Jason Mercier

Biography

Jason Mercier stormed onto the poker scene in the first half of 2008 after he won the EPT San Remo for over $1.3 million. Since his big boom, Mercier has been accumulating tournament results around the world in bundles. He currently has nearly $5 million in tournament earnings.

He got his start playing poker in high school with friends and then after the poker boom hit, took to the online felt. Playing under his then-alias “treysfull21”, Mercier concentrated on cash games while dabbling in tournaments. It was online that Mercier won a satellite into the EPT’s San Remo event. As stated earlier, Jason went on to win that event and a whopping first-place score.

From there, Mercier traveled to the WSOP in Las Vegas. He cashes in three events and earned himself over $55,000 total. After the WSOP, he continued to travel the tournament circuit. He placed sixth in EPT Barcelona for nearly $325,000 and also made a deep run at the WSOP Europe in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event.

With results like he had thus far, one might think that you can just kick back and call it a year. Mercier kept plugging away and in October of 2008, won the High Roller event at the European Poker Championships and first place of over $900,000. Over $2.7 million is the total that Jason Mercier pulled in during 2008.

In 2009, Mercier’s stuck to his guns so far. He won the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the L.A. Poker Classic for over $35,000 and also placed fourth in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for over $70,000. In total, he cashed five times at the 2009 L.A. Poker Classic and earned over $100,000 there.

A month after his success in L.A., Jason won an event at The Wynn Classic in Las Vegas. The event was a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Rebuy event and first place was worth over $80,000. He also cashed one other time at this event.

At the 2009 World Series of Poker Jason was able to continue an incredible year with four cashes and his first bracelet, taking down the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event for $237,462. Jason then went deep at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe, finishing fourth in the Main Event for $425,158. It wasn’t long into 2010 before he had his next big win, this time taking down the first place prize of $475,000 in the PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun $25,000 Bounty Shootout.

Jason is a member of Team PokerStars Pro and plays online using the screen name ‘JasonMercier’.