His brain is dedicated to playing poker.Īccording to HighstakesDB, Trueteller’s early success came from his heads-up battles with Viktor “Islidur1” Blom on Full Tilt’s high stakes NL tables. He had an excellent win rate at the cap PLO tables, as he was the first player to make a million dollars in those games and had twice as much profit as the second best player. When PokerStars introduced the cap games on the nosebleed limits, everybody started to play the same way – except for Trueteller. He learns new poker games and strategies so fast. He said to me, “if you risk that much money in one session you better give zero information about yourself and your game to the public”.
In an interview with, Team PokerStars Pro, Mikhail “innerspy” Shalamov said this about Trueteller: Still, not much is known about Timofey Kuznetsov aside from the fact that many of his peers consider him to be one of the best in the game.
The identity of “Trueteller” was a mystery for years until a young Russian phenom named Timofey Kuznetsov came out of hiding for the 2015 WSOP in Las Vegas. Kuznetsov had been crushing online high stakes cash games under the Trueteller alias but finally revealed his identity to the other players at the table during the course of normal conversation.
