Yevgeniy Timoshenko with The bracelet

Yevgeniy Timoshenko with The bracelet

Yevgeniy Timoshenko wins the WPT World Championships and the WCOOP Main Event

When it came to deciding on the breakout performance of the year, Yevgeniy Timoshenko ran away with the title, as evidenced by his staggering $4 million in combined live and online earnings in 2009.

Although Timoshenko was beginning to rack up the final table finishes at the end of 2008 with a victory at the APT Macau and a third-place finish at the WSOP-Europe, this year the Ukraine-born, Seattle-bred professional truly emerged as one of the world’s top tournament players.

Timoshenko earned $2.15 million for winning the WPT World Championship in April, defeating a final table that included Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Christian “charder30” Harder and the equally hot-running Bertrand “ElkY Grospellier.

This September he was an utter beast online, winning the WCOOP Main Event for $1,715,000 and the very next day going on to take down one of the toughest no-limit hold’em tournaments on the internet — FullTilt $1K Monday — for $75,000.

Only 21 years old, Timoshenko has only just begun to terrorize the U.S.-based tournament circuit, and he will no doubt be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Source: Pokernews