Career
Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Zhukov was a geologist in Russia. As of 9 July 2012 he has career earnings of United States$940,000, $838,000 of which was earned at the
Bracelets
The final table included bracelet winners Steve Billirakis, Richard Ashby and Josh Arieh. The 2012 bracelet"s final table included bracelet winners David "ODB" Baker, Chris Bell, Randy Ohel and Scotty Nguyen.
lieutenant took approximately three hours of heads up play for Zhukov to clinch his second bracelet.
In both of his bracelet wins, Zhukov began the final table short stacked, and in both wins he had not finished in the money in any previous event at that World Series. Zhukov claims not to be an Omaha Hi-Lo specialist although both his bracelets were in that event.
Zhukov claims that he plays mostly limit events on the internet. Winning two bracelets tied Zhukov for the most by a Russian native.
Zhukov noted that Russians consider Ukrainians such as Oleksii Kovalchuk to be countrymen, when counting bracelet totals.
