Mizrachi Is Chasing Bracelet No. 9 and You're Watching a $400 Daily

Michael Mizrachi has eight bracelets, $26 million in lifetime earnings, and 9.15 million chips at the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship — and somehow this is the least-discussed story at the 2026 WSOP.

Event #70 is down to 16 players. Mizrachi — @themgrinder — doesn't just have the chip lead. He has nearly double the next-closest stack. Zurvan Tumboli of India sits second at 4.255 million. Joshua Barney has 3.555 million. Michael Hahn has 2.785 million. Nobody else is within shouting distance of Mizrachi.

This is the $10K PLO Championship. Not a turbo. Not a bounty. The marquee PLO bracelet event of the summer, eight-handed, three days deep. And the guy leading it has 38 lifetime WSOP final tables and eight gold bracelets already on the shelf.

Mizrachi has 38 lifetime WSOP final tables, eight gold bracelets, and a chip lead that's nearly double second place — and the poker internet is refreshing Bravo waitlists instead.

The Counter-Argument Is Weak

I can hear it: "The poker world hasn't moved on from Mizrachi — there's just a lot happening at the WSOP." Sure. There's always a lot happening. That's the point. A $10K championship chip leader with eight bracelets used to BE the story. The fact that it's now background noise tells you something about where attention has drifted.

We're living in an era where a 200-entry $400 daily at Resorts World generates more Twitter engagement than an eight-time champion threatening a ninth bracelet in a premier event. The content ecosystem has optimized for volume and accessibility — and in doing so, it's trained an entire generation of fans to care more about field sizes than fields of excellence.

What a Ninth Bracelet Actually Means

Mizrachi already owns three $10K+ PLO or PLO-adjacent titles. A ninth bracelet here would put him in genuinely rare company — a tier occupied by names like Hellmuth, Chan, and Brunson. And he'd be doing it in PLO, a game where variance makes sustained championship results significantly harder to compile than in hold'em.

The field around him underscores the point. Of the other 15 remaining players, only Ian Matakis (one bracelet, $2.13 million in career earnings, 16 final tables) and the eliminated Ryan Riess (one bracelet, $13.28 million) carry anything close to significant championship credentials. Mizrachi isn't just leading this final stretch. He's the most credentialed player left by a mile.

Maybe he flames out. PLO is PLO. But the fact that an eight-time bracelet winner leading a $10K championship with the biggest stack at two tables left isn't dominating every poker feed is a failure of attention, not a failure of story.