High-stakes pro Brian Rast is a well known figure of the poker industry. He is one of the biggest winners both Holdem and Omaha games.
He was born in Denver, Colorado but move to Poway, California soon. Inspired by the movie Rounders Rast turned to poker in the college amd left his school in 2003 to put all his efforst to the poker career. Although he has considerable tournament winnings, he prefers cash game with top buy-ins.
Significant milestone in his tournament carreer was the 7th finish at WPT 2009 earning $204,275 and has good record in online tournaments as well.

He was the first pro to sit down to the high-stakes tables in Macau and by rumours his activity was the reason why pros were declared undesirable persons for a while.