Timoshenko Takes 2009 WPT Championship
April 27, 2009
With the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship now at a close, we can reveal that 21 year old Yevgeniy Timoshenko won the tournament.
In a game that took over 8 hours and thousands of hands to complete, Timoshenko made his statement within the live poker scene, claiming his third live tournament victory in a short period of time.
Timoshenko also has winner titles within the Irish Poker Open and the APT Macau Main Event, both of which have been won within the last months.
Seated at a table with some of the biggest names on the poker scene, with Scotty Nguyen, Shannon Shorr, Bertrand Grospellier, Christian Harder and Ran Azor joining him at the final table.
With previous wins ensuring that the 21 year old was taking home six figure prize winnings this tournament sent his cashes into orbit, taking home $2,149,960 in winnings.
This win makes his other victorys seem like they were won in a friendly, home played game with friends in comparison to this, winning a life changing amount.
Runner up fell to Ran Azor, who also upped his game to ensure that he was within the heads up section of the tournament.
But Timoshenko wasn’t the only winner on the day, Bertrand Grospellier’s 3rd place finish meant that he secured the World Poker Tour Player of the Year award, beating out bookies favourite Scotty Nguyen.
The biggest shock of the day had to be that of Scotty Nguyen, the bookies favourite to take the victory, been knocked out in 6th place by Christian Harder in a hand that will surely have left a bitter taste in the confident players mouth, watching his set of aces beaten out by a higher kicker.
Nguyen’s 6th place finish meant that he didn’t make history as had he taken the first place in the tournament he would have been poker’s all time highest cash winner.
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