Super High Roller Bowl 2015 - Meet the players, Part 2

Today we continue the introductions of the players of the 2015 Super High Roller Bowl. In todays article we will give a little background information about Bobby Baldwin, Brandon Steven, Brian Rast, Bryn Kenney and Byron Kaverman.

Bobby Baldwin: Perhaps the easiest way to describe what kind of a poker legend Bobby Baldwin is to point out how the Bellagio's famous high stakes cash game room, "Bobby's Room" is named after him. Baldwin is both a successful player with over $2.3 million in live tournament earnings and a WSOP Main Event title from 1978, as well as a legendary casino executive who has worked for casinos such as the Golden Nugget, the MGM Mirage and the Bellagio. Baldwin is the author of several poker books and wrote a section of Doyle Brunson's Super/System.

Brandon Steven: Brandon Steven is a businessman first and poker player second, he and his brothers own five car dealerships, they co-own Genesis Health Clubs and also own two Central Hockey League teams. He has an impressive poker resumé aswell with more than $1.9 million in winnings and several deep runs in big events. He bubbled the final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event for which he received $635,000, he finished in fifth place at the $111,111 One Drop High Roller for $621,000 and missed out on the final table of the Big One for One Drop after losing a huge pot with Kings against Sam Trickett's Jacks.

Brian Rast: Brian Rast is a Stanford University dropout who started playing poker after watching the legendary poker movie Rounders. Rast has found success in pretty much all formats of poker, he has over $417,000 in online tournament winnings (3rd in Sunday Million for $73,490, 3rd in Full Tilt FTOPS III Main Event for $114,000) and used to be a successful high stakes online cash game player. Nowadays Rast mainly focuses on live poker, he has accumulated more than $8,000,000 in live tournament earnings, including a win at the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $1.7 million (defeating Phil Hellmuth in heads-up play), a 6th place finish in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop for $1.6 million and a win in the $100,000 WPT World Poker Classic High Roller for $1 million. Rast was also one of the first players to discover the high stakes games in Macau, and he learned Mandarin just so he can talk more with the local players at the table, because the billionaires in the highest stakes games only play with pros who bring both action and a good company to the table. 

Bryn Kenney:  Bryn Kenney has total live tournament earnings of $5.6 million and cashes dating back to 2007, he has been a regular on the live and online circuit for many years. His biggest live score is a third place finish at this years PCA $100,000 Super High Roller for $873,000 and he has accumulated 14 other six-figure scores. Online, Kenney has profits of almost $1.1 million, his biggest score was a second place finish in a $2,100 WCOOP event for $350,000 but he also has a Super Tuesday title ($88,000), and a SCOOP win ($2,100 No Limit Hold'em Zoom for $159,000). Kenney is no stranger to huge swings, he has built a bankroll of $3.5 million from $50,000 just to lose it all in six months.

Byron Kaverman: Kaverman has slowly but steadily established himself as one of the most consistent players, he cashed 7 times at the World Poker Tour in 2014, setting a new record. He has total live tournament winnings of more than $3.6 million, and is a regular at the various high roller events, recently he won two $25,000 High Rollers in two days at the Aria Casino. Byron had a soccer scholarship at Tiffin University but decided to turn pro after winning a $5,000 side event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $320,000. He is still a soccer enthusiast though, he is the founder of a summer indoor soccer team for poker players in Las Vegas.