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Yevgeny
Kafelnikov, Poker Celebrity!
Yevgeny Kafelnikov was born on February 18, 1974 in Sochi, Russia.
Kafelnikov became a professional tennis player in 1992 and amassed
$23,883,797 of prize money. His proudest achievement in tennis
is that he won 26 singles titles.
After a relatively unexciting 2003 for Kafelnikov,
where Russia's first world number 1 in tennis failed to win
an ATP singles title for first time in 10 years and finished
with his lowest ATP Ranking over the same period, it now appears
that Kafelnikov has effectively retired from tennis and taken
up poker.
Kafelnikov is incredibly popular in his country
and not just for his tennis. After winning his fifth straight
title in Moscow, Kafelnikov donated his first prize of $137,000
to the families of the victims in the October 4, 2001 Russian
plane crash near his hometown of Sochi.
Kafelnikov has hired fellow Russian, Kirill Gerasimov,
professional poker's Rookie of the Year in 2002, to coach him.
In October 2004 Kafelnikov won the Korona Russian Poker Championships
in Moscow. In 2005, Kafelnikov followed up with an excellent
performance at the World Series of Poker very nearly making
the Stud final table with his coach Gerasimov, who managed to
finish second.
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