Asa Gregory Smith Doubles Up
Sep 08, '09
Georgios Kapalas raised to 326,000 preflop and Asa Gregory Smith reraised all in to 484,000. Kapalas made the call and they flipped up their cards:
Kapalas: 6
6
Smith: A
A
Board: K55
9Q
Smith doubled up on the hand.
Player Tags: Asa Smith, Georgios Kapalas
Asa Smith Eliminated in Fifth Place (€200,000)
Sep 09, '09
Asa Smith is all in for 620,000 with A 3 and Carter Phillips calls with A 5.
The board falls 6 5 2 7 9 and the five is enough to send Smith to the rail.
He goes out in fifth place for €200,000.
Player Tags: Asa Smith
Smith is "Terra-rised"
Sep 09, '09
Santiago Terrazas reraises Asa Smith all in for 1,235,000 and Smith only has to call 400,000 or so more. Smith calls and flips over 5 5 and Terrazas shows 8 8.
It’s definitely Terraza’s day as the board brings a shiny 8
The rest of the cards are 6 3 J 10.
Smith is left with 400,000 while Terrazas builds up to 2,585,000.
Player Tags: Asa Smith
Asa Smith Doubles Up
Sep 09, '09
Asa Smith moved all in preflop for 540,000 from the button and Matt Lapossie called from the small blind. Their cards:
Smith: AK
Lapossie: A7
Board: A101092
Smith doubled up on the hand, repeating the trend that has dominated early play at this final table.
Player Tags: Asa Smith
Player Bio -- Asa Smith
Sep 09, '09
Provided by PokerStars:
Seat 4: Asa Smith, 22, from Ledbury, UK – 1,380,000 chips
Smith is one of the UK’s brightest young talents and currently on a tournament heater having strung four back to back cashes on the PokerStars European Poker Tour. This is the deepest that the young English professional poker player has gone however – and he could go all the way. A big score will add to the $92,259 that Smith has already scooped in EPT tournaments since he cashed for $24,000 at the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Smith usually plays mid- to high-stakes cash games online and says that he plays full time “as long as you can count playing 15-20 hours a week as a jobâ€. His biggest EPT cash to date was €25,000 in the €10,000 EPT Grand Final at Monte Carlo last season.
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