Upeshka De Silva

Upeshka De Silva, born in 1988 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan-American professional poker player from Katy, Texas, who is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and made the final table of the 2020 WSOP Main Event. His family moved to Katy when he was two, and he graduated from the University of Houston with degrees in history and political science. He played small home games with school friends, became hooked on poker after the Moneymaker phenomenon and Doyle Brunson's Super/System 2, and began playing private cash games in Texas in 2012. He made his first WSOP final table in 2013, won his first bracelet in 2015 in a 1,500 dollar No Limit Hold'em event with a field of 1,655 for 424,577 dollars, and also finished 36th in the 2015 Main Event. His second bracelet came in a 3,000 dollar No Limit Hold'em Shootout event in 2017, followed by a third in an online event.