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my name is Brian rast I'm a poker player living in Las Vegas Nevada and in the 2011 World Series of Poker I won two
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bracelets I mean I got into poker when I was in college and you know I didn't really have any money and I started
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playing with like the little money that I did have and I kind of like built it up I eventually dropped out of school
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cuz I had enough money and I decided this is what I want to do with my life I chose poker for freedom but I didn't
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want to work for anyone I didn't want a 9 to5 I wanted I didn't want to have a boss I wanted to
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just do what I wanted there's definitely kind of a Mystique about it and you know
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for every person that maybe has my story there's countless of people that it like
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doesn't work out that well for them winning and losing in a lot of things in life and gambling with money something
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that people care about like gives people a rush some people just want to feel something the the TV tournament poker
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just looks like this seductive easy way to win a lot of money that's why people play the lottery that's why people you
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know do a lot of things in life everyone would like to win a million dollars easily that's why people put a dollar in
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a slot machine you know and so poker's like some people slot machine but a little bit more fun cuz you have to
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think poker players like small businesses it's like over 90% fail in the first 5 years that's just the way
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things are it's a difficult game it's hard to become good enough to have Edge and win the truth is if that you're not
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careful you lose all your money and if you don't have money you can't play poker you need money to make money in
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poker there's poker players that have gone broken you know they like might try to borrow money and if they can't then
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they'll like go find something else to do with their life and that would kind of be the rational like hey I'm a normal
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person response to the situation but you know not everybody works like that poker
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players especially in Las Vegas are kind of like many celebrities or you know poker is something that's very
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popular in Las Vegas like most of the people know who poker players are a lot of the people work in casinos so they're
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kind of around and poker players are kind of people that come in some of them are successful they win you know a lot
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of money I mean you know if you're one of the better poker players at like say the Bellagio I mean you could make over
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100 or 200,000 a year and that's I mean that's a lot of money by almost anyone's
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standards