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Michael Mizrachi is now a seven-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner after winning Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship. This is Mizrachi's fourth victory in this event, breaking a tie he held with Brian Rast.
Having won the Poker Players Championship in 2010, 2012, and 2018, Mizrachi's other WSOP bracelets include the €10k Split-Format No-Limit Hold'em at the 2011 WSOP Europe, the $1,500 Stud Hi-Lo at the 2019 WSOP, and the $888 Crazy 8's Encore in 2024 on WSOP Online. According to The Hendon Mob, Mizrachi now has more than $19,000,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, which puts him 68th on the All-Time Money List.
Mizrachi now joins some legendary poker players to have seven WSOP bracelets. Daniel Negreanu, Nick Schulman, Scott Seiver, John Hennigan, Brian Rast, Billy Baxter, and Men Nguyen all have seven WSOP bracelets.
The Poker Players Championship drew 107 entrants, generating a prize pool of $5,082,500. Only 17 players finished in the money, including previous champion Matthew Ashton and WSOP bracelet winners Ali Eslami, Justin Liberto, Chris Vitch, Mike Matusow, Erick Lindgren, Marco Johnson, and Ben Yu. Following four days of intense action across nine different variants of poker, the final seven players returned for Day 5.
Ben Lamb was the first casualty when he four-to-a-low in Stud Hi-Lo couldn't improve to best Mizrachi's straight-eight. Albert Daher then exited in sixth place when he was all-in with king-jack against Mizrachi's pocket sixes. Daher flopped a gutshot and live overcards, but couldn't fill either and made his way to the exit. Joao Vieira was all-in during Stud with split sixes, while Mizrachi made open aces that improved to aces up, while Kenney four-to-a-flush and open nines wouldn't run down Mizrachi as Vieira was eliminated in fifth.
During Pot-Limit Omaha, Andrew Yeh found himself all-in on the flop against Mizrachi and Esther Taylor. Mizrachi outflopped both his opponents and his pair of aces sent Yeh to the rail in fourth. Mizrachi held a two-to-one chip lead over Bryn Kenney and Taylor and continued to extend his lead at the top. Kenney's roller coaster up and down the leaderboard continued before he eliminated Taylor in third. During No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, Taylor was all-in with a pat nine-eight against Kenney's wheel draw. Kenney spiked his gin card, and the Poker Players Championship was now heads-up with Mizrachi holding a 29.9 million chip advantage to Kenney's 2.1 million.
Kenney chipped a little before the final hand occurred during 2-7 Triple Draw. Kenney was pat with a nine-seven, but decided to draw to a seven. Mizrachi had stood pat with the worst hand, a ten-smooth. Kenney paired his deuce and was eliminated in second place as Mizrachi was crowned a four-time Poker Players Championship winner, and a seven-time WSOP bracelet winner.
2025 WSOP Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | PGT Points |
| 1st | Michael Mizrachi | United States | $1,331,322 | 700 |
| 2nd | Bryn Kenney | United States | $887,542 | 355 |
| 3rd | Esther Taylor | United States | $595,136 | 238 |
| 4th | Andrew Yeh | United States | $413,740 | 165 |
| 5th | Joao Vieira | Portugal | $298,614 | 119 |
| 6th | Albert Daher | Lebanon | $224,077 | 90 |
| 7th | Ben Lamb | United States | $175,096 | 70 |
Event #66 of the 2025 World Series of Poker was the 20th PGT-qualifying event of the series, and with Michael Mizrachi's victory, he moves to 40th on the PGT leaderboard. Bryn Kenney climbs to 21st on the PGT leaderboard with 835 PGT points, while Esther Taylor sits in 137th.
Andrew Yeh sits 85th with 389 PGT points from three cashes, while Joao Vieira rises to 17th on the PGT leaderboard with 875 PGT points and six cashes. Ben Lamb earned his fourth PGT cash of the season and sits 32nd with 731 PGT points.
PGT Leaderboard Top 10
| Rank | Player | PGT Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1st | Alex Foxen | 1,746 | 2 | 14 | $4,402,174 |
| 2nd | Nick Schulman | 1,529 | 1 | 18 | $1,544,865 |
| 3rd | Daniel Negreanu | 1,470 | 2 | 18 | $2,123,536 |
| 4th | Chino Rheem | 1,327 | 2 | 15 | $1,410,103 |
| 5th | Andrew Lichtenberger | 1,211 | 1 | 7 | $2,040,132 |
| 6th | Eric Blair | 1,157 | 2 | 13 | $1,174,570 |
| 7th | Philip Sternheimer | 1,156 | 1 | 8 | $1,303,528 |
| 8th | Kristen Foxen | 1,086 | 3 | 9 | $883,077 |
| 9th | Dylan Linde | 1,015 | 1 | 7 | $2,316,739 |
| 10th | Joey Weissman | 1,002 | 1 | 10 | $1,121,420 |
These are the leaderboard standings as of Saturday, June 28, 2025. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.
The next eligible WSOP event to earn PGT points is the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, which begins on Saturday, June 28. On Monday, June 30, the $10,000 Stud Hi-Lo Championship will commence, while on Tuesday, July 1, the inaugural $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller will begin. Wednesday, July 2, will see the commencement of two PGT events. The $10,000 8-Game Mix Championship and the $10,000 Main Event. The WSOP Main Event will have Day 1 from July 2 to 5, while players can still enter on Day 2ABC and Day 2D.
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