WPT Championship Day 2: Mizrachi, Robert not Michael Leads

Filed in archive Tournament News on April 22, 2008

From one major championship to the next, as some players went straight from the riches of Monte Carlo to the nightlife of Las Vegas and the World Poker Tour's WPT Championship being held at the Bellagio. With the European Poker Tour's Grand Finale finishing up just a few days ago, all poker eyes are back on this side of the pond for the biggest buy-in tourney on the WPT circuit at $25,000. While attendance is slightly down this year, 545 players had a $25,000 Bellagio chip in their pockets or managed to weave thru various satellites to this very deep stacked tourney.

Currently on day two, according to WorldPokerTour.com's blogger Ryan Lucceshi, Robert Mizrachi, brother of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is the current chip leader with 188 players remaining. The $10,000 World Series of Poker Pot Limit Omaha champ is continuing to make a name for himself over the Absolute Poker sponsored brother.

As poker fans want to know who's favorite players have hit the rail, here's a list from Lucceshi as its not showing how many they'll play down to today, but the winner will be taking home $3.3 million while second manages to become a millionaire as well:

Other notable players to hit the rail were: Nenad Medic, Allen Kessler, Layne Flack, Haralabos Voulgaris, shannon Shorr, Erick Lindgren, Michael Binger, Freddy Deeb, former Card Player Player of the Year winners, David "The Dragon" Pham and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, former WPT champions, Tuan Le and Alan Goehring, former WSOP main event champions, Joe Hachem and Jerry Yang, Sam Farha, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, Erica Scheonberg, and none other than the Poker Brat and former WSOP main event champion, Phil Hellmuth.