Brazilian professional Yuri Dzivielevski captured the 2026 WSOP High Roller, turning a $100,000 buy-in into a career-best $2,841,432 payday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas casinos. The victory in Event #36, the $100,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em High Roller, stands as the biggest score by a Brazilian player anywhere in this year’s World Series of Poker, and it marks the largest live tournament cash of Dzivielevski’s career.
A Landmark Result for Brazilian Poker
Yuri Martins Dzivielevski has been a familiar name on the tournament circuit for years, but nothing in his résumé matched what he produced across three days in Las Vegas. Outlasting a field of 115 entries, he walked away with over $2.8 million and a result that instantly becomes the headline achievement of his playing career.
According to results compiled by GipsyTeam, the win also represents one of the largest single-event scores posted by any Brazilian competitor during the entire 2026 WSOP, a series that spans 100 bracelet events from May 26 through July 15, with the Main Event final table still to be completed later in the summer.
Inside the $100,000 WSOP High Roller Field
Events carrying a six-figure buy-in occupy a different tier of the WSOP schedule. A $100,000 entry fee filters the field down to a small group of well-funded regulars, backed pros, and a handful of high-stakes cash game specialists willing to take a shot. That dynamic played out here, with just 115 entries generating an $11,040,000 prize pool, a testament to how much capital circulates even in a relatively small-field event once the buy-in reaches this level.
The tournament ran from June 10 to June 12, 2026, across the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas properties that have hosted the WSOP’s summer series in recent years. Three days is a tight window for a High Roller of this size, and it typically means players face escalating blind levels and difficult decisions with deep but shrinking stacks almost from the opening hands. Readers newer to these formats can find a broader breakdown of how the series is structured in the Poker Pro Academy WSOP Guidewhich covers everything from bracelet events to the differences between High Roller and standard buy-in tournaments.
How the Final Table Unfolded
Ten players returned for the unofficial final table, and the payouts reflected just how top-heavy High Roller structures tend to be. The full result sheet, as recorded by GipsyTeam, read as follows.
- 1st: Yuri Dzivielevski (Brazil), $2,841,432
- 2nd: Teun Mulder (Netherlands), $1,894,282
- 3rd: Alex Kulev (Bulgaria), $1,326,537
- 4th: Alexandros Theologis (Greece), $950,048
- 5th: Christopher Nguyen (Germany), $696,221
- 6th: William Foxen (United States), $522,347
- 7th: Biao Ding (China), $401,446
- 8th: Sam Soverel (United States), $316,234
- 9th: Martin Kabrhel (Czech Republic), $255,491
- 10th: Chris Hunichen (United States), $211,842
Dzivielevski’s heads-up opponent, Teun Mulder of the Netherlands, pushed the final duel deep enough to bank nearly $1.9 million of his own, a huge result in its own right that would headline most tournaments outside this rarefied buy-in bracket. Bulgaria’s Alex Kulev rounded out the top three for a seven-figure min-cash.
A Final Table Stacked With Bracelet Winners
What separates a $100,000 High Roller from almost any other event on the calendar is the density of proven talent at the table, and this final nine was no exception. Sam Soverel and Martin Kabrhel, both multiple-time WSOP bracelet winners with long track records in exactly these high buy-in formats, made the unofficial final table and finished eighth and ninth respectively. Their presence, alongside a final table drawing players from Brazil, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, the United States, and China, underlines just how internationally competitive and deep this particular field was, even at only 115 entries.
Beating players of that caliber across three days of accelerating structure is a different challenge than simply surviving a large-field event, and it adds real weight to Dzivielevski’s title.
What This Means for Brazil’s Poker Scene
Brazil has produced a wave of internationally recognized poker talent over the past decade, and this result adds another data point to that growth story. A Brazilian player topping a $100,000 buy-in field, and doing so for the single biggest prize won by any Brazilian at the 2026 WSOP, is the kind of headline that resonates well beyond the felt. It builds on what has already been a notably strong showing by Brazilian players across the High Roller events of this year’s series, reinforcing Brazil’s status as one of the deepest talent pools in the global game.
For fans following the broader summer series, results like this one are a reminder of how quickly fortunes can shift in tournament poker, where a three-day High Roller can turn into a career-defining score, and just as easily could not have. Poker remains a game of skill intertwined with variance, and even the best professionals in the world experience long stretches without a result like this one.
Responsible Play
High Roller events like this one involve buy-ins far beyond what recreational players should ever consider staking, and stories of seven-figure scores should not be read as a promise of guaranteed income. Poker at any stakes carries real financial risk, and players should only wager what they can comfortably afford to lose. Poker Pro Academy encourages all readers to play responsibly and reminds them that participation in real-money poker is restricted to those 18 years of age or older, or the applicable legal age in their jurisdiction.
