Timoshenko, Hoy Advance to World Open VI Final

Yevgeniy Timoshenko has advanced to the PartyPoker.com World Open VI final table.

Two more heat winners are through and just two more are needed to fill up the final table at the PartyPoker.com World Open VI inside London’s Palm Beach Casino.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who was perhaps the hottest player in poker this time last year, having won both the WPT Championship and PokerStars WCOOP main event, has advanced.

He got past a heat that included recently crowned WPT London Poker Classic champion Jake Cody and 2009 WSOPE finalist Praz Bansi.

But Timoshenko’s toughest test was 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela, who only fell heads-up when he ran ace-king into the young Ukranian-American’s aces.

Dale Hoy, whose resume is filled with similar UK poker TV appearances, also pushed through to the final, getting past a heat that included World Open V winner Phil Laak and former WSOP Main Event winner Huck Seed.

The 48-player event will run until Friday with the winners of two more eight-seat heats making up the seven-player final table.

Timoshenko and Hoy join Sam Trickett, Andrew Robl and John Duthie as the five players with seats already secured.

The PartyPoker World Open VI buy-in is $10,000 with a total prize pool of $480,000 and $200,000 reserved for the winner.