Five weary players returned for Day 4 of Event #38: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em, and Thiago Nishijima emerged as the winner to take home $546,843 and his first bracelet, backed by a raucous Brazilian rail that left piles of empty Corona bottles in their wake.

After Yun Fan busted in fifth, Nishijima won a huge race against Samad Razavi, spiking a king on the river with to outrun Razavi's two sevens. That gave Nishijima half of the chips in play three-handed, much to the delight of his crowd.

Jesse Sylvia, who finished runner-up to Greg Merson in the 2012 Main Event, made a notable run at his first bracelet but busted in third when he three-bet shipped against Nishijima's . Sylvia outflopped the Brazilian with three diamonds and a pair, but an turn doomed him. That left Nishijima heads up with Sotirios Koutoupas, and he came out victorious after a couple of hours for the biggest live score of his professional career.

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