POKERPLAYER: You’ve been racking up big results for the past couple of years, but were you more of an online player prior to that?

MARTY SMYTH: When I started playing six or seven years ago, I’d play the odd rebuy tournament, but I started taking poker a bit more seriously when I starting playing on the internet. For the first few years I just played cash games online; at first I saw it as a hobby, but after a few months I was doing really well. I never thought I’d do it for a living, but I was making more money than I would have been in any job so I decided to give it a go for a couple of years and see how it went.