Jason Mercier shows the world he is in the shape of his life. After taking down a bracelet and ending runner-up in the Razz Championship, he managed to win another bracelet. This time it was the $10K H.O.R.S.E. Championship, good for $422,874 and one step closer to winning three bracelets (and costing Vanessa Selbst a lot of money).
Jason Mercier started the final day, again, as chipleader. Below are the chipcounts at the start of the last day.
|
Place |
Player |
Chips |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Jason Mercier |
1.597.000 |
|
2 |
Jesse Martin |
1.244.000 |
|
3 |
Nick Schulman |
1.170.000 |
|
4 |
Bryn Kenney |
708.000 |
|
5 |
Mikhail Semin |
684.000 |
|
6 |
Yuval Bronshtein |
577.000 |
|
7 |
Douglas Lorgeree |
519.000 |
|
8 |
James Obst |
466.000 |
|
9 |
Randy Ohel |
465.000 |
|
10 |
Adam Friedman |
436.000 |
|
11 |
John Monnette |
390.000 |
|
12 |
Jose Paz-Gutierrez |
115.000 |
|
13 |
Viacheslav Zhukov |
93.000 |
|
14 |
Ron Ware |
91.000 |
When Jason Mercier and James Obst reached the heads-up play, things seemed to go the wrong way for Mercier. He started the heads-up with a 3:1 chip arrear, and thanks to a huge pot in Limit Hold'em he came to a point where he had a 7:1 chip arrear. Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo was a good level for him, he doubled and took some more chips from Obst.
Finally, in Limit Hold'em, Mercier found a straight with 
against the 
of Obst on a board of 
to secure his second bracelet in these series, and his fifth WSOP-bracelet overall. The payouts of the final table were as follows.
|
Place |
Player |
Country |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Jason Mercier |
USA |
$422.874 |
|
2 |
James Obst |
Australia |
$261.354 |
|
3 |
Nick Schulman |
USA |
$183.779 |
|
4 |
Adam Friedman |
USA |
$131.519 |
|
5 |
Mikhail Semin |
Russia |
$95.817 |
|
6 |
Jesse Martin |
USA |
$71.089 |
|
7 |
Yuval Bronshtein |
Israel |
$53.729 |
|
8 |
Bryn Kenney |
USA |
$41.383 |
