Moscow, Russia
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 Premier League Poker Player ProfilesLining for this years's star-studded Premier League Poker are: Andy Black | Victoria Coren | Ian Frazer | Tony G | Kirill Gerasimov | Phil Hellmuth | Juha Helppi | Kenna James | Liz Lieu | Eddie Scharf | Dave Ulliott | Roland de Wolfe Kirill GerasimovKirill Gerasimov worked as an insurance salesman in Moscow, and started entering poker tournaments throughout Europe in 2001. The Paradise Poker website backed Gerasimov in the World Poker Tour Season 1 $25,000 championship event, where he took second place to Alan Goehring to take home a $506,625 prize.In May 2003, Gerasimov made his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table, finishing sixth in the $1,500 No Limit Hold-Em event and receiving a $24,000 prize. Other finalists in the tournament included eventual winner Amir Vahedi, TJ Cloutier and Brad Daugherty. In April 2004, Gerasimov returned to the WSOP and again made two final tables: a fifth place finish ($30,060) in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold-Em event featuring Huck Seed and Tony Bloom, and a second place finish ($100,000) in the $1,500 No Limit Hold-Em shootout event featuring John Juanda, Asher Derei and Daniel Negreanu.  Gerasimov made two final tables during the second season of the European Poker Tour (EPT), finishing fifth in London and third in Deauville. Kirill is also known in poker circles for making one of the most amazing calls in WSOP history when, after thinking his opponent had checked, he in turn checked and then showed his opponent his hand which consisted of a ten-high, missed flush draw. His opponent then claimed that he himself had not checked and after a floor ruling was allowed to bet. He bet all in and Gerasimov, feeling that this was a bluff, called winning the pot with his ten high. As of 2006, Kirill has made over $1,600,000 in live tournament winnings.
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