Justin "Boosted J" Smith (born January 8, 1988, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American high-stakes poker player living in Los Angeles, CA.
Smith began playing poker at the age of 17, after needing a wheelchair for several weeks which had caused him to lose his part-time job.
Smith's first major tournament success came during the 2007 Full Tilt Online Poker Series, where he tied for 1st in the $1.5 Million Guarantee, good for $175,326.
As of year end 2011 he has amassed just over two million dollars in tournament winnings, including 5 cashes in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and a 3rd place finish at the 2009 WPT Bellagio Cup V Championship for $464,870.
[4] In 2011 he had a 4th place finish at the 2011 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Event worth $289,440.
These include games like Omaha, Lowball, Seven Card Stud, and Texas Hold'Em at levels up to $4,000/$8,000 limit as well as reports of playing as high as $2,000/$4,000/$8,000 blind Pot Limit Omaha during rumored high-stakes marathon games running at the Bellagio, Rio, and Aria casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada, during consecutive summers.
In a follow-up to their collaboration on POWER/RANGERS, Smith and Shankar have at least two more film projects that have already been produced with superhero drama GODS and SECRETS and battle-rap comedy-drama BODIED, of which the latter is also helmed by Kahn.