Inside Mark 'Weazel_1991' Rubbathan's storybook run at the Triton Super High Roller Series

Professional poker player Mark “Weazel_1991” Rubbathan likes to create challenges for himself. He once spent seven months turning $1,000 into $10,000 at the low-stakes online poker tables, streaming the entire process on his Twitch channel. Later, he tried to grow a $500 initial poker bankroll into $25,000. His biggest challenge to date was his most ambitious: turning $0 into $686,000.  Rubbathan fell into that opportunity by winning a series of challenges on poker site America’s Cardroom. He received a prize of $100,000 worth of tournament buy-ins at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Hoi An, Vietnam, where he would have a chance to run that figure up.  Rubbathan mostly plays no-limit hold’em cash games online with a $200 buy-in. He will dabble in pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better games when he finds an opponent foolish enough to take him on. A typical month has him earning a few thousand dollars. In Vietnam, he’d be competing against the best tournament specialists in the world for six or seven figures.  “Come on, how can you not be f–ing nervous,” he said on his YouTube channel prior to departing for the series.  Rubbathan did have one advantage that the other pros did not: a
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