Todd Dewey

The lead changed hands nine times over the first three hours of a heads-up showdown between Tony Miles and John Cynn, who opened up a lead of more than a 2-to-1 margin before Miles closed the gap with an all-in bluff.

Miles, 32, will try to hold off poker pros John Cynn of Chicago and Michael Dyer of Houston on Saturday as the final three players will gun for the $8.8 million first prize of the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ‘em World Championship at the Rio Convention Center.

Tony Miles, a 32-year-old Jacksonsville, Florida resident, continued his hot streak on Friday the 13th, knocking out 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada and taking the lead from Michael Dyer in short order.

After starting play at 5:30 p.m. more than 3 million in chips behind Nic Manion in second place, Dyer opened up a lead of more than 100 million chips on Manion before settling for a lead of more than 84 million chips when play was halted at 10 p.m.

The Poker Brat won his 15th bracelet — and first since 2015 — in the $5,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ‘em tournament at the Rio Convention Center.

With the field of 7,874 down to the final 10 players, Nicolas Manion went all-in with pocket aces, Rich Zhu went all-in with pocket kings and Antoine Labat called with pocket kings.

Joe Cada of Shelby Charter Township, Michigan, was in eighth place with 24,200,000 in chips at 10:30 p.m., when the field was down to the final 10 players.

Kelly Minkin is the last woman standing again in the WSOP’s Main Event, joining Maria Ho, Annie Duke and Gaelle Baumann as the only women to finish as the highest female in the Main Event twice.

Mizrachi won the World Series of Poker’s prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship in 2010, 2012 and 2018.

Maria Konnikova already has earned $177,722 in poker tournament winnings in 2018, less than two years after being introduced to the game.