Yevhen Tymoshenko

Yevhen Tymoshenko
Personal information
Date of birth	February 8, 1988
place of birth	Kharkiv
Nicknames 0 0 0 0	Jovial GentPokerStars bballer88Full Tilt Poker convivialguyAbsolute poker Shenk0Unibet timosyBodog
place of residence	Seattle
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 2,149,960
Total prize money	$ 7,769,407
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	34
Best main event	22. ( 2013 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	11
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: May 20, 2020

Jewhen Tymoshenko ( Ukrainian Євген Тимошенко ; English transcription Yevgeniy Timoshenko ; born February 8, 1988 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a professional Ukrainian poker player .

Personal

Tymoshenko emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of ten and moved with them to Mukilteo , Washington state . Today he lives in Seattle .

Poker career

On-line

Tymoshenko pursued in 2004 , the Main Event of the World Series of Poker and so was first introduced to poker in contact. He has been playing online since July 2006 under the nicknames Jovial Gent ( PokerStars ) , bballer88 ( Full Tilt Poker ) , convivialguy (Absolute Poker) , Shenk0 ( Unibet ) and timosy (Bodog) . In mid-September 2009 , Tymoshenko won the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars . This victory at the major online tournament in the world earned him a prize of more than 1.7 million US dollars a. In total, he recorded online tournament winnings totaling almost five million US dollars. For two weeks from May 9 to 23, 2007, he was at the top of the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

live

Since 2007 Tymoshenko has also taken part in renowned live tournaments .

In April 2007 Tymoshenko won a tournament at the Irish Poker Open in Dublin and thus a prize money of 124,600 euros . At the end of August 2008 he won a tournament on the Asian Poker Tour in Macau and received $ 500,000 for it. In September 2008 Tymoshenko was successful for the first time at an event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and reached a final table in the variant No Limit Hold'em at the WSOP Europe held in London . At the end of April 2009 he won the Five Star World Poker Classic of the World Poker Tour (WPT) with a prize money of over two million US dollars, his highest prize money to date. In June 2009 Tymoshenko also played for the first time in the main tournament series of the WSOP in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , in which he was previously not allowed to participate because of his too young age, and came in twice. At the 2011 WSOP , he narrowly missed winning a bracelet and finished second in the Heads-Up Championship behind British Jake Cody for around $ 525,000 in prize money. At the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2013 , Tymoshenko reached the seventh day of the tournament and finished the event in 22nd place for just under 300,000 US dollars. In early February 2014, he won the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne with a prize of two million Australian dollars . In early February 2016, Tymoshenko sat at the final table of the WPT Main Event for the second time and finished fifth in Atlantic City for more than $ 200,000 in prize money. He reached a final table at the 2017 WSOP and was paid close to $ 225,000 for third place.

Overall, Tymoshenko has earned more than 7.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making him the second most successful Ukrainian poker player behind Eugene Katschalow .

Web links

• Yevhen Tymoshenko in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Yevhen Tymoshenko in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Yevhen Tymoshenko in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Yevhen Tymoshenko in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jewhen Tymoshenko in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on August 1, 2016 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} The PokerNews Profile: Yevgeniy Timoshenko on pokernews.com, July 4, 2009, accessed August 1, 2016.
3. ↑ WCOOP Main Event [2-day], $ 10M guaranteed in the PocketFives database, accessed on August 1, 2016 (English).
4. ↑ Jovial Gent in the PocketFives database, accessed on August 1, 2016 (English).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Jewhen Tymoshenko in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 1, 2016 (English).
6. ↑ PaddyPower Irish Open 2007 (€ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 1, 2016 (English).
7. ↑ Asian Poker Tour - Macau ($ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
8. ↑ 2008 World Series Of Poker - Europe (£ 1,500 + 75 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
9. ↑ Seventh Annual Five Star World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
10. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
11. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 62)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
12. ↑ 2014 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 100,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 1, 2016.
13. ↑ 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) - Borgata Winter Poker Open ($ 3,300 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Championship (Event # 17)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 6, 2018 (English).
14. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 45)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 6, 2018.
15. ↑ Ukraine All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 20, 2020.