John Mercier Just Misses Winning Back-to-Back $10,000 Championship Events at 2016 WSOP
This was published 17-06-2016It has been reported that Jason Mercier, the American professional poker player from Hollywood, Florida, came within one spot of winning back-to-back $10,000 champion events, hundreds of thousands of dollars in bracelet bets as well as a legitimate shot at another $1.8 million, at the 2016 World Series of Poker on Wednesday, 15th June 2016.
Mercier managed to get all the way to heads up play in the $10,000 Razz Championship two days after winning the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, before eventually finishing runner-up to Ray Dehkharghani.
Dehkharghani managed to win his first WSOP bracelet with his first $273,338 first-place prize that came with it.
Earlier this week Mercier took down the Lowball Title and admitted that the win was worth much more than the $273,335 first-prize place that it came with due to the hundreds of thousands in bracelet bets that he had on the side. Mercier went on to claim that he had several bets on two bracelets, at 18- or 19-1 as well as a $10,000 bet with Vanessa Selbst at 180-1 to win three, where he stands to win $1.8 million.
Mercier was quite upset that he was not able to take advantage of the back-to-back event in order to clear some of those bets and move even closer to a huge payday despite the fact that he took home an amount of $168,936 for the runner-up finish last Wednesday.
Commenting on his miss, Mercier said that what he is most disappointed about right now is the fact that he had a bunch of bets on winning two bracelets, and the huge one on winning three. He added that it is like almost impossible to win three when you get a second-(place finish), because it means that you are going to have to get heads up four times. He went on to say that it is tough to do and he is a little disappointed for the equity of his bet but that he obviously won more money and one cannot be too disappointed anytime that one gets heads up for a bracelet, but that he is still quite disappointed.
