What Makes Gavin Smith So Good?

[statedogg 0]

Is he really this good or just that lucky? If you listen to him on The Circuit he almost comes across as dumb. He admitidly knows almost nothing about the math aspect of the game. He plays way too many hands, he stays out drinking the night before, but he's kicking arse this year. He looks and acts like the type of person you want to see playing in your game, but its hard to argue with his results.What do you think he has going for him right now?

[Knight_Owl 0]

Is he really this good or just that lucky? If you listen to him on The Circuit he almost comes across as dumb. He admitidly knows almost nothing about the math aspect of the game. He plays way too many hands, he stays out drinking the night before, but he's kicking arse this year. He looks and acts like the type of person you want to see playing in your game, but its hard to argue with his results.What do you think he has going for him right now?

He has patience, knowledge and Experience!

[mario_kelly 0]

He plays 80% of hands....and is a far better player after the flop than most...i believe he calls his style small ball poker where his goal is to pick up lots of small pots instead of waiting for a monster hand vs another monster hand.

[diamondhead 0]

Great Instincts also.

[Yoda 1]

And he can eat a box of twinkies like nobodys business!

[blakheart 3]

He has Patience knowledge and Experience!

Intresting- I think he has great reading ability, and puts constant preasure on his opponents. The small ball style has been very successful lately on the tour. He is in lots of hands and makes great reads.

[commoncents 0]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"sometimes in a game i dont like to let on to how much i know about poker either. just something to think about

[mtdesmoines 3]

Intresting- I think he has great reading ability, and puts constant preasure on his opponents. The small ball style has been very successful lately on the tour. He is in lots of hands and makes great reads.

Contrarian poker. Who would have guessed it would work?

[hardkorbeatz 0]

probably has something to do with his wiener

[XX44466XX 0]

The man posted pics of his dong online; obviously he has no fear.

[NicksDad1970 0]

The man posted pics of his dong online; obviously he has no fear.

I don't know if you're joking or not but that's a different fella.

[CodyHartman 0]

The man posted pics of his dong online; obviously he has no fear.

that was Gavin Griffin

[XX44466XX 0]

that was Gavin Griffin

Unfortunately.For us.

[EdOwen 0]

His triple chin brings him a lot of luck at the poker table..

[No_Neck 0]

he knows when to holdem and knows when to foldem.

[Billy 0]

lol all I know is my girlfriend gets disgusted when she sees him on TV.

[TB17 0]

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournament...53screen=resultGavin Smith is the chip leader. As for why he's so good...doesn't he play like DN sorta?As for that tourney, I bet Zeus wins it.

[profxavier9 0]

he just SAYS he knows nothing about the math because he wants to put across the point that it is not all that important in TOURNAMENT play. he is a GOOD hyper aggressive player.

[Knight_Owl 0]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"sometimes in a game i dont like to let on to how much i know about poker either. just something to think about

this reminds me about that quote that goes something like "the loudest thing you could say, is saying nothing at all"

[InertGrudge 0]

Second day:2 Phil Ivey 138,600 ChipsIt's over.Seriously, they might as well quit playing.

[UncleKraut 0]

Is he really this good or just that lucky? If you listen to him on The Circuit he almost comes across as dumb. He admitidly knows almost nothing about the math aspect of the game. He plays way too many hands, he stays out drinking the night before, but he's kicking arse this year. He looks and acts like the type of person you want to see playing in your game, but its hard to argue with his results.What do you think he has going for him right now?

I disagree that he comes across as a dumbass on the circuit. Have you been listening? He provides a lot of great insight.

[astros11ss 0]

Second day:2 Phil Ivey 138,600 ChipsIt's over.Seriously, they might as well quit playing.

check www.pokerwire.comgavin smith busted phil ivey. lol, it's so funny that you posted that in this gavin smith thread, and then gavin busted phil and now has a big chip lead.

[PrtyPSux 0]

I just got back from harra's, I was railing nordberg (2nd in chips starting the ft)...He got the unluckiest table draws ever. First, on the bubble he gets moved, his table has Ivey, Brian (chiplead at the point), gavin. There was 4 players over 200k and no one at the other two tables had 100k. He finally gets a table redraw and he turns around and tells me "it got worse" he's in seat 1, CL in seat 2, Gavin seat 3 and Ivey seat 5. Anyway I got to see most of the play at that table, gavin is really sick, but not as sick as Ivey is (obv)...I saw Ivey value bet the river on a K9459 board with 47s gavin called with what Im only guessing is A high. The hand were ivey busted was insane, he's only going broke there if the K hits. After Gavin had such a massive stack, I swear he raised 90% of his hands, if not more...It was something sick to watch, everyone who tried playing back at him got severley outplayed postflop, this guy was just playing the most reckless poker Ive ever seen. The bubble broke and he had 645k in chips, Nordberg (peter feldman) is in 2nd with like 240k, how sick is that?Anyway, I wish I could pick this guys brain, my respect for his game just went sky high after today...he also seems like a really down to earth and cool guy.

[Al Smooth 0]

At some point, it just stops being an accident. Gavin Smith seems to have found himself a nice little playing style outside of the norm and people just aren't ready for it when they sit at the table with him. There was a guy like that at my table first day of the WPT Championship. He would raise or re-raise 5, 6, 9 times the blind or existing raise and just force people out and pick up small pot after small pot. Most people tried to avoid him and just let him accumulate over the course of the day. Nobody likes playing a "crazy" person, but it seems that Gavin has found a way to be successful with it.

[SGFULTON83 0]

It's called accumulating chips so when you gamble with your big hands its with others chips......I just wish I could actually do this, but I am too timid in tournament play.....I like the aggressive style players, and wish I could be more aggressive at times, knowing thats what it takes and doing it are definitely two different things..........JMO