Who is Justin - a poker star?

Justin Smith is no stranger to the game by pain. Poker fans have witnessed 21 years of racing are deep fighting a fever of 102 degrees, also defending a cold, and fatigue fighting and the end of it are required between the hands. _ Then, in an incident that may be the first its kind in a major televised poker tournament,

Justin Smith tearing several ligaments in his left knee during a celebration on the rail accomplish the recent Bellagio Cup v. take A-3 against certain winner Alex Gomes pocket threes, Smith jump into the air as a jack hit the river, the board run out J-4-4-5-J to forge Gomes pocket pair. Smith, however, came while he curiously struck the earth, re-old damage were responsible for entering in the poker first. Smith took it all in the step, though, playing out the rest of the final table with an ice pack on his knee on his way to a third-place finish for $ 464,870. She also completed a summer that saw his first play of the world series poker and more than held its own piece of Bobby. Justin Smith was born on 8 January 1988 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Kissimmee, Florida. When he was 17 years, Smith has been involved in serious motorcycle injury that tore the ACL in his knee and left with a severely broken ankle. Confined to a wheelchair while his injuries healed, Smith had to stop his part-time work in a grocery store and was left without how to earn money. A friend who already beat the limit of the mid-stakes games held Smith submitted on-line poker, and after getting a few lessons, Smith deposited $ 50 on PokerStars. He began to play outside the limit $ 0.01/0.02 to keep correcting that $ 50 in small funds. After graduation from high school, Smith enrolled in the University of Central Florida as commander of cases falling outside his parents house and in his own apartment.
To pay the bills, Smith corrected out about $ 1000 a month playing $ 2 / 4 limit hold, but he was unable to raise issues in the light of the fact that it constantly cashing out. However, once that Smith decided to give the no-limit hold the movement roundabout removed his game and he should never look back.