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24-504: The first edition of the event was held in July 2015 and featured a $ 500,000 buy-in, drawing a field of 43 players. Brian Rast won the inaugural tournament, earning $ 7,525,000. For its second year, the tournament was moved to May and the buy-in was lowered to $ 300,000. Entries increased to 49 and Rainer Kempe captured the first prize of $ 5,000,000. The third year would attract 56 entrants as Christoph Vogelsang defeated Jake Schindler to win

48-539: A $ 50 deposit on Ultimate Bet . In 2007, he cashed in his first tournament at the WPT Championship Event finishing runner-up to Ryan Daut for $ 861,789. In September 2018, Haxton won Event #4: $ 10,000 Short Deck at the 2018 Poker Masters for $ 176,000. In December 2018, Haxton won Super High Roller Bowl V for $ 3,672,000. In January 2023, Haxton won the 2023 PokerGO Cup $ 50,000 No-Limit Hold'em finale for $ 598,000. The next week, Haxton won

72-430: A career as a full-time poker professional in 2004. In 2011, Rast married his wife, Juliana Karla Carlos da Silva. In the online poker world, Rast is known as tsarrast on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars . Rast was primarily a cash game player online and played very few poker tournaments. He has very limited tournament results, playing a small volume in 2007 and again in 2016, and barely any in between. Despite

96-745: A prize pool of $ 3,800,000 that paid the final seven players. Jared Bleznick defeated Isaac Haxton heads-up to win the $ 1,292,000 first-place prize. Footage from the tournaments including live streams and episodes can be found on PokerGO . Brian Rast Brian Rast (born November 8, 1981) is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada . Rast was born in Denver, Colorado but raised in Poway, California , where he graduated as valedictorian from Poway High School in 2000. He attended Stanford University before dropping out in order to pursue

120-481: A prize pool of $ 7,200,000. Daniel Negreanu defeated Nick Petrangelo heads-up to win the $ 3,312,000 first-place prize; the second largest win of his career and second biggest lifetime tournament score. Super High Roller Bowl VIII was held from inside the PokerGO Studio from September 28-30, 2023. The 20-player field created a prize pool of $ 6,000,000, and Isaac Haxton defeated Andrew Lichtenberger to win

144-483: A row (2011 - 2017). Isaac Haxton Isaac Haxton (born September 6, 1985) is an American professional poker player, amateur chess player, and a youth chess champion. Haxton was raised in Syracuse, New York. His mother is a psychiatrist and his father is an English professor who introduced Isaac to games of skill at an early age. He played chess at the age of four and Magic: The Gathering by

168-514: The 2011 World Series of Poker . 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'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

192-548: The 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $ 100,000 PCA Super High Roller for $ 1,082,230. He won a second $ 100,000 buy in event at the PCA less than two weeks later for over 1,500,000. In June 2023, Haxton won his first bracelet at the 2023 World Series of Poker $ 25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed event for $ 1,698,215 . In September of that year, Haxton won The Super High Roller Bowl, defeating Andrew Lichtenberger heads up and earning over $ 2.7 million. In 2023, Haxton had

216-652: The $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry for $ 137,632 and sixth place in the $ 1,000,000 Big One for One Drop for $ 1,621,333. Brian won his second Poker Players Championship bracelet at the 2016 World Series of Poker , beating Justin Bonomo heads up and winning $ 1,296,097. At the 2018 World Series of Poker , Rast won his fourth bracelet, and $ 259,670, in the $ 10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship event. Ten-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson , four-time bracelet winner John Hennigan , and two-time bracelet winner Mike Wattel, whom Rast defeated in heads-up play, were among

240-494: The $ 2,760,000 first-place prize. This was Haxton's second Super High Roller Bowl win, and the second-largest score of his poker career. For the first time in Super High Roller Bowl history, a Pot-Limit Omaha event was announced to take place from October 16-18, 2023. The buy-in of $ 100,000 was the biggest Pot-Limit Omaha tournament buy-in in the world at the time, and it attracted a 38-entrant field and created

264-609: The $ 3,402,000 first-place prize. The Super High Roller Bowl returned to the Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus in April 2022 with a 32-entrant field creating a prize pool of $ 8,000,000. Jake Schindler defeated Paul Phua heads-up to win the $ 3,200,000 first-place prize. Super High Roller Bowl VII was held from inside the PokerGO Studio from October 5-7, 2022, with the 24 player field creating

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288-689: The $ 6,000,000 first-place prize, and ensure back-to-back titles for Germany. There would be three Super High Roller Bowls held during 2018, and in March, the first international stop of the series would take in place at the Babylon Casino in Macau, China . Justin Bonomo defeated Patrik Antonius and the 75-entrant field to win the HK$ 37,830,000 (~$ 4,823,077) first-place prize. In May, 48-entrants would play Super High Roller Bowl 2018, and Bonomo would become

