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Tom Dwan screen name durrrr has a nice little chip lead in the 2010 WSOP Event #55: Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. Tom is going to have to “dodge some bullets” to remain atop these final 33 players. One of those bullets is Phil Hellmuth who is probably foaming at the mouth, trying to get his 12th bracelet. In 17th is Alexander Kravchenko who is excellent at riding short stacks to the final table. Blair Rodman is one of my favorite tournament players and has great instincts. Michael Binger is a “rock” and has a fairly healthy stack. Daniel Alaei is one of those silent assassins always lurking. Benjamin Lamb might be a future Phil Ivey but unfortunately hes riding a short stack with little room to make moves.

1 Tom Dwan 910,000
2 Danny Wong 563,000
3 Julio Marines 539,000
4 Ludovic Lacay 528,000
5 Seamus Cahill 495,000
6 Daniel Harmetz 490,000
7 Miguel Proulx 468,000
8 Dmitry Stelmak 448,000
9 Alessio Isaia 443,000
10 Ville Mattila 416,000
11 Michael Binger 391,000
12 David Ulliott 380,000
13 Phil Hellmuth 347,000
14 John Racener 335,000
15 Daniel Alaei 325,000
16 Stephen Ladowsky 302,000
17 Alexander Kravchenko 284,000
18 Leandro Pimentel 254,000
19 Blair Rodman 240,000
20 Jordan Smith 224,000
21 Fabrice Soulier 218,000
22 Jason Mercier 213,000
23 Matthew Wheat 208,000
24 Tony Cousineau 193,000
25 Shawn Hattem 181,000
26 George Abdallah 170,000
27 Stephen Pierson 165,000
28 Trevor Uyesugi 152,000
29 Benjamin Lamb 145,000
30 Jason Lester 143,000
31 Ben Blackmore 99,000
32 Nenad Medic 74,000
33 Timothy Flanders 64,000

Prizepool
1st $780,599
2nd $482,265
3rd $354,218
4th $262,208
5th $195,631
6th $147,138
7th $111,524
8th $85,180
9th $65,568
10th-12th $50,867
13th-15th $39,906
16th-18th $31,288
19th-27th $24,815
28th-36th $19,839

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Michael Mizrachi is an American professional poker player, born in Miami Florida January 5th 1981. Poker blood runs right through the Mizrachi family his brother Robert has had some moderate success on the professional poker tour, and has a twin brother Eric who plays as well. Some people might say Michael’s game is magical, his brother Daniel is a Professional Magician.

Michael Mizrachi The Grinder Photo

Michael Mizrachi’s career was not one of jump to the scene, but more of a grass roots effort by playing online poker at small buy in’s from 10$ to 40$ eventually moving to the 100$ to 200$. Mizrachi’s steady play online was good, but being his own worst critic he would spend hours taking personal inventory whenever he would lose. There were times he thought of giving up his dream, he was in school pursing a career as a Doctor but decided to drop out after seeing brother Robert’s success.

Read more about Michael Mizrachi here.

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Frank Kassela could be a triple bracelet winner if he takes this down. He just overtook Daniel Negreanu for the lead. He already won Event #40: Seven Card Razz and Event #15: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better World Championship. Frank Kassela is a fierce Pot Limit Omaha player and is now branching out into some other games. Let’s see if John Juanda comes out of nowhere like he usually does to finish in the top three.

Chip counts for Event #52 2010 WSOP
1 Frank Kassela 1,300,000
2 Bryn Kenney 1,130,000
3 Daniel Negreanu 1,020,000
4 Brian Hodhod 955,000
5 Carlos Mortensen 900,000
6 Eugene Katchalov 900,000
7 Abe Mosseri 833,000
8 Mikael Thuritz 830,000
9 Richard Anthony 820,000
10 Justin Bonomo 695,000
11 Isaac Haxton 649,000
12 Vadim Trincher 620,000
13 Dan Kelly 602,000
14 Sam Trickett 585,000
15 John Juanda 400,000
16 Billy Jordanou 382,000
17 Shawn Buchanan 355,000
18 Hoyt Corkins 300,000
19 Steven Kelly 265,000
20 Jason Somerville 245,000
21 Thomas Bentham 240,000
22 Martins Adeniya 240,000
23 Alexander Gruibem 220,000
24 Heather Sue Mercer 175,000

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The 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions is a million dollar freeroll for the most respected names in poker. I really don’t understand this payout structure:
1st $500,000
2nd $250,000
3rd $100,000
4th – 9th $25,000
What’s up with the 4-9 $25k prize? I think 1-4 is enough for a freeroll. Anyways, just thought I’d point that out. Mike Matusow leads the TOC with 85k in chips followed by Huck Seed and Johnny Chan.

2010 WSOP TOC Chip Counts
1 Mike Matusow 85,500
2 Huck Seed 73,000
3 Johnny Chan 68,600
4 Scotty Nguyen 64,700
5 Joe Hachem 64,300
6 Erik Seidel 58,900
7 Allen Cunningham 58,900
8 Phil Hellmuth 44,100
9 Annie Duke 42,600
10 Daniel Negreanu 39,900
11 TJ Cloutier 38,800
12 Jennifer Harman 34,200
13 Howard Lederer 30,800
14 Chris Ferguson 30,100
15 Barry Greenstein 29,900
16 Antonio Esfandiari 24,400
17 Bertrand Grospellier 21,400

Steve Sung leads the $2,500.00 Event #48: Mixed Event with an overwhelming chips lead. Steve Sung is won of the best cash games players who’s play converts to live tournaments.
1 Steve Sung 900,000
2 Stephen Su 395,000
3 Nikolai Yakovenko 390,000
4 Alexander Wice 385,000
5 Sigurd Eskeland 360,000
6 Scott Seiver 310,000
7 Jared Jaffee 197,000
8 Kirill Rabtsov 170,000

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