Newly Joined RankingHeroes: Brian Rast

Please welcome multiple bracelet winner, U.S. All-time Number 7 and worldwide Number One in 2015, @Brian Rast!

Career live earnings: $15,615,763 HeroScore: 681,267

Watch Brian Rast in action at the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship in WSOP 2011 when he won the title in heads-up against none other than @Phil Hellmuth:

"Getting heads up with Hellmuth was awesome. Just to contrast, I had won a bracelet that summer. It was off on some side table. Honestly, after I won, it wasn't like I celebrated. The money was nice, but it's not like it was a ton. It was pretty small for a bracelet tournament. It was great to have won my first bracelet, although I didn't really appreciate it as much at the time. That was likely because neither the final table experience nor the money felt special. Whereas the $50K was not only at the real final table, it was being televised on ESPN. It was the first time I'd been at a major final table that was going to be on TV with hole-card cameras — definitely more pressure. After I won, it was probably the only time in my career that resulted in pure unadulterated celebration. It was a totally different experience. Way better. That's the experience you're going for. To this day it's definitely my most memorable accomplishment in poker."

[source: Life in the Rast Lane: Brian Rast's Incredible Poker Journey, PokerNews]

Even without a deep run in the 2015 Main Event, Brian Rast certainly had a good summer, with 5 cashes in the 46th Annual World Series of Poker. But even more notably, a 1st place in a small (22 entries, $25,000 buy-in) qualifier tournament at the @ARIA Resort & Casino led to a 1st place in a somewhat bigger ;) (43 entries, $500,000 buy-in) event - the inaugural Super High Roller Bowl.