Dan Smith Defeats Steve Aoki

Jun 18, 2021

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Dan Smith has done it! After a flurry of all-ins with blinds extremely big and stacks just as shallow, Smith got the better of it.

In the last hand of the match, Smith shoves his button with Diamond 9Club 7. Steve Aoki only has a single big blind left after having put in the big blind, and commits with Heart 2Heart 3.

The tiny suited connector doesn’t proof lucky for Aoki as Smith flops two-pair: Diamond 7Diamond QSpade 9. Aoki, already telling his opponent good game, gets a slimmer of hope on the Club 2 turn giving him two outs to stay alive. Unfortunately for the world famous cake throwing DJ, the river isn’t the deuce he’s looking for as instead it comes a meaningless Spade 5.

Dan Smith lost the first match but dominated the second to even the score. In the last match, it could’ve gone either way. In the end it was Smith who goes on to the round of 16 while Aoki bows out.

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