Eugene Katchalov (born February 21, 1981 in Kiev, Ukraine) is an American professional poker player raised in Brooklyn, New York since age 10.
He currently ranks #403 on the Global poker index, and has been ranked as high as number two.
He is also 1st on the All-Time Money List in Ukraine.Katchalov, a graduate with a business degree from NYU, is the winner of the largest payout for a non-championship event in the World Poker Tour (WPT), earning $2,482,605 with a win at the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.In late 2016 Katchalov and poker player, and friend, Luca Pagano, entered the world of eSports with an Italian team: QLASH is the first professional team to attend the American spot of Dreamhack.