World Series of Poker Main Event -- Day 6

The prospects for a November Nine stacked with professional talent are usually dashed by this point of the World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. This year things feel a little different at the end of day 6 with 78 players remaining. Not only are some big names still in contention, they also hold some of the monster stacks in the tournament.

Topping that list in notoriety is recent $50,000 Players Championship winner Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. He handled the pressure of playing at the ESPN feature table for the majority of the day and flourished. He ends the night with 7,535,000 in chips, which is good for second place overall.

“Earlier in the tournament I was a short stack, but I play better as a short stack. Now I have a big stack but I’m pretending I still have a short stack so that I keep playing well, playing solid. I have been making the right decisions so far and hopefully I don’t make any bad decisions. It could be very costly because everyone has such big chip [stacks]. I’m very excited and I like my chances,” Mizrachi told Card Player on Day 6.

When asked about how he felt about cashing along with his brother’s Robert, Danny and Eric in the 2010 main event, the Grinder replied, “That’s a great thing, it’s a record that will probably never be broken, but I think we broke the record by just four brothers buying in, I don’t think anyone has ever done that before.”

Here is one of the hands that vaulted the Grinder up the leader board today from Card Player’s live updates:

Mizrachi Knocks Out Schreiber

Michael Mizrachi raised to 80,000 from the hijack and Matthew Schreiber moved in for 374,000 from the big blind. Mizrachi made the call and Schreiber was officially at risk.

Schreiber: A 7
Mizrachi: J 10

Mizrachi had two live cards and the flop gave him the lead when it fell 10 7 6. The turn was the 5 and the river was the 5 and Mizrachi chipped up to 5.6 million with the knockout.

Other notable players in the top 10 on the leader board include overnight chip leader Theo Jorgensen (9,300,000), John Racener (7,200,000), William Thorson (6,525,000), and Alexander Kostritsyn (5,715,000). Jorgensen won one of the biggest pots in the tournament thus far when he eliminated Fokke Beukers. From Card Player’s live updates:

Boom

Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 6 3 K and Fokke Beukers moved all in for about 2 million chips.

Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K 6 for turned two pair. Beukers tabled A K for top pair on the turn and he was in trouble.

The river was the 4 and Beukers was eliminated. Jorgensen soared to the chip lead after that massive pot, holding 8 million.

Notable eliminations during day 6 included Robert Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Jimmy Tran, Theo Tran, J.P. Kelly, Jesper Hougaard, Christian Harder, Todd Witteles, Juha Helppi, Matt Keikoan, Dragan Galic, and the final former world champion that was still alive heading into the day, Johnny Chan. Here was his elimination hand for Chan, from Card Player’s live updates:

Johnny Chan Eliminated

Johnny Chan and pocket aces did not get along today. He lost a huge pot when he ran his kings into Robert Pisano’s aces during the first level and had a similar situation when he busted out.

Chan open-shoved for 550,000 from the cutoff and Jonathan Driscoll snapped him off from the button. The blinds folded and the cards were turned over.

Chan: J J
Driscoll: A A

Chan fell victim to the aces again as the board ran out 7 6 3 5 7 and Chan was eliminated.

The 78 players that remain will return tomorrow at noon to play down to the final 27 players. Check back in with CardPlayer.com at that time and see if your favorite professional still in contention can step one day closer to the November Nine. Many big names reside outside the top 10 as well, including reigning Card Player Player of the Year Eric Baldwin, Card Player blogger Tony Dunst, Bryn Kenney, Johnny Lodden, Adam Levy, Josh Brikis, Hasan Habib, Scott Clements, Jacobo Fernandez, Jean-Robert Bellande and David Benyamine. Here is the seat draw for tomorrow with chip counts:

Table 369

Seat 1: Jakob Toestesen – 2010000
Seat 2: Gabriel Nassif – 1125000
Seat 3: Redmond Lee – 2220000
Seat 4: William Thorson – 6525000
Seat 5: EMPTY
Seat 6: Evan Lamprea – 2910000
Seat 7: Rudy Miller – 2250000
Seat 8: John Armbrust – 3295000
Seat 9: Ronnie Bardah – 1265000

Table 370

Seat 1: Jonathan Driscoll – 6570000
Seat 2: Brock Bourne – 1150000
Seat 3: Joseph Cheong – 5555000
Seat 4: Meenaskshi Subramaniam – 2690000
Seat 5: Scott Clements – 1085000
Seat 6: Corey Emery – 2640000
Seat 7: Dag Palovic – 1375000
Seat 8: David Benyamine – 1540000
Seat 9: Jim McCrink – 1600000

Table 371

Seat 1: Niklas Toorell – 1945000
Seat 2: Mads Wissing – 2025000
Seat 3: Matthew Berkey – 5450000
Seat 4: Michael Mizrachi – 7535000
Seat 5: Filippo Candio – 5385000
Seat 6: Patrick Eskandar – 5540000
Seat 7: Michiel Sijpkens – 2160000
Seat 8: Jonathan Duhamel – 4295000
Seat 9: Jared Ingles – 1370000

Table 372

Seat 1: Marcel Cole – 1075000
Seat 2: Adam Etter – 765000
Seat 3: Evgeny Shnayder – 4790000
Seat 4: Michael Skender – 2980000
Seat 5: Michal Wywrot – 3815000
Seat 6: Robert Pisano – 3735000
Seat 7: Nicolas Babel – 1220000
Seat 8: James Fennell – 3225000
Seat 9: Matthew Jarvis – 6125000

Table 373

Seat 1: Gianni Direnzo – 2280000
Seat 2: Gary Dishongh – 800000
Seat 3: Peter Jetten – 675000
Seat 4: Pierre Canali – 655000
Seat 5: John Dolan – 3470000
Seat 6: Jacobo Fernandez – 705000
Seat 7: Matthew Bucaric – 3595000
Seat 8: Edward Ochana – 5950000
Seat 9: Adam Levy – 1685000

Table 374

Seat 1: Bill Melvin – 4515000
Seat 2: Jerry Payne – 2765000
Seat 3: Benjamin Statz – 2910000
Seat 4: Jason Senti – 970000
Seat 5: Bryn Kenney – 3830000
Seat 6: David Baker – 1635000
Seat 7: Christopher Bolt – 1690000
Seat 8: Mark Meloche – 1780000
Seat 9: Josh Brikis – 1610000

Table 375

Seat 1: Duy Le – 4100000
Seat 2: Damien Luis – 1850000
Seat 3: John Racener – 7200000
Seat 4: Jeff Banghart – 645000
Seat 5: Tony Dunst – 1550000
Seat 6: Sergey Rybachenko – 1010000
Seat 7: Jean-Robert Bellande – 700000
Seat 8: Matt Harris – 965000
Seat 9: EMPTY

Table 376

Seat 1: Habib Khanis – 1065000
Seat 2: EMPTY
Seat 3: Ismail Erkenov – 1530000
Seat 4: Eduardo Parras – 1220000
Seat 5: Brandon Steven – 2330000
Seat 6: James Manning – 1265000
Seat 7: Eric Baldwin – 2135000
Seat 8: Theo Jorgensen – 9300000
Seat 9: Richard Morgan – 1680000

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