Brian Townsend

Brian Townsend
Personal information
Date of birth	May 15, 1982
place of birth	Dunsmuir
Nicknames 0 0	sbrugbyFull Tilt Poker aba20PokerStars Brian TownsendTeam Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	Santa Barbara
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 128,665
Total prize money	$ 461,996
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	4th
Best main event	170th ( 2014 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: January 7, 2020

Brian "sbrugby" Townsend (born May 15, 1982 in Dunsmuir , California ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Townsend briefly dated poker player and host Kara Scott in 2010 . He lives in Santa Barbara .

Poker career

Is Townsend for his cash game Three achievements in the variants No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha known. He played for the highest stakes on the online poker platform Full Tilt Poker under his nickname sbrugby . From March 2007 through early 2010, he was an officially sponsored Full Tilt Pro , playing under his own name.

Because Townsend went from the lowest limits of $ 0.50 / $ 1.00 blinds to the highest stakes played online for $ 200/400 and $ 300/600, Townsend has a lot of fans eager to emulate him.

Townsend took part in the third season of the television show High Stakes Poker . In the cash game format, he went to the table for 750,000 US dollars .

He is also the co-owner and instructor of CardRunners.com , an online site that aims to teach members how to play poker successfully through videos and reports. He also posts his blog there , where he talks about life as a high stakes poker pro.

During the 2007 World Series of Poker , Townsend played a heads-up cash game against Sam Farha in the Bobby's Room at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas . The blinds were $ 500/1000 and Townsend took Farha over $ 700,000 in three days after being down $ 1.2 million. On the third day, David Benyamine , Patrik Antonius , Bobby Baldwin and a few other poker players expanded the round to include Townsend and Farha. After 18 hours at the poker table Townsend was able to leave it richer by 1.885 million dollars. The following day he was able to book a profit of $ 600,000 against Benyamine and Johnny Chan . As in the previous days, half No Limit Hold'em and the other half Pot Limit Omaha were played. Townsend took in $ 2.15 million over four days, which is one of the biggest cash game wins from a single player over such a short period of time.

Web links

• Brian Townsend in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Brian Townsend in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Brian Townsend in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brian Townsend - Biography of a Professional Poker Player , gamblingsites.org, accessed January 3, 2019.