Nikolai Yakovenko

Nikolai Yakovenko

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Nikolai Yakovenko, also known as "Googles," is originally from Moscow, Russia and is now a poker player and software developer who resides in Brooklyn, New York. After several years at Google New York working on ranking algorithms, he's been developing independent software projects ever since, while making both World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour final tables. Yakovenko also helped create the ABC Open-Face Chinese Poker iPhone app.

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