World Series of Poker -- Main Event Day Seven, Just Three Tables LeftMizrachi Trying to Finish Off Monster Series With November Nine Appearance |
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Since the poker boom, every World Series of Poker seems to get a “Year of the” label.
This year, however, has been much tougher to give a label to, but if Michael Mizrachi can survive Saturday and make the November Nine, it might be time to label the 2010 World Series of Poker “The Year of the Mizrachis.”
Michael started off this year’s WSOP by winning the $50,000 Players Championship for just over $1.5 million. He also made two other final tables in other $10,000 events and has already cashed for just under $1.7 million on the series so far. His brother Robert has also made three final tables this year, including a fifth place finish at the Players Championship and has almost $500,000 in cashes at this year’s series.
After all of that, all four of the Mizrachi brothers (Eric, Donny, Robert, and Michael) all cashed in this year’s Main Event. Now, Michael is the last Mizrachi standing and is looking forward to day eight of the Main Event.
Day seven saw 78 players come back and after 51 eliminations, the final 27 remain. Many notable pros made it through the day and this has the potential to be the toughest main event final table in recent history.
Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Adam Levy, David Baker, John Racener, Matt Affleck, William Thorson, and Jason Senti are all still in the hunt and have at least average chip stacks.
Mizrachi held the largest cheering section by far of anybody still left in the tournament. He was at the featured table most of the day and it was fairly easy to tell when he would win a pot by the outburst of cheers that would come from that corner of the room.
The more players that fell by the wayside, the more palpable the tension became in the Amazon Room. When Bryn Kenney was eliminated in 28th place and play was stopped for the day, the players broke out in celebration, knowing they are roughly 24 hours away from making the November Nine.
Adam Levy notes that just making the final 27 of this event is one of his greatest poker accomplishments.
“The prestige of this is just unrankable,” said Levy. “It’s just so much better than anything else. I went deep and won a tournament the other weekend online and I just like fist pumped and went like ‘Woo!’ Whereas here, we were all ecstatic and fist pumping each other.”
As the day progressed, Joseph Cheong and Soi Nguyen (pictured right) rose through the chip counts and ended the day with the two biggest stacks in the room, both well over 20,000,000.
Cheong seemed to gain his chips slowly, whereas Nguyen was the beneficiary of a big pot with Theo Jorgensen. Nguyen got all of his chips in the middle against Jorgensen after a flurry of raises on a flop of K
5
9.
There was 19 million chips in the middle and everybody expected to see two monster hands. However, Nguyen turned up the K J and Jorgensen tabled A 3. Nguyen was able to fade the ace or the club and shot up to the top of the chip counts. Jorgensen, who started the day as the chip leader, fell to the bottom of the chip counts and was eliminated shortly before the end of the day.
It was a bad day to be a chip leader at the start of the day. Besides Jorgensen, William Thorson was at the top of pack at the start of the day but slipped throughout the day and ends the night near the bottom of the chip count. Thorson still has some chips to maneuver around with though and is always dangerous if he is still alive.
Some notables who weren’t fortunate enough to survive the day included Tony Dunst, Josh Brikis, David Benyamine, and Jacobo Fernandez.
Players will return at noon on Saturday to play down to the final nine players that will make up November’s final table and Card Player will have hour-by-hour coverage of all the latest developments.
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