A look at all the highlights from the PokerStars world this weekend. 

Weekend highlights on PokerStars

* Mercier wins a fifth WSOP bracelet, his second in a week
* Jonathan Schuman wins UKIPT/Estrellas Marbella Main Event
* Koby295 wins the Sunday Million for a payday of $188,000

Mercier the magnificent

At the start of last week it was suggested that the WSOP website was riddled with typos, because Jason Mercier kept appearing at the top of the chip counts in every $10,000 event. By the end of the week, the same accusations were made because he wasn't at the top. 

It has been quite a week for the American Team Pro. By now you'll have heard the news, but just in case you haven't Jason Mercier won two WSOP bracelets last week, and managed to come second in another event in between. 

Jason Mercier, with father Rick at the bracelet ceremony at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas

We detailed all of that on the blog, the first win which along with the second win bookended a remarkable week. In addition Brad Willis wrote about Mercier's father, and the role his family plays in supporting him in his career. 

All of which recounts an extraordinary week in Las Vegas, which Mercier tells in his own words on the PokerStars Blog. There's nothing to stop that story continuing for some time yet. 

Marbella festival draws to a close

While Mercier was winning in Las Vegas, players who preferred their dry heat on this side of the Atlantic set course for Marbella. Spain, for the joint UKIPT/Estrellas Main Event. Some 844 players did so, paying the €1,000 + €100 buy-in. That meant a prize pool in excess of $800,000 and a first prize of €96,159 to eventual winner Jonathan Schuman of the UK after a three-way deal at the final table yesterday. 

Jonathan Schuman, winner of the MArbella main event

Our reporters were ringside from the start, with live updates and an end of tournament report which you can read here.

UKIPT6 Marbella €1,000 Main Event
Entrants: 844
Places paid: 127 
Prize pool: € 810,240

1. Jonathan Schuman (United Kingdom) € 96,159*
2. Bob Janssens (Netherlands) € 101,238*
3. Rodrigo Strong (Brazil) € 110,653*
4. Alexander Voytko (Israel) € 48,610
5. Milos Skrbic (Serbia) PokerStars Qualifier € 38,320
6. Michal Ozimek (Poland) € 28,680
7. Armin Zoike (Germany) PokerStars Qualifier € 20,175
8. Nikola Ristivojevic (Serbia) PokerStars qualifier € 14,180
* Denotes three handed deal

Sunday Million

The Sunday Million played out this weekend in the usual fashion, finishing in the early hours of this morning. The result is below while Kristin Bihr tells the full story in her report, which you can read here.

PokerStars Sunday Million result
Entrants: 6,269 (4,930 players, 1,339 re-entries)
Prize pool: $1,253,800
Places paid: 900

1. Koby295 (Germany) $188,928.82*
2. mariusghet12 (Romania) $94,505.49*
3. ktm2502t (Israel) $100,000.00*
4. Akkerx (Hungary) $117,587.41*
5. kurt23x (Costa Rica) $52,659.60
6. marcasa (Netherlands) $40,121.60
7. DogK8 (Brazil) $27,583.60
8. 0Human0 (Romania) $15,045.60
9. SoCloseCall (Malta) $9,716.95
*= denotes a four-way deal

Weekend winners

Saturday and Sunday were packed with winners as the weekend PokerStars schedule played out. Below are the top ten, with the link below to all other results. 

Click here for all the results on PokerStars for the weekend of June 18 to 19, 2016. 

As always send your questions and comments to us on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.

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Koby295 isn't a player who fires the Sunday Million with great regularity. Low-stakes MTTs are usually the game for this weekend grinder. Today alone, he played more than two dozen satellites and MTTs with buy-ins ranging from $0.40 to $22. One was a $4.40+R turbo satty to the Million, where he captured one of the ten guaranteed seats. It was time for Koby295 to take his shot, and he wasn't throwing it away. Fast forward twelve hours and Koby295 was in a spot thousands chase every Sunday-- at the final table of the Sunday Million. Tonight, Koby295's scrappy play paid off and he captured his first major online title along with over $188k-- a sum that just might fund some more frequent sorties into high-stakes MTTs.

