Chandrasekhar Billavara

Chandrasekhar Billavara is a poker player who won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event.

Billavara is the first Indian born WSOP bracelet winner.

Billavara competes in a weekly home game with friends. He jokes that he looks forward to confronting his friends by stating, “Now, I will look at them and say – are you trying to bluff me? Are you crazy? Look at this gold bracelet on my wrist! You want to try [to] bluff me?”

As of 2010, Billavara had tournament winnings of over $740,000. His three cashes at the WSOP accounted for $734,607 of those winnings.

World Series of Poker bracelets YearTournamentPrize (US$) 2007$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em $722,914