Jason Mercier

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Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier (2019)
Jason Mercier (2019)
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 12, 1986
place of birth United StatesUnited States Port Charlotte
Nicknames
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JasonMercierPokerStars

treysfull21Full Tilt Poker
place of residence United StatesUnited States Fort Lauderdale
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 1,622,181
Total prize money $ 19,757,227
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 5
Cashes 71
Best main event 463rd ( 2010 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 11
  Main Event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 10
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 2
Last updated: June 5, 2020

Jason Mark Mercier (born November 12, 1986 in Port Charlotte , Florida ) is a professional American poker player .

Mercier has earned over $ 19.5 million in live poker tournaments . He is a five-time bracelet winner from the World Series of Poker , where he was named Player of the Year in 2016. At the European Poker Tour he won the Main Event in Sanremo in April 2008 and the High Roller in London in October 2008 .

The Bluff Magazine voted him the best player of the year 2009. The sports broadcaster ESPN ranked the American in their poker rankings at number one for a long time. From May to September 2013, Mercier was at the top of the poker world rankings for 17 weeks in a row . In total, Mercier held the top position for 63 weeks , most recently in September 2015. Only Alex Foxen stayed in first place longer. As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Mercier was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Mercier is from Davie in the US state of Florida . During his school days he played baseball , soccer and basketball . He received a scholarship from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton , which he lost because he was more concerned with online poker than his studies. Mercier moved to Broward Community College in Fort Lauderdale , where he worked as a substitute teacher and coached children's teams in soccer and basketball.

In July 2016, Mercier got engaged to poker player Natasha Barbour. The couple married in Florida in late November 2016 and had a son in October 2017. The family lives in Fort Lauderdale.

Poker career

Mercier joined poker in 2003 as a result of the moneymaker boom .

On-line

Mercier was a member of Team PokerStars under the nickname JasonMercier until the end of 2017 . He played as treysfull21 on the Full Tilt Poker platform . In total, between April 2008 and May 2017 , Mercier earned more than 2.2 million US dollars in prize money with online tournament poker .

In September 2010 he won a World Championship of Online Poker tournament on PokerStars and secured a prize money of around $ 435,000. In 2012 he won his second bracelet in this tournament series with the high roller of the mixed variant 8-game and received more than 250,000 US dollars. He also won five titles in the Spring Championship of Online Poker held on PokerStars .

live

Career

2008: Victory in the main event and high roller of the EPT
Mercier at the EPT in Monte-Carlo (2008)

Mercier has participated in prestigious live tournaments since 2008.

In April 2008 he won the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Sanremo and received a prize of 869,000 euros . In June 2008 , Mercier was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in three tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the EPT main event in Barcelona he reached the final table in mid-September 2008 and finished sixth, endowed with 227,800 euros. At the beginning of October 2008 he prevailed at the EPT High Roller in London and secured the grand prize of 516,000 pounds sterling , which at that time was equivalent to just under 950,000 US dollars.

In total, Mercier earned around $ 2.7 million in prize money in his first year as a tournament player.

2009–2011: Winning his first two bracelets

At the 2009 WSOP , he won a Pot Limit Omaha event and secured a prize of almost $ 240,000 and his first bracelet . At the end of September 2009 he sat at the final table at the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe played in London and finished fourth, which brought him the equivalent of around 440,000 US dollars. Mercier also won an EPT event in London at the beginning of October 2009 with a prize money equivalent to just under 185,000 US dollars. In April 2010, he won the North American Poker Tour Bounty Shootout in Uncasville and received the grand prize of $ 475,000. At the 2010 WSOP , Mercier cashed five times, including a. he finished 463rd in the main event . In April 2011 he prevailed again in the Bounty Shootout of the North American Poker Tour in Uncasville , for which he has now received prize money of 246,600 US dollars. In June 2011, Mercier won the 35th Pot Limit Omaha tournament of the 2011 WSOP , earning him his second bracelet and around $ 620,000. With four more cashes in the main tournament series and two cash placements at the WSOP Europe in Cannes , he finished eighth in the WSOP Player of the Year ranking . He finished the main event of the Epic Poker League at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas in mid-August 2011 in third place and received more than 360,000 US dollars. At the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Mercier won the High Roller of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in December 2011 with a grand prize of just under $ 710,000.

In total, by the end of 2011, Mercier had collected live tournament prize money of over US $ 7.5 million.

2012–2015: Third bracelet and highly endowed tournament successes
Mercier at the EPT in Barcelona (2013)

At the 2012 WSOP , Mercier made the money seven times; at the WSOP Europe in Cannes he cashed three times and took a. a. eighth place in the main event, endowed with almost 85,000 euros. At the EPT in Monte-Carlo in May 2013, he finished seventh in the main event and received 137,000 euros. He then reached the final table of the 100,000 Euro Super High Roller of the tournament series and, after losing heads-up to the German-Russian Max Altergott, came second, for which Mercier received prize money of over 1.1 million euros. Beginning in February 2014, he finished in the A $ 25,000 Challenge the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne in third place and secured due to a deal with four other players around 265,000 Australian dollars . At the Bellagio Hotel in late June 2014, Mercier finished runner -up in a $ 102,000 super high roller event and received his highest cash prize to date of more than $ 1.6 million. At the EPT High Roller in Barcelona, ​​he also took second place at the end of August 2014, which was paid for at EUR 476,400. In early December 2014, Mercier won the Alpha8 tournament on the World Poker Tour in St. Kitts for a prize of $ 727,500. At the 2015 WSOP , he secured his third bracelet and more than $ 630,000 in prize money by winning a No Limit Hold'em tournament . About ten days later, he finished runner- up in the series Pot Limit Omaha Championship for over $ 570,000. In mid-August 2015, he won the high roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood , Florida , the grand prize of which was just under $ 520,000 due to a deal with Ian O'Hara .

