Over the weekend, Team PokerStarsPro member Jason treysfull21Mercier (pictured) reasserted himself by taking down a $10,300 Eight Game High Roller event during the World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP. Mercier claimed his second WCOOP bracelet in the process, which came two years removed from a win in a $1,050 No Limit Hold’em WCOOP tournament after a three-way chop for $435,000. This time around, Mercier’s payday was $253,000.

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The field of the $10,300 Eight Game High Roller event totaled less than 100, but according to the PokerStars Blog, it was pretty fierce: “Red Spades made up 12% of the field, including Alex Kravchenko, David Williams, Ville Wahlbeck, Eugene Katchalov, George Danzer, Theo Jorgensen, and Bertrand ElkY Grospellier.” Talk about tough competition.

When six players remained, Mercier could be found in the middle of the pack. And when play finally got around to heads-up, Mercier and Ireland’s Gozoborowere nearly even in chips. Mercier, an American transplant playing online poker in Canada, eventually built a 7:1 lead. Despite the steep hole he had dug himself, Gozoboro scooped 10 consecutive pots during Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better to draw close to even, but Mercier dominated in Razz.

Mercier outlasted a final table that also featured PokerStars front man Daniel Negreanu and Scott gunning4youSeiver. Here’s how the final six cashed out. There were four countries represented:

1. Jason treysfull21Mercier (Canada) – $253,425
2. Gozoboro (Ireland) – $169,725
3. Daniel Negreanu (Canada, pictured) – $130,200
4. Niki “RealAndyBeal” Jedlicka (Austria) – $88,350
5. Ben “BensBenz” Yu (Mexico) – $65,100
6. Scott “gunning4you” Seiver (Canada) – $48,825

Mercier has been a beast throughout his poker career and signed up for a PocketFives account in 2007. He finished second in a PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy earlier this year for a six-figure payday and famously won the European Poker Tour’s stop in San Remo in 2008 for €869,000, putting him on the poker map. He has $1.3 million in tracked MTT winnings in his PocketFives profile.

The Canada poker player is also the proud holder of two World Series of Poker bracelets. The first came in 2009 in a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event, while the second came last year in a $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max tournament. All told, he has over $1.8 million in career WSOP earnings on the strength of two wins and nine top-ten finishes. He owned the top spot in the ESPN poker rankings “The Nuts” for nearly a year.

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