“I like to play Turbos and Hypers online, and it’s good in live tournaments too because you don’t need to play for a lot of days to win the big money.
“I don’t understand what’s happened,” Timofeev told WSOP reporters. The 31-year-old from Perm, Russia, admitted that he was a little fortunate along the way in the fast-paced, two-day event. Russian poker player Denis Timofeev topped a field of 1,221 players in the $1,000 double stack turbo event at the 2018 World Series of Poker, earning the biggest payday of his career, $199,586, and his first bracelet.