Trueteller Net Worth 2026: $8M-$15M, Timofey Kuznetsov Profile

Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov’s net worth is estimated between $8 million and $15 million, built on $8.6 million in tracked live earnings and more than a decade at the highest online cash game stakes in the world. For four years nobody outside Russia knew who was beating the nosebleed games.

The anonymity ended in 2015. A 30-hour heads-up session against Phil Ivey and a seven-figure live debut at the Super High Roller Bowl followed within months, and by 2019 the Russian held a Triton title in Short Deck.

This profile separates verified tournament data from tracked online figures and from the private games nobody can audit. Every number carries its source, and the gaps are stated rather than filled.

Trueteller’s net worth is estimated at $8 million to $15 million. No mainstream outlet publishes a figure for him, and the poker profiles that rank for the query give no number at all. Our range is built from three component classes, each with its basis stated.

His live record is public. His online record was public until he opted out of tracking, and his private results in Macau and Las Vegas have never been reported anywhere.

What is Trueteller’s net worth?

The working range starts with roughly $4 million in net live tournament profit, adds $3 million to $4.5 million in tracked online cash game profit, and allows for seven figures of untracked online results from 2020 onward. The table shows how each piece is derived.

The low end assumes the private games ran at break-even and the untracked online years added little. The high end assumes the GGPoker years matched his best tracked years.

Two cohort profiles frame the range. Daniel “Jungleman” Cates sits at $15 million to $22 million with a larger live and tracked online record, and Patrik Antonius at $20 million to $35 million with a far longer live career.

Why do Trueteller net worth estimates vary?

Because the two biggest components went dark. Kuznetsov opted out of long-term tracking in 2015, and the one tracker that still followed him stopped seeing his games in May 2018.

After that he moved to the $1,000/$2,000 games on GGPoker, where no public database logs results. Any site quoting an exact figure for him is guessing at the largest part of his finances.

How much has Timofey Kuznetsov won in live tournaments?

Kuznetsov’s tracked live tournament earnings total $8,648,295 across 10 cashes, per The Hendon Mob. That puts him 245th on the all-time money list and 4th among Russian players.

Ten cashes for $8.6 million is an unusual shape, an average of $864,830 per cash. Most players at that total have 100 or more, which tells you he enters only the biggest buy-ins and rarely plays a full schedule.

Those figures are gross payouts, not profit. Five factors keep the real number out of reach:

Kuznetsov grew up in Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia, as the eldest of three children. At 17 he moved to Moscow to study mathematics and applied probability theory at Moscow State University, with both parents relocating alongside him.

Poker arrived through a friend who had won $7,000 online in a few months. By his own account he was competitive, loved games and saw money on offer, so he deposited $25 on partypoker and started.

That $25 became more than $10,000 inside six months. With a $40,000 bankroll he turned down a summer place at KPMG, and his parents stopped arguing.

Who is Trueteller in poker?

Trueteller is the screen name under which Kuznetsov became one of the most feared cash game players online. From 2011 he played $25/$50 and above on PokerStars and Full Tilt, and until June 2015 nobody in the English-speaking poker world knew his real name.

The first wall was $5/$10. He has credited Phil Galfond’s old no-limit videos with fixing his thought process, and an exam season that kept him away from the tables with letting the lessons settle. The full story is in the interview behind the Messi of poker tag.

What followed shocked even him. From $40,000 he doubled his roll in a month, added $100,000 the next, repeated it, and closed his first full year with $1.7 million. His approach to moving up is a case study in bankroll management rules for moving up stakes.

At 19 he set himself a target of $10 million within three years of taking up the game. A rare English-language video interview came in 2017, recorded for Triton co-founder Paul Phua’s poker channel.

Kuznetsov built his reputation at 6-max no-limit hold’em, the game where position and range construction decide everything. He also beat the $100/$200 pot-limit Omaha games and sat in the 2-7 Triple Draw games at the top of the stakes ladder.

The format is the one most of the no-limit hold’em cash game strategy guide is written for, and at $200/$400 he played it against the strongest regulars alive.

Publicly tracked data puts his online profit at about $2.4 million on PokerStars and $2.05 million on Full Tilt Poker. A separate tracker window from January 2011 to May 2018 shows just under $3.1 million over 589,030 hands.

None of these totals saw every game. Trackers only log the tables they are pointed at, and he removed himself from the long-term view around the time his identity became public.

How much did Trueteller win online?

The tracked figures above are the floor, not the total. In 2017 the publicly tracked winners’ tables had him among the two biggest winners of the year, at roughly $1.45 million across 701 sessions.

In 2018 Andres “Educa-p0ker” Artinano, one of the strongest regulars in those games, named him with the solver-era benchmark Linus Loeliger and Jonas Mols as one of the three best 6-max no-limit players in the world. Linus Loeliger’s interview on the nosebleed games gives the view from the other seat.

