1. Carlos Mortensen moved from Spain to the United States in the late 1990s to play poker.
11 Facts About Carlos Mortensen
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Carlos Mortensen won $1,500,000 at the 2001 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Carlos Mortensen defeated a then-record field of 613 players, including a very tough final table that included professional players Mike Matusow, 1989 WSOP Main Event champion Phil Hellmuth, Phil Gordon, and Dewey Tomko.
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Carlos Mortensen won his second career bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event, earning $251,680.
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Carlos Mortensen defeated professional player Mark Gregorich heads-up to win the title.
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At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Carlos Mortensen made three final tables.
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Carlos Mortensen was the last big-name poker professional to win the Main Event at the World Series of Poker, until Hossein Ensan in 2019.
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Carlos Mortensen won the Season Five World Poker Tour championship event for a $3,970,415 first place prize, his largest tournament cash to date, and his second career WPT title, making him the first player in professional poker history to ever win the World Championship events at both the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.
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In 2010, Carlos Mortensen won the Season 8 WPT Hollywood Poker Open.
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Carlos Mortensen has made the prize money in the World Heads-Up Poker Championship, and was a semi-finalist in the second season of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament.
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Carlos Mortensen had a good run at the 2007 European Poker Tour Main Event in Monte Carlo finishing 11th.