I hadn't checked the wsop all day and almost lol'd when I saw tgat he's 16/31 out of 384 runners in the 2500 oe lol wtf he's gonna win the main too

Who wants to bet that he won't win 9 bracelets this summer?

What odds will you give?

6/27 with chainsaw on the short stack

fair enough and agree. one could argue that since woman as a whole play far less poker than men, the field will as whole be less experienced and will likely be a very soft NLHE event akin to collossus or seniors . again I agree that small event fields are much better spots regardless of anything else.

(NOTE: anyone that reads above to mean that I said men are better at poker than woman please go jump off a building before making any comment)

the team event was my main point and more interesting opportunity. again if I read the rules correctly, he only has to play one round of blinds for the whole tourny. total freeroll on a bracelet in a what will likely be the smallest NLHE field.

17 left, hes sitting in 11th. stacks are getting pretty shallow, so he (and anybody else for that matter) will need some rungood to make the FT. lol, jason mercier and rungood. cant have one without the other, right?

edit: he just posted this as i wrote the post

This is getting ridiculous.

Pretty good timing from Doug to say Mercier's a bad reg.

Polk will never achieve what Mercier has done during this year's WSOP (let alone his career). He will never achieve half of that actually. Not a single chance.

He's still an insane cash player but tourneys ? meh. What he thinks of Mercier's mtt game actually shows that he does not get it at all.

Not particularly fond of Mercier, which I don't hate either but feel pretty neutral about him, yet it has to be said he has simply outstanding results, and what he has done thus far this year is probably a record of some sort ? At some point it's not enough to just say "he runs good".

As Gary Player said, "It's funny but the harder I train, the luckier I get". You can bink a few tournies now and then by running good, you can't have all these results by only running good. Sure, he probably ran decently or even good, but it takes quite some skills to take advantage of it that often.

It just shows what he said at joeys podcast. All the mtt players are awful. Even badreg like Mercier can look good in that field.

I would rather be the best HU NLHE player in the world than have the tournament accomplishments that Mercier has. I don't think the players that have held that title over the years have gotten enough credit and publicity.

I rather be the one with the most money

The thing about success in mtt's is nobody really seems to consider how big of a factor variance is playing. Does anyone seriously believe what mercier is doing at this wsop is sustainable? What Doug said was in relation to cash games I think, tournaments and cash play completely different. He's said numerous times that he's willing to play Jmercier in HU8game. I've yet to see mercier take him up on his offer.

Wsop plays some of the softest tournaments in the world, almost all regs have an edge in 5-10ks, all <5ks and even some of the bigger high rollers such as the 50k and 100k's.

Just look at the line up in the 10k HUNL event, i would of thought any decent 1/2+ reg with some live experience would be +EV in that field

where you might finish in the top 3 of a MTT is largely variance.

going deep every tournament isn't so much. doing it after placing bets is even less so.

Wasn't watching, but he must have played the every day of the first week as well, and Hendon Mob's showing just one cash.

Something that can up the number of deep runs is the smaller field sizes of the higher stakes and NLH games.

If my count is right this cash is his 6th in 8 tournaments.

I agree. Running good is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for this type of repeated success IMO. You have to be a good player also.

With at least one more cash on the way...niceeeeeee

The above makes you sound dumb.

What's the point of being the self proclaimed best NL HE online player if no one will play you?
Being a bad reg seems more fun and more lucrative.

No dog in the fight but if no one will play him then it is not self proclaimed.

perhaps he'd get more action if he wasn't constantly telling the world how good he is? polk doesn't appear to realise the goal of playing poker is to win the most money

Everyone has different goals in life and with poker. And no, there is no definition that the goal of playing poker is to win the most money.

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Are we talking GOAT one season WSOP performance yet ??

So yeah, he had no cashes the first 10 days. Then he's cashed about every tourney he's played since. Where did you get the stat that he's played 8 tourneys? Someone else said he'd played 42. 8 sounds too low, and 42 sounds too high. Maybe it's more like 12 or so?

Just trying to fit all the pieces into the big picture, because isn't Hendon Mob only showing him has having one cash in the last 3 years of EPTs, not including the small side event (the hyper-turbo) - that would seem to be low if he's played every stop in the last 3 years.

If that's the case, maybe Mercier's one of the top in largely US pools, as one of the few that currently plays in International pools on a regular basis - the US is the largest pool in the world, but most people also see it as being one of the softest. Or maybe he's one of the top, as one of the few that currently plays on a regular basis - there seem to be lots of former pros coming out to play WSOP events, who might play well but be a little rusty, or what have you.

I irrationaly but strongly dislike Polk, since he talks like an arrogant POS redneck. But I must admit that NLHE HU is really tough format to master, and he seems to be the best in it, at least online, so even I have to cut him some slack.
If he never used other people's account to play HU NLHE online - I don't even know him, hence don't make any wild estimations now - I'm fairly certain that his ego ruined more of the possible action that he could've gotten and will get than his actual skills in that one format.

I also don't know Mercier personally, but given what people talk and post about him, he seems to be a great MTT-feel-player, just as I consider myself to be, on a much lower level, ofc.
Selbst (which means self in german) is easy to dislike, hence why I ofc want Jason to ship the one drop this year, and I think that he will at least have an edge vs doug in that MTT, as long as they aren't shorthanded or HU with +50bb stacks.

Let the One Drop begin!!!