Eugene Katchalov (born February 21, 1981, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an American professional poker player raised in Brooklyn, New York, since age 10. He currently ranks #403 on the Global poker index, and has been ranked as high as number two. He is also 1st on the All-Time Money List in Ukraine.

Katchalov, a graduate with a business degree from NYU, is the winner of the largest payout for a non-championship event in the World Poker Tour (WPT), earning $2,482,605 with a win at the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

In late 2016 Katchalov and poker player, and friend, Luca Pagano, entered the world of eSports with an Italian team: QLASH is the first professional team to attend the American spot of Dreamhack.

Poker Katchalov has been playing poker professionally since 2003; in March 2011 he joined Team PokerStars Pro and played under the screen name E.Katchalov. Katchalov was previously well known online under his former non-Team PokerStars Pro screen name MyRabbiFoo. After five years under the red spade brand, they parted away .

In addition to his 2007 WPT win, Katchalov finished 9th in the 2009 WPT Championship event. He has cashed nine times on the WPT Tour for a total of $2,759,761.

Katchalov has had 30 cashes in World Series of Poker events, including a bracelet win in the 2011 $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Tournament. He also finished 39th at the 2009 WSOP Main Event.

Katchalov has also succeeded on the European Poker Tour. He has cashed nine times in Main Events including third-place finishes in London, 2009, and Barcelona, 2011 and a second-place finish in Deauville, 2014. At the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2011, Katchalov bested 37 other players in the $100,000 Super High Roller tournament, defeating Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu heads-up, to win $1.5million. Ten days later, he came in 2nd place in the PCA $10,000 High Roller - 6 Max event winning $131,920 .

In June 2007, Katchalov won the Bellagio Cup III's $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em event.

As of May 2017, his total live tournament winnings exceed $8,900,000.

World Series of Poker In 2011 Katchalov conquered the prestigious bracelet in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event.

DateCityEventPositionPrize June 10, 2005 Las Vegas $2,000 No Limit Hold'em 74° $3,870 June 22, 2005 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 48° $6,530 June 28, 2007 Las Vegas $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 32° $13,344 June 6, 2008 Las Vegas $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 10° $16,920 June 13, 2008 Las Vegas $1,500 Seven Card Razz 26° $3,091 June 19, 2008 Las Vegas $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo Split 6° $110,450 June 25, 2008 Las Vegas $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 26° $3,638 June 29, 2008 Las Vegas $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. 71° $2,630 June 5, 2009 Las Vegas $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed 25° $5,360 June 8, 2009 Las Vegas $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed 25° $11,839 June 10, 2009 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout 7° $29,195 June 16, 2009 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 158° $2,945 June 30, 2009 Las Vegas $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed 15° $137,378 July 3, 2009 Las Vegas $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em 39° $178,857 June 1, 2010 Las Vegas $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout 21° $16,607 June 12, 2010 Las Vegas $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 Championship 7° $74,670 June 23, 2010 Las Vegas $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship 3° $248,831 June 1, 2010 Las Vegas $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed 25° $11,839 June 30, 2010 Las Vegas $25,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed 6° $194,559 June 2, 2011 Las Vegas $1,500 Seven Card Stud 1° $122,909 June 13, 2011 Las Vegas $2,500 8 Game 36° $5,740 June 24, 2011 Las Vegas $1,500 Limit Hold'em - Shootout 4° $50,993 June 3, 2012 Las Vegas $5,000 Seven Card Stud (Event #10) 9° $18,693 June 11, 2012 Las Vegas $3,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event #23) 17° $21,189 June 16, 2012 Las Vegas $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. (Event #32) 17° $16,246 July 3, 2012 Las Vegas $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event #57) 21° $35,422 July 6, 2012 Las Vegas $10,000 No Limit Hold'em National Championship 13° $26,439 September 29, 2012 Cannes €10,450 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event #7) 40° $27,724 June 5, 2013 Las Vegas $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo (Event #13) 22° $9,583 June 9, 2013 Las Vegas $15,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (Event #19) 5° $58,912 May 14, 2014 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event #6) 67° $4,411 May 29, 2015 Las Vegas $565 No Limit Hold'em The Colossus (Event #5) 1008° $3,009 June 3, 2015 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event #12) 118° $3,276 June 5, 2015 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Millionaire Maker (Event #16) 409° $4,517 June 10, 2015 Las Vegas $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Eight Handed (Event #25) 26° $13,578 June 25, 2015 Las Vegas $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event #51) 86° $6,150 June 28, 2016 Las Vegas $1,500 Seven Card Stud (Event #49) 5° $22,448 June 27, 2017 Las Vegas $1,500 No Limit Hold'em (Event #52) 35° $9,107 July 2, 2018 Las Vegas $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event #65) 685° $19,900

World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) DateCityEventPositionPrize November 3, 2017 Rozvadov €111,111 High Roller for One Drop (Event #10) 13° €205,263

World Poker Tour Eugene Katchalov is active in the WPT field since 2004, a milestone reserved to few still active professional poker players.

