June 14, 2018
Brian Rast won the WSOP $10,000 NO-LIMIT 2-7 SINGLE DRAW event, his fourth bracelet and over a quarter of a million Dollars in prize money. Rast graciously bowed to the star of the show despite winning the event, it being ten-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson’s swan song, a historical event in WSOP history. Brunson left the table in sixth place, […]
September 15, 2016
Land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson predictably ruffled a few feathers in the poker community last week when he claimed in a Yahoo interview that poker was not a game decided by skill and is therefore clearly gambling and exploitive (but not including his own land casino activities, apparently). US poker pro Brian Rast was among […]
August 11, 2016
Respected poker professionals Brian Rast, Maria Ho and Tom Marchese have agreed to represent the 24/7 poker television channel Poker Central and will play important roles in engaging with players, creating new tournaments, participating in live and promotional events and contributing editorial content. The trio joins a team that already includes Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu […]
July 7, 2016
US poker pro Brian Rast (34) has added another victory to his already glittering professional poker career, earning his third World Series of Poker bracelet and $1,296,097 main prize after taking down the prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship Eight Game Mixed event. In doing so he became only the second player to win the […]
July 6, 2015
The attention swerved again this weekend from the World Series of Poker at the Rio to the Aria, where US poker pro Brian Rast took down the spectacular first $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl. With 43 players registered, the event carried a massive $21.5 million prize pool, ensuring that most of the final table […]
December 13, 2013
Poker pro Dan Smith joined Brian Rast in racking up his third seven-figure win this week at the Bellagio in Vegas, playing in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond event. The US pro bested a star-studded final table that included Gary Benson, Eddy Sabat, Shaun Sulle, Barry Hutter and Joe Serock to start a heads […]
December 12, 2013
Top international poker pros were among the 22 players who ponied up $100,000 apiece to compete in the 2013 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic High Roller this week, generating a prize pool of $2,167,000. The entry list read like a who’s who of global poker and featured names like Antonio […]