After a back and forth battle heads up, it was real-estate agent Anthony Koutsos besting Charbel Kanterjian heads up in the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em for his first World Series of Poker Bracelet and $167,272.
The heads-up match lasted three hours long and involved quite a lot of back and forth between the two players. “I feel strangely level,” said Koutsos. “Heads up felt pretty fun, all the back and forth it felt like a home game.”
With Koutsos biggest live score prior being just over $5,000, the San Francisco native said “the money doesn’t mean much, it was more about the competition and the drive to win.