Yuri Dzivielevski Claims His Fifth World Series of Poker Bracelet
June 24, 2024 - In 2019, Yuri Dzivielevski won his first bracelet from the World Series of Poker Last June 24, at the $50,000 Poker Players Championship Event #58, the 2024 WSOP made a comeback with the same nine-game lineup, featuring many of the same big names competing.
With 379 entries, there was a $1,011,930 final prize fund for this event. The 57 players who cashed included many well-known names:
- 57 players cashed, including:
- Phil Hellmuth, 17-time bracelet winner
- Shaun Deeb, 6-time bracelet winner
- Robert Mizrachi, 5-time bracelet winner
- Brian Rast, 6-time bracelet winner
- Koray Aldemir, 2021 WSOP Main Event champion
- Phil Hui, 14-time bracelet winner
- Ben Yu, 13-time bracelet winner
- Adam Friedman, 5-time bracelet winner (12th place)
Since then, the 32-year-old Brazilian poker player from Florianópolis has amassed five bracelets in his WSOP hardware collection. His most recent victory came in this year's series $3,000 buy-in nine-game mixed event. As the winner, Dzivielevski took home $215,982.
The Brazilian poker pro now has almost a quarter of Brazil's 26 bracelets to his credit. He is the only multi-bracelet winner in the country. In poker history, he is only the 40th player to have won five or more bracelets.
This was Dzivielevski's third bracelet in a multi-game tournament. He had previously won the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. and the $2,500 mixed Omaha eight-or-better and stud eight-or-better in 2019 and 2018. His two prior bracelet wins came from pot-limit Omaha, where he won the 2020 WSOP Online $400 "PLOssus" and the WSOPO $10,000 PLO championship.