Gavin Smith MansionPoker Winner

It really did not come as a surprise that a pro won a recent online poker room sponsored event, even with other pros coaching the amateurs in the game. It was the MansionPoker.net World Pro-Am Challenge, and a handful of pros and a handful of amateurs sat down across the felt to battle it out for a half million dollar prize. To make things a bit more fair the amateurs were given pro poker players for coaches, whom they could consult over the battle.In the end it was Gavin Smith who took home the half million, but an amateur player from the United Kingdom took a healthy second place, and this in the first live event he ever played.