Chandrasekhar Billavara

{{short description|American poker player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

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|name=Chandrasekhar Billavara

|nickname=Sako

|hometown=San Francisco, California

|wsop bracelet count=1

|wsop money finishes=3

|wsop main event best finish rank=None

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|multi-year wsop winner=

|wpt titles=None

|wpt final tables=None

|wpt money finishes=None

|updated=2010-2-23

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Chandrasekhar Billavara is a poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event.{{Cite web |title=38th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2007, No Limit Hold'em: Hendon Mob Poker Database |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26193 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=The Hendon Mob |language=en}}

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?” {{Cite web |last=Dalla |first=Nolan |date=July 3, 2007 |title=WSOP NEWS: Ghandrasekhar-Billavara-2007-WSOP---Event-49-1500-NLHE--Winner-Profile |url=https://www.wsop.com/news/2007/Jul/1420/Ghandrasekhar-Billavara-2007-WSOP---Event-49-1500-NLHE--Winner-Profile.html |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=WSOP.com}}

As of 2010, Billavara had tournament winnings of over $740,000.{{Cite web |title=Chandrasekhar Billavara's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=87365 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} His three cashes at the WSOP accounted for $734,607 of those winnings.{{Cite web |title=Chandrasekhar Billavara |url=https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=33934 |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=WSOP.com}}