Michael Mizrachi won it all at the 2025 WSOP. Then came the grind.
Key takeaways
- Now he's back in Las Vegas trying to do it all over again.
- Last summer, Mizrachi pulled off the most improbable parlay in the history of poker.
- While some of the most recent main event champions have been relatively unknown to the general public, Mizrachi was already a bona fide poker star with a trophy case to prove it.
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
Michael Mizrachi won the last year's WSOP Main Event, on top of also taking the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship. Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via APLance Bradley Multiple Authors Jun 20, 2026, 08:00 AM ETEmail Print Open Extended Reactions Since the moment the final card of the 2025 World Series of Poker main event was dealt last July, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has lived a life that is part wandering nomad and part face of the game. He has lived out of his suitcase, spending more time on an airplane than at any other point in his 21-year-long Hall of Fame career. And he's exhausted.
Now he's back in Las Vegas trying to do it all over again. So he can do it all over again.
Last summer, Mizrachi pulled off the most improbable parlay in the history of poker. For the first leg, he won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, a tournament that most elite-level pros will tell you is 1B on their list of the most prestigious and important poker tournaments in the world, for a record fourth time. Three weeks later, he hit the second leg when he won the event that sits at 1 or 1A on the list of every poker player, professional or amateur -- the $10,000 WSOP main event -- and earned $10 million in the process.