There’s a lot of controversies emanating from GGPoker that’s making for good TV during the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Still, one thing that’s not controversial or unusual is the ascent to the top of the $400 PLOSSUS pile from Yuri Dzivielevski.
The former PocketFives World #1 (currently ranked #6), dismembered the 4,356 field with the precision of a sushi chef dissecting the anatomy of a sea urchin. Dzivielevksi now has two gold bracelets, his first coming last year when he conquered a field of 401-entrants in a $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-Better, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8-or-Better event (man, that was a mouth full). He also finished 28th in the Main Event last year.
The $221,557 Dzivielevski banked for his victory is his second most significant haul. In 2014, he finished runner-up to Fedor Holz in the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event for $1,253,070. All told, the Brazilian star has earned $7m playing online multi-table tournaments (MTTs), with most of it coming on PokerStars, playing under the pseudonym ‘theNERDguy’.
Dzivielevski has 22-cashes in WSOP events, and also won the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final in Sao Paulo back in 2015 for $175,155. His PLOSSUS win was his ninth cash of the series, including finishing 6/328 in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, won by Juha Helppi. Dzivielevski proved to be an impenetrable mass for his heads-up opponent Matt Vengrin, who also finished runner-up to Daniel Idema in the 2015 $3,000 HORSE.
Here are the final table results.
Results
- Yuri Dzivielevski – $221,557*
- Matt Vengrin – $165,147
- Tautvydas Jokubauskas – $116,777
- Gabi Livshitz – $82,573
- Samuel Bernabeu – $58,388
- Juan Perez – $41,287
- Chad Layne – $29,194
- Dustin Dirksen – $20,643
*Also receives a WSOPE package valued at $15,000
Three other high stars that went deeper than a hole in a bagel in a boulangerie include Simon Higgins (23rd), Fedor Holz (28th) and Juha Helppi (65th).