Marty Smyth
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 Marty Smyth at the 2007 Irish Open Championship. |
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| Hometown | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Marty Smyth is a professional poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, that won of the 2007 Irish Poker Open Championship.[1]
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[edit] Poker career
[edit] Irish Poker Open
Smyth has placed in the Irish Poker Open, Europe's oldest and largest poker tournament,[2] 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 wolf in a heads-up encounter Terry Rogers Memorial Trophy and earning €650,000.[1] The event was televised in Ireland on RTE Two and internationally on Challenge.
[edit] 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.
As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,500,000.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Butt, Robert. Marty Smyth - Stats. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Cardplayer Europe: How the Irish Changed the Face of Poker
- ^ Butt, Robert. Marty Smyth - Stats. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
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