Selbst To Owe Mercier $1.8M In Controversial Bet If He Wins Two More WSOP BraceletsVanessa Gave Jason 180:1 Odds On $10K Against Him Winning 3 Bracelets |
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When Jason Mercier won the $10,000 no-limit deuce-to-seven lowball earlier this week he was one third of the way to taking $1.8 million from fellow poker pro Vanessa Selbst.
Selbst agreed to a bet against Mercier, a four-time bracelet winner after his victory this week, winning three bracelets this summer. Only a handful of players have ever done that before. Selbst made nearly the same bet against Polish poker pro Dzmitry Urbanovich.
In nearly 47 years of the WSOP, someone having a three-bracelet summer has only happened five times. Jeff Lisandro last did it in 2009.
In both wagers, which happened in January, Selbst’s opponents risked $10,000 of their own money. Unlike the bet with Urbanovich, the bet with Mercier wasn’t publicized.
Until now.
Unlike the 21-year-old Polish pro, Mercier is no WSOP rookie. He was the massive chip leader with seven remaining in the $10,000 razz event on Wednesday, which gave Selbst quite the sweat. She has already began trying to sell off action as a form of insurance against losing the seven-figure wager, but it’s unclear if that will help her.
Urbanovich hasn’t yet cashed at the Series, so she isn’t worrying about that one.
According to Selbst, she made the Mercier bet when drinking and tried to buy out of it for $1,000 when sober, presumably the next day. However, Mercier refused. He also refused a $100,000 buyout this week after he won his first bracelet of the summer.
Selbst explained her predicament in a couple of Tweets:
— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) June 15, 2016
— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) June 15, 2016
Mercier of course chimed in on Twitter, saying that the $100,000 offer is too low at this point. He also disagreed with Selbst’s comment that she was highly intoxicated when it was made.
@VanessaSelbst u think 100k is generous. I think it's way below expectation … Again we disagree
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) June 15, 2016
@VanessaSelbst almost black out?? We were at a Pokerstars team pro dinner… You are grossly exaggerating how drunk u were
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) June 15, 2016
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