Kyle Julius now has a WSOP bracelet thanks to his win in the ,000 Turbo Top-Up

Monday’s action at the 2016 World Series of Poker featured Robert Mizrachi winning the fourth bracelet of his career and Kyle Julius getting rid of the goose egg next to his name while Colossus II, the second biggest live event in history, reached a final table.

Robert Mizrachi Wins $10,000 Seven Card Stud for Third Bracelet in Three Years

Robert Mizrachi now as four career WSOP bracelets after winning the ,000 Seven Card Stud Championship.

Robert Mizrachi beat out a final table that included bracelet winners Calvin Anderson, Bill Chen, David Benyamine, Ted Forrest, George Danzer and eventually Matt Graphenthien heads-up to win the fourth bracelet of his career and $242,662.

Mizrachi was a wrecking ball on Monday, eliminating the last four players including Grapenthien after the pair played heads-up for over three hours.

This marks the third straight year that Mizrachi won a bracelet. In 2014 he won the $1,500 Dealer’s Choice Six-Handed tournament and last year he took down the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event. His first bracelet came in 2007 when he won the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship.

Final Table Payouts

  1. Robert Mizrachi – $242,662
  2. Matt Grapenthien – $149,976
  3. George Danzer – $103,230
  4. Ted Forrest – $72,971
  5. Steve Weiss – $53,012
  6. David Benyamine – $39,611
  7. Bill Chen – $30,466
  8. Calvin Anderson – $24,142

Kyle Julius Wins First Bracelet in $1,000 Top Up Turbo No Limit Hold’em

Prior to Monday, Kyle Julius had never been the last player standing in any live tournament he’d ever played in. He’d come close to victory though. In 2012 he finished second to Peter Vilandos in a WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event and last summer he was third in a $25,000 High Roller event at the Aria in Las Vegas. But on Monday he found himself as the last player standing in the $1,000 Top Up Turbo NLHE event.

“Actually, this is the first live tournament I’ve ever won, so for it to be a bracelet event is pretty cool,” Julius said. “To start the Series off with a win in just the second tournament is obviously what I would want.”

The 29-year-old, who won $142,972 for the win, had extra equity in the event – just nothing monetary. Julius and his fiancée are expecting their first child.

“We’ve been arguing about (baby) names, and my fiancée said that if I won a gold bracelet I could pick the name of the baby,” Julius said. “It’s still going to be mutual. We’re going to name the kid together but now I have a little more say.”

Julius eliminated three of the last four players and heads-up play between Julius and Bart Lybaert lasted just one hand, but didn’t come without drama. Julius moved all in from the button with 4h4s and Lybaert called his last 860,000 with Kc9h. The KdTc2c flop gave Lybaert a pair of kings and while the Ad was a blank, the 4c river gave Julius a set of fours and his first WSOP bracelet.


Other notables to cash in this event included Ben Yu (3rd – $61,137), Vinny Pahuja (9th – $9,506), Liv Boeree (29th – $3,277), Kevin Eyster (32nd – $3,277) and Eric Baldwin (52nd – $2,447).

Final Table Payouts

  1. Kyle Julius – $142,972
  2. Bart Lybaert – $88,328
  3. Ben Yu – $61,137
  4. Karl Held – $43,001
  5. Hugo Perez – $30,742
  6. Christian Blech – $22,345
  7. Nitis Udornpim – $16,518
  8. George Dolofan – $12,422
  9. Vinny Pahuja – $9,506

Jiri Horak Leads Colossus II Final Table, Jonathan ‘Itsmejon’ Borenstein in Sixth

The second largest live poker tournament ever has just nine players remaining and Jiri Horak sits atop the chip counts. The Czech player has 25,425,000 chips, nearly 6,000,000 more than that of his nearest competitor, Ben Keeline
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PocketFiver Jonathan ‘Itsmejon’ Borenstein sits in sixth place with 7,400,000.

The day started with 78 players still in contention for the $1,000,000 first place prize and bracelet but over the course of nearly 10 hours of play, 69 players were sent the cashier window. Included in that group were David ‘ODB’ Baker (66th – $12,452), Austin Buchanan (57th – $15,166), Marco Johnson (47th – $18,592), Ylon Schwartz (46th – $18,592), Amir Lehavot (36th – $28,479) and the player who began the day as chip leader, Ben Lindemulder (27th – $25,584).

The final table gets underway at 2 PM PT with streaming on WSOP.com.

