Yuri Dzivielevski Wins Fifth World Series of Poker Bracelet

Yuri Dzivielevski earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2019. Since then the 32-year-old poker pro from Florianópolis, Brazil has already managed to grow his WSOP hardware collection to five bracelets, with his most recent victory coming in the $3,000 buy-in nine-game mixed event at this year’s series. Dzivielevski earned $215,982 as the champion.

Nearly a fifth of Brazil’s 26 total bracelets have now been won by Dzivielevski. He is the nation’s only multi-bracelet winner. He is also just the 40th player in poker history to have won five or more bracelets.

This was the third bracelet in a multi-game event for Dzivielevski, who took down the $2,500 mixed Omaha eight-or-better and stud eight-or-better in 2019 and the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. last year. His two other bracelet wins came in pot-limit Omaha, with a victory in the 2020 WSOP Online $400 ‘PLOssus’ and last year’s WSOPO $10,000 PLO championship.

Dzivielevski now has nearly $7.7 million in recorded tournament earnings, with more than $4.4 million of that coming from his successes in WSOP tournaments.

In addition to the hardware and the money, this win also awarded 900 Card Player Player of the Year points to its champion. This was the first title and third final-table finish of the year for Dzivielevski. With 1,510 total points, he has climbed to 143rd place in the 2024 POY race standings presented by Global Poker.

This event drew 379 entries, resulting in a final prize pool of $1,011,930. There were many big names among the 57 players that cashed, including 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (45th), six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (43rd), five-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (39th), six-time bracelet winner Brian Rast (29th), 2021 WSOP main event champion Koray Aldemir (15th), four-time bracelet winners Phil Hui (14th) and Ben Yu (13th), and five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (12th).

With the eliminations of two-time bracelet winner Richard Ashby in ninth and bracelet winner Joey Couden in eighth, the official final table of seven was set with Masafumi Iijima in the lead and Dzivielevski in the middle of the pack. Iijima added to his advantage early by knocking out Bradley Jansen (7th – $24,312).

Ashish Gupta (6th – $33,095) was the next to fall, getting his last chips in during a round of limit hold’em with second pair against the top pair of bracelet winner Scott Bohlman.

Tomasz Gluszko was sent to the rail in fifth place when he got all-in during a hand of stud eight-or-better. Bohlman’s trip aces won the high side, while Dzivielevski made the only qualifying low. The Polish player earned $46,094 for his strong showing.

Bohlman lost a big stud pot to find himself severely short-stacked. He soon got all-in with buried pocket threes and a king against buried tens for Dzivielevski and split nines for Iijima. A pair of tens was the best hand in the end and Bohlman settle for $65,645 as the fourth-place finisher.

Three-handed play lasted a few hours. Iijima ultimately bowed out in third place, losing his final hand with a 10-7-4-2-A against the 9-7-6-3-2 of Nicholas Julia in razz. Iijima earned a career-best payday of $95,587 for his efforts.

Heads-up play began with Julia holding 12,300,000 to Dzivielevski’s 2,855,000. Two double-ups in pot-limit Omaha saw Dzivielevski edge his way into the lead. The two then battled back and forth for a while, before Dzivielevski took the lead for the final time. The last hand of the tournament came during a round of stud. Dzivielevski raised Julia’s bring in with (63)3 and Julia called with (K10)2. Dzivielevski hit the 6 on fourth to make two pair, while Julia picked up a Q. he check-called and fifth street saw him hit the J to make an open-ended straight draw. He led out and Dzivielevski, who had hit a 10. raised. Julia called and made pair of queens with the Q. He led out and Dzivielevski raised again after hitting the 9. Julia called all-in and was in need of help to beat Dzivielevski’s two pair. He sweated his final card and mucked after bricking out, sending the pot and the title to Dzivielevski.

Julia earned $142,182 as the runner-up. The 2021 WSOP $2,500 nine-game mixed event champion now has $332,419 in career cashes to his name.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

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Winner photo credit: WSOP / Regina Cortina.

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