Player Profile - Marty Smyth
Nickname: none really
Age: 31
Home town: Belfast
Occupation outside poker: none
No of years playing seriously: 6 or so
Main poker accomplishments:
Irish Open Winner 2007 for 650k euro (officially)
Poker Million final table 2006 for $100k
Irish Winter Tournament 3 way chop for €27k euro in 2005
Hobbies: football, golf, scuba diving
Favourite food: seafood
Favourite drink: guiness, smithwicks, beer in general
Favourite poker players: Swedish player called Per Werner Svenson who used to play as ‘dared’ on Ladbrokes. Doesn’t play so much now, but at the time he was miles better than the rest of us who were playing and I really learned a lot from playing with him. In Ireland, Padraig Parkinson, Alan Betson, Donnacha, Scot Gray and Paddy O’connor for tournaments. Tom Hanlon and Dave Callaghan for Omaha.
Favourite poker venues: Europe - Fitzwilliam in dublin / U.S.A. - Only played in vegas so far and don’t have much good to say about the place… I hate the rio... the bellagio wasn’t so bad.