The Grinder

Michael Mizrachi could never climb at the peak of his career without the endurance of will he withstand while training. His training sessions started at a young age where his family would normally play poker just for fun and a hobby. Learning the basic rules in poker, Michael ventured into online poker games where his brother Robert has won many high tournament finishes on his own. The online training he got gave him the ability to play ferociously in every poker tournament he played. As a starter, Michael is known to be fond of playing poker online with his mentor, Robert. His determination to succeed and his strength of will brought him to some high tournament finishes.

Today, Michael Mizrachi is known to be one of the best professional poker players. At age 25, he was named as the number 1 poker player in the world in the year 2005 as he managed to placed fifth in the World Poker Open and bringing home the championship title in the LA Poker Classic. In 2006, he was named the Player of the Year by the Card Magazine. With these achievements in the game of poker, Michael was known to be the aggressive type of player but is careful with his chips at bet. His versatile game play and his utmost ability to switch to some game styles to suit his opponents gave him every edge to win the poker tournaments.

Probably one of the most famous professional poker players, Michael Mizrachi was named the Grinder due to his playing styles. Famous for poker playing, Michael makes his living by playing poker in the $100 - $200 bet line and to some high stake poker tournaments in Poker Stars.

The online poker was Michael's first training ground in playing poker. He played the online poker because his brother was good at it and won some tournaments. Incidentally, he has a fraternal twin brother, and a younger brother who happens to also play poker. It was during the time of their family stay in Florida that Michael began playing online poker. This honed his skills and developed some of his techniques he applied at playing in a poker table.

The success of his poker career came almost instantly after winning some online poker winnings and made a name for himself. He was recognized as a professional poker player when he won some of the high stake poker tournaments and even grabs titles form the different World Poker Tour Events.

In 2004, Michael appeared in his first live poker tournament in the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic where he won and cashed some winnings. He managed to place fifth in the World Poker Open and barely a month later, got the title from winning the LA Poker Classic.

Michael Mizrachi never leaves his family whenever he has poker tournaments. His wife Aidiliy, his son Paul and daughter Julie is always with him while he tours the different tournament circuits to play. It is the reason why Michael bought a bus so he never leaves his family in Florida.