Caspar Berry
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Caspar Berry is a professional poker player, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, actor
Actor
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, after-dinner speaker and television presenter on Poker Night Live
Poker Night Live
Poker Night Live was the United Kingdom's first live Internet poker show, broadcast between 2005 and 2007 on Pokerzone, usually between 9pm and 1am...
, and more recently as an analyst for Sky Poker.
Caspar Berry was educated at the Royal Grammar School
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally and often abbreviated as RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It gained its Royal Charter under Queen Elizabeth I...
, Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
. Berry started his working life as an actor in the first two series of Byker Grove
Byker Grove
Byker Grove was a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One...
and has enjoyed a varied career before becoming a professional poker player. Having studied economics
Economics
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and anthropology
Anthropology
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at Cambridge University, he went on to write three feature films for Film Four, Miramax and Columbia Tri-Star
Columbia Pictures
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. Killing Time starring Craig Fairbrass and was co-written by future filmmaker Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers, which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005...
& Downtime
Downtime
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starring Paul McGann. Both these films was directed by Bharat Nalluri
Bharat Nalluri
Bharat Nalluri is a British television director, best known for his work with the independent production company Kudos Film & Television in the 2000s and early 2010s. For Kudos, he has directed episodes of Spooks, Life on Mars, Hustle , and Outcasts: all for transmission on BBC One...
.
He changed careers at age 25 and became a professional poker player in Las Vegas where he made a living in the $10–20 and $20–40 games in the Mirage
The Mirage
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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 Lives demise he now presents on Sky Poker where he is one of the most technical analysts. He was an uncredited poker adviser on the 2006 Bond movie Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006 film)
Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
along with his credited co-host Dr Tom.
Poker Night Live
Berry appeared as a regular presenter on PokerZone'sPokerzone
Pokerzone was a channel dedicated to poker, broadcasting on Sky Digital channel 843 since 19 May 2005. Previously known as Game In TV it rebranded on 26 April 2005 and launched the following month....
, Poker Night Live
Poker Night Live
Poker Night Live was the United Kingdom's first live Internet poker show, broadcast between 2005 and 2007 on Pokerzone, usually between 9pm and 1am...
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
Positive Thinking
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and neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-linguistic programming
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, 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 18 months (although these were very low buy in games).
Catch phrases
- "These are tools, not rules." (A suggestion that poker players do 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 26 February 2007
- "Rebuy! - a phrase he exclaims often during tournaments.