Man has been vigorously involving himself in the games of chance even before the history was started to be recorded in black and white. Hence, no matter whether it was due to leisure or because one needed to make a living to live a good life, games of chance have ever since been found to be more or less thanksgiving as nothing could beat their power when it came to yielding windfalls for the one. The results could be equally devastating if one was said to possess a bad luck, this goes without saying. But the game of poker, another wondrous game of chance both ways, had a good amount of wonders for Juan Carlos Mortensen AKA “El Matador” in store to present him with.
About Juan Carlos Mortensen: Born on 13th April in the year 1972, in Ambato in Ecuador, Juan Carlos Mortensen is an expert player of Poker. Apart from this, he is also reputed to be the sole winner of the Hispanic Main Event of the World Series Poker. He is not only to known as an expert player of the game of the Poker but is also famous for his slack play, tricking strategies along with his creative style of stacking the chips.
For playing his favorite game of Poker Mortensen made a move from Spain to the United States of America in the 1990s. And he won the prize money worth $1,500,000 in the year 2001 in the main event of the World Series of Poker known as WSOP other ways. Besides this, Mortensen won the prize money of $ 1,000,000 in the year 2004 in the championship event of Season Five World Poker Tour. Again he won $3,970,415, known to be first prize in the World Poker Tour and acquired second World Poker Tour title for himself. This made his the sole and first ever player to get achieve victory in all the two events of the World Championship at the World Series Poker and the World Tour of the Poker.
The year 2006 saw Mortensen making 3 final tables at the World Poker Series and completed with the 9th making an amount of $71, 617 in the second event of the NL Hold’em. The 6th event of the same saw him making an amount of $73,344 and again won his bracelet in the 33rd event of the Razz in which he completed as becoming a runner-up next to James Richburg winning an amount of $94,908.
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