Mizrachi's River Bet Picked Off by Phillips
This hand saw two first-time WSOP gold bracelet winners from this past summer go to battle in Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Carter Phillips. The two played a big, all-in pot earlier that saw Phillips spike a three-outer to stay alive and double up against Mizrachi. This time around there was no three-outer, but instead a massive pot with a great river call.
Mizrachi started off the action by raising from under the gun to 7,000. Phillips was slotted in the next position and reraised to 20,000 after peeling back his hole cards. Action folded around to Mizrachi and he tossed in the chips to make the call.
The heads-up flop came down 
and Mizrachi checked. Phillips fired out a bet of 27,000, about 60% of the pot. Mizrachi slid out the call and off to a turn they went.
Fourth street saw the 
hit the felt and Mizrachi checked again. Phillips didn't slow down and bet 44,000. Mizrachi thought for a tiny bit and then made the call.
The river rounded out the board with the 
and completed a backdoor flush draw. Mizrachi leaned over and checked on Phillips' remaining stack. He then slid out a tall stack of blue T5,000 chips totaling 95,000. Phillips immediately looked disgusted. He thought for a bit while counting down his stack, figuring out how much he'd have left if he made the call and lost. Phillips then snapped out a pump fake and tried to get a reaction from Mizrachi, who didn't give off anything. Phillips then called a little bit later.
Mizrachi had a look of surrender on his face and didn't turn his hand up. Phillips revealed the 
knowing by Mizrachi's reaction that it was the correct call. Mizrachi then double checked his hand before tossing it into the muck.
That pot, worth over 375,000 chips, put Phillips up to 467,000 and firmly in second place with 14 players left in the field. Mizrachi was knocked back to about 112,000, which is still over 46 big blinds and plenty to work with.