Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has a ninth WSOP bracelet — and an Indian satellite qualifier nearly spoiled the party. Mizrachi closed out Event #70, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, at the 2026 World Series of Poker, beating India’s Zarvan Tumboli heads-up to bank $1,350,203 and, remarkably, his first bracelet in the four-card game.
The $10,000 buy-in pulled 837 entries at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas for a $7,774,800 prize pool. Mizrachi dominated from wire to wire, bagging the chip lead at the end of each of the first three days and carrying more than 80 percent of the chips in play into the final session. Michael Hahn took third for $627,832, with Martin Zamani, Ian Matakis and Raj Vohra filling out the back end of the final table.
Tumboli turns $1,100 into $900K
The runner-up is the line APAC railbirds will circle. Tumboli reached the Championship through a $1,100 satellite, then ran the lot all the way to heads-up against one of the most decorated players in the game. His $900,088 is comfortably the biggest live cash of his career, and for a stretch he made it a genuine scrap — a full-house-over-full-house cooler swung his way and trimmed Mizrachi’s edge to roughly two-to-one.
That was as close as it got. Mizrachi rivered a full house to rebuild a five-to-one lead, and the finish arrived moments later: Tumboli jammed with pocket aces, Mizrachi called with jack-ten-seven-six, and the nine of spades on the river filled a Grinder straight. Aces cracked, bracelet sealed.
The Grinder is chasing Hellmuth
Number nine slots into a résumé that already holds four Poker Players Championship titles, the 2025 WSOP Main Event crown, and more than $30 million in live earnings. Mizrachi said he wanted something new after years of stacking PPC hardware. “I think I would take the PLO over the PPC right now just to have something different on my belt,” he said.
And he is not easing off. “We’ve got to catch Hellmuth, right? So that’s the goal,” Mizrachi said of Phil Hellmuth’s all-time bracelet record. “I need to average about two or three a year.”
The decisive swing actually came earlier, on Day 3, when Jesse Lonis briefly grabbed the lead before running a pair-and-a-gutshot into Mizrachi’s aces in the biggest pot of the event. From there the Grinder cleared the table almost at will.
Tumboli’s run lands at a useful moment for the region: with the Main Event next on the WSOP schedule, his march from a four-figure satellite to a seven-figure cash is a reminder of how short the road can be between a qualifier seat and poker’s brightest lights.