There are three players left in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship event at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and Michael Mizrachi has all of the chips.
Okay, not literally all of them. But his opponents will need a similar comeback to what the New York Knicks pulled off against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals a few weeks ago.
“The Grinder” will have 80% of all chips in play when the tournament resumes at 3:15 p.m. PT (around 5:45 p.m. on the livestream). He will either join an exclusive club by winning his ninth bracelet, or he’ll lose one of the biggest three-handed leads in recent years at the WSOP.
Wild Comeback Today at the WSOP?
Mizrachi will enter the Day 4 session with 40,225,000 chips. Zarvan Tumboli is in second place with 5,500,000, while Michael Hahn is the shortest stack at 4,450,000. Conventional wisdom would suggest Monday’s session is a mere formality, but what if it isn’t? What if one of the short stacks goes on a heater and rallies to win the bracelet.
If that happens, it would go down as one of the biggest comebacks in WSOP history. If it doesn’t, Mizrachi will become just the eighth player ever to win nine bracelets. Benny Glaser became the seventh last week when he took down the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Nick Schulman was on his way to joining that club the following day before losing his chip lead and settling for second place in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship.
Mizrachi, the defending WSOP Main Event champion, is already a poker legend and Poker Hall of Famer. He will improve on that legacy with a ninth bracelet, if he holds onto his massive chip lead.
A loss would shock many within the poker community, given his chip lead is so big that he can withstand a couple of bad beats and still remain out in front. Mizrachi himself has pulled off some incredible comebacks, including one in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship. He didn’t win the bracelet, but he went from one big bet on Day 1 to finishing in sixth place for $54,458.
More memorably, Mizrachi rallied from a big deficit late in the 2025 WSOP Main Event to win the world title. On Thursday, he’ll attempt to avoid being on the opposite end of a crazy comeback.
It wouldn’t be the wildest comeback in WSOP history, however. Jack “Treetop” Straus, the 1982 world champion, found a hidden chip under his napkin and then spun that single chip up to win the Main Event. Michael Wang, just last year in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, had less than a full big blind before going on to win the tournament for $1,394,579.
Dan Sepiol trailed Robert Natividad during heads-up play in the 2024 $1,500 Shootout, but went on an epic heater to capture the bracelet. There are many other examples.
What we’re trying to say is that Mizrachi isn’t a lock to win the $10k PLO title. But he’s certainly going to be tough to beat. History will be made, one way or the other.
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