Jason Mercier wins SHRPO High Roller for $652K
Elsewhere in Florida, Dan Colman managed to make a second successive final table in the $5K buy-in main event.
The year 2015 may have started a little slow for Jason Mercier, but since his impressive Player of the Series performance at the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) back in May, everything's coming up roses.
Barely a month later at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and Mercier was celebrating his third career bracelet having won the festival's $5K buy-in 6-max No Limit Hold'em event for over $630,000, then just ten days after that he finished runner-up in the $10K Pot Limit Omaha for just shy of $575,000.
Now in August with the summer's live action winding down, he's struck gold again, this time in his native Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open's (SHRPO) $25K buy-in High Roller event.
Mercier overcame a tough field of 83 players, and then an extremely tough final table featuring the likes of David Peters, Phil Laak, and David 'Doc' Sands to take the title and a further $652,800 in cash.
The Team PokerStars pro now has an incredible $15,879,774 in total recorded live earnings, and moves above recent Aria $500K Super High Roller winner Brian Rast into 11th place in poker's esteemed all-time money list.
| Place | Name | Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Mercier | $652,800 |
| 2 | Ian O'Hara | $391,700 |
| 3 | Sean Winter | $245,500 |
| 4 | Ankush Mandavia | $186,200 |
| 5 | Barry Hutter | $141,900 |
| 6 | David Sands | $116,600 |
| 7 | Ashwin Sarin | $93,400 |
| 8 | Phil Laak | $74,400 |
| 9 | David Peters | $57,500 |
Colman falls shy of main event double
Elsewhere at the SHRPO, Dan Colman has been among the headlines for making back-to-back final tables in the festival's $5K buy-in main event.
Colman, who actually won the title last year for $1.4 million when the event had a gigantic $2.5 million overlay, started the 2015 finale third in chips yesterday with a shot at another - potentially unwanted - slice of poker history.
However, much to his relief, he wouldn't be posing for another awkwardly solemn, funeral parlour style champion's photograph this time round, as he "only" managed a third place finish for $310,000.
The eventual winner was Omar Zazay, who pocketed a cool $1 million for his efforts. Zazay's best live score prior was a comparably meagre $83,000.
| Place | Name | Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Omar Zazay | $1,000,000 |
| 2 | Brian Phillis | $575,000 |
| 3 | Dan Colman | $310,000 |
| 4 | Larry Mocchia | $220,000 |
| 5 | Randy Pfeifer | $180,000 |
| 6 | Joseph Couden | $150,000 |
| 7 | Vladislav Mezheritsky | $125,000 |
| 8 | Paul Volpe | $100,000 |
| 9 | Rick Alvarado | $75,000 |
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It'd be like me winning a tenner.