Online Poker: Jason Mercier Drops Six FiguresPoker Pro Continues Losing Year In PokerStars Cash Games |
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Tournament wizard Jason Mercier has been having a mostly losing year on PokerStars. The past seven days were one of his worst stretches so far in 2016. The Floridian dropped just over $100,000, which has his losses on the year approaching $200,000, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.
His “JasonMercier” screen name on PokerStars is now a $600,000 lifetime loser, with hands dating back to early 2011. He has won roughly $16.3 million lifetime in live tournaments, $530,000 of which has come in 2016. He won his third WSOP bracelet last summer.
The big winners on the week in the online world were “supernova9” ($201,000), Alex “joiso” Kostritsyn ($150,000), “Educa-p0ker” ($148,000), “steamraise” ($143,000), “wilhasha” ($117,000), “JesusLebtNOT” ($104,000) and Dan “w00ki3z” Cates ($84,000).
On the flip side, “BERRI SWEET” (-$232,000), Viktor “Isildur1” Blom (-$165,000), “jinmay” (-$108,000), Fedor “CrownUpGuy” (-$74,000) Holz, Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky (-$70,000), “Trueteller” (-$66,000) and Mikael “ChaoRen160” Thuritz (-$61,000) all had losing weeks as well.
The largest hand of the week was played between Cates and Blom on Thursday. They each put $4,500 into the middle preflop in a hand of pot-limit Omaha with $250-$500 stakes.
The flop fell A
6
5
, and Cates fired roughly $5,000. Blom made it $15,000, and Cates called with just $50,000 behind. Blom had around $170,000 left in his stack.
The turn was the Q, and Cates checked. Blom bet $39,000. Cates shoved for not much more, and Blom called. Their cards:
Cates: A J 10 5
Blom: A 8 8 3
According to Card Player’s Omaha Odds Calculator, Cates’ hand wins 77.5 percent of the time.
The river was the 5, which gave Blom a flush but it was no good against Cates’ full house. Cates raked in the six-figure pot. That hand came shortly after Blom had won a pot worth $136,000, just a couple thousand less than the largest hand of their heads-up session. But Cates was soon thereafter the winner of a third six-figure pot, this one worth $127,000, and he ended up getting the better of Blom in their battle.
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