2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

$100,000 Super High Roller
Day: 3
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Event Info
2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8♦8♣
Prize
$1,492,340
Event Info
Buy-in
$100,000
Prize Pool
$4,737,600
Total Entries
48
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 48

Seat 5: Cary Katz, 47, Las Vegas, United States - 855,000

Frank Op de Woerd
Frank Op de Woerd
Cary Katz (pictured at an earlier event)
Cary Katz (pictured at an earlier event)

47-year-old Cary Katz is the University of Georgia graduate who founded College Loan Corporation back in 1999. Katz drove the company as a CEO for 15 years, turning it into seventh largest student loan company in the United States.

Katz is a long-time passionate poker player who's regularly competing in the high roller events in Las Vegas. He's accumulated over $12.2 million in live tournaments. He finished eighth in the 2014 $1 million Big One for One Drop and fifth in the 2016 Monte Carlo €1 million Big One for One Drop Extravaganza. Katz has previously cashed in one PCA Super High Roller, taking home $543,800 fourth-place prize back in 2013.

Katz also established PokerCentral back in 2015, setting up the ground for the PokerGO online TV channel. He's married with six children.

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