The poker world, passionate and attractive, promises crazy money and destroys fate. Network technology has allowed a huge number of users to participate in world poker competitions, but only a few achieve significant success, and those who are at the top become legends. Tournament champions fans admire and sometimes envy the biography and career of their idols, hoping to at least partially repeat their triumph.
The beginning of the way
The star of a player named Jason Mercier, whose photo is shown below, rose rapidly in 2008. Unexpectedly for everyone, he became the winner in the European poker tournament of the 5th season of EPT, held in the Italian San Remo. The total win of the champion then amounted to more than a million dollars, which could turn the head of more experienced players. As expected, an unexpected high-profile victory stunned the player and led to a series of major setbacks on the World Series of Poker the same year. This did not break Jason, at the end of the year he was able to reconsider the tactics of the game and his personal attitude to poker and confidently performed at the WSOPE and WPT competitions, and also won the high-roller tournament.
Further, the career of a professional player developed more or less smoothly, as far as a poker player’s career can be stable. In almost all competitions, Jason Mercier performed successfully, in 2009 he won the gold bracelet, a special sign of the tournament champions in pot-limit Omaha competitions. He took possession of the second such bracelet after 3 years in the same kind of poker game.
Secret of success
What are the secrets of such eminent players as Jason Mercier? The biography of a professional poker player began in Hollywood, where he was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 12, 1986. As the youngest of four children in the family, Jason has become accustomed to competitions since childhood. At school, he showed interest in exact sciences and at the same time became interested in poker. He played with friends, studying the mathematical side of the game. After school, Jason Mercier entered the Atlantic University of Florida with the goal of becoming a teacher, but then the passion for poker already played a role, displacing his studies and sports to the second place. Mercier lost a scholarship, and he had to leave the university. Jason did not despair, he got a job at a children's sports school as an instructor and at the same time went to college. At that time, poker fell out of his life for a short while, but later he discovered online games for himself. At the peak of the rise of poker, at that time Jason saw open opportunities for himself and joined as a participant in online tournaments, which changed his fate.
Career Professional Poker Player
It was in online poker that Jason felt the real taste of the game. Having won more than 2 million hands, he took one of the top lines in the rating of the Poker Stars room, receiving the elite status of Supernova. This was followed by his great victories offline. In 2009, Jason Mercier, for whom poker had already become his main activity, was recognized as the best player according to the Bluff magazine, winning in addition to the WSOP bracelet prizes in tournaments in Los Angeles, Barcelona and WSOPE. The following 2010, he did not perform so well that it did not stop him from winning prizes in London, San Remo, at the WPT and winning the North American tournament. In 2011, in addition to receiving the second gold bracelet, he won the annual Five Diamonds tournament in honor of Doyle Brunson. In 2014-2015, Mercier also held high positions in tournaments, giving preference to high-roller competitions, where the stakes are higher, which means that the experience of the players is more significant.
How much is the championship?
Jason’s first major win at San Remo in 2008 at a prize money spot was about $ 1.3 million. In the same year he won more than $ 200,000 in Barcelona, 2009 brought the player about $ 230,000 in the Omaha pot-limit and more than $ 440,000 in a tournament in Europe. Winning the North American Tournament in 2010 was a little less than half a million dollars. Pot Omaha next year and Five Diamonds, together enriched the player by 1.3 million. His most financially successful performance is considered the second place at the Monte Carlo tournament in 2013 with a win of more than 1.6 million dollars. In 2014, Mercier won 630,000 in Barcelona and over $ 700,000 in Texas. In total, over 7 years, Mercier alone offline managed to win more than $ 10 million.
Of the talismans, Jason prefers a lucky shirt and the number 21, believing that they bring him luck. He confidently calls the secret of his success the family and loved ones who always supported him, especially during difficult periods of his life and career. Jason is now sponsored by the Poker Stars team and continues to perform successfully. His achievements are marked by the prestigious title "Golden Crown".