"It's always been my dream to win a bracelet," said Bradley Smith. "Anyone who plays poker, it's their dream to win a bracelet." Today, his dream has come true.
Smith overcame a field of 460 entrants, a marathon final table that stretched the tournament into an unscheduled fourth day, and a back-and-forth heads-up battle with Nghia "3 Putts" Le. He captured the $221,733 up top and his first WSOP gold bracelet in Event #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better at the 2023 World Series of Poker.
Smith hails from Thornhill, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His entry into mixed games has been fairly recent. "I didn't play any mixed games until 2017," said Smith. "I played the $1,100 Mega Satellite for H.O.R.S.E. the night before the 10k event - that was my first live mixed game of any kind. I won $10,000 - I was actually the chip leader when that ended."
"The next year might have been my first WSOP mixed game tournament - the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., and I finished third in that (in 2018 for $87,769). I've absolutely fallen in love with mixed games. I don't play them any other time of the year, but I would play mixed games all the time if I could."
Smith overcame a field of 460 entrants, a marathon final table that stretched the tournament into an unscheduled fourth day, and a back-and-forth heads-up battle with Nghia "3 Putts" Le. He captured the $221,733 up top and his first WSOP gold bracelet in Event #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better at the 2023 World Series of Poker.
Smith hails from Thornhill, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His entry into mixed games has been fairly recent. "I didn't play any mixed games until 2017," said Smith. "I played the $1,100 Mega Satellite for H.O.R.S.E. the night before the 10k event - that was my first live mixed game of any kind. I won $10,000 - I was actually the chip leader when that ended."
"The next year might have been my first WSOP mixed game tournament - the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., and I finished third in that (in 2018 for $87,769). I've absolutely fallen in love with mixed games. I don't play them any other time of the year, but I would play mixed games all the time if I could."