DateCityEventPositionPrize December 14, 2004 Las Vegas Five-Diamond World Poker Classic $15,300 35° $27,227 January 26, 2007 Atlantic City Borgata Winter Open $10,000 45° $14,954 December 12, 2007 Las Vegas Doyle Brunson Five Diamond WPC $15,400 1° $2,482,605 April 18, 2009 Las Vegas Seventh Annual Five Star WPC $25,500 9° $130,735 August 22, 2009 Los Angeles Legends of Poker $10,100 14° $26,160 February 26, 2010 Los Angeles L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 62° $23,600 December 3, 2010 Las Vegas Doyle Brunson Five Diamond WPC $10,300 19° $33,785 December 1, 2011 Prague WPT Prague, €3,500 Main Event 27° $8,529 April 10, 2012 Wien WPT Wien, €3,500 Main Event 19° $12,282 March 1, 2014 Los Angeles LA Poker Classic $10,000 Main Event 40° $26,660

European Poker Tour The European Poker Tour (EPT) was one of the biggest itinerant tournament series hosted by PokerStars. EPT had its final season in 2016 when the PokerStars Championship succeeded.

DateCityEventPositionPrize March 16, 2005 Monte Carlo €10,000 Grand Final - No Limit Hold'em 18° $21,030 September 30, 2009 London £20,500 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 3° $307,247 October 2, 2009 London £5,250 No Limit Hold'em Main Event 77° $14,646 January 8, 2010 Nassau $5,250 Heads Up Challenge 5° $17,600 January 6, 2011 Nassau $100,500 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller 1° $1,500,000 January 8, 2011 Nassau $10,300 No Limit Hold'em Main Event 74° $28,000 January 16, 2011 Nassau $10,200 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 6 Max 2° $131,920 May 7, 2011 Barcelona €10,400 No Limit Hold'em EPT Grand Final 27° $51,948 August 27, 2011 Barcelona €5,300 No Limit Hold'em Main Event 3° $453,812 November 17, 2011 Loutraki €2,200 No Limit Hold'em 2° $49,915 January 14, 2012 Nassau $10,200 No Limit Hold'em 6 Max High Roller 7° $25,320 March 12, 2012 Barcelona €2,150 No Limit Hold'em 12° $6,795 March 17, 2012 Barcelona €5,200 No Limit Hold'em Six Max 4° $12,069 March 31, 2012 Campione €5,200 No Limit Hold'em 6 Max Turbo 5° $12,867 December 13, 2012 Prague €10,300 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 8 Handed 12° $32,677 March 16, 2013 London £5,200 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed 7° $7,524 October 8, 2012 London £2,200 No Limit Hold'em 2° $85,116 January 7, 2013 Nassau $10,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event #5) 29° $47,000 December 12, 2013 Prague €5,300 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event 71° $8,088 January 26, 2014 Deauville €5,300 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event 2° $518,981 March 22, 2014 Wien €2,200 No Limit Hold'em Eureka High Roller 1° $207,962 August 23, 2014 Barcelona #2,200 #23 No Limit Hold'em 30° $6,899 October 12, 2014 London £4,250 No Limit Hold'em (Event #16) 74° $12,456 December 10, 2014 Prague €2,200 No Limit Hold'em Eureka High Roller (Event #18) 3° $126,723 December 11, 2014 Prague €5,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event #22) 63° $17,636 February 1, 2015 Deauville €5,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event #11) 86° $9,936 February 7, 2015 Deauville €5,250 No Limit Hold'em Turbo Cash 6 Max (Event #42) 3° $17,760 March 24, 2015 Valletta €2,200 #41 No Limit Hold'em 2° $100,349 May 2, 2015 Monte Carlo €10,600 No Limit Hold'em (Event #27) 64° $23,452 December 8, 2015 Prague €550 No Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event #18) 6° $2,158 August 22, 2016 Barcelona €5,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event #24) 67° $17,444 August 22, 2016 Barcelona €5,300 8 Game (Event #26) 2° $30,791 August 26, 2016 Barcelona €10,300 No Limit Hold'em High Roller 8 Handed (Event #49) 103° $13,188 October 23, 2016 Valletta €5,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event #33) 39° $13,478 December 15, 2016 Prague €2,200 No Limit Hold'em (Event #59) 1° $133,905

PokerStars Championship DateCityEventPositionPrize January 8, 2017 Nassau €5,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event #23) 140° $7,260

PokerStars Festival DateCityEventPositionPrize March 8, 2017 Rozvadov €5,300 No Limit Hold'em Kings High Roller (Event #19) 2° $53,916

Card Player Poker Tour DateCityEventPositionPrize July 17, 2017 Las Vegas $5,000 Deepstack Extravaganza III (Event #103) 38° $12,477

eSports Katchalov is a well-known sport enthusiast and in winter 2016 he joined long term friend and former PokerStars colleague Luca Pagano in the eSport adventure. He is co-owner of one of the first Italian professional competitive esport team: QLASH.

References

External links Eugene Katchalov Interview CardPlayer.com article - Eugene Katchalov Wins 2007 Doyle Brunson Classic Card Player profile Global Poker Index profile Hendon Mob profile WPT profile WSOP profile