Caspar Berry

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Caspar Berry

Nickname(s)	Caspar B., Cas
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. According to records he has no cashes in any live tournaments whatsoever which leads a few people to doubt his poker credentials although his explanation is simply that he never entered any tournaments during this period concentrating instead on cash game play. Since retiring from live poker in the summer of 2002, Berry set up and ran his own independent production company in Newcastle, although he left that in 2005 to work as a trainer and public speaker. He is also working on his first poker book and is strategy writer for flush magazine. Since Poker Night Live's demise he now presents on Sky Poker where he one of the most technical analysts. He was an uncredited poker adviser on the Bond Movie Casino Royale along with his (credited) co-host Dr Tom.

[edit] Poker Night Live

Berry appeared 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 skills. He likes to integrate self-improvement topics, such as sports psychology, positive thinking and neuro-linguistic programming, into his poker commentary. He had the best record among the presenters on pokerzone's beat the presenter ( a tournament between the presenters and online players) cashing in 90% on the SNGs he played in in 18 months (although these were very low buy in games).

[edit] Catch Phrases

• "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 an April, 2006, PNL broadcast.
• "Aggression Factor Flop 5" - A comical phrase read out from a viewers e-mail on a rather memorable edition of PNL on 26th February 2007
• "Rebuy! - a phrase he exclaims often during tournaments.

[edit] External links

• Caspar Berry at the Internet Movie Database
• Poker Night Live Biography