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Profile: Caspar Berry
Caspar Berry was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. Berry started his working life as an actor in the first two series of Byker Grove with Ant & Dec and has enjoyed a varied career before becoming a professional poker player. Having studied Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge University, he went on to write three feature films for Film Four, Miramax and Columbia Tri Star.
He changed careers at age 25 and became a professional poker player at the tables of Las Vegas.
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.