Jason Mercier still leads the WSOP Player of the Year 2016, ahead by more than 500 points and still searching for that controversial third bracelet.
German poker pro George Danzer wins 4th WSOP bracelet in Event 43 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship.
The winner of the 2016 WSOP Monster Stack event is Mitchell Towner who won $1,120,196 and bracelet for his first place finish out of a large field of 6,927 players.
He currently tops the 2016 WSOP POY standings with a 262.7 point lead on Ryan Laplante who is just a few points ahead of multi-bracelet winner Ian Johns.
Mercier’s hot streak has earned him a total of $907,818 from his five WSOP cashes. This is only half the amount of what he could get from his $1.8 million three bracelet prop-bet with Vanessa Selbst.
His sheer determination to win three WSOP bracelets this year will no doubt keep him on top of the leaderboard for the rest of the series if he continues on this sick run.
Many players will find this event of the series the most appealing as it has a fairly low buy-in of $1,500 with no re-buys or re-entries, all players will receive a Monster Stack of 15,000 chips to begin with.
Last years champion was Perry Shiao who won $1,286,942 and gold bracelet for his first place finish in the Monster Stack WSOP 2015 event.
Mercier won the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship event earning $273,335 and claims he got more than the first place prize from a bracelet earning side-bet he had with friends.
His goal is to win a side-bet that he has with Vanessa Selbst in which he is required to earn three WSOP bracelets in 2016 to score a massive payout. Having bagged his first bracelet fairly early into the series he is determined to take-down two more events to win the prop-bet.
There is still some time left to qualify for the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event prize packages online at 888poker with qualifiers running daily.
Following the release of Howard Lederer’s apology statement to the poker community prior to the start of the WSOP, it was expected that he would make an appearance.
Lederer registered and played the $10,000 2-7 Single Draw Championship event, his presence has upset many players who were affected by frozen Full Tilt Poker funds.
Since both players have broken the ice by playing events at the 2016 World Series of Poker, we can be sure to see them seated at other events in the series.
Neither of the former FullTilt owners are responding to questions from the media stating that they are just there to play or that statements have already been given.
