Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Up until this month, he has only had a few results in the various online poker databases in tournaments with buy-ins of less than $500. But then he entered the European Poker Tour Baden Classic and made it all the way to the final table, earning 225,000 euros for his third-place finish. He decided to follow that up by playing in his first-ever World Poker Tour event. Poleschuk made the televised final table of that event, the Spanish Championship, and finished sixth for almost $119,000.