Gavin Smith is one of my favorite live tournament players.

“This is just a game where you’ve got a lot of disappointment and you’re gonna go through horrible horrible horrible runs and there’s gonna be times when everything goes bad. I think it’s really important to remember that you ended up getting the title of being a decent or good or great player by doing some things right and you just gotta keep trying to do those.

I’m fortunate enough to have the greatest set of friends that anybody could ever have. They’re super supportive and they remind me that I have actually accomplished a bunch of shit in poker and I am pretty good. Sometimes when you’re running bad you forget that. It sucks if you’re one of the guys that is isolated and you’re off on your own and you’re starting to believe you’re not any good and you’re forgetting that you are pretty good. You don’t have that circle of friends just to remind you?

That’s hard.”

Gavin Smith / PokerRoad radio 10-15-08 podcast

Gavin made the final table of the WPT North American Poker Championship held at Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls

The final table is set to begin today at 4:00 pm ET.

Here are the official chip counts:
Seat 1 - Kathy Liebert - 1,620,000
Seat 2 - Gavin Smith - 2,815,000 (2nd in chips woot!)
Seat 3 - Marc Karam - 1,850,000
Seat 4 - Glen Witmer - 3,710,000
Seat 5 - James Trenholm - 1,365,000
Seat 6 - Ryan Fisler - 2,285,000

You can follow the action here. GOOOOO Gavin!