Brian Hastings

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Brian Hastings
Brian Hastings (2020)
Brian Hastings (2020)
  Personal information  
Date of birth June 24, 1988
place of birth United StatesUnited States Hanover
Nicknames
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$ tinger 88PokerStars

NoelHayesPokerStars

LucLongleyFull Tilt Poker

Brian HastingsFull Tilt Poker
place of residence United StatesUnited States Fort Lauderdale
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.371,498 $
Total prize money $ 3,838,493
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 4th
Cashes 41
Best main event 49th ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 5
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 2
Last updated: January 24, 2020

Brian Hastings (born June 24, 1988 in Hanover , Pennsylvania ) is a professional American poker player and entrepreneur . He is four-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

childhood and education

Hastings comes from Ithaca and was born in Hanover in 1988 as the son of two teachers . He graduated from Cornell University and received his Masters in Economics . He later worked for the Little Caesars pizza chain . Hastings has been married since December 2018 and lives in Fort Lauderdale .

Poker career

Career

Hastings learned poker from one of his high school teachers. He started playing online poker at the age of 16 . Hastings sometimes illegally used multiple accounts and played under the nicknames $ tinger 88 and NoelHayes on PokerStars and LucLongley and Brian Hastings on Full Tilt Poker . In December 2009, Hastings won more than four million US dollars in a cash game session against the Swede Viktor Blom on Full Tilt Poker .

Hastings earned his first major live tournament win in August 2011 at a regional World Poker Tour (WPT) event in Hollywood , Florida . He won the tournament and received more than $ 200,000 in prize money. At the beginning of June 2012, Hastings won the Heads-Up Championship of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and received a bracelet and a prize of around 370,000 dollars. At the 2014 WSOP , he cashed in the main event for the first time , finishing 64th for more than $ 100,000. A year later, Hastings won two tournaments of the 2015 WSOP within eight days and received two more bracelets and almost $ 400,000 in prize money. He then reached eleventh place in the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111 and also came in 49th in the main event . In total, Hastings cashed eight times at the 2015 WSOP and earned nearly $ 900,000. With these achievements, he narrowly missed the award as Player of the Year and ended up in second place behind Mike Gorodinsky . In late November 2016, Hastings announced that it would end its professional poker career. Nevertheless, he was still occasionally to be seen at poker tournaments and achieved u. a. a cash placement at the 2017 WSOP . In mid-April 2018, Hastings finished third at the WPT Main Event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood for around $ 335,000 in prize money. At the 2018 WSOP , he won a tournament in the mixed variant HORSE and secured his fourth bracelet and a prize of over 230,000 dollars. The following year, he finished in the Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship of the World Series of Poker in 2019 to second place and received just under $ 300,000.

In total, Hastings has made more than $ 3.5 million in poker playing live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Hastings cashed 41 times at the WSOP and won four bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2012 10,000 Heads-Up Championship 152 371,498
2015 10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship 091 239,518
0.1500 Ten-game mix 380 133,403
2018 0.3000 HORSE 354 233.202

Entrepreneur

Hastings is the founder of UniTea , a tea company .

Web links

Commons : Brian Hastings  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Брайан Хастингс (Brian Hastings) on propokerpro.org, accessed November 17, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b Brian Hastings in the Global Poker Index database, accessed on November 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ The guy who won $ 4 million playing online poker? He's a Cornell senior - and yes, he's majoring in economics at cornellalumnimagazine.com on July 8, 2010, accessed on November 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Brian Hastings in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Tweet of December 2, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Poker Gossip: Haxton reports on the Hastings scandal on pokerfirma.com on August 17, 2015, accessed on January 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ $ tinger 88 on Pokerstars at highstakesdb.com, accessed January 5, 2019.
  8. ↑ NoelHayes on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed January 5, 2019.
  9. ↑ LucLongley on Full Tilt Poker at highstakesdb.com, accessed January 5, 2019.
  10. ↑ Brian Hastings on Full Tilt Poker at highstakesdb.com, accessed January 5, 2019.
  11. ↑ Brian Hastings on his 4M win: “Isildur1 I'm sorry” ( November 17th 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ) on pokerolymp.com December 11th, 2009, accessed on November 17th, 2015.
  12. ↑ Summer Splash - WPT Regional Event ($ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em Championship - WPT Regional) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  13. ↑ 43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  14. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  15. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship (Event # 27)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  16. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 1,500 Ten Game Mix Six Handed (Event # 39)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  17. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One-Drop (Event # 58)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  18. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  19. ↑ a b Brian Hastings in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  20. ↑ 2015 WSOP Player of the Year in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 17, 2015.
  21. ↑ a b Brian Hastings ends poker career and becomes a tea dealer on hochgepokert.com on November 28, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2016.
  22. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 66)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 19, 2018.
  23. ↑ 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 3,500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Showdown Championship (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 19, 2018.
  24. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 3,000 HORSE (Event # 76)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 15, 2018.
  25. ↑ 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha - Hi-Lo 8 or Better 8-Handed Championship (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hastings, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES $ tinger 88 (nickname); NoelHayes (nickname); LucLongley (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Pennsylvania , United States