The latest edition of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has concluded, with Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko winning the WCOOP Main Event.

The WCOOP is a two-week, 45-tournament poker competition held online multiple times a year by Internet poker room Poker Stars (www.pokerstars.com), with the 45th and final tourney being the Main Event and the most lucrative.

The Main Event, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney, drew 2,144 entrants, paid out the top 306 finishers and had a total prize pool of $10.7 million

For the victory, Timoshenko, 20, who is originally from the Ukraine but now resides in Mukilteo, Washington, USA, earned $1.7 million.

He is successful both at online and offline poker.

According to official tournament records, he has also won more than $3 million playing offline tournament poker in his career, including more than $2 million that was earned last April when he won a major World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament.

Among the more lucrative earlier events at the WCOOP were Events #43 and #44.

Event #43 was a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that had 9,220 entrants and a total prize pool of $1.8 million.

The event was won by French poker pro Bertrand Gospelier, who earned $263,000.

Event #44 was a H.O.R.S.E. tournament that had 103 entrants and a total prize pool of $1 million.

It was won by American college student Daniel Kelly, who earned $252,000 and beat out such poker luminaries as Grospelier, Greg “Fossilman” Raymer, Joe Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu and Barry Greenstein.

Raymer, Hachem and Moneymaker are all previous winners of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, poker’s most prized jewel.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)