Jason Mercier wins WPT Alpha 8 Caribbean

Jason Mercier became one of the top tournament player in the world just few years ago - he won EPT San Remo out of nowhere, and then a string of solid victories and insane results came in. Now, this Team PokerStars pro took down the latest WPT Alpha8 high roller event in the Caribbean for a $727,500 pay day. With this win his lifetime earnings exceed $14,000,000, moving him to the 11th spot of most successful live tournament players list.

It was a small field of just 15 players, but amongst those names we could see tournament gurus like Dan Colman, Olivier Busquet and Antonio Esfandiari. The buy-in was $100,000 buy-in. Mercies went through the field with quite a blast, defeating Kathy Lehne heads-up for the title and a $727,500, as mentioned.

Kathy Lehne earned $436,500 for her second place finish, which is pretty impressive, as her largest recorded cash win prior to this tournament was just $26,560. The third player to finish in the money was an unknown, Tony Guglietti was the only other player to cash, taking $291,000 for third place.

Mercier, who already owns a gold championship WSOP bracelet and EPT title isn't however going to get the prestigious Triple Crown. Unfortunately, Alpha 8 tournaments are not counted towards World Poker Tour main series.

Sweet! He used to be one of my favorite players to watch on TV back in the day. He usually seemed to have a good read on people, and he always had the balls to "go for it."

i do really admire his work ethic

i remember being at Seminole Hardrock for their big tourney guarantee and decided i wanted to play 1A because Mercier and all the good players were just finishing up EPT Barcelona and i figured they wouldn't be there in time.

sure enough though, Mercier is there the next morning fresh off a 15+ hour flight ready to play. i don't know how the live tourney grinders do it...

100k buyin 15-player field lol. must be tilting to bubble these things