Smith did not win another Pro Tour title until October 2007, when he took the PDPA Scottish Players Championship in Irvine – beating James Wade with a 108 average in the final.
He won a Players Championship in Dinslaken, Germany in June 2009, hitting a nine-dart finish in his quarter final before defeating Colin Lloyd to take the title.
[2] Smith suffered three successive first round defeats in the PDC World Championship, losing to Mensur Suljović in 2008, Tony Ayres in 2009, and Darin Young in 2010.
He broke this trend in the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship when he beat Shane Tichowitsch 3–1, and reached the last-16 for the second time in his career with a 4–3 win over Mervyn King, which included Smith hitting seven 100+ out-shots.
In June, Smith won the Bobby Bourn Memorial Players Championship beating Dave Chisnall 6–2 earning himself £6000.
[6] After all 33 ProTour events of 2012 had been played, Smith was 19th on the Order of Merit, comfortably inside the top 32 who qualified for the Players Championship Finals.
[13] Smith defeated Kevin Dowling 6–3 and Anderson and Ronnie Baxter both 6–2 at the Austrian Darts Open to play in his sole quarter-final of 2014.