2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Anthansios Polychronopoulos

Athanasios Polychronopoulos on Friday took down Event #48 of the 2011 WSOP, 1,500 No Limit Hold’Em. This is the first bracelet for Polychronopoulos. He won $650,223 as well as the title bracelet. Polychronopoulos came out on top of a starting field of 2,713 players. Polychronopoulos beat out some very strong competition including Isaac Haxton, Jonathan Little, Kathy Liebert, and Oliver Busquet.

Anthansios Polychronoupolis - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em bracelet winner.

Polychronopoulos, 27, hails from Spring, NY. He was born in Southampton, NY to Greek parents who ran a restaurant. Polychronopoulos recalls that there were plenty of gamblers in his family.

Polychronopoulos began playing poker online. He plays online as Athanasios9 and has amassed $2,075,799 in online winnings. Polychronopoulos has had few scores in live events, as he was primarily an online grinder before Black Friday. However, his first WSOP series as a live pro turned out fantastic and he netted the largest cash of his life.

2,713 players entered on Day 1 and by the end of the day only 390 were left. Players who were advancing to Day 2 included Yevgeniy Timoshenko, JJ Liu, Jonathan Little. Polychronopoulos was going into Day 2 with 54,100 in chips.

Polychronopoulos finished up Day 2 with 492,000 in chips. He was one of just 30 players left vying for the bracelet. On Day 3 Polychronopoulos chipped up and had 900,000 chips when it got 8 handed.

With play 4 handed the chip counts were all pretty even. Polychronopoulos managed to win nice pot against Timoshenko to put him over 4.2 million in chips. The action was as follows: Polychronopoulos called on the button, Timoshenko completed from the small blind and Simon Charette checked in the big blind.

The flop came Jh-4d-2c. It was checked to Polychronopoulos who bet 100K. Timoshenko called and Charette folded. The turn was the 7d and Timoshenko check called 250K. The river was the Qh and Timoshenko check called 500K. Polychronopoulos turned over Qs-8h for top pair and Timoshenko mucked his hand.

Day 4 started with 4 players still in the running. Polychronopoulos (3,680,000), Yevgeniy Timoshenko (3,460,000), Peter Ippolito (2,835,000), Simon Charette (2,245,000). After Timoshenko and Ippolito were eliminated it was down to heads-up between Charette and Polychronopoulos. The heads-up chip counts were Polychronopoulos 6,400,000 and Charette 5,700,000.

Polychronopoulos managed to chip away at Charette until Charette was short stacked and forced to shove from the button holding 9d-2s. Polychronopoulos called holding Js-8d. The board ran out As-Jh-6d-Qd-9h and Polychronopoulos won the tournament.

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