Mizrachi raised with jack-ten to take the second heads-up hand. Bryn Kenney and Mizrachi then traded the last next two hands, before moving to Stud Hi-Lo.
Ever misread your poker hand and felt like an amateur? Don’t worry. Even Daniel Negreanu does it.
The Poker Hall of Famer and seven-time WSOP bracelet winner has been eliminated from this year’s $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship after a rare misread led him to shove all-in against American player Mark Steinberg with his tournament life on the line.
Michael Mizrachi called Bryn Kenney's bring-in to see fourth street. Mirachi checked and called a bet from Kenney.
Mizrachi led out after making open tens, and Kenney called to sixth street. Mizrachi bet again, with Kenney calling again.
Mizrachi then checked on seventh, and Kenney checked it back. Mizrachi's pair was enough to take the high pot, while Kenney took the low to chop the pot.
Michael Mizrachi has once again raised the bar in what can be argued as poker’s most prestigious event.
Already sharing the record for most $50,000 Poker Players Championship victories with Brian Rast, Mizrachi now stands alone after capturing his historic fourth title on Saturday at the 2025 World Series of Poker. "The Grinder" conquered the 107-entry field, earning $1,331,322 from the $5,082,500 prize pool and further cementing his legacy as the event's most dominant force.
The now seven-time bracelet winner previously won the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy in 2010, 2012, and 2018. But with this latest victory, Mizrachi has separated himself as the only four-time PPC champion, an achievement many consider one of the rarest and most difficult in tournament poker.
It was pure domination from start to finish for Mizrachi, knocking out five of the seven returning players inside Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
All-Time Money List leader Bryn Kenney fell short in his bid to stop Mizrachi, finishing runner-up for $887,542, while Esther Taylor made history by placing third for $595,136, the deepest run ever by a woman in the PPC, surpassing Melissa Burr’s seventh-place finish from 2014.
2025 PPC Final Table Results
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (USD)
1
Michael Mizrachi
United States
$1,331,322
2
Bryn Kenney
United States
$887,542
3
Esther Taylor
United States
$595,136
4
Andrew Yeh
United States
$413,740
5
Joao Vieira
Portugal
$298,614
6
Albert Daher
Lebanon
$224,077
7
Ben Lamb
United States
$175,096
Mizrachi Eyes Fifth Title and the Hall of Fame
Mizrachi was quick to admit that this latest victory may have been his most complete performance yet.
“I probably played better than the last three I won,” he reflected. “Everything went my way this tournament. I was always at the top of the leaderboard, never really got short, and probably played my best overall.”
Rast captured his third Poker Players Championship title in 2023 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame the following year, a timeline Mizrachi now hopes to follow. As he sealed his record-breaking fourth PPC crown, chants of “Hall of Fame” echoed from the rail inside the Horseshoe.
“Yeah, if I win the fifth one, maybe,” Mizrachi joked. “No, I’m kidding. But this is quite an accomplishment, and I hope so. Hopefully next year I get inducted too.”
The competitive fire still burns, though, with Mizrachi not content to stop at four.
“Brian, I’ve got one more, you’ve got to catch up now — I’m going for number five!”
Final Day Action
Final 8 Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championshi
Mizrachi's bid for an unprecedented fourth PPC title couldn’t have started much better, as he eliminated the first three players of the day within the opening level.
First to fall was Ben Lamb, who bowed out in seventh place on the opening hand after his low draw bricked in Stud Hi-Lo against Mizrachi and Albert Daher. Mizrachi scooped the more than five million chip pot with a flush to climb up the counts, while Daher was left on fumes. Despite a brief rally, Daher couldn’t recover. A huge clash in 2-7 Triple Draw with Taylor left him with less than a big bet, and Mizrachi finished the job soon after, his sixes holding in a flip against the high-stakes cash game player in No-Limit Hold'em.
Mizrachi's momentum didn’t slow there. In the same orbit, he bluffed $100,000 High Roller champion Joao Vieira off top pair with just four-high, giving himself nearly half the chips in play. The pair tangled again moments later in Stud, where Mizrachi made another flush to leave Vieira on fumes. Those last few chips found their way into Mizrachi's stack the following hand, completing a clean sweep of eliminations in the first level of the day.
Esther Taylor, Michael Mizrachi, Bryn Kenney
Mizrachi's dominance persisted into the second level, where he downed Andrew Yeh in Pot-Limit Omaha, setting up three-handed play against Taylor and Kenney, who was rooted to the bottom of the counts.
Taylor looked poised to become the first female player to reach heads-up in the PPC, but Kenney mounted a comeback with doubles through her in Stud, Omaha Hi-Lo, and Limit Hold’em. The final blow came in No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, where Kenney made a wheel to crack her pat-nine and eliminate Taylor in third.
Mizrachi had one hand on the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy heading into heads-up play with a commanding 15:1 chip lead. Kenney never came close to overturning the deficit, and it wasn’t long before Mizrachi etched his name in the poker history books once again.
All Poker Players Championship Winners
Year
Event Name
Entrants
Winner
Prize
Second
2025
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
107
Michael Mizrachi
$1,331,322
Bryn Kenney
2024
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
89
Daniel Negreanu
$1,178,703
Bryce Yockey
2023
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
99
Brian Rast
$1,324,747
Talal Shakerchi
2022
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
112
Dan Cates
$1,449,103
Yuri Dzivielevski
2021
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
63
Dan Cates
$954,020
Ryan Leng
2019
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
74
Phil Hui
$1,099,311
Josh Arieh
2018
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
87
Michael Mizrachi
$1,239,126
John Hennigan
2017
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
100
Elior Sion
$1,395,767
Johannes Becker
2016
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
91
Brian Rast
$1,296,097
Justin Bonomo
2015
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
84
Mike Gorodinsky
$1,270,086
Jean-Robert Bellande
2014
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
102
John Hennigan
$1,517,767
Brandon Shack-Harris
2013
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
132
Matthew Ashton
$1,774,089
Don Nguyen
2012
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
108
Michael Mizrachi
$1,451,527
Chris Klodnicki
2011
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
128
Brian Rast
$1,720,328
Phil Hellmuth
2010
$50,000 Poker Players Championship
116
Michael Mizrachi
$1,559,046
Vladimir Shchemelev
2009
$50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
95
David Bach
$1,276,802
John Hanson
2008
$50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
148
Scotty Nguyen
$1,989,120
Michael DeMichele
2007
$50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.
148
Freddy Deeb
$2,276,832
Bruno Fitoussi
2006
$50,000 H.O.R.S.E.
143
David "Chip" Reese
$1,716,000
Andy Bloch
This concludes the PokerNews coverage of this event, but as always, make sure to stick around to keep up with all the action from the 2025 WSOP.
