Yuri Dzivielevski
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About Yuri Dzivielevski Current Residence Florianopolis, Brazil Born November 27, 1991 Birth Place Curitiba, Brazil Total 🧲 WinningsR$5,118,957 Yuri Dzivielevski Trivia Most know by online alias ‘theNERDguy’ on PokerStars.
on PokerStars. Two-time World Series of Poker Bracelet Winner 🧲 + Six-time WCOOP Champion.
Brazilians #1 on All-Time-Money-List in regards of live career earnings.
One of world’s best online poker players with 🧲 overR$15 Million in career earnings. PLAYER SCORE 8,8/10 Aggressiveness 8 Looseness 8 Limit 9 No-limit 9 Side Games 10 Steam 🧲 Control 8 Against Strong Players 8 Against Weak Players 9 Tournaments 10 Short-Handed 9
When you have been grinding online poker 🧲 tournaments in the last decade, especially on PokerStars and GGPoker, you must know ‘theNERDguy’ or ‘undercoverdren’. This legendary online poker 🧲 player made his way up to the live poker scene for a while now as well, but do we know 🧲 his whole story? Often they stay under the radar, but if you live in Brazil like Yuri Martins Dzivielevski, there 🧲 is no escaping from the hundreds of poker lovers all across the country.
Busting the Bankroll Instead of Going to University
Yuri 🧲 Martins Dzivielevski, a 32-year-old professional poker player from Brazil, has learned poker the hard way. While growing up, his parents 🧲 were off course trying to get him to study at university like his brother and sister, but Yuri had found 🧲 his true passion already in poker by then. He got some poker books through his brother, and during college he 🧲 was reading the books day in day out.
By the time he was 18 years old, he got his first experience 🧲 with busting his entire bankroll. Something which wasn’t part of his idea of playing poker. He was feeling that his 🧲 attitude towards poker, the swings, the moods which comes with it, were affecting his surroundings. It made him realize something 🧲 drastically had to change. A purpose was needed in poker, a dream, a goal which would get him hooked for 🧲 life. As the feeling of busting your entire bankroll is the worst feeling you can have, while trying to contribute 🧲 to the family household as well.
Family is very important for Yuri. Growing up in a family of father, mother and 🧲 three kids, was hard at times. His father ran his own company, on which his bigger brother helped out. As 🧲 that went sideways, Yuri was also dealing with a dilemma. Going to university or play poker? He took the risk 🧲 and went on to follow his dream to make his income from playing poker professionally.
The first year he started to 🧲 play professionally went really well and had immediate impact on his surroundings as well in a positive way. He helped 🧲 the family getting out of the poor situation they were in, and his sister even mentioned that she perhaps could 🧲 not have made it to where she is now, being a doctor as profession. Until this very day, Yuri is 🧲 still providing for his whole family.
In 2014, during the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars, he became runner-up behind another online 🧲 wizard called Fedor ‘’CrownUpGuy’’ Holz. It would become the first real life changing cash for Yuri Martins Dzivielevski as he 🧲 pocketedR$708,251 for making a deal with the last 6 players of the tournament. It became a landmark in his career. 🧲 As per now, he had the goods of exploring other variants in poker. Which helped him to be one of 🧲 worlds best mixed games players in live, as well as online.
Online Nicknames:
theNERDguy ( PokerStars )
undercoverdren ( GGPoker )
jaimelavocat ( Winamax 🧲 )
shitakemushu ( 888poker )
xitaquemuxu ( partypoker )
samadhii ( iPoker )
On the Hunt for Glory
When we are looking purely at his 🧲 live results, the first big score appeared in his second tournament where he ended as runner-up, collectingR$109,449, losing the final 🧲 Heads-Up against friend- and former study partner Fellipe Nunes. This all happened in 2011, and when looking into his stats, 🧲 he didn’t even play that much live in the beginning. Two years later, he first made his way to the 🧲 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the dream of every poker player, sadly for Yuri it wasn’t quite his 🧲 time yet as he didn’t make any notable cashes that year.
Again two years later, in 2024, he made his first 🧲 big score by winning the Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) forR$175,155. An extraordinary amount of course, but for players like 🧲 Yuri Dzivielevski cashes like this are peanuts. Online he was crushing that hard in this time, that it became more 🧲 about the fame of winning something, a bracelet for example. Fast forward to 2024 it finally happened.
In aR$2,500 Mixed Omaha 🧲 Hi/Lo 8 or Better event, he managed to win the whole event forR$213,750 and scooping his first ever WSOP bracelet. 🧲 And within that same year, he finished 28th in the Main Event forR$261,430 as he got coolered with Ace-King against 🧲 Aces.
His second bracelet he won during an online WSOP event in the likes of aR$400 PL Omaha event, taking it 🧲 down forR$221,557. Scores like this mean a lot to the passionate Brazilian and to be able to reach to the 🧲 top of the world, even more.
High Roller Circuit
The High-Roller scene is another one of his ambitions. Where he sniffed around 🧲 here and there already in the past, it was until 2024 that he started playing such events more regularly. And 🧲 also here he is showing that he is not to mess with, scooping aR$25K high roller event in Monte Carlo 🧲 during the European Poker Tour forR$473,217 after beating an impressive final table with for example Daniel Dvoress, Byron Kaverman, Andras 🧲 Nemeth, Sam Grafton, and Sam Greenwood.
Currently, Yuri Dzivielevski is absolutely crush the online tournaments. With six WCOOP titles and several 🧲 runner-up finished on his name, Titan events, and Big Game, GG High Roller events and what not, he is to 🧲 be found right at the top of the charts, topping his estimated online earnings at approximatelyR$15.000.000!
‘TheNerdGuy’ is someone to look 🧲 out for at the poker tables. Wherever he goes, he always tries to dominate the situation. And by continuously improving 🧲 his game, he is miles ahead of many regular poker players already. We are positive we will see much more 🧲 of him in the near future as he is currently one of the most valuable poker players in the world.
High 🧲 Scores:
Date Tournament name Buy-in Place Cash prize Aug/12 BSOP Main Event, Sao PauloR$1,000 2ndR$109,449 Nov/15 LAPT PokerStars Grand Final, Sao 🧲 PauloR$ 5,000 1stR$175,155 Jun/19 WSOP #51 Mixed Omaha, Las VegasR$2,500 1stR$213,750 Jun/19 WSOP Main Event, Las VegasR$10,000 28thR$261,430 Jul/20 WSOP 🧲 Online #42 PL OmahaR$400 1stR$ 221,557 Nov/21 WSOP #78 Razz Championship, Las VegasR$10,000 3rdR$123,254 Mar/22 European Poker Tour NLHE HR, 🧲 Monte Carlo €25,000 1st € 473,217 June/22 WSOP #56 Poker Players Championship, Las VegasR$50,000 2ndR$895,614 Sep/22 Triton Poker NLHE 6-max, 🧲 KyreniaR$30,000 2ndR$749,073 Sep/22 Triton Poker NLHE 8-max, KyreniaR$75,000 4thR$630,000
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