button in Safari"How Does He Do It?"; Mercier Takes a Four-Way Pot
Stud Games: 10,000 Ante, 10,000 Bring-In, 40,000 Completion, 40,000-80,000 Limits
Pot-Limit & No-Limit: 20,000/30,000 Ante, 10,000-20,000 Blinds
Jason Mercier raised under the gun and was called by Jesse Lonis in the cutoff, Dara Taherpour on the button, and Alex Livingston in the small blind.
All four players drew two. Mercier then bet and Lonis and Taherpour called, while Livingston then raised. All three opponents called.
Livingston and Mercier each drew one, while Lonis and Taherpour took two. Livingston then checked to Mercier who bet, and Taherpour and Livingston called. Lonis got out of the way.
Livingston and Mercier drew one, and Taherpour stood pat. The dealer ran out of cards in the deck, and a tournament official had to be called over to instruct them to reshuffle all the discarded cards. All three players checked, and Mercier showed 10x7x5x4x2x to win the pot.
"How does he do it?" tablemate Matt Glantz said.