Cary Katz

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Cary Katz
Cary Katz (2018)
Cary Katz (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth January 29, 1970
place of birth United StatesUnited States Atlanta
place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 2,610,317
Total prize money $ 28,481,460
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 38
Best main event 159th ( 2009 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 6th
Last updated: March 16, 2020

Cary Steven Katz (born January 29, 1970 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American entrepreneur and poker player .

Katz has earned nearly $ 28.5 million in poker in live tournaments . His biggest success so far was winning the Super High Roller Bowl London in September 2019.

education and profession

Katz graduated from the University of Georgia the Bachelor of Business Administration . In 1999 he founded the College Loan Corporation and served as CEO for 15 years. Under his leadership, the company was the seventh largest student loan company in the United States with a total of nearly 20 billion US dollars of loans disbursed. In October 2015, Katz founded the limited liability company Poker Central , which organizes poker tournaments and sells PokerGO, the leading live streaming portal for poker. He also appears as President of the St. Gabriel Catholic School and as Chairman of the non-profit organization Stop Child Predators . Katz is married and has a father of six. He lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Katz at the Alpha8 event of the World Poker Tour in Las Vegas (2015)

Katz learned poker from his grandmother. He has been participating in renowned live tournaments since 2004 , but almost exclusively plays high roller events, i.e. tournaments with buy-ins of at least 10,000 US dollars .

At the end of August 2005, Katz cashed for the first time at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour and finished 21st in Los Angeles for around 20,000 US dollars in prize money. In July 2009 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and landed in the main event in 159th place for over 40,000 US dollars. Katz has been a regular WSOP guest since 2011 and regularly manages to reach the prizes. In January 2013, he reached the final table at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures super high roller event in the Bahamas and finished the tournament in fourth place for just under $ 550,000 in prize money. At the 2013 WSOP , he narrowly missed winning a bracelet and finished second in a tournament in the Pot Limit Hold'em variant behind Belgian Davidi Kitai . In February 2014, Katz won two high roller tournaments at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, earning over $ 350,000. The end of June 2014 played the Katz by Guy Laliberté directed The Big One for One Drop with a buy-in of one million US dollars, of which he already in 2012 had taken part. Katz took eighth place and received his highest prize money to date of over 1.3 million US dollars. Since September 2014, he has also been regularly participating in poker tournaments at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, which require buy-ins of at least 25,000 US dollars and have been won 11 times by Katz. In mid-October 2016 he was invited by Laliberté to the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza , an exclusive poker tournament in Monte-Carlo with a buy-in of one million euros . There Katz reached the final table again and received prize money of 1.75 million euros for his fifth place. In January 2018 he won the Super High Roller of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures in the Bahamas and received a prize of around 1.5 million US dollars. In late February 2018, Katz was named Poker's Biggest Influencer of the Year 2017 at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles . End of July 2018, he finished in a million Hong Kong dollars expensive short deck Ante-Only the Triton Series Super High Roller at South Korean Jeju second place and was awarded the equivalent of nearly 1.8 million dollars in prize money. In early February 2019, Katz won the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne and secured a prize of just under 1.5 million Australian dollars . He reached three final tables at the US Poker Open in mid-February 2019, earning more than $ 580,000 in prize money. In September 2019, Katz won the Super High Roller Bowl in London and secured his highest prize money to date of the equivalent of more than 2.6 million US dollars. At the Super High Roller Bowl Australia in Sydney at the beginning of February 2020, he finished third, endowed with 640,000 Australian dollars. In mid-March 2020, Katz scored four cash placements at the partypoker Live Millions Super High Roller Series in Sochi and received prize money of 1.27 million US dollars.

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2004 00.037,251 -
2005 00.053,440 -
2006 00.027,130 -
2007 00,000.000 -
2008 00.00.9375 -
2009 00.113.732 -
2010 00.164,346 2
2011 00.133,452 -
2012 00.296.057 4th
2013 00.799.752 -
2014 02,450,287 2
2015 00.963.247 3
2016 05,295,983 4th
2017 01,861,857 2
2018 05,166,250 2
2019 08,701,322 4th
2020 02,407,979 1
total 28,481,460 24

Web links

Commons : Cary Katz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cary Steven Katz from Las Vegas, Nevada on VoterRecords.com, accessed on October 22, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Cary Katz in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 22, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ Cary Katz on his official website, accessed October 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cary Katz in the World Series of Poker database, accessed October 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ 2005 Legends of Poker ($ 5,000 + 150 WPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 22, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ PCA - 2013 ($ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 1)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em (Event # 19)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 22, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ 2014 Bellagio High Roller II ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ 2014 Bellagio High Roller III ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - The Big One for One Drop (Event # 57)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ The Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza (€ 888,889 + 111,111 No Limit Hold'em Big One For One Drop) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 22, 2016 (English).
  13. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 98,700 + 1,300 # 1 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 9, 2018.
  14. ↑ Poker Awards: Polk gets nothing , Neeme wins double on pokerfirma.com on February 23, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2018.
  15. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante-Only 1M HKD) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 30, 2018.
  16. ↑ 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Challenge # 20) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 5, 2019.
  17. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha - USPO # 02 10K PLO (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 20, 2019.
  18. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - USPO # 05 25K NLH (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 20, 2019.
  19. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 25,000 Pot Limit Omaha - USPO # 06 25K PLO (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 20, 2019.
  20. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl London (£ 250,000 + 2,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl London) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 15, 2019.
  21. ↑ Timothy Adams Wins Inaugural Super High Roller Bowl Australia for AU $ 2,160,000 on pokercentral.com February 3, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020.
  22. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  23. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 51,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  24. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 51,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  25. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 100,000 No Limit Short Deck Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Cary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, Cary Steven (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia , United States