Smiley Folds to Tsai
Oct 23, '14
Al Tsai raised to 1,900 from middle position and Walter Smiley called from the small blind. The two went heads-up to a flop of 10
5
4
and Smiley checked. Tsai fired out of bet of 3,000 and Smiley decided it wasn’t worth the cards he had been dealt.
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The Legend of Walter Smiley
Oct 23, '14
Walter Smiley won the final preliminary event of the Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Westside Poker Championship just last night, event 6: $150 no-limit hold’em super stack turbo $10,000 guarantee for $3,230. But there is more to Smiley’s story than just being a prelim winner – Smiley is the owner of a World Series of Poker bracelet, having won the $5,000 seven-card stud event for $35,000 during the seventh annual WSOP in 1976.
Smiley’s most recent cash at the WSOP happened in 2012 when he finished 39th for $3,921 in the $1,500 seven-card stud hi-lo eight-or-better. In total, Smiley has about $350,000 in career live winnings.
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