2025 World Series of Poker May 27th - July 16th
2.5bb with 24 left, winning AJ v AQ, runner runner flush, winning every flip, AK vs KK for tourney life and mega chip lead pot, A on the river obv. Just lol @ tournament poker and the luck some people have in this game. I'd be over the moon if I could have this kind of luck in a single $109 once.
You've never beat Kings with AK?
Marget's bustout hand was fine. I wouldn't mind an open shove for 20xBB though.
Dunaway, with 2nd place, plays amateur style sometimes. For example, he made a 4x 4-bet with KK.
This hand is a good one to limp/call as it provides good protection for her limping range. The offsuit Aces make better shoves as they don't play as well post. Before they even showed KHs hand, I told my friend this exactly.
Her line was the best imo..
In case anyone thought poker was dead, we have people advocating that a 20x stack open fold ATs from the SB when there are no tiny stacks that would have ICM implications.
ya. if it were anyone else except a popular lifetime gambler with a unique name, all the headlines would be "luckiest run in main event history".
"Grinder" is being treated like he is a god in this thread for getting incredibly lucky. Also, he has the advantage of being financially set so he can bully the others whom this is all life changing money. Also, watching poker on TV is just weird. I suppose if you like seeing players going all in and acting like idiots to achieve their 15 minutes of fame go ahead. The one big tournament I won was easy. I had all of the chips and bullied everyone. No skill needed.
I know the narrative here is that Grinder is on a sun run but let's not forget he battled through 6 days of tournament poker before any of the recent suckouts happened. You can't do that on luck alone.
I know the narrative here is that Grinder is on a sun run but let's not forget he battled through 6 days of tournament poker before any of the recent suckouts happened. You can't do that on luck alone.
Making 10,000 entrant final table..............some sun running happens the entire way.
"Grinder" is being treated like he is a god in this thread for getting incredibly lucky. Also, he has the advantage of being financially set so he can bully the others whom this is all life changing money. Also, watching poker on TV is just weird. I suppose if you like seeing players going all in and acting like idiots to achieve their 15 minutes of fame go ahead. The one big t
Definitely life changing money for grinder. Degen with tons of money issues over the years and has been backed many times.
Yeah I seem to remember grinder having some controversy 10 years ago or maybe that was his brother
If you watched full coverage, you saw Grinder winning many pots with worst hand, no showdown. He isn’t “sunrunning” to title lol. The dude has mad NLH skills.
Grunching to this post, which made me curious. How many baby boomers have made the final table in the last 10 years? I know Hossein Ensan (b. May 1964) is one of them. Is he the last? John Hesp, the jovial British guy from a few years prior to Ensan, was born in 1961. I did only half-assed research so I might have missed someone. Obviously, the number gets reasonably high if yo
I posted the following as a Top 10 Tuesday bonus list a year ago:
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Top Ten Oldest WSOP Main Event Final Tablists Since 2000
- 9. 2023 Jan-Peter Jachtmann 55
- 9. 2019 Hossein Ensan 55 {oldest champ, as previously mentioned}
- 8. 2003 Dan Harrington 57
- 7. 2020 Ron Jenkins 60 {7th on U.S. side, so could have omitted him}
- 4. 2015 Neil Blumenfield 61
- 4. 2004 Al Krux 61
- 4 .2000 T.J. Cloutier 61
- 3. 2007 Raymond Rahme 62
- 2. 2017 John Hesp 64
- 1. 2015 Pierre Neuville 72
{Note: My data has a few holes, but I don't think I missed anyone 60 or over.}
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Not Baby Boomers, but to finish the top ten since 2016:
2020 Damian Salas 45
2025 Daehyung Lee 46
2021 George Holmes 49
2025 John Wasnock 50
2023 Ruslan Prydryk 50
2016 Cliff Josephy 51
Michael Mizrachi just misses the list at 44. This year is the oldest final table since 2003 (not sure about some of those players' ages; about the same as 2001, while before then the final tables were basically all 40+).
Luck plays a role in all successes inside and outside of poker. If Paxson bricks the 3 in 93 and Michael Jordan gets called for the push off in 98, MJ might have two fewer rings and the basketball goat conversation would be dramatically altered. But winning championships matters.
Plus, even if other players are truthfully better than Mizrachi and would win more PPCs and main events if they got to play a million of them, it will still be good for poker to push the Mizrachi narrative because:
1. Superstars are compelling and draw fans to broadcasts
2. The narrative shows that poker is a game of skill which can help both with legality and with drawing aspiring players who want to feel there's an edge worth seeking
3. Mizrachi doesn't play by the book, diminishing the perceived value of studying theory...and people shouldn't want other people studying theory if they want to win money, even if Mizrachi's run legitimately shows that there's more to poker than X's and O's.
Of course I have but I cant recall being down to 2.5bb in any tourney and continuously suck my way out back to 75% of the chips 3 handed. Just absolutely insane sunrunning. If this was some nobody rec like Wasnock running like this people would be saying that its the luckiest guy ever putting Gold and Yang to shame instead everyone is polishing his rod because hes a known name.
The guy hasnt even played particularily good tournament poker. Jam 20bb AJo UTG lol
Was Mizrachi down to 2.5bb on stream? I'm trying to find this but not coming up with it.
The sun running complaining is hilarious. Y'all are so salty. Luck is the result of design, and Mizrachi has plenty of design in how he builds his stack to fully take advantage of the "luck" when it hits. He wins a lot of pots without showdown most players wouldn't. He gets value in a lot of spots most wouldn't. He makes big folds in a lot of spots most wouldn't.
He accumulates chips, which compounds when he wins big all ins, like the AK vs KK. Don't forget, when those chips went in pre and he was only a 30/70 dog, which isn't that insane. The card he needed just happened to come on the river, which makes it look way more lucky than it is. Obviously you can say some of his outs were burned in that specific hand, but that's also being results-oriented.
It's a highly variant style, but it's a style that gives him a better chance to win than most. That's why he's on his second Main FT in the post boom era with a really good shot to win while everyone else is here complaining about how lucky he is.
The Grinder running over these players probably continues because of the pay jumps and lifetime earnings, especially of Braxton Dunaway currently in 3rd out of 4 not wanting to come in 4th and lose out on a $1,000,000 more, as well as, John Wasnock safely currently in 2nd place not wanting to come in 3rd or 4th and lose out on $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 more. Plus, John Wasnock
Haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere but Dunaway actually would’ve flopped top two in the big suckout hand, had he lost his mind and stayed in preflop.
Hendrix bvb hand:
Not only did MM have an incredible run from being down to dust with 3 tables left he really got the perfect setup with the chip stacks of his opponent four handed.
If you watched full coverage, you saw Grinder winning many pots with worst hand, no showdown. He isn’t “sunrunning” to title lol. The dude has mad NLH skills.
It's clearly both. Anyone who wins or gets this deep in a mine field like this has had incredible luck and he's definitely had his at the right time when the stakes were highest. He's also obviously taking advantage of that opportunity with his play.
Only final table "bluffs" I remember are Hendrix 62 and grinder 85
