Dan Smith Defeats Steve Aoki

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 . Steve Aoki only has a single big blind left after having put in the big blind, and commits with .

The tiny suited connector doesn’t proof lucky for Aoki as Smith flops two-pair: . Aoki, already telling his opponent good game, gets a slimmer of hope on the  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 .

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.