20-year-old Yevgeniy Timoshenko from the United States of Ukrainian descent has won the 2008 APT Macau, Asia's largest guaranteed tournament, which took place at the Galaxy StarWorld.

Timoshenko was first for USD 500,000, with Joon Hee Yeah from South Korea finishing second for USD 250,000. In third place was Rober Karlian from Thailand, who won USD 126,000 and Casey Kastle from the United States finished fourth. In fifth was Julio Diaz from Spain, sixth was Quang Nguyen from Vietnam, who won USD 52,000, and seventh, Chong Wing Cheong from Hong Kong who won USD 37,500. Eighth place went to Michael Pedley of Australia. These players triumphed in a field which featured some of the most high profile names in the game including the legendary Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Todd Brunson, Liz Lieu, J.C Tran, Kenny Tran, Mike 'Timex' McDonald, John Juanda, Nam Le, Quinn Do, Steve Sung, David 'Chino' Rheems, Mel Judah, Mansour Matloubi, Harry Demetriou, Carter Gill, Richard En, PartyPoker.com Million VI champion Alexander Jung and APT Manila champion David Saab. The event, which run from the 27th - 31st May was opened by legendary host of the 1970 World Series of Poker ® Jack Binion. Coverage of the event will be seen on television around the world.

Chris Parker, CEO of the Asian Poker Tour congratulated Timoshenko at a wildly colorful closing ceremony. He then made a draw that gave away one free seat to the next event for one lucky player who had pre-registered for the tournament on their official website and announced that this will be standard practice going forward.

Timoshenko was born in Kharkov, Ukraine but moved to Washington State at the age of 10. In the last couple of years he has established his reputation as a fearsome online player and has topped online poker rankings.