Poker Female Host
| Kara Scott | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Great Scott, Kara Scott Chad |
| Residence | Santa Barbara, California (since 2009) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 4 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 104th, 2008 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 1 |
Kara Scott/ˈkɛərə/ is a Canadian British TV personality, journalist and poker player.
- The magazine decided the list of the 20 hottest poker girls of all time without consulting their readers, which is highly criticized by the online poker community, as they feel the list to be unfair, leaving out notable female poker celebrities like Amanda Leatherman (host of the popular PokerStars The Big Game) or Shana Hiatt (former WPT presenter, poker player) just to mention a few names.
- Lansing, the first female anchor of a major poker series, will be passing the torch to PokerNews hostess Lynn Gilmartin. Gilmartin, who was recently brought aboard the WPT team to anchor the Alpha8.
Kathy Liebert - $6,236,222. Source - pokersites.com. Liebert has been a World Series of Poker.
Born in northern Alberta, Canada, Scott moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 and worked in the UK media until 2009 when she moved to California. Having trained in Muay Thai while she lived in Canada, she became a sports presenter and producer on Five. She is a brand ambassador for 888poker and host of 888poker News.[1]
Television hosting[edit]
She was the host of the first televised backgammon series with Paul Magriel and John Clark, High Stakes Backgammon, produced from the 2005 World Backgammon Championships for Game TV in Canada and Pokerzone in the UK. Scott also hosted the first series of World Series of Backgammon, in 2006 which aired across Europe on Eurosport, Poker Channel Europe and Game TV in Canada.
Scott was also one of the main hosts of the award winning show 'Poker Night Live'. She quickly immersed herself in the poker media and previously wrote a regular column in industry magazine 'Flush' as well as having articles published in 'Poker Player Magazine' and her poker exploits have been documented in other poker media such as 'CardPlayer Magazine', 'Gambling Online Magazine' and 'UK PokerNews.' Scott is also one half of the duo behind UK poker podcast 'On The Rail'.
Scott is known as one of the faces of Sky Poker on Sky Television channel 865 (alongside Helen Chamberlain, Richard Orford and Norman Pace); a dedicated poker channel which launched in Feb 2007, as well as being the TV Host for the 2007/2008 season of the European Poker Tour. In August 2008, following her success at the World Series of Poker, she announced her departure from Sky Poker.
Wpt Poker Female Hosts List By Year Pictures
Scott is also involved in the film world and was one of the stars (and the line producer) for martial arts film 'Sucker Punch' [2] starring Danny John-Jules.
In 2007, Scott lost a proposition bet to Chris Tessaro, host of The Hardcore Poker Radio Show, resulting in her having to do her commentary from the EPT San Remo while dressed in a bunny suit.[3]
In February 2010, she joined Gabe Kaplan as co-host of GSN's High Stakes Poker for its sixth season, following the departure of previous host A. J. Benza. Scott's role is conducting direct interviews with the players as the game progresses.
Kara joined ESPN's coverage of the World Series of Poker 2011 Main Event as a 'sideline' reporter.
Scott had been based in California. After marrying Giovanni Rizzo in 2013, Scott lived in Parma, Italy.[4][5] Scott has lived in Slovenia for over a year.[1]
Poker[edit]
Scott has played in various television poker tournaments broadcast on Challenge and Five, primarily in celebrity heats. She won the celebrity heat of the PartyPoker.net World Woman's Open which aired on Five in late 2007, before going on to win the first main heat and placing 6th in the final. In 2008, she won the PartyPoker Sports Star Challenge. Scott finished second at the Irish Open in 2009, winning €312,600. As of 2010, her total live poker tournament winnings exceed $550,000.[6]
World Poker Female Hosts
At the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 buy-in Main Event, Scott finished in 104th place out of a field of 6,844 players, earning $41,816.[7] Scott is the only woman who cashed in both the 2008 and 2009 WSOP Main Event, the second woman ever to have cashed in back-to-back Main Events,[8] after finishing 238th out of a field of 6,494 players in 2009.
Responding to critics, Scott said, 'I know a lot of people don't think I can play and there are always going to be people who say I can't. But I have made the final of a female championship, I won a Sports Star Challenge, I went deep in the World Series of Poker Main Event and now I've come second in the Irish Open.'[9]
On 14 January 2009 PartyPoker announced that Scott would join Team Party alongside other poker professionals such as Mike Sexton and Felipe 'Mojave' Ramos, which means she will appear playing more often with the PartyPoker branding and yet still continue with her Poker TV presenting career.[10]
In her new blog over at Cardrunners, Kara Scott announced, that she would be leaving PartyPoker as 2015 began. Scott explained that the reason for her departure was the lack of TV projects.
In 2016 Scott signed with 888poker as brand ambassador.[11] In the past she held a similar role with Tilt Events with her husband Giovanni.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Q&A with Kara Scott, host of 888poker News'. online.casinocity.com. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^'Suckerpunchthemovie.com: Cast - Kara Scott'. Suckerpunchthemovie.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^Stirzaker, Rod (5 June 2008). 'Bunny Bites Back: The Kara Scott Interview'. Pokerlistings.com. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
- ^Scott, Kara (2 May 2011). 'Canada'. Cardrunners. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^Scott, Kara (3 May 2011). 'Time to relax'. PartyPoker.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2011. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^'Kara Scott: Hendon Mob Poker Database'. Pokerdb.thehendonmob.com. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^'Tournament Results Official World Series of Poker Online'. Worldseriesofpoker.com. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^Episode 9020, 2009 World Series of Poker
- ^Derbyshire, Martin (15 April 2009). 'EPT host finds luck of the Irish'.
- ^Gambling Online Magazine: Kara Scott joins PartyPoker
- ^'Kara Scott Joins Team888'. 888poker. 23 February 2016.
- ^'Kara Scott Talks Love and Poker in Venice, Italy: Exclusive Interview'. Cardschat.com. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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was born in November in 1980 and raised in the northern London. She had started her first ever break when she appeared on the British comedy sketch show as Michael Jackson's girlfriend. From there she has held a string of hosting jobs.Caroline did many hosting jobs including the TV series Football Challenge, she also hosted for E4 Music and E4's the game trackside and had been presented on the video game shows. And had many successful hosting jobs after her appearance on the poker scene at the European Poker Tour.
2004, when Caroline Flack became involved in the poker industry, when she became the hostess of the European Poker Tour, similar to the World Poker Tour in the US. European Poker Tour is a televised series of high-stakes texas holdem games that feature some of the best poker players in the whole world and that was sponsored by the PokerStars. The show was broadcast all over Europe and in the United States as well.
As part of her job as the hostess of the European Poker Tour, Caroline is responsible to bring glamor and charm to interviewing the professional poker players. She also had many travel and had to visited many of the famous casinos in Europe like Barcelona, Copenhagen, Deauville, Dublins and most especially her home town, London.
However, Caroline life doesn't revolve to the world of poker only. She usually go partying with some celebrities like Pete Doherty, and Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse in London. Caroline has also a lot of passion in music, she plays guitar and have been dating a drummer from an indie band. Caroline continues to advance her career in front of the camera and always draws a crowd at the European Poker Tour.