Gavin Smith

Biography

Gavin Smith is a Canadian poker pro, a member of the Full Tilt team pro and a holder of two most prestigious poker trophies – the WSOP bracelet and a WPT title. He started playing the game at the age of 26 with his colleagues at work and in 1996 he starter working as a poker dealer. Smith's carrier as a pro player began in 1998 when he played a couple of World Poker Finals events in Mashantucket. He came back to play the tournament the next year as well as a number of years after that. During that time Gavin Smith won two World Poker Finals tournaments, however it did not contribute to his bankroll very much.

In 2003 Smith had entered a WSOP event for the first time. Although it wasn't much of a success, his second attempt brought him his first big paycheck. In 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event Gavin Smith finished in 52th place and collected $45,000 cash prize. This was Gavin's big step forward in his poker carrier which encouraged him to enter bigger events which brought bigger cashes. Less then a year later Smith scored the biggest win of his carrier – $10,000 WPT No-Limit Hold'em Championship title at the 2005 Mirage Poker Showdown in Las Vegas. Not only did he claim the WPT title, he also collected more than $1.1 million in cash. By far, the year 2005 was the most successful in Smith's carrier as he was also named the WPT Season IV Player of the Year.

His second major title came five years later when Smith won a $2,500 Limit/No-Limit Hold'em at the 2010 WSOP. The $268,238 payout was nothing compared to the pageantry of Smith's carrier-first WSOP bracelet. In fact, most of his major payouts came in WPT and WSOP events – $542,129 won for the second place at the C$ 10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 2008 North American Poker Championship in Ontario, $327,610 third place prize at the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em WPT event – 2nd Annual Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship, Bellagio Festa Al Lago IV in Las Vegas and $205,920 for 11th place at the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006 WSOP.

When he's not playing poker, Smith is occupied with a bunch of other activities related to... poker, like hosting an Internet TV show called “Prop Bets” with the UB poker pro Joe Sebok on RawVegas.tv. The show actually involves betting on various poker stuff which then results in Sebok wearing a bear outfit at the WSOP, and running around dress as Wonder Woman. Gavin Smith had lost some of the prop bets as well, which is why he has a tattoo of a four leaf clover on his upper right shoulder with J.S. (meaning Joe Sebok) written on it.