Carlos Mortensen

infobox poker player
firstname=Carlos
lastname=Mortensen
nickname=El Matador


caption=Mortensen at the $25,000 World Poker Tour No Limit Hold'em Championship
hometown=Madrid, Spain
wsop bracelet count=2
wsop money finishes=15
wsop main event best finish rank=Winner
wsop main event best finish year=2001
multi-year wsop winner
wpt titles=2
wpt final tables=3
wpt money finishes=12
ept titles="None"
ept final tables="None"
ept money finishes=1

Juan Carlos Mortensen (born April 13, 1972 in Ambato, Ecuador) is a professional poker player and the only hispanic Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Mortensen is known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style. cite web|url=http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/14433 |title=Juan Carlos Mortensen: El Matador! |accessdate=2008-05-13 |last=Shulman |first=Allyn Jaffrey|date=2004-12-31 |work=CardPlayer.com ]

Mortensen moved from Spain to the United States in the late 1990s to play poker. He won $1,500,000 at the 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event. He also won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship in 2004 for $1,000,000. Mortensen won the Season Five World Poker Tour championship event, and its $3,970,415 first prize and his second WPT title, making him the first player to ever win the World Championship events at both the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.

Mortensen has also 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.

At the 2006 World Series of Poker Carlos made 3 final tables. He finished 9th in event #2 (NL Hold 'em) winning $71,617. He would once again finish 9th in event #6 (NL Hold 'em) earning him another $73,344. He came up just short of winning his 3rd bracelet in event #33 (Razz) where he finished runner-up to James Richburg earning him $94,908.

In 2006, he and his wife, fellow poker player Cecilia Reyes Mortensen, were divorced.

Mortensen is also considered the last poker professional to win the World Series of Poker Main Event.

Mortensen also had a good run at the 2007 European Poker Tour Main Event in Monte Carlo finishing 11th, going out to Joshua Prager after making a straight on the turn, but defeated by a flush on the river.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $8,500,000. cite web|url=http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=178 |title=Carlos Mortensen - stats |accessdate=2008-05-13 |last=Butt |first=Robert |publisher=The Hendon Mob ]

World Series of Poker bracelets

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External links

* [http://www.worldpokertour.com/Shared/Players/Bios/C/Carlos_Mortensen.aspx World Poker Tour - profile]
* [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=178 Hendon Mob tournament results]