[4] In June 2002, he won the second World Heads-Up Poker Championship in Vienna, winning the €60,000 grand prize.

[5] In May 2003, Gerasimov made his first World Series of Poker - WSOP final table, finishing in 6th place in the $1,500 No Limit Hold-Em event and receiving a $24,000 prize.

Other finalists in the tournament included eventual winner Amir Vahedi and other professionals T. J. Cloutier, and Brad Daugherty.

[7] Gerasimov cashed four times in the 2005 World Series of Poker, including a 2nd-place finish ($108,775) in the seven-card stud tournament,[8] and he cashed in the $10,000 Main Event World Championship for the first time, with his 444th-place finish earning $16,055.

[13] Gerasimov made two final tables during the second season of the European Poker Tour (EPT),[14] finishing in 5th-place in London and 3rd-place in Deauville.