WSOP Event No. 50 Winner Marty Smyth

Event No. 50 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Pot Limit Omaha World Championship tournament that got under way on June 29th and finished on July 1st.  The top 36 players in the tournament would see a piece of the record making prize pool.

There wee a total of 381 players entered into the tournament to create a record prize pool of $3,581,400 dollars.  With they buyin at $10,000 dollars per player this made for the largest ever Pot Limit Omaha tournament prize pool in the history of poker.

This was one of the few "World Champion" events in the World Series of Poker that are also gold bracelet events.  So the winner of the event gets a gold bracelet and the World Champion title for Pot Limit Omaha.  At this year's World Series of Poker there are going to be 10 World Champions total.

The final table of Event No. 50 was played on the main stage and was filmed by ESPN to be aired at a later date.  The winner of the event and the Pot Limit World Champion is Marty Smyth.  He is a professional poker player from Belfast, Ireland.

This was his first WSOP gold bracelet win and his second time to cash at the World Series of Poker.  He has only made one cash previously at the WSOP at the $1,500 buyin Pot Limit Omaha event that was held earlier this year where he finished in 39th place.  Marty Smyth won $859,549 dollars for his first place finish.

Before he began his career as a professional poker player he worked as a civil servant.  He said, “It was a dead-end job, I was lucky to find poker.”  He has before the fifth Irish national in history to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

When he made his way to the final table he was ranked fourth in the chip count.  “It’s more of a relief (to win), than anything,” he said.   WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack handed him his first WSOP gold bracelet and said, “I present to you this gold and diamond bracelet which you can now take back to the emerald isle.”

The final results for Event No. 50 are below.

1    Martin Smyth    $859,549    Belfast    Ireland
2    Peter Jetten    $528,256    Toronto    Ontario, Canada
3    Michael Mizrachi    $331,279    Las Vegas    Nevada
4    Billy Argyros    $268,605    Melbourne    Australia
5    Richard Harroch    $214,884    San Francisco    California
6    Kido Pham    $170,116    Dallas    Texas
7    Tom Hanlon    $134,302    Dublin     Ireland
8    Brandon Moran    $107,442    Chicago    Illinois
9    Greg Hurst    $80,581    Tazewell    Tennessee
10    David Benefield    $53,721    Fort Worth     Texas
11    Shawn Buchanan    $53,721    Abbottsford    British Columbia, Canada
12    Joshua Arieh    $53,721    Marietta    Georgia
13    Thong Tran    $44,767    Las Vegas    Nevada
14    Julian Powell    $44,767    Victoria    Australia
15    Kenneth Mattson    $44,767    Stockholm    Sweden
16    Guillaume Patry    $35,814        Quebec, Canada
17    Eduard Scharf    $35,814    Koln    Germany
18    Rino Mathis    $35,814    Uster    Switzerland
19    Dario Alioto    $28,651    Palermo    Italy
20    David Ashby    $28,651    Louisville    Kentucky
21    Stephen Ladowsky    $28,651    Toronto    Ontario, Canada
22    Rob Hollink    $28,651    Groningen    Netherlands
23    Magnus Petersson    $28,651        Sweden
24    Brant Hale    $28,651    Moore    Oklahoma
25    Sigi Stockinger    $28,651    Linz    Austria
26    David Williams    $28,651    Las Vegas    Nevada
27    Jamison Pickering    $28,651    Surfers Paradise    Australia
28    Nikolay Evdakov    $25,069    Moscow    Russia
29    Robin Larsson    $25,069    Koping     Sweden
30    Vegard Nygaard    $25,069    Oslo    Norway
31    Ben Blackmore    $25,069    Liverpool    England
32    Nicholas Gibson    $25,069    Bucks    England
33    Jonas Klausen    $25,069    Odense C    Denmark
34    David Singer    $25,069    Las Vegas    Nevada
35    Jorge Arias    $25,069    Caracas    Venezuela
36    Eric Cloutier    $25,069    Lafayette    Louisiana