Yuri Dzivielevski Wins 2020 World Series of Poker Online PLOSSUS Event

Yuri Dzivielevski has won the 2020 World Series of Poker Online $400 buy-in ‘PLOSSUS’ event. The Brazilian poker pro defeated a field of 4,356 total entries in the pot-limit Omaha tournament to earn $221,557 and his second career gold bracelet. The online tournament grinder won his first piece of WSOP hardware in 2019 by taking down the $2,500 Omaha eight-or-better and seven-card stud eight-or-better split event for $213,750.

This event featured a $1,000,000 guarantee, which was easily surpassed when the huge turnout created a final prize pool of $1,637,856. The top 548 finishers cashed in this event, locking up at least $938 for making the money.

Dzivielevski came into the final day of this event as the chip leader with nine players remaining. Marcus Cara began the day as the second short stack, but he was ultimately the first to be eliminated at the final table. He got all-in with top set against the overpair, pair and flush draw of Gabi Livshitz. The flush came in on the river and Cara was sent packing in ninth place ($14,597).

Dustin Dirksen was the the next to fall. He lost a sizable to Matt Vengrin to fall to the bottom of the leaderboard, and then ran pocket queens into the pocket aces of Tautydas Jokubauskas. The aces held and Dirksen earned $20,643 as the eighth-place finisher.

American poker pro Chad Layne saw his run in this event come to an end when his AK33 lost out against the AQQ7 of Dzivielevski. The Brazilian flopped two pair and held from there to send Layne to the rail with $29,194 for his seventh-place showing.

Juan Perez got his last chips in preflop with A987 and was called by Livshitz, who held AJJ7. Livshitz’s jacks played by the river to earn him the pot, while Perez was knocked out in sixth place ($41,287).

Sam Bernabeu ended up as the fifth-place finisher when his KKQ3 couldn’t beat out the AKQJ of Jokubauskas. An ace on the turn spelled the end for Bernabeu, who cashed for $58,388 for his deep run.

Livshitz won a big pot early in four-handed action, but then ran into the quads of Jokubauskas to slide to the bottom of the leaderboard. Livshits got the last of his stack in with a flopped straight up against the two pair and backdoor flush outs of Jokubauskas. The turn gave Jokubauskas a full house, which held from there to eliminate Livshitz in fourth place ($82,573).

Despite earning that knockout, Jokubauskas was the next to be sent packing. He got all-in preflop with AJ96 against the QQ33 of Dzivielevski. The board ran out 98394 and Dzivielevski made a full house to win the pot. Jokubauskas earned $116,777 for his third-place showing.

With that Dzivielevski took more than a 3:1 chip lead into heads-up play against American poker pro Matt Vengrin. By the time the final hand was dealt, Vengrin was down to around 10 big blinds. The last of his chips went in on a 853 flop flop with him holding KQ86. Dzivielevski had A1086 for top pair with a better kicker. The turn brought the 2 and the river the 4. Dzivielevski’s kicker played by the river to lock up the pot and the title. Vengrin was awarded $165,147 as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:

Dzivielevski photo credit: partypoker LIVE.

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