Marty Smyth | |
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![]() Marty Smyth after winning the 2008 WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Champion | |
Residence | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
World Series of Poker | |
Bracelet(s) | 1 |
Money finish(es) | 2 |
Highest ITM Main Event finish | None |
European Poker Tour | |
Title(s) | None |
Final table(s) | None |
Money finish(es) | 1 |
Marty Smyth is a professional poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland with a track record including wins in the 2007 Irish Poker Open Championship [1] and the 2008 Poker Million. He won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2008 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship.
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. [2] 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. Marty was the highest earning European player in 2007[ better source needed ] and has since been nominated for two European Poker Awards, Player of the Year 2008 and Best Tournament Performance 2008. [3] [ self-published source? ]
Smyth has placed in the Irish Poker Open, Europe's oldest and largest poker tournament, [4] 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. [1] The event was televised in Ireland on RTÉ Two and internationally on Challenge.
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. In 2008, Smyth reached a record-breaking third consecutive final of the event, winning the $1,000,000 first prize.
Smyth won the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship on 2 July 2008 winning $859,532. On the final hand on a board of , Smyth made a pot-size bet of 600,000 holding holding a made king-high straight, his opponent Peter Jetten re-raised pot, Smyth then re-raised all-in and was call by Jetten who was holding for the same king-high straight, however Smyth was freerolling on the re-draw to a flush as well as an open-ended straight flush draw, both the King high and the Royal Flush, the turn was a blank, the , but the river brought the giving Smyth the winning flush and the Championship. [5] Marty considers his bracelet win to be his biggest achievement, but highlights the Irish Open title as his most "life-changing". [6]
Year | Tournament | Prize (US$) |
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2008 | $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship | $859,532 |
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,700,000. [1] His two cashes at the WSOP account for $863,382 of those winnings. [7]
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