Final Table Chip Counts

  1. Jiri Horak – 25,425,000
  2. Benjamin Keeline – 19,900,000
  3. Richard Carr – 14,400,000
  4. Alex Benjamen – 14,275,000
  5. Marek Ohnisko – 10,550,000
  6. Jonathan Borenstein – 7,400,000
  7. Xiu Deng – 6,000,000
  8. Farhad Davoudzadeh – 5,925,000
  9. Christopher Renaudette – 4,250,000

Former #1-ranked Paul Volpe Bags Big Stack in Dealers Choice

Just nine players remain in the $1,500 Dealers Choice Six-Max event with Lawrence Berg finishing Day 2 with the biggest stack. Berg bagged up 836,500 but right behind him is none other than Paul ‘paulgees81‘ Volpe. The former top-ranked player on PocketFives finished with 674,500. Other notables still in contention include Andrew Brown and Randy Ohel.

Day 2 began with 85 players left in the field and with just 59 spots paid, some players were going home without cashing. Included in that group were David Sklansky, Mike Matusow, Stephen Chidwick, Barry Greenstein and eventual bubble burster Jameson Painter.

Some of the players who did manage to cash but not advance to Day 3 were Richard Ashby, Shawn Buchanan, Mike Wattel, Justin Gardenhire, Jeff Madsen, Vladimir Shchmelev, Sorel Mizzi and the first WSOP cash in five years for Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson.

Action resumes at 2 PM PT and plays down to a winner.

Chip Counts

  1. Lawrence Berg – 836,500
  2. Paul Volpe – 674,500
  3. Yueqi Zhu – 418,500
  4. Andrew Brown – 250,000
  5. John Templeton – 215,500
  6. Joseph Couden – 192,000
  7. Ryan Himes – 125,500
  8. Daniel Habl – 106,000
  9. Randy Ohel – 99,500

First $1,500 NLHE Event Draws 2,016, Roman Rogovskyi Leads

The first $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event of the 2016 WSOP drew 2,016 players and after Day 1, Roman Rogovskyileads the 321 survivors. The Ukranian, who recently made five final tables at the GipsyTeam Live Poker Festival in Famagusta, got his big stack after eliminating Phil Hellmuth and another player in one hand towards the end of the day.

Right behind Rogovskyi is Mark ‘Eppy12588’ Epstein with 188,300. Another former #1-ranked player also bagged a top 10 stack. Steve ‘gboro780’ Gross finished with 142,800, good enough for the seventh biggest Day 1 stack.

Other notables still in contention for the $438,417 first place prize money include Bob Bounahra, Matt Berkey, Justin Young, Jonathan Tamayo, Randal Flowers, Alex Masek and former WPT Player of the Year Anthony Zinno.

Top 10 Chip Counts

  1. Roman Rogovskyi – 188,700
  2. Mark Epstein – 188,300
  3. Karen Sarkisyan – 160,800
  4. Michael Page – 157,700
  5. Ferenc Riech – 155,700
  6. James Ohlweiler – 145,500
  7. Steve Gross – 142,800
  8. Jeremiah Fitzpatrick – 141,400
  9. Quang Ngo – 136,500
  10. Kindah Sakkal – 134,300

Konstantin Maslak Leads $1,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven

The first No Limit Deuce to Seven event of the summer, which allowed players to re-enter once after being eliminated prior to Level 6, had 279 entrants pay the $1,500 buy-in and the 52 players to survive Day 1 include a number of notable players.

Konstantin Maslak leads the way with 119,800 but he’ll have to fight off the likes of Yuval Bronshtein, Benny Glaser, John Monnette, Niall Farrell, Barry Greenstein, Joao Vieira, Jen Harman, Eric Wasserson, James Obst, Erik Seiel, and, making his first Day 2 of the 2016 WSOP, 21-year-old Dzmitry Urbanovich.

Day 2 gets underway at 2 PM PT and will play 10 more levels.

Top 10 Chip Counts

  1. Konstantin Maslak – 119,800
  2. Yuval Bronshtein – 108,125
  3. Daniel Weinman – 93,950
  4. Bob Morgan – 84,800
  5. Benny Glaser – 79,725
  6. Alex Dovzhenko – 73,750
  7. John Marlowe – 65,075
  8. John Monnette – 64,725
  9. Michael Laake – 60,000
  10. Michel Leibgorin – 58,650