{"id":655,"date":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepropoker.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"655","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepropoker.com\/en\/news\/655.html","title":{"rendered":"Jason Mercier wins EPT London millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two days of play and repeated doubles, the champion of San Remo Jason mercier<\/strong> defeated the playing field of 85 strongest competitors and won the high roller tournament of the European Poker Tour. <\/p>\n

In addition to Jason, stars such as Phil Ivey paid \u00a3 20,000 each for the tournament. Daniel Negreanu, Guus Hansen and WSOPE Main Event winner John Juanda.<\/p>\n

The second day began with the leadership of the Frenchman David Benjamin. This is how the starting positions looked at the beginning of the second day of the game:<\/p>\n

David Benyamine - 295,900
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Alexander Roumeliotis - 229,400
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Jason Mercier - 161,200
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Scotty Nguyen - 159,100
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Masaaki Kagawa - 159,000
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John Juanda - 138.900
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Michael Watson - 118,000
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Peter Jetten - 105,100
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Isabelle Mercier - 99,200
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Isaac Haxton - 83,200
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Dennis Phillips - 73,200
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Ghassan Bitar - 58,700
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Andrew Feldman - 33,000
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Jani Sointula - 6,500 <\/em><\/p>\n

Jani Sointula, Ghassan Bitar and Dennis Phillips were the first to leave the tournament on the second day.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Mercier became the first participant to make it to the prize money - but finished in ninth place. She lost to Michael Watson in AJ vs. AK for \u00a3 51,000.<\/p>\n

David Benjamin was unable to maintain his chip lead for long. He bet his entire stack on K-J and lost to Michael Watson who held A-A... Community Cards 8-7-10-Q-7 Benjamin was left on the table in 8th place (\u00a3 69,000).<\/p>\n

In seventh place was Masaaki Kagawa (\u00a3 86,000) who lost Comparison A-Q with A-K.
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Isaac Haxton reraises Juanda and puts all-in on 8-8... But Juanda showed a pair of aces, which turned into a set on the flop. For his 6th place, Haxton received 103,000.<\/p>\n

Scotty Nguyen was Juanda's next victim. And he put all-in after Juanda's raise. The opponents revealed the following cards: Scotty A-10, Juanda K-9... J-7-6-A-Jwhich meant a suit for Juanda and 5th for Scotty (\u00a3 137,000).<\/p>\n

Jason Mercier knocked out with a pair of twos Peter Jetten with his A-J... The following cards were dropped - Q-2-A-A-4and Jetten received \u00a3 189,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n

Michael Watson bet all his chips on A-7 and was knocked out of the tournament by Juanda A-K... Third place earned Watson \u00a3 241,000.<\/p>\n

By the beginning of the heads-up game, Juanda had a significant chip lead.<\/p>\n

John Juanda - 1,185,000
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Jason Mercier - 536,000<\/p>\n

But the Mercier doubled and doubled. In the final hand Juanda raised preflop and Mercier re-raised all-in. Juanda thought a bit and answered with A-J on hands. Mercier opened his hand to Q-K... T opens on the table-9-J-5-3... Runner-up and \u00a3 327,000 for Juanda, who won the WSOPE Main Event just a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Mercier has won another trophy for the European Poker Tour and a whopping \u00a3 516,000 in cash. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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