The Players Championship started out with a field of 128 players and after four days of play in a mixed game format known as 8-Game, the format was switch to No-Limit Texas Hold'em on the fifth day, when the final table of eight was set with following noted poker professionals and where they finished: Ben Lamb (eighth), Scott Seiver (seventh), PokerStars Pro and SuperNova Elite George Lind (sixth), Matt Glantz (fifth), Owais Ahmed (fourth) and Minh Ly (third). Rast's second was in the $50,000 Players Championship, the second highest buy-in event, that awards third highest prize money of $1,720,328 also awarded is the David 'Chip' Reese memorial trophy and what was described by Andrew Feldman of ESPN as 'the most prestigious bracelet of the Series'.

His first was in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event, where he earned $227,232 after he defeated poker professional Allen Kessler heads-up, Rast has six World Series of Poker bracelets, two of which he won at the 2011 World Series of Poker. He was one of the pros from the online poker training site Poker VT as well as RunItOnce. Rast also produced some training videos online.

Despite the small volume, Rast has some impressive online tournament results, which include finishing third in Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS III Main Event in 2007 for $114,203.50., finishing third in PokerStars Sunday Million in 2008 for $73,490 and finishing third in a $2,100 NLHE SCOOP in 2016 for $155,600. He has very limited tournament results, playing a small volume in 2007 and again in 2016, and barely any in between. Rast was primarily a cash game player online and played very few poker tournaments. In the online poker world, Rast is known as tsarrast on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. In 2011, Rast married his wife, Juliana Karla Carlos da Silva. He attended Stanford University before dropping out in order to pursue a career as a full-time poker professional in 2004. Rast was born in Denver, Colorado but raised in Poway, California, where he graduated as valedictorian from Poway High School in 2000.

Information accurate as of 25 January 2020.īrian Rast (born November 8, 1981) is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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