Yuri Dzivielevski Bags the Biggest Stack as He and His Brother Will Simultaneously Chase WSOP Gold!
The 2023 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas continued with Day 2 of Event #69: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship. The event attracted 154 entries to create a prize pool of $1,447,600 with only 18 returning for Day 3 to chase the $367,599 top prize and the gold bracelet.
Coming back to the biggest bag is Yuri Dzivielevski who will use his 1,288,00 chips to try and win his second bracelet of the summer and his fourth overall, while his brother simultaneously attempts to win his first after bagging the final six of Event #65: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Looking to stand in Dzivielevski's way is a stacked field including Alex Livingston (1,137,000), Ryan Riess (792,000) and Daniel Negreanu (595,000).
Event #69: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 1,288,000 |
| 2 | Young Ko | United States | 1,197,000 |
| 3 | Alex Livingston | Canada | 1,137,000 |
| 4 | Ryan Riess | United States | 792,000 |
| 5 | James Chen | Taiwan | 640,000 |
| 6 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 595,000 |
| 7 | Christopher Vitch | United States | 544,000 |
| 8 | Eli Elezra | Israel | 484,000 |
| 9 | Galen Hall | United States | 387,000 |
| 10 | Brad Ruben | United States | 346,000 |
That's just a small taste of the elite level of the returning field as there are 40 total WSOP bracelets held by the 18 returning players with other notables Eli Elezra (484,000), Brad Ruben (341,000), John Monnette (208,000), and David "ODB" Baker (154,000) all returning looking to add to their bracelet collections.
Jason Mercier also bagged for Day 3 (340,000) having just won the $1,500 version of this very tournament just one day ago.
The players who busted before reaching the money on Day 2 is also a whose who list of poker elites as Phil Ivey, Chance Kornuth, Phil Hellmuth and Sam Soverel all went home empty handed.
While Mercier and company were building stacks to take into Day 3, there were a handful of players who busted late in the day and went home with a payout including defending champion Pedro Bromfman (24th - $16,000) who fell in a pot versus John Monnette, Dan Shak (23rd - $16,000), Yehuda Buchalter (22nd - $16,000), Jeff Lennon (21st - $16,000) and Christopher Claassen (20th - $17,500) who hit the rail when he broke a better low than Negranu and ended up paring one of his hole cards.
Play had originally been scheduled to play through Level 17, but after a late start and a handful of players that didn't want to play until 3:00a.m., play was stopped after Level 16.
The third and final day is scheduled to get started at 1:00p.m. local time, July 1st and will start in Level 17 with blinds of 6,000 and 12,000 and a big blind ante of 18,000. The final table is planned to be streamed on PokerGO with cards up and as always, PokerNews will be there from the onset until a champion is crowned, so keep it locked here for up-to-date coverage of this and all remaining tournaments at the 2023 World Series of Poker!