High-stakes poker player Brian Rast has joined the fast list of gamblers who've completed the Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles bike ride in under 48 hours.
Rast, who followed Dan Bilzerian’s nearly $1 million ride, successfully completed the roughly 300-mile ride on Thursday, with only one hour to spare. Rast received $600,000 in total from Bilzerian and fellow high-stakes gambler Bill Perkins for winning the bet. The latter two gave Rast 6:1 odds because Rast had lower than per week to train.
“If that was any further difficult, I don’t think I MAY have completed the task,” Rast said on social media. “I pushed myself to absolutely the limit.” He added a thanks to “all the folks that supported me during my ride.”
“I will probably post more about my experience yet again. Now I ATTEMPT TO return to sleep,” he wrote early Thursday.
His feat after all caught the eye of many within the poker community. “What he accomplished trumps what another player has done physically,” said Antonio Esfandiari. Rast is “a legend in my eyes and this accomplishment will go down in history as one of the most greatest.”
Unlike Bilzerian, Rast was explicitly prohibited from drafting behind a vehicle.
Card Player had the risk to talk to Rast on Monday just hours before he hit the road.
Brian Pempus: How did making a decision to try this bet?
Brian Rast: Dan came to visit to my house simply to hang around and feature some BBQ. Dan was really looking to push this bet. There’s slightly more to the back-story than that, but basically I WANTED of venture where I MAY choose the route…[a previous] bet was going to be down the Pacific Coast Highway in California with the wind at my back. I USED TO BE going so as to use recumbent bikes and everything. I FEEL Dan’s motivation was that this bet was going to vindicate him somehow [from the former bet he bought out of], that this was going to be tougher. I MAY have maybe done a greater job with probably the most stipulations. I wish I'LL use a recumbent bike. It’s hard when where you might be getting 6:1 to argue an excessive amount of for stipulations. As of right now, there's a lot of wind in a nasty direction for me.
BP: Did the truth that Dan was capable of complete his Las Vegas-to-LA ride in about 33 hours come up with confidence which you could do that inside the 48?
BR: I definitely think that it’s possible. It’s going to be really tough. I'M GOING a rather longer route than Dan because I WOULD LIKE to spend as little time at the highway as possible for safety reasons. I CAN have rather less of a climb than him, but it’s going to be about 30 more miles. I WILL BE ABLE TO actually have a leaner crew than him. I'M REALLY NOT going to have a health care provider and a masseuse. I WILL have some friends and family and one bike person. I also didn’t get to coach for 5 weeks [laughs]. I'VE basically trained for 3 days. That is going to be really tough. I BELIEVE in Dan’s bet it was pretty clear he was going to win it unless he got in an accident. Dan was a large favorite, but I don’t think any people really have an concept if I WILL BE ABLE TO do what I'M about to do. I'M optimist, but Dan’s [bike] coach said that he didn’t think I MAY do it, for the reason that I'M probably going to be facing a headwind and i've no training. But that may be one man’s opinion. This isn’t an even-money bet, though, so it’s not imagined to be easy.
BR: Yeah, that is. It’s going to be very interesting. We're going to be leaving later today. It’s a kind of things where you must put your head down and trust to your team. I HAVE TO stay consistent and switch out miles, eat regularly and hydrate. There are going to be times when I’m in numerous pain. I never used a road bike until like every week ago.
BP: What must happen so that you can call it quits through the ride?
BR: I ASSUME I'D need to get to some extent where it’s mathematically impossible to complete. Like if I had 100 miles to head and that i had four hours left. One of the most last part has a good amount of downhill though. If I got some roughly injury from a crash where there has been an excessive amount of biking left to continue. There may well be an overuse or strain injury. I realize that that is going to be painful, so I DO KNOW I'LL suffer for 48 hours. That is a type of moments where you will discover what you're product of. It would be possible that physically I can’t do this.
BP: Did your commitment to fitness years ago provde the needed confidence to conform to this though?
BR: Yeah, if I had a lower level of fitness I don’t think I MIGHT have even entertained this. So, it helps that I THINK like I'M fit. This bet isn’t just aerobically taxing, like my heart rate goes to be 140 the entire time. You’d need to be a world-class athlete to do this. If I AM GOING 10 mph, which isn’t that fast, I MAY do that in 32 hours. Then I'D have 16 hours for breaks. When you consider averaging 10 mph is doable. MOST OF THE ride I WILL BE ABLE TO be keeping my heart rate at like 115. I’ve never done anything with reference to this though, so I FEEL that’s why the cost is what it is.
BP: Did you concentrate on this bet, given its proximity to the beginning of the arena Series of Poker, with the intention to basically freeroll the summer?
BR: I definitely am not eager about it in relation to future poker play, more like $600,000 is lots of cash (laughs). I MIGHT be more than happy if I won $600,000. I TRULY haven’t had a fair year up to now in cash games, so if I win this bet I just about get even for the year. That’s something a good way to be refreshing going into the arena Series, but I'M REALLY NOT fascinated by it relating to future buy-ins. I don’t really call to mind it in that sense.
BP: In relation to pushing the envelope on sleep, do you think that your history playing marathon cash game sessions may be useful at the ride in case you are forced to ride in the course of the night?
BR: Yeah, that may be something I'VE considered. I’ve done multiple 40+ hour sessions in my life. Then again, poker could be very sedentary. There are things which are different, but I HOPE my experience with sleep depravation will help, especially focusing while sleep deprived. Last summer I played over 100 hours of poker each week through the WSOP. Some of the big things isn't falling off the bike when tired. Falling off the bike is the worst thing that may happen.
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