Haralabos Voulgaris

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Haralabos Voulgaris
  Personal information  
Date of birth April 7th 1975
place of birth CanadaCanada Winnipeg
Nickname bob
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,158,883
Total prize money $ 3,091,797
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 2
Best main event no cash
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 11
Last updated: January 4, 2020

Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris (born April 7, 1975 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian - Greek poker player and professional sports bettor .

Career

Voulgaris finished second behind Michael Mizrachi at the LA Poker Classics 2005 in Los Angeles . When Roy Winston won the Borgata Poker Open in the fall of 2007 , Voulgaris was third. At the World Poker Tour he has completed eleven main events for the money so far . At the 2017 WSOP , Voulgaris finished fourth in the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111 for his highest cash prize of over $ 1.1 million.

In total, Voulgaris has won over $ 3 million in live poker tournaments despite seeing himself as a cash game specialist. He made a weekly radio show for pokerroad.com . Voulgaris also took part in the fourth season of High Stakes Poker .

Voulgaris also bets professionally on NBA basketball games. In this context, he is a regular guest on the podcast of the successful American sports columnist Bill Simmons .

Voulgaris joined the Dallas Mavericks in October 2018 as director of quantitative research and development.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Betting It All On Basketball: A Gambler's Grind In The NBA. In: Business Insider. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  3. ^ What Voulgaris' New Job Says About Sports Betting And The NBA . In: USBets . October 9, 2018 ( usbets.com [accessed October 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Voulgaris, Haralabos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voulgaris, Bob (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Greek poker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 7th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada