WSOP 2015 - Michael Wang and Robert Mizrachi win bracelets

Michael Wang defeated a stacked final table to win Event #2 $5,000 NLHE for $466,000 and Robert Mizrachi defeated Jacob Dahl in heads-up to win his third bracelet and $251,022 in Event #3 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo.

20 players returned for Day 3 of Event #2 $5,000 NLHE, the chip leader was Carl Westcott with 1.06 million chips, and he was followed by some of the biggest names in poker including Greg Merson, Bryn Kenney, Amir Lehavot and more.

Corrie Wunstel was the first elimination of the day, and was soon followed by Kevin MacPhee, Alex Bolotin, Steve Merrifield, Rong Li, Michael Brenden, Barry Hutter, Nam Le, Westcott, Jack Schanbacher and David "Doc" Sands.

Final table

Seat 1: Long Nguyen - 1.554.000 (77 bb)
Seat 2: Joe Ebanks - 725.000 (36 bb)
Seat 3: Greg Merson - 2.066.000 (103 bb)
Seat 4: Amir Lehavot - 1.302.000 (65 bb)
Seat 5: Jason Wheeler - 814.000 (40 bb)
Seat 6: Byron Kaverman - 94.000 (4 bb)
Seat 7: Bryn Kenney - 1.824.000 (91 bb)
Seat 8: Artur Koren - 1.412.000 (70 bb)

Kaverman was eliminated in the third hand of the finale, he shoved his final 4 big blinds with J8 suited, was called by Wang's AQ and failed to improve.

Long Nguyen was the next one to fall, he shoved with pocket Aces on a board of J-K-A-J, unfortunately for him, he was snapcalled by Merson, who held J-J for quads.

Joe "ender555" Ebanks shoved his last 12 big blinds with 7-8 suited from UTG, Amir Lehavot called from the hijack, Artur Koren shoved for 30 big blinds from the small blind and Lehavot called again.

Lehavot had T-T and Koren held A-A, and the A-3-9-6-7 board meant that Ebanks was eliminated and Lehavot was left shortstacked. 

He was eliminated five hands later and was soon followed by Jason Wheeler who lost an 88 vs. K-Q suited preflop all-in against Koren.

Players went on dinner break with the following stacks:

Bryn Kenney - 6.105.000
Greg Merson - 1.610.000
Artur Koren - 1.440.000
Michael Wang- 1.400.000

Merson was eliminated after the break after his AJ failed to improve against Kenney's 3-3 in a preflop all-in, and two hands later Koren was also eliminated, after Kenney's K-Q hit a King on the river against his Q-Q.

Bryn Kenney - 9.245.000 (184 big blinds)
Michael Wang - 1.310.000 (26 big blinds)

In the fourth hand of heads-up play, Wang doubled up with 55 against Kenney's A-6 and managed to even out the stack, eventually building a 2-1 chip leader over Kenney.

During level 28 (30k/60k-10k ante) Wang opened to 150,000 and Kenney called. Kenney check/raised Wang's bet of 150,000 to 415,000 on a flop of K-Q-8 with two hearts and Wang called. Kenney bet 765,000 when the 9 of diamonds hit the turn and Wang called again.

The river was the 10 of hearts and Kenney put out a bet of 1.645.000, Wang shoved all-in and Kenney eventually called all-in with 9-6 of hearts for a rivered flush.

Unfortunately for him, Wang had J-2 of hearts for a higher flush, which was good enough for a $466,120 payday and a WSOP bracelet. This was Wang's biggest score of his career, his previous top score was a runner-up finish in last year's Hollywood Poker Open.

Final table results

1. Michael Wang - $466.120

2. Bryn Kenney - $287.870
3. Artur Koren - $208.177
4. Greg Merson - $152.126
5. Jason Wheeler - $112.339
6. Amir Lehavot - $83.838
7. Joe Ebanks - $63.210
8. Long Nguyen - $48.137
9. Byron Kaverman - $37.030

49 players returned for Day 3 of Event #3 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, and the following players reached the final tabled, based on stacks and previous results, Robert Mizrachi was considered to be a big favorite.

Seat 1: James Juvanacic - 465.000

Seat 2: Thomas Taylor - 605.000
Seat 3: Ryan Himes - 850.000
Seat 4: Don Zewin - 600.000
Seat 5: Dominick Cuzzi - 480.000
Seat 6: Bruce Levitt - 450.000
Seat 7: Robert Mizrachi - 1.925.000
Seat 8: Nguyen Tran - 975.000
Seat 9: Jacob Dahl - 485.000
Seat 10. Andrew Yeh - 70.000

The first player to be eliminated was Yeh, he was soon followed by Taylor, Levitt, Tran, Juvancic, Cuzzi and Don Zewin.

Mizrachi started heads up with 5.2 million chips to Jacob Dahl's 1.7 million, but Dahl managed to turn it around. The two players couldn't finish the tournament on Saturday and continued heads-up on Sunday with the following stacks.

Jacob Dahl - 5.085.000
Robert Mizrachi - 1.700.000

Mizrachi started Sunday with a big rush and managed to gain the lead and grind Dahl down to 500,000 chips (60k/120k blinds). 

In the final hand of the tournament the players got the money in before the flop.

Mizrachi: A-6-5-5
Dahl: Q-8-6-3

The board ran out T-7-2-T-3 and Mizrachi scooped the pot with a A-2-3-5-7 low and a pair of fives.

This is Mizrachi's third bracelet, he won the 2007 $10,000 PLO Championship for $769,889 and the 2014 $1,500 Dealer's Choice Six-Handed ($147.092) event.

1. Robert Mizrachi - $251.022

2. Jacob Dahl - $155.333
3. Don Zewin - $97.185
4. Ryan Himes - $70.540
5. Dominick Cuzzi - $52.075
6. James Juvanacic - $39.037
7. Nguyen Tran - $29.693
8. Bruce Levitt - $22.889
9. Thomas Taylor - $17.883
10. Andrew Yeh - $14.152