The Poker Lab Rat

Poker unknown Steve Billirakis wins World Series of Poker Event #1, earning $536,287, and of course a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Billirakis is just 21 years and 10 days old, which means that he becomes the youngest player in history to win a WSOP bracelet after taking out the $5,000 “mixed holdem” event.

This is the fourth straight year that the age record record has been broken at the WSOP - but given that you have to be at least 21 years old to play poker in Vegas it will be much tougher to beat it next year.

Billirakis went into the heads-up with Greg Mueller roughly at just over 2 milion chips each - and then played out 64 hands before winning with a pair of deuces on hand #157 of the day.

You can catch an interview with Steve Billirakis here - taken soon after he’s won the bracelet - but he’s pretty much like every other unknown poker player - and has nothing much to say.

Well done anyway Steve.