Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi

These days a lot of the top poker players get their start online. The route to the top is fairly common, they start playing in low stakes online games when they are young. Over time they win more and more money and they start playing for higher stakes. Eventually they become a topic of conversation in the poker forums and the move on and start playing in live tournaments. This is exactly the route that Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi took.

The path that Michael Mizrachi has taken to the top of the poker world is well worn by the current generation of players. He started playing mainly because his older brother was a professional player and was having success. Poker has become something of a family business as two other brothers have since become pro players as well. Michael Mizrachi started out playing in online games. He started out playing for low stakes but as his bankroll grew he moved into higher stakes games. Eventually his success attracted attention as he picked up the nickname "The Grinder". He would be the topic of much discussion on the poker forums.

Once he established that he could make a living playing poker Mizrachi started entering tournaments. He quickly found that his success in online poker could be transferred to live games. He won a number of tournaments and has become one of the better known players in the world. He now travels the world playing in poker tournaments bringing his wife and kids with him in his custom tour bus. Although over the last couple of years he has been traveling less and has started to get back to his roots.

Like most top professionals it didn't take Mizrachi long to figure out that he could make more money playing in cash games than he could playing in tournaments. In his case this meant going back to playing online. These days Mizrachi largely makes his living by playing in high stakes online poker games. The main reason is that this where the money is. There are far more people playing online these days than in casinos. Many of them are not very good which is just perfect for a professional player. This is a big part of why you see so many pros playing online poker these days.

Michael Mizrachi has turned out to be one of the most marketable stars in the world of poker. This is a bit surprising for a guy who built his reputation playing in online games. Mizrachi has sponsorship deals with online poker sites as well as a number of casinos. This has a lot to do with his success as a player obviously but it probably doesn't hurt that is he is a good looking and charming man. Wherever he decides to play in the future it would be fair to say that Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi will be one of pokers biggest stars.