Jason Mercier wins ... again
For those with Jason Mercier fatigue, click away. The rest of you... more good news.
On Monday, Mercier captured an undercard event at the European Poker Tour’s London stop, winning $185,000 U.S. The buy-in was £2,500.
Mercier had won nearly $450,000 U.S. for his fourth-place finish at the WSOPE Main Event, plus he won a pot-limit Omaha bracelet in Las Vegas earlier in the summer. He signed a Team PokerStars deal shortly thereafter.
Congrats to AnteUp Magazine for beating me on this one.
This quote from PokerStars, which also has a nice 3-minute video on him:
"I'm really pleased. It was quite a fast structure and at one point early on the final table I got short but won two coin flips in a row. That got me back up and eventually when I got heads up with Bruce Atkinson I was down 2:1 in chips. But I kept chipping away at his stack and managed to take a 5:1 chip lead. I got all in first with Q-9 to his K-6 and lost, but next hand I pushed with 4-4, he called with A-2... and I won."
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