At the end of 2015, the total live tournament prize money won by Mercier was just under 16 million US dollars.

2016–2017: Two more bracelets and WSOP Player of the Year

At the end of January 2016, Mercier took third place in the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions, worth around 600,000 Australian dollars. On June 13, 2016, he won his fourth bracelet at the No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship at the 2016 WSOP . Two days later he finished second in the Seven Card Razz Championship and again secured his fifth bracelet just two days later by winning the HORSE Championship . In total, Mercier achieved eleven money placements during the tournament series and earned prize money of almost one million US dollars. Because of these achievements, he received the WSOP Player of the Year Award and an American Poker Award in February 2017 . From April to November 2016 he also played as part of the New York Rounders in the Global Poker League , but missed the playoffs with his team. In early April 2017, Mercier won the High Roller of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and received a prize of just under $ 800,000. He reached the paid ranks ten times at the 2017 WSOP .

In total, by the end of 2017, Mercier had collected live tournament prize money of over 18.5 million US dollars.

Since 2018: Less frequent tournament appearances

Due to the birth of his son, Mercier announced at the beginning of 2018 that he wanted to cut back on the game of poker and concentrate on regional tournaments and the World Series of Poker . In the WSOP 2018 he met four times in the money. In August 2019, Mercier prevailed in the Super High Roller of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open , earning him around $ 715,000.

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2008 02,752,423 2
2009 01,354,026 5
2010 01,064,908 2
2011 02,416,013 4th
2012 00.523,587 -
2013 01,837,361 1
2014 03,672,602 1
2015 02,271,405 3
2016 01,522,378 3
2017 01,144,367 1
2018 00.297.296 -
2019 00.900.865 1
2020 00,000.000 -
total 19,757,227 23

Bracelet overview

Mercier cashed 71 times at the WSOP and won five bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2009 0.1500 Pot-Limit Omaha 809 237,462
2011 0.5000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 507 619,575
2015 0.5000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 550 633.357
2016 10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship 100 273,335
10,000 HORSE Championship 171 422,874

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jason Mercier in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Jason Mercier in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Jason Mercier (treysfull21) Wins Bluff Player of the Year Award on pocketfives.com, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ The Nuts: Jason Mercier earns No. 1 , report on espn.go.com, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History on pokernews.com on June 27, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Jason Mercier Proposes To Natasha Barbour at the World Series of Poker Final Table on pokernews.com on July 9, 2016, accessed June 5, 2020.
  7. ↑ Jason Mercier and Natasha Barbour celebrate their wedding in Florida on hochgepokert.com on November 30, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  8. ↑ Jason & Natasha Mercier Welcome Baby Marco on highstakesdb.com from October 6, 2017, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ a b Poker Gossip - Mercier is leaving PokerStars on pokerfirma.com on January 8, 2018, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ treysfull21 in the PocketFives database, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  11. ↑ Julio Rodriguez: Jason Mercier Wins Event No. 42 at PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker on cardplayer.com on September 21, 2010, accessed June 5, 2020.
  12. ↑ WCOOP 2012 - Jason Mercier wins the Highroller 8 game & over $ 9.1 million waiting at the ME on pokerfirma.com on September 24, 2012, accessed June 5, 2020.
  13. ↑ Scores for JasonMercier on PokerStars in the PocketFives database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  14. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Sanremo (€ 4,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ a b c d e f g h Jason Mercier in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  16. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Barcelona (€ 8,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT London (£ 20,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  18. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2009 ($ 1,500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  19. ↑ World Series Of Poker Europe - WSOPE 2009 (£ 10,000 + 350 No Limit Hold'em - WSOPE Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  20. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT London (£ 2,500 + 200 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  21. ↑ North American Poker Tour - PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun ($ 25,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Bounty Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  22. ↑ North American Poker Tour - NAPT Uncasville ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Bounty Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  23. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker - WSOP 2011 ($ 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  24. ↑ 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year ( Memento from January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on bluff.com, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English)
  25. ↑ 2011-12 Epic Poker League - Event 1 ($ 20,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed - League Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  26. ↑ 2011 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  27. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  28. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller - 8 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2020 (English).
  29. ↑ 2014 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 25,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  30. ↑ Super High Roller ($ 100,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  31. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 # 31 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  32. ↑ World Poker Tour - WPT Alpha8 Saint Kitts ($ 97,000 + 3,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  33. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2015 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event # 32)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  34. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2015 ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship (Event # 54)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  35. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 25,400 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  36. ↑ 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em $ 100,000 Challenge (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  37. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2016 ($ 10,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  38. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2016 ($ 10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship (Event # 20)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  39. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2016 ($ 10,000 HORSE Championship (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  40. ↑ 2016 WSOP POY: Jason Mercier Clinches Player of the Year, Paul Volpe 2nd on pokernews.com on July 18, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2020.
  41. ↑ American Poker Awards - Lifetime Award for Mori Eskandani on pokerfirma.com on February 24, 2017, accessed on June 6, 2020.
  42. ^ New York Rounders ( April 11, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ) on the Global Poker League website, accessed June 5, 2020.
  43. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em High-Roller (Event # 28)) on the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
  44. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 18)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 5, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Mercier, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercier, Jason Mark (full name); JasonMercier (nickname); treysfull21 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Charlotte , Florida , United States