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The Best Poker Stories of 2012 – Mizrachi Wins Players Championship Again
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2012-12-31 05:45
With so much going on in 2012 in terms of positive poker stories, it’s easy to overlook something like Michael Mizrachi’s $50k Players Championship win in the
2012 WSOP. After all, there are bigger buy-in events out there and it’s not like the $50k Players Championship was the Main Event either…At a closer inspection though, Mizrachi’s win is by no means a feat to be left out of our Best Poker Stories of 2012 countdown. While the said event is indeed not the biggest or the best out there in terms of prize-pools and participant numbers, it is the best indeed when it comes to poker skill. He who wins the $50k Players Championship can rightfully call himself the best poker player in the world, because the quality of the competition he has to best to get there is indeed second to none.
Michael Mizrachi, known as “The Grinder” to his peers, won the event in 2010. He returned in 2012 and mounted an unprecedented title defense, walking away with the goods yet again and leaving definite proof on the table regarding the identity of the player the
poker world can call “the best” from here on out.
Mizrachi didn’t exactly have to defeat large starting fields either times: in 2010, he had to survive 116 players, and in 2012, he only had to beat 108, but in order to reach the top, he had to quite literally beat the cream of the crop of the poker world.
This year, the final table of the Players Championship event included players like Luke Schwartz and Andy Bloch. The top prize tipped the scales at $1.4 million, but the bragging rights that came with it were quite possibly valued at much more by all those who took part.
