Carlos Mortensen: Its unbelievable   Carlos Mortensen, one of the most handsome poker winners, was born in Ecuador. His mother is Spanish, father – Danish). At the age of 15 the family moved to Madrid, Spain. Poker wasn’t very popular in Spain (in fact it was even illegal). Good boy Carlos liked to play chess in a club. But one day his was enticed from that when one day he came to play chess and saw there people playing poker: “One day they started up a poker game. One of the guys had just come back from America where he learned to play ”.   Want to hear that he won his first game? I will disappoint you - he lost: “I lost the equivalent of seventy dollars that night, and it really bothered me”. BUT! The next day he won. Note that this was the second time he played. And it’s not by a fluke. Because he won not only once then: “I won again and again – four straight days”.   Then it was the time to say: “This is better that working a job”… Most poker players say that. I mean – most winning player. Maybe this is the key to their wins: poker becomes their life-work.   So Mortensen decided to become a professional poker player. And this is when poker was illegal in Spain! So the only way to do it (and his wife, of course) was – to move to Las Vegas. So Mortensen and Cecilia packed their suitcases and moved.   Since that moment he has been participating in all major tournaments in Europe and America. And he played many hot games. But the hottest was naturally when he was heads-up with Dewey Tomko in 2001. I don’t know wherever it was luck or something else… who knows? Maybe his intuition suggested him that he would hit at the river. Anyway - he was just 29 years old when he earned his World Champion title and $1,500,000 beating out 612 players. Mortensen’s Wins WSOP 1) 2001 – NL Hold’em (Championship Event) – 1st place 2) 2002 – NL Hold’em – 4th place 3) 2003 – Limit Hold’em – 1st place WPT 1) 2003 (21 Feb) – LA Poker Classic – NL Hold’em – 10th 2) 2003 (20 Sep) – Borgata Poker Open – NL Hold’em - 4th 3) 2004 (25 Feb) – Invitational – NL Hold’em - 9th 4) 2004 (28 Aug) – Legends of Poker – NL Hold’em – 55th 5) 2004 (19 Sep) – Borgata Poker Open – NL Hold’em – 21st 6) 2004 (19 Oct) – Festa al Lago – 1st