Robert Mizrachi Leads 23 Left in $3,000 PLO, Chasing Bracelet No. 6

Robert Mizrachi has 1,080,000 chips and five gold bracelets, and every pot he plays at the $3,000 6-Handed PLO puts him closer to a club that has fewer than 20 living members.

The field in Event #96 of the 2026 World Series of Poker is down to 23 players. Mizrachi isn't the overall chip leader. That distinction belongs to Mason Vieth, who has built a tower of 4,000,000. But Mizrachi is the only player left with a bracelet to his name, let alone five of them, and the gap between "five" and "six" is one of the widest in poker.

The gap between "five" and "six" is one of the widest in poker.

The Weight of Six

Winning five WSOP bracelets is already elite. Fewer than 60 players in the 57-year history of the Series have done it. But the jump from five to six thins the air considerably. The six-bracelet tier includes names that define tournament poker's modern era, and Mizrachi, with $6.66 million in lifetime earnings and 32 career WSOP final tables, has the résumé to belong there.

He also has the game. PLO rewards hand-reading, pot control, and post-flop aggression, all strengths that have powered Mizrachi through a two-decade career at the highest levels. Six-handed PLO amplifies those edges. The format is fast and punishing, and the smaller tables leave nowhere to hide from a player who has seen every spot before.

The Field Around Him

Vieth's 4,000,000 stack is the mountain everyone else is looking up at. The 27-year-old has $562,673 in lifetime earnings and seven career final tables, a solid and growing track record but nothing close to Mizrachi's pedigree. At nearly four times Mizrachi's count, Vieth has the chips to absorb variance. Whether he has the experience to weaponize them against a five-time champion is a different question.

Two other stacks sit in Mizrachi's neighborhood. Qingyu Lu holds 900,000 and Yuhong Liu has 895,000. Neither has a bracelet. Lu's lifetime earnings sit at $19,453. Liu has $143,485 and one prior final table. Both players are dangerous precisely because they have nothing to protect. No legacy, no expectations, no reason to play scared.

That's the tension in this field: Mizrachi is hunting history, and everyone around him is hunting chips.

What a Sixth Would Mean

Mizrachi's five bracelets already place him in a fraternity that spans generations of the game. A sixth would push him into territory occupied by a handful of poker's most decorated champions. It would also mark something unusual in modern WSOP history: a player winning his sixth bracelet in a non-Hold'em event, reinforcing what the mixed-game community has known for years. Mizrachi is not a one-format player. He's a complete one.

His 32 WSOP final tables tell the same story. That number represents decades of deep runs across different structures, different games, and different eras of poker. Each final table is a data point. Thirty-two of them is a career-long pattern.

The Road From 23 to 1

Twenty-two eliminations stand between Mizrachi and bracelet number six. His 1,080,000 is healthy but not dominant, sitting well behind Vieth's commanding lead. The six-handed format means the final table is only four eliminations away. Every pot from here reconfigures the leaderboard.

Mizrachi has been in this exact position before, deep in a WSOP field with hardware on the line, and he's converted five times. The 23 players still holding chips at Event #96 are all playing for a bracelet. Only one of them knows exactly what it feels like to win one.