Inaugural Super High Roller Bowl Champ Brian Rast Hopes to Capture The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™
This future Poker Hall of Famer is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, two of which have come in the prestigious $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Not only that, in 2015, Brian Rast won the inaugural Super High Roller Bowl, which at the time boasted a $500,000 buy-in, for $7,525,000.
All told he has $20,708,726 in tournament earning, which puts him first on California’s money list, and 10th on the current all-time poker money list. Of course, that doesn’t take into account the untold millions he’s won playing high-stakes cash games.
Other highlights on Rast’s résumé include finishing sixth in the inaugural Big One for One Drop for $1,621,333, winning the 2013 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,083,500, and fifth in the 2015 Aussie Millions Main Event for $248,893. He’s also won half a dozen Aria High Rollers in the past few years.
Interestingly, in the 2011 WSOP Poker Players’ Championship, Rast beat Phil Hellmuth heads-up for the title. The “Poker Brat” talked a little about it on the PokerGo live stream on Day 1 (mainly how it’s haunted him), and in a little twist of fate, it was Rast who eliminated Hellmuth on Day 2 of the Poker Masters.
Rast failed to cash in any of the Poker Masters prelims, meaning he’ll need a win and some luck to claim The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™.
For more on Rast, be sure to check out our PokerNews feature “Life in the Rast Lane.”