Brian Hastings Lives the Dream, Reflects His Special Day

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: $tinger88, Brian Hastings, Brian Townsend, Cole South, Player to watch, Poker, Uncategorized
• Date: Dec 10,2009

Brian Hastings, a member of Cardrunners and the Full Tilt pro team, is humble and grateful after winning the record amount of money in one day. He acknowledges that for the accomplishment he needed not only skill, but also huge amounts of luck.

In his latest blog post Hastings tells the story of his poker career from the very beginning. It all started in the spring 2005 when Hastings was a 16 year-old high school junior and had played poker only in home games with his friends. Then he found out that his math teacher was playing online poker and he started to chat about poker with him.

Hastings wanted to try online poker too and created an account and started to play with play money. After a couple of weeks he deposited $50 and started to play with real money. Hastings spent next summer playing poker and dedicated the time in improving his game.

As one of the original members of Cardrunners, Hastings acknowledges that CR and 2+2 had a large impact on his game. He spent hours after hours reading and discussing strategy posts. Improving his game and a learning process has always been the exciting part of the poker for Hastings.

After he felt that he had learned all about NLH, Hastings started to play PLO, but found out that the transition wasn’t an easy one. He would normally win in NLH and lose most of his winnings at PLO tables. Afterwards he feels that he started to play PLO way too high and should’ve started by playing smaller games.

Hastings is fortunate that he has such a good friends like Brian Townsend, Cole South and Taylor Caby. He also gives credit for Isildur1, who he thinks is “an excellent player in his own right”. Even though it is two adults gambling with their money and knowing the risks, Hastings does feel bad for the Swede. Hastings knows what the downswing feels like after losing $1.4 million last year, taking 100% of his own action.

The whole post is very long and here is just main points of it, but the way how he talks about things shows how humble man Brian Hastings is even after winning a staggering amount of money in just one day. The blog can be found here.