Timofei Kuznetsov
Timofei Kuznetsov | |
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Personal information | |
Year of birth | 1991 |
Nickname |
TruetellerPokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & partypoker
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Live Poker Tournament Achievements | |
Highest prize money | $ 2,150,000 |
Total prize money | $ 6,628,099 |
Last updated: January 8, 2020 |
Timofei "Trueteller" Kuznetsov ( Russian Тимофей Кузнецов ; English transcription Timofey Kuznetsov ; * 1991 ) is a professional Russian poker player .
Personal
Kuznetsov grew up in a small town in Siberia . At the age of 17 he moved to Moscow and studied mathematics there at Lomonosov University .
Poker career
Kuznetsov is considered a high-stakes icon online under the nickname Trueteller and was celebrated as a child prodigy in his home country. Although he has been playing online poker since January 2011, his identity was only revealed by an insider in May 2015. On the platforms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker he has a total profit of more than five million US dollars through cash games . From mid-October 2018, Kuznetsov was the advertising medium for the online poker room partypoker .
Live Kuznetsov took part in the European Poker Tour several times , but was never able to place in the money. In July 2015, he played the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas , the most expensive poker tournament of 2015 with a buy-in of $ 500,000. There he reached the final table and finished the tournament on the one with over two Million US dollars endowed fourth place. At the end of May 2016, Kuznetsov won the Aria Super High Roller with a prize of around 750,000 US dollars. Beginning in March 2019, he sat down at the final event of the Triton Series Super High Roller in Jeju-do by and secured when in the variant No-Limit Hold'em Short deck Ante-Only played tournament the main prize of the equivalent of nearly 1.9 million US dollars . In the party poker Live Millions Super High Roller Series in Sochi he won in mid-March 2020, also with short deck played the ninth event and received US $ 1.2 million.
Overall, Kuznetsov has earned more than 6.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.
Web links
- Timofei Kuznetsov in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
- Timofei Kuznetsov in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kuznetsov, Timofey FIDE Chess Profile on ratings.fide.com, accessed on December 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Timofey 'Trueteller' Kuznetsov - I Am High Stakes Poker on YouTube from March 15, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b Identity of high stakes icon Trueteller revealed! ( Memento from May 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerzeit.com from May 28, 2015, accessed on December 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Trueteller (PokerStars) on highstakesdb.com, accessed on December 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Trueteller (Full Tilt Poker) on highstakesdb.com, accessed on December 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov as a new member of the partypoker team on pokernews.com on September 19, 2018, accessed on October 4, 2018.
- ↑ Super High Roller Bowl 2015 ($ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 22, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Super High Roller 7 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 22, 2016.
- ↑ Kuznetsov Closes Down The Action With a Win in an Impromptu HKD 1m No-Limit Hold'em Short-Deck on triton-series.com, accessed on March 14, 2019 (English).
- ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 100,000 No Limit Short Deck Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 20, 2020.
- ↑ Timofei Kuznetsov in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 22, 2016 (English).
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SURNAME | Kuznetsov, Timofei |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кузнецов, Тимофей (Russian); Kuznetsov, Timofey (English spelling); Trueteller (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poker player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1991 |