2007 WSOP Event #50 – Robert Mizrachi Wins $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship

With all of his success on the World Poker Tour, Robert Mizrachi has never gotten over the hump at the World Series of Poker.  It took him almost all the way to the end of the Series, but he finally won his first bracelet this summer.  And he made it count, winning more than three-quarters of a million dollars in the Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. 

Mizrachi has had an impressive World Series in 2007, also making the final table in both H.O.R.S.E. events, along with two other cashes.  He was not the fan favorite at the table, however, as Doyle Brunson was gunning for his 11^th bracelet to tie Phil Hellmuth, who won his earlier in the 2007 WSOP.  Brunson was not able to accomplish the feat, obviously, placing 6^th.  Marco Traniello also appeared at his third final table this year, which gave him 14 cashes in three years, the most out of any player in that time frame. 

Despite entering play second in chips and one of only two players with over a million, Mizrachi was rather quiet through the first 20 hands (he did knock out a short stack, but gave it back by doubling-up an opponent).  Then, all of a sudden, he won three in a row.  Then he knocked out Stephen Ladowsky in 7^th place and followed that up by winning three of the next four hands.  By hand 37, he was the chip leader. 

But Mizrachi wasn’t done.  On hand 40, he flopped bottom two pair and rivered a full house to nab a 1.44 million chip pot from Tom Ly.  He then took another 80,000 from Ly on the next hand to take his stack up to 2.5 million chips, more than a million more than his closest competitor. 

Brunson was gone two hands later and then Mizrachi lost most of his previous gains by doubling-up Rene Mouritsen.  After hand 55, he was down to half a million.  You can’t keep a good man down, however, and Mizrachi proceeded to double through Patrik Antonius, win the next hand, eliminate Traniello on the hand after that, then win two of the next three hands to climb back to 1.85 million. 

After hand 77, Mizrachi was back down to 1.45 million, third out of the three remaining players, partially thanks to losing chips when Antonius flopped a royal flush.   

But, as had been the case every time Mizrachi took a hit, he came back immediately.  On hand 78, he won over 800,000 chips from Mouritsen to just barely take the chip lead from Antonius.  The rest of three-handed play was a battle, with Mouritsen holding the chip lead for a good length of time.  The turning point was hand 114, when Mizrachi grabbed a 1.34 million chip pot from Antonius to give himself a large lead.  Antonius later doubled through Mouritsen and Mizrachi kept forging ahead, extending his lead even more. 

Once he eliminated Antonius, Mizrachi had about a 3 million chip lead on Mouritsen going into heads-up play.  The one-on-one match lasted only ten hands, with Mizrachi winning all bad two, when he allowed two harmless double-ups.  Robert Mizrachi flopped a set of 9’s on the final hand, Mouritsen could not hit his flush draw after the flop, and Mizrachi finally had his bracelet. 

Final Table Standings 

1. Robert Mizrachi -- $768,889
2. Rene Mouritsen -- $464,877
3. Patrik Antonius -- $311,394
4. Tom Ly -- $209,564
5. Marco Traniello -- $156,435
6. Doyle Brunson -- $123,967
7. Stephen Ladowsky -- $92,975
8. Jonas Flug-Entin -- $69,363
9. Steve Sung -- $50,177