Five Bracelets in Five Years: Yuri Dzivielevski Wins $3,000 9-Game Mix

Yuri Dzivielevski reigns victorious in Occasion #53: $3,000 9 Sport Blended to win his fifth WSOP bracelet.

The 33-year-old mixed-game crusher from Brazil takes house $215,982 in prize cash after an epic comeback in his heads-up battle in opposition to 2021 champion Nicholas Julia. Dzivielevski began the day fifth of 16 in chips and displayed his good decision-making all through the day on his option to the title.

Most poker gamers by no means have the chance to hoist a coveted WSOP bracelet. For Dzivielevski, he has been lucky sufficient to expertise this 5 occasions. Nonetheless, every one is critical for the Brazilian.

“I feel every bracelet has a particular feeling, a particular reminiscence,” he instructed PokerNews. “I can’t examine it to different bracelets. It is all the time a tremendous feeling, I can not clarify how superb it’s.”

Occasion #53: $3,000 9 Sport Blended Remaining Desk Outcomes

Winner’s Response

Dzivielevski completed second within the 2022 $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship, essentially the most anticipated match for blended recreation fans. His bracelet at the moment consists of the identical 9 video games, which provides him confidence going into this yr’s version.

Dzivielevski attributes a lot of his success over the previous 15 years of poker to his mindset and the way he approaches the sport.

“Every hand is a puzzle,” Dzivielevski defined. “I simply give my finest with what I’ve. I simply attempt to resolve every puzzle.”

The standard and gracious Dzivielevski described how he stays grounded via the ups and downs of match poker. He was at one level down nine-to-one in chips throughout heads-up play.

“I do not take into consideration the previous, I simply deal with the long run. I’m human, so generally I really feel anxious about these items, however I attempt to deal with the second.”

Other than his excellent play and centered mindset, Dzivielevski had the assist of a boisterous Brazilian rail of family and friends to assist him all through the ultimate desk.

“It is extremely particular. It may be exhausting for me as a result of they’re so loud!”

Loud solely begins to explain the chants of “Vamos!” after every pot that Dzivielevski raked in. Dzivielevski confirmed appreciation for his supporters and took the time to have fun with each one in every of them.

Remaining Desk Motion

Joseph Couden was the primary to fall after the remaining eight gamers mixed on the closing desk. In a hand of No-Restrict Maintain’em, the 25k Fantasy choice jammed 12 massive blinds from the hijack with king-queen suited and bumped into the pocket queens of Masafumi Iijima within the small blind.

Shortly after, Bradley Jansen was the following to fall in seventh place. He moved his final three massive blinds all-in from underneath the gun with queen-eight and was referred to as in two spots. Regardless of having flopped prime pair, Iijima held queen-jack and his kicker performed to get rid of the bracelet winner.

The remaining six performed for nearly two hours till one other elimination. The following casualty was Ashish Gupta who flopped center pair in opposition to the highest pair of Scott Bohlman in a hand of Restrict Maintain’em. Gupta couldn’t enhance and the Australian took house sixth place.

In fifth place was Austria’s Tomasz Gluszko. He discovered himself in a large three-way, three-bet pot in Stud Hello-lo and his pair of tens had been no good for the excessive and he was unable to make a low on seventh as he hit the rail.

The ultimate 4 gamers would go on dinner earlier than one other elimination. Scott Bohlman was the following to fall after being decimated in a hand of Stud in opposition to Nicholas Julia who made open aces on sixth. The next hand he received the remainder of his chips in three-ways with buried threes however couldn’t enhance in opposition to the buried tens of Yuri Dzivielevski, which had been sufficient to knock out Bohlman.

The ultimate three would commerce chips for over two hours earlier than Masafumi Iijima hit the rail in third place. He received the remainder of his quick stack in on a hand of Razz in opposition to Julia after beginning seven-four-ace. Sadly for him, his board bricked out whereas Julia made a nine-seven.

Nicholas Julia would enter heads-up play with an almost five-to-one chip lead. He had Dzivielevski on the ropes on a number of events however couldn’t shut it out. Dzivielevski was right down to 1,400,000 earlier than he discovered back-to-back doubles to overhaul the chip lead. Dzivielevski would take down a large Stud hand with only a pair of fives to take a commanding lead.

A pair arms later, Dzivielevski would make two pair on fourth road and maintain in opposition to the queens and open-ender of Julia to win his fifth bracelet!

Dzivielevski joins an elite group of five-time bracelet winners together with Benny Glaser, Nick Schulman, and Scotty Nguyen.

The 2024 WSOP returns with the identical nine-game combine on June 23 within the Occasion #58: $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship, with most of the similar prime names coming to battle. Dzivielevski completed second within the occasion in 2022, so make sure to tune in to PokerNews to catch all of the motion!