Cate Hall

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Cate Hall
Cate Hall (2015)
Cate Hall (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth September 19, 1983
place of birth United StatesUnited States Tucson
place of residence United StatesUnited States Washington, DC
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 291,320
Total prize money $ 1,086,412
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 13
Best main event 458th ( 2017 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 9
Last updated: July 25, 2020

Caitlin Sinclair "Cate" Hall (born September 19, 1983 in Tucson , Arizona ) is a professional American poker player . She was named Player of the Year by the Global Poker Index in 2016 .

Personal

Hall grew up in Tucson. She learned to play cards from her grandmother at the age of seven and played chess from elementary school . While in college, Hall began playing the online role-playing game World of Warcraft . She later did a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and philosophy . After graduating, she worked for a company in New York City for two years and then moved to Washington, DC There she was with the appellate court for four years .

Poker career

Hall has been taking part in renowned live tournaments since 2015 .

In July 2015 she was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. At the end of September 2015, Hall reached the final table at the main event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Hanover and finished the tournament in fifth place for just under 60,000 US dollars in prize money. In mid-December 2015 she finished fifth again at the WPT Main Event and received her largest prize money to date of almost 300,000 US dollars at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas. Hall cashed six times at the 2016 WSOP . At the beginning of October 2016, she sat at the final table of a WPT main event for the third time and came in sixth in Hanover for just under 70,000 US dollars. In the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year in 2016 occupied Hall at year-end as the best woman in 78th position and was due to this power in February 2017 the American Poker Awards in Beverly Hills the award for Player of the Year in 2016 . In mid-March 2017, she fought a so-called grudge match with Michael Dentale , who had previously described her on Twitter as a bad player. The duel was streamed live on Twitch with commentary from Doug Polk and Shaun Deeb and had over 10,000 viewers; Hall won 2-0. At the 2018 WSOP , she finished eighth in the marathon event for around $ 65,000 and has not had another live cash placement since then.

Overall, Hall has made more than $ 1 million in poker playing live tournaments.

Web links

Commons : Cate Hall  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A Poker Life: Cate Hall on cardplayer.com from June 16, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Cate Hall in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 777 No Limit Hold'em Lucky 7s (Event # 66)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 5, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ WPT Maryland Live! ($ 3,200 + 300 No Limit Hold'em WPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em WPT Main Event (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ WPT Maryland Live! ($ 3,500 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) on the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ PoY 2016 in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on March 5, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ American Poker Awards - Lifetime Award for Mori Eskandani on pokerfirma.com on February 24, 2017, accessed on March 5, 2017.
  9. ↑ Cate Hall dismantles Mike Dentale in a $ 30k grudge match ( March 25, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ) on pokerzeit.com March 22, 2017, accessed March 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 2,620 No Limit Hold'em - The Marathon (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Cate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Caitlin Sinclair (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Tucson , Arizona , United States