Celebrity Poker:Kara Scott

Kara Scott, High Stakes Poker

Kara Scott (pronounced /ˈkɛərə/) is a Canadian TV personality, announcer and poker player.

Born in arctic Alberta, Canada, Scott confused to the United Kingdom in 1999 and has been alive in the UK media back 2002. Accepting accomplished in Muay Thai while she lived in Canada, she landed the job of sports presenter for Five aggressive arts appearance “Now is the Time: Night of Combat” and confused on to accessory aftermath the appearance as well.

Television hosting

She was the host of the aboriginal televised backgammon series, High Stakes Backgammon, produced from the 2005 Apple Backgammon Championships for Bold TV in Canada and Pokerzone in the UK. Scott additionally hosted the aboriginal alternation of “World Alternation of Backgammon”, in 2006 which aired beyond Europe on Eurosport, Poker Approach Europe and Bold TV in Canada.

Kara Scott brings considerable poker experience

Scott was additionally one of the capital hosts of the accolade acceptable appearance “Poker Night Live”. She bound absorbed herself in the poker media and ahead wrote a approved cavalcade in industry annual “Flush” as able-bodied as accepting accessories appear in “Poker Amateur Magazine” and her poker exploits accept been accurate in added poker media such as “CardPlayer Magazine”, “Online Gambling Magazine” and “UK PokerNews.” Scott is additionally one bisected of the duo abaft UK poker podcast “On The Rail”.

Scott is accepted as one of the faces of Sky Poker on Sky Television approach 865 (alongside Helen Chamberlain, Richard Orford and Norman Pace); a committed poker approach which launched in Feb 2007, as able-bodied as actuality the TV Host for the 2007/2008 division of the European Poker Tour. In August 2008, afterward her success at the Apple Alternation of Poker, she appear her abandonment from Sky Poker, with the ambition of acceptable a able poker player.

Scott is additionally complex in the blur apple and was one of the stars (and the band producer) for aggressive arts blur “Sucker Punch” starring Danny John-Jules.

In 2007, Scott absent a prop bet to Chris Tessaro, Host of The Hardcore Poker Radio Show, consistent in her accepting to do her annotation from the EPT San Remo while dressed in a bunny suit.

As of February 2010, she will accompany Gabe Kaplan as co-host of GSN’s High Stakes Poker for its sixth season, afterward the abandonment of antecedent host A. J. Benza. She will booty on a altered role to Benza administering absolute interviews with the players as the bold progresses.

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Poker

She has played in assorted television poker tournaments advertisement on Challenge and Five, primarily in celebrity heats. She won the celebrity calefaction of the PartyPoker.net Apple Woman’s Open which aired on Five in backward 2007, afore activity on to win the aboriginal capital calefaction and agreement 6th in the final. In 2008, she won the PartyPoker Sports Star Challenge. Scott came additional at the Irish Open in 2009, acceptable €312,600. As of 2009, her absolute alive poker clash accomplishment beat $550,000.

Kara Scott joins High Stakes Poker Season 6

At the 2008 Apple Alternation of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 buy-in Capital Event, Scott accomplished in 104th abode out of a acreage of 6,844 players, earning $41,816. Scott is the alone woman who cashed in both the 2008 and 2009 WSOP Capital Event, the additional woman anytime to accept cashed in back-to-back Capital Events , afterwards finishing 238th out of a acreage of 6,494 players in 2009.

“I apperceive a lot of bodies don’t anticipate I can comedy and there are consistently activity to be bodies who say I can’t. But I accept fabricated the final of a changeable championship, I won a Sports Star Challenge, I went abysmal in the Apple Alternation of Poker Capital Event and now I’ve appear additional in the Irish Open,” Scott said afterwards her additional abode finish. “I anticipate my bold is improving.”

Kara has a affirmation to acclaim that best bodies cannot match; she began her media career as the host of a televised backgammon matches. The alone affair added absurd again a design authoritative it out of the asperous of backgammon is if the adjudicator for American Idol was a blush analyst for the Apple Championship of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Kara bound transcended the limbo of backgammon based television, and went on to be the host of the accolade acceptable appearance “Poker Night Live.” She conneteced with the game, and went on to pen accessories in such boilerplate publications as Flush and Poker Amateur Magazine. In 2007 she abutting Soccer AM’s Helen Chamberlain as one of the two changeable personalities on Sky Television’s appearance Sky Poker. Talking about poker was one affair for her though, she additionally capital to be in the action.

Kara entered the affray officially, so to speak, in 2007. Kara was arrive in the celebrity calefaction of the PartyPoker.net Apple Woman’s Open. Afterwards she was succesful amid the celebrity class, she went on to prove her animation adjoin accepted players by additionally acceptable the aboriginal capital calefaction of the competition. Eventually she came in a actual admirable 6th place. Kara has additionally managed to represent herself able-bodied at the Apple Alternation of Poker by outlasting bags of added players afore eventually actuality alone in 104th place. This accomplishment netted her $41,816.

While she has success as both a analyst and player, she has had some rather asinine moments. In the accomplished she has been one of the stars of the apish karate blur “Sucker Punch”, and afterwards accident a bet to one Chris Tessaro of the Hardcore Poker Radio Show, she had do her annotation at the EPT San Remo cutting a bunny suit. We don’t beggarly a sexy, playboy appearance bunny suit, but the array that an Easter Bunny at the capital would wear. The actuality that she would abide to this array of affair says a lot about the blazon of being she is. For abounding of us, this was a acceptable thing.