Cate Hall

Cate Hall biography

Cate Hall was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. She studied biochemistry and philosophy, then went to law school and spent four years at an appellate firm in Washington, D.C., working on Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases. She learned cards from her grandmother and played competitive chess through high school.

She began playing low-stakes cash games at casinos in West Virginia and Maryland and left law in 2015. Her first live tournament cash came that July, and within months she had satellited into the $10,000 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio, where she finished 5th for $291,320. In her first full year as a professional she made three WPT final tables and led the WPT Player of the Year race for a time, and she was named the 2016 GPI Female Player of the Year. She also drew attention for declining traditional final table photos with the WPT's Royal Flush Girls.

In 2017 she beat Mike Dentale in a much-hyped heads-up grudge match after a public Twitter feud. She has about $1.1 million in live tournament earnings.

Cate Hall playing style

Hall is an analytical player who brought a lawyer's discipline and a chess player's study habits to no-limit hold'em.