Mercier's run right now might be like if a Stars reg who's played the $1k Super Tuesday every week for the last 3 yeasr and had one min-cash, then goes to play $10 tourneys on Bovada, and cash about 50%, and win 2 in 3 days.

He regularly plays the highest stakes, so $10ks at the WSOP might be quite a bit softer than he's used to?

A 10K non hold 'em tournament isn't going to be soft at all.

Going by the commentary from the O8 tourney the other day, it seemed like they thought Todd Brunson, Matt Glantz, Trelsky, were making mistakes. And they liked the play of the eventual winner.

In contrast, you don't oftentimes hear commentators spotting mistakes at high-roller tables.

The 10k 6-max that started today doesn't look soft at all though - it looks super hard.

my assumption has always been that the further you deviate from mainstream games like NLHE, the less solved the game is, therefore the more edge

I don't know if they were making mistakes or not, but those are the same guys you'd see in a 50K or bigger mixed tournament as well.

That's true there are more/better experts at NL but there are fish and satellite entries as well. Fish are not going to take a shot at a 10K NL 2-7 single draw tourney, it's almost all pros of varying skill levels.

Mistakes like open raising UTG QT72 DS at the final table lol? Yeah, I'm guessing mistakes were made.

UTG is the new button, tho.

I didn't watch the O8, but there were some pretty definite mistakes in the stud games -- one in the stud-high round in horse where some guy checked aces up to jason's open jacks on 5th and 6th; and Racener's mistake early on in the razz where he mucked a hand that he clearly should not have. I'm not saying those tables were overly soft, but they were nowhere near tremendously hard if I'm picking up obvious mistakes in 'em.

That's not to disparage Jason at all. For whatever reason, I don't mind Polk. Sure, he's somewhat arrogant, but he also has a sense of humor about the whole thing and his analysis seems really strong.

Has chips in $1500 mixed draw.

So why does he not do such Mtt's then ? If it's so easy to do it...

So easy to say when you have not achieved anything close to Mercier's results... What's the use of being an awesome NLHU player when almost no one will play you, and when he has not achieved much in other poker styles ?

Not much imo, Mercier is like 10 times more rounded. I certainly agree Polk would beat him heads-up on a big sample, maybe easily (not certain though but he would win imo) but still, that's one very specific type of poker and I'd MUCH rather be good in pretty much every MTT format there is, as Mercier just showed. And lol at saying even badreg like Mercier can look good. Then sorry but who is a good reg ? I guess, in Polk's view, only him, right ?

why do people call mercier a bad reg? is it a meme or inside joke?


last 5 years dude has been super consistent at MTTs live and online. im sur ehe can hold his own now in live big mixed game play as well.

this he didn't want to play POLK HU nonsense is garbage, the hell does that have to do with anything

It's Polk who said so, and he probably got the worst timing of the history of timings to say so.

Harsh call imo, Mercier not that round.

Harsh call maybe but well, just in this wsop he got so far:

1st in the 2-7 draw with 600 players
2nd in the Seven card Razz with 500 players
1st in the HORSE with 780 players
8th in the Omaha Hi-Low Split 8/OB with 130 players
11th in the Mixed Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8/OB with 383 players.

And obviously he's not exactly bad at NLH

Quite rounded imo.

5/61 going into Day 2 - here we go again?

Roc, I think you missed the joke. Or I did.

Maybe Bobo, was wondering too tbh, but the "harsch call imo" made me think maybe he was not ironic.

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Mercier confirmed rounder than Polk:

I wasn't quite serial but Polk said he allready proved tha he can beat mtts. 5 million in cashes and a bracelet. Nothing to prove anymore.

I havent checked the numbers, but no way that the 10k 27SD had 600 players. More like 100?? Same for razz and HORSE.

absolutely no idea where you got your info from, but the number of players in each of those fields is way off. 2-7 had exactly 100 runners, the razz also had exactly 100 runners, the HORSE had 171, the O8 had 163, and the mixed had 394. did you just type random 3 digit numbers and hope nobody would notice? lol

anyway, our thread hero is currently crushing yet another field and sits in 5th place with 61 players left in the $2500 mixed triple draw event. he plays these mixed game fields really well. or hes the luckiest man in vegas.

for what it's worth, mercier tweeted that he was all in, multiple times, drawing slim and got there each time in the 2500 triple draw.

I obviously agree though, Mercier confirmed crusher. Getting a 3rd bracelet would be so sick

Sorry for the entrants numbers, got it completely wrong, these numbers are in fact the POY points, my bad.

And lol about confirmed rounder than Polk.

But is he any good at PLO?