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WSOP 2010 – Day 5: Michael Mizrachi wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-06-03 10:34
Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP saw one of the opening events – the $50k Players’ Championship – come to an end, and another one, the $1,000
NL Holdem event reach a critical milestone: the final table.
Michael Mizrachi may not have started the final table with the chip lead, but as experts have pointed out prior to the final table run, the fact that the 8-game format of the event was ditched for NL Holdem only in the final stretch, gave him an edge.
The older Mizrachi had to best a starting field of 115 of the world’s best and most successful poker players. The last opponent standing between him and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy was Russia’s Vladimir Schmelev. The Grinder lived up to his nickname though and hammered home the win. The final hand of the heads-up stage saw Mizrachi shove all his chips into the middle, holding Q,5o. Stuck with a short-stack, Schmelev didn’t really have much of a choice when he made the call with Q,8o. The flop fell 9,6,4 and Schmelev appeared to be on his way to a more than welcome double-up. The 5 which hit the board on the turn changed all that though. Schmelev needed a 7 or an 8 on the river to reclaim the pot from Mizrachi’s measly pair of 5s, but the 4 on the river put an end to the hand and to the poker tournament as well.
Mizrachi pocketed the $1.6 million top prize, while the Russian headed to the cage to pick up his $963k of the prize-pool.
Meanwhile, event #3 of the
2010 WSOP, the first of the $1,000 NL Holdem specials, rolled on. This day saw the final table reached, as Aadam Daya assumed the position of the chip leader, with a 2,855,000 monster stack to his name. The 9 final table participants survived an initial starting field of 4,345 to earn themselves a chance to take down the $625,872 top prize.
Event #4, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event came to a conclusion too, as Michael Chow weathered the storm to emerge with the bracelet and the top prize. He bested Dan Heimiller heads-up for the win.
The final hand of the event saw Chow hit a K-high straight against Heimiller who failed to secure the low and thus surrendered the entire pot to the victor.
