Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has just lost a sizeable pot but still has 125,000 chips at his disposal so he is hardly down and out.
Mizrachi got into a raising war on the flop that resulted in his opponent being all-in with for a set of aces and Mizrachi the for top pair and the nut flush draw. Mizrachi's flush outs were taken away — in fact all of his outs — when the improved his opponent to a full house, and when the river bricked off Mizrachi handed over 20,700 of his colossal stack.
On a flop of there was a bet of 3,300 before James Obst check-raised to 15,150 leaving himself roughly 2,100 behind. Cary Katz then check-shoved all in for roughly 34,000 as the flop better made the call.
Obst:
Katz:
Opponent:
The turn and river landed the and to see Obst's set cracked as Katz and the other opponent chopped it up.
Davidi Kitai won his third World Series of Poker bracelet a couple of weeks ago and is now in the hunt for a fourth piece of poker jewellery here in the $5,000 buy-in pot limit Omaha event. Kitai is sat behind stacks of chips worth a combined 95,000 and is the man to catch as the first day's play enters level six.
10 minutes ago it didn't appear as though Michael Mizrachi was in this tournament.
Now he has nearly 100,000 in chips.
As our PokerNews reporter searched the room for hands and chip counts, he noticed that Noah Schwartz's seat was empty and Mizrachi was dragging a monster pot.
On the previous round of chip counts - when Mizrachi wasn't there - Schwartz was nestled behind a near-40,000 chip stack.
However in the span of just several minutes, Schwartz has been sent to the rail just shy of dinner break as Mizrachi sit atop the leaderboard with an impressive 97,625.
The cutoff limped in for 400 and Jeffrey Palarino raised to 1,800 from the button. David "Bakes" Baker said, "I raise pot," and he made it 6,200 to play from his seat in the small blind. The big blind and initial limper folded, but Palarino called.
The flop was bet to the tune of 5,000 by Baker, Palarino moved all-in for a few thousand more and Baker called.
Baker:
Palarino:
Palarino had flopped a straight and Baker was left needing a ten in order to improve to a straight himself. The turn was no help to Baker and neither was the river, which sent the pot to Palarino.