Brian Rast, born on 8 November 1981, is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in Denver, Colorado, was raised in Poway, California, graduated as valedictorian from Poway High School in 2000, and left Stanford University in 2004 to play poker full time. Online he played as tsarrast on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, mainly as a cash game player, and he also made training videos for poker instruction sites. He has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets. Two came at the 2011 series, including the 50,000 dollar Players Championship, where he beat eleven-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth heads-up, and he won a second Players Championship in 2016 by beating Justin Bonomo heads-up for about 1.3 million dollars.
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born November 8, 1981
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is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada
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is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Rast made his first WSOP cash in 2005.
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