The same year he lost a $157,425.70 pot to Mols with aces against kings, run twice, and lost both boards. It sits among the biggest cash game pots ever recorded online, and he paid it without comment.

His PLO sessions against Sami Kelopuro and others ran into six-figure pots, and the pot-limit Omaha strategy for cash games he applied was the same deep-calculation game he brought to hold’em.

From 2020 the action moved to GGPoker, where he played the $1,000/$2,000 no-limit games against Loeliger, GGPoker nosebleed rival Wiktor Malinowski and the regular known as crazytrader. He also added a $25,000 WCOOP high roller title in September 2019, one of the few online tournament results on his record.

Kuznetsov’s live debut was the inaugural $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl at Aria in July 2015. He finished 4th for $2,150,000 from a $21,500,000 prize pool, in an event Brian Rast won for $7,525,000.

He came back to Aria the following May and won the $50,000 high roller for $748,446, two days before bagging the Day 1 chip lead in the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl. He did not cash the main event that year.

A fifth place in the HK$250,000 6-max at Triton Manila in February 2017 was his only cash for two years. Then the format changed and so did his results.

Seven of his ten cashes, and about two thirds of his live total, have come in Short Deck. The 36-card game rewards aggression and equity calculation, which is exactly where the Short Deck strategy fundamentals he mastered overlap with his cash game strengths.

What is Trueteller’s biggest tournament win?

His biggest title is the HK$1,000,000 Short Deck at Triton Jeju in March 2019, a 23-entry event added to the schedule late, worth HK$13,534,153 or $1,724,185. His biggest cash remains the $2,150,000 for fourth at the 2015 Super High Roller Bowl.

The Jeju title came at the same festival where Triton Short Deck king Jason Koon took the first HK$1,000,000 Short Deck event. Two more Short Deck cashes followed in Montenegro that May.

London in August 2019 produced two cashes inside 24 hours: fourth in the £100,000 Short Deck for $804,335 and seventh in the £250,000 for $1,015,645. In the £1,050,000 Triton Million he busted without cashing, though not before the hand that busted Tom Dwan on Day 1.

His second title came in Sochi in March 2020, the $100,000 Short Deck at the partypoker MILLIONS Super High Roller Series for $1,200,000. His last recorded cash is third in the $50,000 Short Deck at Super High Roller Bowl Europe in August 2021 for $336,000.

He has no WSOP bracelet and no recorded WSOP cash. His appearances in Las Vegas each summer have been limited to the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and the invitational high rollers at Aria.

The live money that matters most in Kuznetsov’s career has never appeared in a database. The private games of Macau and Las Vegas, which he and his peers have referred to for years, have never published a single result.

Las Vegas was the harder school. His first visits to the mixed game in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio did not go well, and fellow regular Furkat Rakhimov said so in the 2020 interview.

“It’s the toughest poker game by far in the world. […] Timofey had no experience in those games at all.” – Furkat Rakhimov

That is a hold’em and Omaha specialist being thrown into a rotation of limit and pot-limit variants against players who had spent twenty years in them. He kept coming back.

By 2017 he was photographed in the Bobby’s Room lineup alongside Bobby’s Room regular Dan Jungleman Cates, Brian Rast and David Oppenheim. None of those sessions carry a public result.

The televised game at Super High Roller Bowl Europe

The one live cash game of his on camera was the $500/$1,000 no-limit hold’em game at Super High Roller Bowl Europe in Cyprus in 2021. Vladi Chaoulov bluffed him off two big pots in the same session, both played with the three-bet aggression that defines his online game.

For a player with ten cashes at the very top of the live game, the cash game record that can be verified is a single televised session. That gap is the main reason his net worth is a range.

Peers who have faced Kuznetsov across both formats describe the same traits:

His home format is 6-max no-limit hold’em, and the way he plays it starts before the cards are dealt. The seat-by-seat logic in the 6-max seat map and position guide is the framework he was applying at $200/$400 while most of the field was still guessing.

His range runs wider than the field’s, which means more 3-bet pots and more decisions per hour. A $157,000 pot at $200/$400 is nearly 400 big blinds, and he played for stacks that deep as routine.

Is Trueteller a GTO player?

He was solver-literate before solvers were public. In 2013 he was among the first players to seek access to Oleg Ostroumov’s original GTO tool, years before how solvers reshaped high stakes strategy became a mainstream topic.

Yet his peers describe his game as exploitative rather than theoretical. Artinano’s 2018 ranking put him alongside Loeliger, a player known for solver-exact play, and the praise was for completeness, not for equilibrium play.

The Short Deck results fit the picture. A 36-card game had no solver library in 2019, and he won his biggest title in it within a year of the format reaching Triton.

Kuznetsov’s identity stayed secret for four years. It became public in June 2015 at the WSOP, when he confirmed to table-mates in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship that he was the Trueteller account, and the news spread within days.

