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Gavin Smith (poker player)

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Gavin Smith (4 September 1968 to 14 January 2019) was a Canadian professional poker player. He won the World Poker Tour Season IV Mirage Poker Showdown Championship event and the WPT Season IV Player of the Year award in 2005. At the 2010 World Series of Poker he won the 2,500 dollar Mixed Hold 'em event, which gave him his first bracelet. He learned card play with cribbage and rummy against his father, began playing poker at 26 with co-workers, became a poker dealer in 1996 and set up his own poker club in Kitchener, Ontario in 1998, after earlier work as a taxi driver and on a golf course in Guelph.

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