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Brian Hastings Says Depression Led to Mistakes; Happiness to Bracelets

Brian Hastings absolutely crushed the 2015 World Series of Poker.

Yes, he had won a WSOP bracelet before, taking down the prestigous $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em event in 2012. But the kid from Pennsylvania who rose to the highest stakes in the history of the game online, helped put training site CardRunners on the map, and once chopped enigmatic online poker phenom Viktor "Islidur1" Blom down to size over a two-session heads-up match that left the Swede close to $6 million lighter and the poker world buzzing, had the kind of summer most players can only dream of.