Marty Smyth

Marty Smyth is a professional poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who won the 2007 Irish Poker Open Championship.. He won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2008 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship.

Poker career

Marty Smyth has played poker since his early teens. He first discovered Omaha and Texas Hold'em on a weekend trip to a Dublin casino at the age of 22. (Info from bio on www.boylepoker.com) He continued to play regularly, eventually becoming a successful professional player. In March 2008 Smyth signed a sponsorship deal with Irish based company, Boylepoker.com

Irish Poker Open

Smyth has placed in the Irish Poker Open, Europe's oldest and largest poker tournament, on four occasions. He placed 7th in 2002 and 6th in 2003. In the 2006 event, Smyth placed 15th. He defeated the largest field ever assembled for a European poker tournament when in 2007, he won the €3,300 buy-in event in Dublin. 708 players began the four day event playing down to the final table. Smyth eventually defeated Roland De Wolfe in a heads-up encounter Terry Rogers Memorial Trophy and earning €650,000. The event was televised in Ireland on RTE Two and internationally on Challenge.

Poker Million

Smyth competed in the Ladbrokes sponsored Poker Million V event in England in 2006 He placed 6th on the final table, winning $100,000 in prize money. The event was broadcast on Sky Sports. He also made the final table the following year, finishing 2nd to Joe Beevers for $500,000.

World Series Of Poker

Marty Smyth won the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship on July 2, 2008 winning $859,532. On the final hand on a board of , Smyth made a pot-size bet of 600,000 holding holding a made King high straight, his opponent Peter Jetten re-raised pot, Smyth then re-raised all-in and was call by Jetten who was holding for the same King high straight, however Smyth was freerolling on the re-draw to a flush as well as an open-ended straight flush draw, both the King high and the Royal Flush, the turn was a blank, the , but the river brought the giving Smyth the winnning flush and the Championship.

World Series of Poker Bracelet

Year	Tournament	Prize (US$)
2008	$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship	$859,532

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,600,000.

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