When I Was A Donk: With Brian Altmanby Julio Rodriguez | Published: Mar 27, 2019 |
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In this series, Card Player asks top pros to rewind back to their humble beginnings and provide insights regarding the mistakes, leaks, and deficiencies that they had to overcome in order to improve their games. Brian Altman is a Boston, Massachusetts poker pro who broke through in February in 2015 by winning the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $723,008. Since then, he’s gone on to make two more World Poker Tour final tables, and score numerous other titles along the way. Altman has wins at the Asia Championship of Poker, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, Foxwoods Poker Classic, Foxwoods Mega Stack Challenge, Ante Up Poker Tournament, and Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza. He also owns a World Series of Poker Circuit ring, having won the Montreal main event in 2016 for $201,411. Most recently, Altman added another $297,020 to his tournament resume by finishing sixth in ...
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