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Cary Katz and His Contribution to the Global Poker Industry

Cary Katz and His Contribution to the Global Poker Industry

Not just professional poker players can surprise the industry with their results. The amateur poker player Cary Katz is popular in narrow circles. He learned how to play poker from his grandmother, and nowadays his hobby has transformed into a profitable activity. Don’t miss the hottest poker news to stay tuned.

Cary Steven Katz was born on January 29, 1970. Currently, he’s 51 years old, and during his lifetime he has become a successful businessman. He participated in a few worldwide poker tournaments. However, he hasn’t won any bracelets.

Poker player Cary Katz is an example of a fearless determination to turn a hobby into a profitable business.

His first degree in business administration was got from the University of Georgia, later this knowledge helped Cary to found the College Loan Corporation. The successful CEO experience of 15 years led the company to the seventh-largest student loan company in the US ($19 billion in loans).

In October 2015, Cary became a founder of the Poker Central website, which launched the subscription-based PokerGO streaming service. Katz also got famous in the industry for creating high roller tournaments like Super High Roller Bowl, Poker Masters, and the US Poker Open.

Thanks to Cary Katz, poker players from all over the world have more platforms to participate in and develop themselves as professional players.

Poker star Cary Katz has also made a large contribution to the industry by creating the most popular option at the tournaments the big blind ante.

His poker enthusiasm has changed the worldwide poker industry and completed it with new tournaments, platforms, and options, which have been actively used by the players.

Top-5 winnings

DateEventPlaceWinning
Sep 15, 2019£252 500 No-Limit Hold’em (49 max)1$2 541 000
Aug 10, 2019£250 000 No-Limit Hold’em Short Deck Private Event4$2 085 096
Oct 16, 2016€1 Million No-Limit Hold’em Big One for One Drop Invitational5$1 919 750
Jul 29, 2018HK$1 Million No-Limit Hold’em Short Deck Ante Only2$1 809 600
Jan 8, 2018$100 000 No-Limit Hold’em1$1 492 340

Despite the fact, that Cary Katz has never claimed the professional poker player status, his winnings of all time can be surprising. His biggest winning was at the 2019 Super High Roller Bowl London ($2 541 000). It was also the second 1st place at the tournament he has participated in.

The very first triumph was at the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) with a $ 1 492 340 cash-winning.

Counting Cary Katz’s poker winnings of all time, the total sum of casino winnings is almost $33.5 million. Talking about the World Series of Poker (WSOP), there was only 1 final table in his career and the winnings are counting $3 136 203, but at the same time, Cary has never won the WSOP bracelet. His rank at the Player of the Year was 16 and his winnings were $2 664 590.

Cary Katz’s net worth

People have been always interested in the salaries, net worth, and income of businessmen and poker players. And Cary Katz is a mix of two of them.

Cary Katz’s income was published in popular business and financial magazines a few times. As usual, there’s no official and approved information about net worth, but according to the exclusive information and analysis, the net worth of Cary Katz is counted as $1.5 million.

Cary Katz on social networks

Recently, PokerGO tweeted about Cary Katz’s $100 000 winning at the No-Limit Hold’em, Event 8. A worldwide poker platform congratulated the winner and posted a video from the show, which is exclusively streamed on the platform.

Talking about his personal Twitter account, there’s only one Cary Katz, but this profile has limited access. He protected his tweets from the people, who don’t subscribe to him. Cary joined Twitter in July 2011.

As a majority of the professional poker players, Cary Katz’s Instagram cannot be reached by anyone.

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