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Third Time Lucky as Belfast Man Wins 1 Million Poker Tournament Live...

Boylepoker.com sponsored poker pro Marty Smyth from South Belfast last night won $1 million in the Ladbrokes Poker Million live on SKY Sports 3.

Smyth, who this summer lifted the pot-limit Omaha world championship event at the World Series of Poker for which he collected $859,549, made a dramatic comeback -- from having the lowest in chips and 100/1 against winning -- to beat fellow countryman Eoghan O'sDea. It was the third year in a row he had made the final table of the prestigious event.

In 2006 he came sixth in the Poker million for $100,000 and last year came second for $500,000.

I can'st quite believe it still, said Smyth. I thought I was gone when I lost most of my chips early in the tournament. To come back and win $1 million is probably the highlight of my career. It just shows it'ss never over until it'ss over.

Smyth thought his tournament was over after unsuccessfully running ace-king into Liam Flood'ss king-king in the first few hands of the game and losing most of his chips but he battled hard and came from last to first in a thrilling event which saw Irishmen sweep the first four spots and over $1.5 million in prize money.

He was joined in the final six at the London tournament by Liam Flood and Eoghan O'sDea from Dublin, Ciaran O'sLeary from Cork, Englishman Kevin Allen and Norwegian Svein Petter Neilsen.

Smyth also won the World Open earlier this year for a $250,000 payday. He now has total career earnings of poker tournament of $3,663,939.

Paul Spillane, head of poker at Boylepoker.com said, Marty is a poker legend and this victory tops off the most incredible year. He has won 3 major events and this is the third year in a row he has been on the final table of the Poker Million. Boylepoker are proud to be associated with such a unique poker talent.

The prize pool for the event was (other winners in parenthesis):

First $1,000,000

Second $260,000 (Eoghan O'sDea)

Third $175,000 (Ciaran O'sLeary)

Fourth$130,000 (Liam Flood)

Fifth $100,000 (Kevin Allen)

Sixth $75,000 (Svein Petter Neilsen)

One online poker player at Boylepoker.com was over the moon with Smyth'ss victory having won a free-to-enter tournament during the week, the first prize of which was 5 percent of the Irishman'ss $1 million win. He collected $50,000.

The event was broadcast live on SKY Sports 3 on Friday December 12 at 7 p.m.

About Boylepoker

Boylepoker is part of the biggest European poker network -- iPoker. Players have access to a huge range of tournaments running around the clock with massive guaranteed prize pools and the opportunity to qualify for prestigious live events. The company does not accept players from the U.S.

For further details and photographs please contact: brendan at pokermediaconsulting dot com or pspillane at boylepoker dot com.

    

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