Brian Rast

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Brian Rast
Brian Rast (2018)
Brian Rast (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 8, 1981
place of birth United StatesUnited States Denver
Nicknames
0
tsarrastPokerStars & Full Tilt Poker

kwistzhadrachUltimateBet
place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 7,525,000
Total prize money $ 21,562,431
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 4th
Cashes 35
Best main event 537th ( 2010 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 6th
Last updated: January 6, 2020

Brian Rast (born November 8, 1981 in Denver , Colorado ) is a professional American poker player .

Rast has earned more than US $ 21.5 million playing poker in live tournaments . He is four-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and won the July 2015 during Super High Roller Bowl . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Rast was named as one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Rast graduated from high school in Poway as the best in his class and later studied at Stanford University . In 2004 he made a trip to Europe and visited France , England , Italy , Spain and Cyprus as well as the Summer Olympics in Athens . Rast is married and has one son. He lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Rast saw in 2003 the movie Rounders by John Dahl , who inspired him to play poker. He bought a few books and started playing for real money in casinos and at the end of 2006 under the nickname tsarrast at the online poker rooms Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars . He also played as kwistzhadrach at UltimateBet . His online poker tournament revenue is just under $ 800,000 . After making more than $ 20,000 in one summer, Rast let his studies slip and focused on his poker career.

In July 2005 , Rast first took part in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and finished 79th in a tournament with a $ 1,000 buy-in. At the 2011 WSOP he won a tournament in the variant Pot Limit Hold'em and his first bracelet and a prize money of 227,000 US dollars. Less than a month later, he prevailed at the renowned Poker Player's Championship, securing his second bracelet and more than $ 1.7 million in prize money. In July 2012 , Rast played the World Series of Poker's Big One for One Drop , which requires a million dollar buy-in. He finished sixth out of 48 participants and received $ 1.6 million for it. In early July 2015, he took part in the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas with a buy-in of half a million dollars. He prevailed against 42 other players and thus secured a prize money of more than 7.5 million dollars. At the 2016 WSOP , Rast again won the Poker Player's Championship and received his third bracelet and the main prize of almost $ 1.3 million. Rast is a regular at poker tournaments at the Aria Resort & Casino , of which he has won six so far and with more than twelve million dollars secured the second-most prize money of all players after Jake Schindler . At the 2018 WSOP , Rast secured his fourth bracelet and a prize of around $ 260,000 by winning the No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship . His last live cash placement to date was in December 2018.

From April to December 2016 Rast played as part of the Berlin Bears in the Global Poker League and reached the final with his team.

Bracelet overview

Rast cashed 35 times at the WSOP and won four bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2011 0.1500 Pot Limit Hold'em 765 0.227.232
50,000 The Poker Player's Championship 128 1,720,328
2016 50,000 The Poker Player's Championship 091 1,296,097
2018 10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship 095 0.259,670

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2005 00.00.3290 -
2006 00.077,085 1
2007 00.101.230 -
2008 00.124,433 -
2009 00.332.940 -
2010 00.108.093 -
2011 01,955,613 2
2012 01,855,662 -
2013 01,244,403 1
2014 01,891,878 1
2015 08,618,663 3
2016 02,832,102 2
2017 01,563,334 3
2018 00.853.705 1
2019 00,000.000 -
2020 00,000.000 -
total 21,562,431 14th

Web links

Commons : Brian Rast  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Life in the Rast Lane: Brian Rast's Incredible Poker Journey on pokernews.com from March 24, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Brian Rast in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 18, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed August 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Brian Rast in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on August 25, 2015.
  5. ^ Brian Rast in the Global Poker Index database, accessed on August 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ tsarrast in the PocketFives database, accessed on January 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ 36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 50,000 The Poker Players Championship - 8 Game) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 25, 2015.
  10. ↑ 43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 ($ 1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop (Event # 55)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 25, 2015.
  11. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl 2015 ($ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed) (Event # 55)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ Aria Resort & Casino (Las Vegas) All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ Berlin Bears on the Global Poker League website, accessed on May 13, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Rest, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES tsarrast (nickname); kwistzhadrach (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado , United States