He declined interviews at the time, and he has given only a handful since.

What happened between Trueteller and Phil Ivey?

In November 2015 the two played a single heads-up session online that ran for more than 30 hours. Coverage at the time had Kuznetsov finishing slightly ahead, and neither player has published a final figure.

Ivey was among the most feared cash game players of the previous decade, and a 24-year-old Russian sitting with him for a day and a night was news in itself. Phil Ivey’s own high stakes record shows what Kuznetsov was measuring himself against.

Five years later came the strangest session of his career. In September 2020 the GGPoker regular crazytrader offered $400,000 no-look all-in flips, run twice, until one of them busted his account.

The $400,000 flips

Kuznetsov accepted. Both players had more than $1 million online at the time, and by the end of the sequence he was roughly $1,000,000 up. The flip-by-flip detail is in the $400K no-look flips against crazytrader.

There is no edge in a blind all-in. At that size it is as pure a demonstration of how variance works at the highest stakes as the online game has offered.

The moment his peers still quote is older and cheaper. Randy “nanonoko” Lew was heads-up against Kuznetsov when the Russian bluffed him in the chat box as well as on the felt, and Lew revived the story in March 2025.

Throwback to when I was playing against Trueteller aka Timofey Kuznetsov when we were playing high stakes heads up poker and I was getting bluffed on and off the tables by him pic.twitter.com/L1eTcsEBhW

— Randy Lew (@nanonoko) March 8, 2025

Lew’s post drew replies calling it one of the great online poker moments. Years on, the chat-box line “how will I play?” is still quoted by players who were nowhere near those stakes.

None of this amounts to controversy. Kuznetsov has no public dispute, no debt story and no integrity question on his record, which is rare for a player who spent a decade at the top of the online game.

In September 2018 Kuznetsov joined Team partypoker, alongside Jason Koon, Isaac Haxton and Fedor Holz. The room gave him a remit rather than a promotional role:

His own line on the signing was short: “It’s a dark age in poker; good sides must unite.” No end date was ever announced, and no room has listed him as an ambassador since.

His influence on the game predates the deal. In 2013 he and Alex “Kanu7” Millar were the first players to show interest in the first commercial GTO solver, and he held exclusive early access while negotiating over a $100,000 price.

The first solver

The haggling pushed its creator to find more buyers, and a six-player group ended up with exclusive access. The story of how the first poker solver found its buyers is told from Ostroumov’s side.

The point for Kuznetsov’s record is simple. The nosebleed games of 2013 to 2018 were shaped by a handful of players with solver output nobody else could see, and he was one of them.

Kuznetsov keeps his life away from the tables private. His X account is @TTimofey_K, where a December 2023 reply confirming the solver story is the kind of post he makes, and the few interviews he has given are about poker.

How old is Trueteller?

Kuznetsov was born on 14 May 1991, making him 35 years old. The year is confirmed across reference sources; the full date comes from a secondary database and has not been stated by Kuznetsov himself.

He is a rated chess player, holding a FIDE classical rating of 1,938 in the March 2018 list. That puts him well above club level, and it fits a pattern of pros who treat chess as off-table training, the subject of the poker and chess crossover trend.

Off the felt, the record shows three things:

Five years and not one new line on his Hendon Mob page. Kuznetsov’s last live cash is the $336,000 for third in the Super High Roller Bowl Europe Short Deck in August 2021, and his GPI ranking has slipped past 230,000th for want of any points.

That tells you about his schedule, not his game. He has never been a tournament grinder, and the online tables where he made his money stopped being tracked in 2018.

His name still carries weight among other elite online cash game crushers. Lew’s March 2025 throwback post drew tens of thousands of views, and Malinowski’s Messi comparison is still the first thing most players reach for when his name comes up.

Is Trueteller still playing poker?

There is no public evidence either way. No live cash since 2021, no tracked online session since 2018 and no sponsorship announcement means his current volume is unknown, and any site claiming otherwise is guessing.

He is one of the few true ghosts in the full poker player profile hub: a player whose results everyone has heard about and almost nobody can audit. For the stories that do reach the record, follow the latest high stakes poker news.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

Net worth figures for poker players are inherently speculative. We publish a range rather than a single number, explain the inputs that inform it, and flag what cannot be verified.

For Kuznetsov the inputs are net live profit after estimated buy-ins, tracked online profit with its blackout dates stated, and the untracked GGPoker years, sanity-checked against the Cates and Antonius profiles.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings on this profile are sourced from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live tournament cashes globally. We cite cash counts and earnings totals as gross payouts, not profit.

The $8,648,295 total was taken from the live Hendon Mob page on 20 October 2026. Online figures are historical, drawn from publicly tracked data that never covered every game, and are dated accordingly.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame.

Kuznetsov has no material controversies on the public record. The Ivey match is reported from contemporary coverage only, and nothing about its settlement is stated because nothing has been verified.