and his second career WPT title, making him the first player in professional poker history to ever win the World Championship events at both the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. In 2010, Mortensen won the Season Eight WPT Hollywood Poker Open. With this win, he passed fellow professional Daniel Negreanu for first place on the all-time WPT money list, and tied Gus Hansen for most WPT titles with three. Other poker tournaments Mortensen has 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. Mortensen 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. In 2006, he and his wife, fellow poker player Cecilia Reyes Mortensen, divorced. As of August 2017, his total live tournament winnings exceed $12,100,000. His 21 cashes as the WSOP account for over $3,200,000 of those winnings. References in Pop Culture Mortensen is mentioned fictitiously in the hit US television show Gossip Girl, during Season 3 Episode 6 "Enough About Eve". In the episode Mortensen is referred to as Lily Humphrey's former lover with whom she spent a Summer in Monte Carlo. It is also mentioned in the Episode that Serena, Lily's daughter, was taught to play Poker by Carlos using Necco Wafers as chips. References External links GENEALOGY, family origins of Carlos Mortensen in the Mauricio Alvarado-Dávila's genealogical database for Ecuador. World Poker Tour – profile Hendon Mob tournament results 1972 births Living people Ecuadorian people of Danish descent Ecuadorian poker players World Poker Tour winners World Series of Poker bracelet winners World Series of Poker Main Event winners Poker Hall of Fame inductees