Robert Mizrachi
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Robert Mizrachi is an American
United States
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 professional poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 player.

Robert Mizrachi was a former poker dealer
Poker dealer
A poker dealer distributes cards to players and manages the action at a poker table.-Professional dealers:Any casino with a poker room must hire a staff of dealers. Casinos generally pay dealers minimum wage. However, a dealer's primary source of income is not salary, but tips from players*...

 at a South Miami casino
Casino
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. He introduced the game of poker to his younger brother, World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...

 champion Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
Michael Mizrachi
Michael David Mizrachi is an American professional poker player who won the 2010 World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship.. Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour Titles, and finished 5th in the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker.-Personal life:Mizrachi was born in Miami,...

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Robert also has two other younger brothers, Michael’s twin Eric Mizrachi who is also a poker player and his youngest brother Donnie Mizrachi, who is a professional magician
Magic (illusion)
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Mizrachi won his first bracelet in the 2007 World Series of Poker
2007 World Series of Poker
The 2007 World Series of Poker began on June 1, 2007. The $10,000 no-limit Texas hold 'em Main Event began on July 6 and was completed on the morning of July 18...

 in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event, winning $768,889.

At the 2010 WSOP main event, Mizrachi finished in 116th place, winning $57,102. He was one of four brothers who each cashed at the same event.

As of 2010, Mizrachi's live tournament winnings exceed $4,100,000. His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,629,030 of those winnings.

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