Tag: Yuri Dzivielevski

When PokerStars rolls out the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) red carpet, there’s always someone, swooping in a peregrine blur, catching titles galore in his claw. This year, it’s Yuri ‘theNERDguy’ Dzivielevski.

If you know anything about poker, you know this is a guy you want to swerve on a poker table full of armpit hair or virtual, and he’s pretty nifty in all facets of the game. Dzivielevski collected his third WCOOP title of the series, fourth in total, and his first in the Cadillac of Poker.

The Brazilian star, who calls the online realm his coal face, battled through a field of 192 unique & 75 re-entries to win Event #48 (H): $5,200 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam. Dzivielevski defeated his compatriot Bruno Botteon in heads-up action. Botteon has been in scintillating form himself recently, finishing sixth and second in $25,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet events on GGPoker for a combined million buck haul.

Back to the former PocketFives World #1, and he adds this NLHE title to wins in Event #9 (H) $1,050 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw for $21,938, and Event #20 (H) $1,050 HORSE for $31,115. In 2015, he won a $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo title for $59,840, and his largest score to date also came in WCOOP when in 2014 he finished runner-up to Fedor Holz in the WCOOP Main Event locking up a $1.2m prize.

Final Table Results

  1. Yuri Dzivielevski – $245,535
  2. Brunno Botteon – $150,536
  3. Jakob Miegel – $115,269
  4. Anatoly Filatov – $93,506
  5. Christopher Frank – $67,177
  6. Fabio Freitas – $36,953
  7. Talal Shakerchi – $22,535
  8. Boerni21 – $23,447
  9. Thomas Muehloecker – $20,231

Philipp Gruissem Second in Event #48 (M): $530 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, PKO, Sunday Slam

High stakes star, Philipp Gruissem rolled back the years to finish runner-up in Event #48 (M): $530 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max, PKO, Sunday Slam. ‘Philbort’ waded through a field of 3,856-entrants before losing to Vitor Moreira.

Moreira’s win is the 12th WCOOP title of the series for Brazil, and 25th of all time, to put this year’s showing into perspective.

Final Table Results

  1. Vitor Moreira – $210,237
  2. Philipp Gruissem – $122,786
  3. MrNorberto – $76,852
  4. Tauan Naves – $51,476
  5. Maksym Mamonov – $48,979
  6. Andrey Parugaev – $41,149
  7. Marlon Wilhelms – $22,599
  8. Xnrobix – $20,389
  9. Bruna_bsb – $14,148

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

  1. Yuri Dzivielevski – $221,557*
  2. Matt Vengrin – $165,147
  3. Tautvydas Jokubauskas – $116,777
  4. Gabi Livshitz – $82,573
  5. Samuel Bernabeu – $58,388
  6. Juan Perez – $41,287
  7. Chad Layne – $29,194
  8. 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).