Bill Smith was a player from Dallas. He was an excellent gambler and managed to win the main 1985 after beating TJ Cloutier with a pair of threes. Still, if he hadn’t drunk so much he would have had much more titles. “Bill was the tightest player you'd ever played in your life when he was sober, recalled Cloutier later. “And when he was halfway drunk, he was the best player I'd ever played with.” No one could read opponents’ hands better than half-drunk Smith. “But when he got past that halfway mark, he was the worst player I'd ever played with.”
It’s a pity that he never cared about that “halfway mark.” It seemed that he did not even care whether he had money or not. He just gambled and that’s all. Of course Smith played poker in the backrooms as poker was prohibited. Once he even set a record for being arrested for illegal gambling. He was playing poker with his friends and the police went in and put all the players in jail. As soon they got out of it (which happened on the same afternoon) they immediately began another game. The police was here again and again arrested the whole company. Guess what they did, when they got out of jail for second time several hours later. And guess what did the police. He was arrested for three times on that day. Bill Smith is deceased now.Bill Smith's Winning List:1)1981 - NL Holdem - 5th2)1985 - NL Holdem (Championship Event) - 1st3)1986 - NL Holdem - 5th
