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Gavin Smith Q & A; www.highrollerradioshow.com
Topic Started: Aug 13 2012, 03:35 PM (256 Views)
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Gavin Smith is one the best poker players in the world and currently represents www.infinitipoker.com, a brand new online poker site. Derrick Oliver of High Roller Radio was able to catch up with Smith, who’s won more than $5 million lifetime, at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas..

DO) You are known for your outgoing nature at the poker table, you’ve been known to talk quite a bit. Is that for fun? Or is there more to it? How strategic is your table talk?

GS) I’d say it’s a little bit of both. Let’s face it, it’s pretty boring to play poker for so long and just sit there, it’s a pretty miserable existence if you’re not having fun. Thing is, players give away a lot of information when they talk. They can give away the strength of their hand, whether or not they’re comfortable and they can also give away their motivation. If a guy says, “I qualified on a $100 satellite,” you can assume he likely wants to stick around for a while, maybe make the money, so you can play more aggressive against him. That kind of player is likely to lay down more hands.

DO) Fascinating stuff! That’s the sort of thing your regular, average player isn’t thinking about. How important is it for you to think like that, on another level?

GS) I think it’s important to think about everything while you’re at the table. If the best players in the world are taking everything in and you’re not, then you’re giving something up. Anytime you can find anything to your advantage you have to use that tool, especially nowadays with the fields getting tougher and tougher.

DO) Speaking of the tougher fields, what do you think the younger online kids are bringing to the game? How have they changed poker over the past couple of years?

GS) I think the biggest difference you see in poker is there’s a lot more variance. I mean, these kids are 3-betting, 4-betting, 5-betting, 6-betting you with nothing all the time. They’re forcing you to take a stance, to gamble a lot more than perhaps you’d like to, especially a guy like me who likes to play post-flop poker. Having said that, given the success they’ve had online you’d think a lot more of them would have had more success live. It just goes to show you how different each skill set is. It takes a hell of a player to be great at both.

DO) The WSOP is winding down. Can you take us back to 2010 when you landed your first gold bracelet? Can you describe for us what that was like? How big was that for you?

GS) I really love and appreciate the fact that I’ve won a gold bracelet. I’m finally off that stupid list of great players to have never won one. But here’s the thing, bracelets are hard to win. I mean, the fields are so large these days I don’t believe your career is defined by winning one. I play poker to support my family and for me it’s about the money. Realistically, I put the bracelet about 4th or 5th on my achievement list. It’s fantastic I own one and I’m thrilled I was able to do it but I still consider my greatest feat to be the ‘Player of the Year’ award in 2006. I’m part of a very exclusive list there, much more exclusive than the gold bracelet list.

DO) Congratulations are in order. You’ve just been signed on by Infiniti Poker, a new poker site, to be the face of the company. One of Infiniti Poker’s selling points is bitcoin technology? Players will be allowed to purchase bitcoin from a third party site and Infiniti Poker will accept that currency on the site. Is it your belief this will give US players an opportunity to once again grind out a living playing online poker?

GS) I believe it will! Everything I’ve heard about bitcoin technology has been favourable. Bitcoin is already being used in other fields and I think once people get comfortable with it they’ll see it’s an easier more effective way to transfer funds. You can withdraw winnings faster, a couple of days as opposed to weeks, and I truly see it as a possible solution to once again allow Americans to enjoy online poker.

DO) You used to represent Full Tilt Poker, before the unfortunate events of so-called ‘Black Friday’, so it’s got to be a good feeling to be wearing colours again?

GS) It feels real good! It’s always nice to have some backing. There are ups and downs in poker and the downs always come, so yes, this is great. I truly believe Infiniti Poker is going to make some great in roads and it’s nice to be associated with a group of honest, hard-working people. I know we’ll bring a good product to market and I think we’ve got a real opportunity here.

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