Luck of the Irish

December 21, 2008

It would seem that the Irish had a good run at the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII poker tournament this past weekend. The poker tournament was held in London and the top winner was none other than Marty Smith – a Irishman. He was one of four Irishmen to make it to the final six players, but he was the only one to take home the top prize.

Hailing from Belfast, Smith took the top prize of $1 million from this poker tournament, and says that this is his biggest win yet. He has made more than $3.5 million during his years as a poker player, but this one was extra special because of the size and who he was playing against.

He says that he started out badly and had to readjust everything about his poker game just to stay in the game. He says he thought he was playing a winning hand that was big, but he wasn’t and it almost knocked him out of the game. He says that even the bookmakers thought he was out and offered odds of 66/1 that he wouldn’t win.

With poker being a mixture of skill and luck according to Smith, he simply played what he was given and did the best he could with it. He says that as he is a professional gambler he will do as he did with his other wins – he keeps some but invests the majority of it. He says that he has been lucky as of late, but that doesn’t mean anything. He says that there are a lot of up and coming poker players out there, he is only one of them.