly posts about one man over the last twenty minutes or so but Michael Mizrachi is now the chip leader with over 120,000. That's a 600BB stack.
He just won a huge pot where another player called his prefkio raise, "a substantial raise" as Mizrachi put it. Mizrachi was holding and set his opponent all in by the turn of the board, his opponent quickly calling with .
Mizrachi only had three outs, but duly pinged the on the river to hit the six-figure mark and overtake Martin Finger as the chip lead.
board, Ciftsuren checked to Mizrachi who then bet 4,500. Ciftsurn paused briefly before check-raising to 10,000 and sending Mizrachi into the tank. He stayed "submerged" for around 90-seconds, constantly staring at his opponent in an attempt to gauge the strength of his hand. Eventually he came to the conclusion that Ciftsuren was strong and he folded his hand.![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
and it had been checked to Samaha who'd bet 8,700 on the river into a pot of nearly 20,000. Finger dwelt up and then made the call and it looked for a moment as if Moorman might make the overcall but instead he released his hand.
for the missed double gutshot and straight flush draw, but perhaps it was a blessing as Finger showed 
having a lot of Samaha's outs covered.
and Malik Abu Nasir was seated in the cutoff having bet 3,100 and waiting for Michael Mizrachi to act. Mizrachi opted to call.
into play and Abu Nasir fired again, making it 4,700 to play. Mizrachi was prepared to pay that price, in fact he more than paid it because he raised to 10,025.
board against one opponent. The latter made the call but quickly folded when Mizrachi bet 4,000 on the 
river.
board only to be shown 
and set his opponent all in by the turn of the 
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on the river to hit the six-figure mark and overtake Martin Finger as the chip lead.