312-574: The 12-entrant field to win the £2,100,000 (~$ 2,610,317) first-place prize. In November, Baha Mar Casino in The Bahamas hosted Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas, and attracted 51 entrants. Daniel Dvoress defeated Wai Leong Chan to win the $ 4,080,000 first-place prize. In February 2020, The Star Gold Coast hosted 16 entrants for Super High Roller Bowl Australia as Timothy Adams captured the AU$ 2,150,000 (~$ 1,446,112) first-place prize. Adams would become

336-636: The 50-entrant field to win the $ 1,775,000 first-place prize. The Super High Roller Bowl made its debut at the Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus in August 2021. The buy-in was $ 250,000 and it attracted 41 entrants as Wiktor Malinowski defeated Ivan Leow heads-up to win the $ 3,690,000 first-place prize. In September, Super High Roller Bowl VI was held inside the PokerGO Studio and attracted 21 players as Michael Addamo denied Justin Bonomo his fourth Super High Roller Bowl title to collect

360-680: The Bellagio by defeating Erik Seidel heads up for the title, taking home a prize of $ 1,083,500. During the 2015 WSOP, Brian Rast won the 1st inaugural Super High Roller Bowl played at the Aria casino in Las Vegas, taking home over 7.5 million dollars, besting Scott Seiver heads-up, and a 43 player field in total. It stands as his largest single tournament win. As of 2024, his total live tournament earnings exceed $ 25,400,000. He has now also cashed for over $ 1 million in tournaments for seven years in

384-579: The Series". 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). When heads-up play began, Rast

408-476: The WSOP include a ninth-place finish in the 2008 World Series of Poker $ 5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event for $ 84,863, 14th at the 2009 World Series of Poker in the $ 40,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for $ 128,665, and at the 2010 World Series of Poker he finished in the money, coming in 537th place out of 7,319 players for $ 24,079. At the 2012 World Series of Poker , Rast made two final tables: sixth place in

432-648: The age of ten. After high school Haxton attended Brown University as a computer science major, but later spent more time playing poker than studying. He returned to Brown and completed a degree in Philosophy . After turning 18, Haxton transitioned from competitive Magic: The Gathering to playing poker at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York starting at $ 3/$ 6 limit before slowly moving up in stakes. He transitioned to online poker with

456-669: The first back-to-back champion when he defeated Daniel Negreanu heads-up to win the $ 5 million first-place prize. The fifth installment of the Super High Roller Bowl would take place in December as Isaac Haxton topped the 36-entrant field, and Alex Foxen heads-up, to win the $ 3,672,000 first-place prize. The Super High Roller Bowl expanded to four new countries beginning in 2019 with the Aspers Casino in Stratford, England hosting Super High Roller Bowl London. Cary Katz topped

480-491: The most live tournament earnings of any poker player, earning more than $ 16 million throughout 2023. As of May 2024, Haxton has cashed for more than $ 48,000,000 in live poker tournaments. Haxton is considered one of the top online cash game specialists and plays under the aliases, Ike Haxton , luvtheWNBA , and philivey2694 where he has earned over $ 2,000,000. Although successful in tournament play, he prefers online cash games and considers it to be his specialty. Haxton

504-730: The players at the final table. In the 2021 WSOP, he won the $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed event for $ 474,102 for his fifth bracelet. In the 2023 WSOP, he won the $ 50,000 Poker Player's Championship for $ 1,324,747. He was inducted to the Poker Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2023. From 2010-2014, Rast made regular trips to Macau to play cash games. In December 2013, Brian won the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic $ 100,000 High Roller at

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528-423: The second player to win back-to-back Super High Roller Bowl titles when in March 2020 he won Super High Roller Bowl Russia for $ 3,600,000 after defeating Vogelsang heads-up to top the 40-entrant field. In June 2020, the first online Super High Roller Bowl would be held on partypoker and be a $ 102,000 buy-in. Justin Bonomo won his third Super High Roller Bowl title after he defeated Michael Addamo heads-up, and topped

552-756: 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. Rast also produced some training videos online. He was one of the pros from the online poker training site Poker VT as well as RunItOnce. Rast made his first WSOP cash in 2005. Rast has six World Series of Poker bracelets , two of which he won at

576-447: Was up against 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth , who was trying to capture his 12th bracelet in his third heads-up match of the 2011 series. As the match progressed, Hellmuth established a 5-1 chip lead on Rast; however, Rast gained the lead after a series of draws that failed to improve Hellmuth's hands. Rast captured the bracelet when Hellmuth's flush draw failed to improve against Rast's King high straight. Rast's other results at

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