Robert Mizrachi Is Short-Stacked and Chasing Bracelet No. 6 at the H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Robert Mizrachi has five bracelets, 31 career final tables, and $6.5 million in lifetime earnings — and right now he's sitting on the shortest reported stack at the nine-handed final table of the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship, poker's most demanding mixed-game title.

His 415,000 chips put him at roughly one-sixth the stack of the chip leader. The obstacle sitting across the felt isn't some anonymous grinder — it's Calvin Anderson, a five-time bracelet winner himself, who bagged 2,380,000 heading into the final table.

A sixth bracelet would tie Mizrachi with his brother Michael for family hardware. That fact alone would be a headline. But it's the field around him that makes this final table feel like a mixed-game Hall of Fame reunion.

His 415,000 chips put him at roughly one-sixth the stack of the chip leader.

The Table

Start at the top. Calvin Anderson — five bracelets, 40 career final tables, $6.5 million in lifetime earnings — commands the chip lead with 2,380,000. Anderson, who plays under the Mexican flag, has the kind of résumé where a H.O.R.S.E. title would feel less like a breakthrough and more like an inevitability finally arriving.

Then there's David Bach, sitting on 855,000. Bach is a three-time bracelet winner with $4.07 million in career earnings and 24 final-table appearances. He's won this specific event before — the $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2017, which rotates through the same five disciplines. Bach doesn't need anyone to explain how Razz works.

Joshua Arieh holds 805,000 and the most decorated résumé at the table: seven bracelets, 48 career final tables, $12.98 million in lifetime cashes. Arieh is, by the numbers, the most accomplished player in the field. He's also sitting on a middle stack that gives him room to maneuver without forcing early confrontations.

And then there's Nicolas Milgrom. The Frenchman has 1,265,000 — good for second in chips among the reported stacks — but zero bracelets and $463,522 in lifetime earnings across just six final tables. Milgrom is the outlier. In a field of combined 20 bracelets among the other four named players, he's the one chasing his first.

The Math Against Mizrachi

Look at the stack distribution and the story sharpens. Anderson's 2,380,000 is nearly six times Mizrachi's 415,000. Even Bach and Arieh, in the 800K range, have him covered by roughly two-to-one.

In a limit format like H.O.R.S.E., short stacks don't have the shove-fold simplicity of no-limit. You can't just rip it in and flip. Limits grind you down, bet by bet, street by street. A short stack in H.O.R.S.E. bleeds through forced bets in Razz and Stud, where antes eat at you every hand. Mizrachi needs to find spots in the exact games where the margins are thinnest.

He's done it before. Five times, in fact. The man has 31 career final tables — meaning he's converted at roughly a 16% clip across his tournament career. Those aren't lottery numbers. That's a pattern.

The Mizrachi Angle

Brother Michael holds four WSOP bracelets of his own. A Robert win here would put him at six, two clear of Michael. Family bragging rights aside, it would also place Robert among a very short list of players with six or more bracelets in the modern era.

But the path runs through Anderson's chip fortress, Arieh's seven-bracelet pedigree, Bach's H.O.R.S.E. expertise, and a Frenchman with nothing to lose and plenty of chips to burn.

Nine players. Twenty combined bracelets among the five we can see. And Robert Mizrachi, the short stack, trying to add one more.