Still, Kuznetsov’s mother was a doctor his father, a businessman, peddling in music stores, video rentals and toy shops. Novosibirsk is home to a sizable scientific contingent. The Russian star describes the people of Novosibirsk as ‘nice’ and calls it a ‘healthy’ place to grow up thanks to the clean forest air.
Kuznetsov grew up in Novosibirsk, on the banks of the Ob River in Siberia, the third most populous city in Russia, and a place of serene beauty according to Kuznetsov, waxing lyrical over his school walks through the vast forestry that blocked out the horizon. Kuznetsov did create an ambitious poker goal when 19, and hit it within three-years.
If I’m going to write about it, I had better do my due diligence, so I contacted him. People like Timofey ‘trueteller’ Kuznetsov.ĭuring a tete-a-tete in Jeju, South Korea, a ball of wax must have taken possession of my cochlea, because I swear that he told me that he set the goal to make $1m playing online poker at Paul Hardcastle’s age. Like the people sending ‘success’ screaming through the ventricles and atriums, radiating and reverberating a reverent YES! YES! YES! Frank Sinatra may have sung it, but it’s a dream stitched into the double helix of everyone ejected into this world, and for most the gestation period continues into the grave.
