Roy Wood may have made a few quid pretending he wished it was Christmas every day, but even thirty years ago that looked like a bluff to me! Celebrating Christmas once every five years would be more than enough for me, New Year’s Eve on the other hand is a totally different story, I’ve come to love it since we began spending the celebrations in Galway.
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Things are just starting to get back to normal after all the excitement of the Poker Million final. I’ve had a great couple of weeks since I last posted, taking it as easy as possible. I’ve probably spent more time at home over the last couple of weeks than I did during the last 3 months, although I still found time to play a couple of small charity tournaments in the jackpot club in Dublin and in Rose’s bar in Creeslough, Donegal.
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Poker Million winner - Marty Smyth

After the semi final was over the main feeling I had was not one of excitement for the final, but of relief that I hadn’t busted out in the semi final. I know even making the semi final of an event such as the Poker Million is an achievement in itself, but that still wouldn’t have made me feel any better about things if I hadn’t got through, and I feel very fortunate indeed that I haven’t had to deal with the feeling of busting in a semi final yet.

As you can imagine, there was plenty of celebration after the semi final. A few more friends had arrived from home and when I got back from the studios they were already four or five pints ahead of me. I did my best to catch up. We just hung around the hotel bar for the rest of the night and it was a great night’s craic.
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I was awake earlier than expected on Friday, I wasn’t sure at first why I couldn’t sleep and then it dawned on me why I had so much adrenaline pumping through my veins, the Poker Million final. It’s not difficult to explain, every Marty victory catapults both his name and ours into the poker player’s consciousness, and that’s a good thing.
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A veritable lifetime ago young Ciaran and I were in London on a business trip, which also allowed us to attend Marty’s heat in the 2008 Poker Million. Neither of us had attended a Matchroom televised event before so we were excited; the fact that our star man was in action as well just added to the magic.
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I think people might believe that I was lying, or maybe just trying to be modest when I said before my semi that I really didn’t expect to get through to the final, but that honestly was the case. It’s not that I felt out of my depth or anything, but I knew that it was a tough heat, and with only the top three players qualifying out of eight, I reckoned my chances of progressing were only about 40% or so.
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Since Marty Smyth seems to be running away with quite a lot of the poker honours this year, we decided to treat you to some video clips of his recent W.S.O.P 10k Pot Limit Omaha World Championship Win! Enjoy!

Several eyebrows were raised when I was asked to captain and select an Irish team to take part in this year’s Poker Nation’s Cup. I think the reason I was chosen as captain was so that the captain wouldn’t have to worry about me! Several more eyebrows were raised when I named my team.

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