Caspar Berry
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| Nickname(s) | Caspar B., Cas |
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| Hometown | London, UK |
Caspar Berry is a professional poker player, screenwriter, actor and television presenter on Poker Night Live.
Caspar Berry was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. Berry started his working life as an actor in the first two series of Byker Grove with Ant & Dec and has enjoyed a varied career before becoming a professional poker player. Having studied Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge University, he went on to write three feature films for Film Four, Miramax and Columbia Tri Star.
He changed careers at age 25 and became a professional poker player at the tables of Las Vegas where he made a living in the $10-20 and $20-40 games in the The Mirage for three years. Since retiring from live poker in the summer of 2002, Berry set up and runs his own independent production company in Newcastle, which is now the largest in the North East. He is also working on his first poker book.
[edit] Poker Night Live
Berry appears as a regular presenter on PokerZone's, Poker Night Live show. His recent TV work has helped him build a reputation as poker expert with great knowledge and kills. He likes to integrate self-improvement topics, such as sports psychology, positive thinking and neuro-linguistic programming, into his poker commentary.
[edit] Quotes
- "These are tools, not rules." (A suggestion that poker players not play mechanically.)
- "I use my own incompetence to randomize my play." --ad-libbed on a April, 2006, PNL broadcast.
- "Aggression Factor Flop 5" - A comical phrase read out from a viewers e-mail on a rather memoriable edition of PNL on 26th February 2007
