In case you’ve been living under a rock, Brain Hastings recently took down Isildur1 for the tune of about $4 million in a single session which could quite possibly be the largest single win in a cash game in online poker history. Rather than crowing about his good fortunes Brian writes an extremely classy, humble, and motivational blog post about how he got to where he is today and what it took for him to have such an amazing run at Isildur1.
Although we are adults gambling with our money and know the risks, I do feel bad for Isildur to a point. Last year I had a 1.4m downswing at 500/1k taking 100% of my action (unbelievably stupid), so I’ve been there. He’s a talented player and I hope he rebounds and I think he will. Maybe this blog entry will even help him. I hope it helps someone, because it’s taken an awful long time to write and I’m supposed to be studying for finals right now…
Go give the post a read. If you’re struggling as a player or even if you want to see how a class act conducts himself give Brian’s blog a read.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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awesome link. We should all be as much of a class act as this guy. I wonder if the tone would be different if he was on the losing side of that 4 mil, or even if he had only won about 600k instead of the whole roll.
either way he makes excellent points and should be commended for his actions. Thanks for doing so!