2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
49
Prize
€330,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Entries
296
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Seat 7: Alexander Dovzhenko (1,590,000)

Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Dovzhenko will be the crowd favorite today as the last Ukrainian standing. A 45-year-old resident of Kyiv, Dovzhenko has a strong record of tournament success over the past 15 years. Earlier in 2009, he followed up a 56th-place finish at the EPT San Remo with three more cashes in the WSOP.

Dovzhenko's first love was chess, but he soon grow to love playing Seven-card Stud and enjoyed a good bit of success playing online as "berserk64". Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko is a close personal friend of Dovzhenko's, and he can't say enough good about his game. "He is a very good player, one of the best in Ukraine," said Kravchenko. "I would say he was a favorite to win this event."

Dovzhenko has a good shot at fulfilling that goal, coming into play with a big stack of 1,590,000.

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