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On a royal flush draw, Marty Smyth goes all-in in the last hand of the $10,000 PL Omaha event, wins.
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2008-07-03 14:06
Even though he’s had quite a few notable live poker achievements, Marty Smyth was yet to prove his worth in a WSOP event. Sure, he’s had a WSOP money finish, but that only came about this year, in the $1,500 PL Omaha event. Apparently, all Marty needed was another PL Omaha event to get his act together, and event #50 gave him the opportunity.
The other 8 players at the final table Marty would have to battle for his first bracelet, were: Kido Pham, who came in on a stack of 1,080,000 chips, Brandon Moran (1,286,000), Michael Mizrachi (1,767,000), Peter Jetten (492,000), Greg Hurst (637,000), Bill Argyros (729,000), Tom Hanlon (192,000), and Richard Harrock (372,000). Smyth himself had a stack of 1,068,000 chips.
Even though he wasn’t exactly the short-stack, and he’d had three more WSOP cashes this year, Greg Hurst was the first one to be railed. He pushed all-in on his A,A,9,8 against Mizrachi’s A,K,5,4. The latter made a straight (on a flop of 7,6,3) which Hurst couldn’t catch up with.
Brandon Moran began to slowly slip, and as his stack got closer and closer to the felt, he felt the need to do something to chip up. Richard Harrock hit him again and pushed him onto the brink of elimination, but Moran found the strength to regain his swagger doubling up at Marty Smyth’s expense. A couple of hands later though, he found himself ejected, heading to the rail in 8th place.
Tom Hanlon, the short-stack coming into the final table, had a lucky run. He doubled up against Michael Mizrachi, but the ordeal wasn’t over for him. Spurred on by the need to chip up, he got into another all-in against Mizrachi, on a pocket hand of A,K,10,9. Mizrachi promptly called him with J,8,6,2 and proceeded to hit two pairs on the flop. Event though Hanlon hit a pair on the turn too, the river brought a blank and Hanlon was eliminated in 7th.
Pham left next, followed by a key-double up that Smyth hit against Mizrachi. The break found 5 players at the table, with Marty Smyth in the lead.
Richard Harrock was the first to bust after the break, followed by Argyros. Mizrachi pushed all-in against Jetten’s A,A,Q,8, on his A,K,5,3 and even though he made a pair of 5s on the flop, he couldn’t beat Jetten’s Aces.
The heads-up between Jetten and Smyth only lasted 30 hands. The final hand was Smyth’s K,J,J,Q against Jetten’s K,J,3,2. Both players hit the nut straight on a flop of Q,10,9, but Smyth made a flush with the 6c which landed on the river.
