Irish Eyes Smiling as Ladbrokes Poker Million won by Belfast Man

The Ladbrokes Poker Million has finally been won, the poker tournament screened live on Sky Sport 3 on Friday 12th December saw a table of six (4 of which were Irish) play the final exciting round of this tournament. Reminiscent of the movie ‘Rocky’, Marty Smyth of Belfast won the Ladbrokes Poker Million in an outstanding fashion, the bookies had his card marked as the underdog with odds of 66/1 after losing most of his chips early on, but Smyth pulled it out of the bag to finally win the $1m jackpot.

The final table of the Ladbrokes Poker Million had Marty Smyth playing against the likes of Kevin Allen, Svein Petter Neilsen, Liam Flood, Eoghan O’Dea and Ciaran O’Leary. This was the third time that Marty Smyth had made it to play poker on the final round of the Ladbrokes Poker Million, and it was certainly third time lucky, the winnings can now be added to his total poker earnings bringing it to a very healthy $3,663,939, of which $250,000 was won earlier in the year by Smyth at the World Open, making this a very lucrative year of poker indeed. Marty Smyth is a sponsored poker pro with Boylepoker.com and as such other poker players with Boyle Poker were given the opportunity to enter a free tournament to give them a 5% prize fund of the final winnings.

Sensible appears to be Marty Smyth’s middle name as he has no immediate plans to make any big purchases to celebrate such an extraordinary year, in fact he plans to invest the best part of his win as he is well aware that as a professional gambler, luck may not always be on your side.