Now featuring a re-entry option, this week's Million topped out at 6,269 entries (4,930 unique players and 1,339 re-entries), creating a $1,253,800.00 prize pool. 900 places were paid with $190,706.22 set aside for first place.

When ten players remained, the blinds were 125,000/250,000. The action folded around to marcasa in the small blind, who open-shoved for 5.93 million. Short stack Vitorbrasil called, his [Ac][Qh] leading marcasa's [6s][8h]. Disaster struck for Vitorbrasil, however, when the flop came down [Td][8c][6d], making marcasa top and bottom pair. Vitorbrasil failed to improve on the [7c] turn and was drawing dead going to the river, which fell the [Th]. Vitorbrasil ended his run in tenth place, sending the remaining nine to the final table.

<b>Final table chip counts</b>

Seat 1: kurt23x (13,134,667 in chips)

Seat 2: Akkerx (4,561,124 in chips)

Seat 3: SoCloseCall (2,016,066 in chips)

Seat 4: ktm2502t (9,868,250 in chips)

Seat 5: marcasa (8,574,586 in chips)

Seat 6: mariusghet12 (5,141,088 in chips)

Seat 7: Koby295 (12,900,090 in chips)

Seat 8: DogK8 (3,100,364 in chips)

Seat 9: 0Human0 (3,393,765 in chips)

SoCloseCall limped onto the final table with less than ten big blinds and was down to 851,000 when he picked up [As][Js] and moved in from the button. Marcasa called with pocket sixes. Although SoCloseCall picked up a flush draw on the turn, he did not improve on the [9d][9s][8c][Ks][9c] board and exited in ninth place. 0Human0 was next to go, also at the hands of marcasa. 0Human0 open-shoved with pocket fives and marcasa reshoved with [Ah][Qd], but picked up a queen on the flop to send 0Human0 to the rail in eighth place.

With the blinds up to 150,000/300,000, short stack ktm2502t got a boost when his pocket queens held up against kurt23x's pocket nines, good for a double-up to 8.9 million. Fellow shortie DogK8 found [Ad][Kh] and moved in for 3.86 million with Akkerx answering the call from the cutoff with [Th][Ts]. DogK8 grabbed the lead when he paired his king on the [Kc][Qh][5s] flop and kept it when the [7d] turned. However, Akkerx hit his two-outer on the river when the [Tc] fell, ending DogK8's run in seventh place.

Third in chips to start the final table, marcasa fell on hard times after a dustup with ktm2502t. In a blind vs. blind battel, ktm2502t opened for 1.05 million from the small blind and marcasa defended. The flop came down [Ah][9h][4d] and ktm2502t led out for 1,155,000. Marcasa called and they went to the turn, which fell the [Ks]. Ktm2502t made it 1.4 million to go, marcasa shoved for 5.66 million and ktm2502t called. Both players revealed two pair-- kings up for marcasa with [Kh][9d] and aces up for ktm2502t with [Ad][4h]. The river was the [Qs] and ktm2502t took down the 16 million chip pot with aces and fours, leaving marcasa on only 12,000 in chips. Although marcasa tripled up on the next hand and worked his stack back up to 214,000, he busted out in sixth place a few hands later.

By the time the blinds went up to 300,000/600,000, onetime chip leader kurt23x was down to his last 3.5 million. With the action folded to him in the small blind, he moved all-in for 3.45 million with [Jc][Td] and Akkerx called from the big blind with [Ac][2h]. Akkerx flopped a deuce and turned trip deuces, sending kurt23x home in fifth place. Then, on the next hand, ktm2502t and mariusghet12 got their chips in the middle preflop, ktm2502t's [Ac][5s] up against [Kc][Jh]. Mariusghet12 hit running hearts to make a flush on the [7h][5d][4h][Kh][Ah] board, good for a double-up to 10 million.

A few hands later, the final four agreed to pause the action and discuss a potential deal. here's how they stacked up at the time:

Koby295 31,154,644

Akkerx 13,211,243

ktm2502t 9,907,887

mariusghet12 8,416,226

Everyone but Akkerx was willing to go with a chip count chop, but Akkerx naturally preferred the ICM numbers. Akkerx told his opponents he wanted at least $120,000 guaranteed. Koby295 shot down the request, but mariusghet12 agreed to take $2,000 out of his chip chop share and give it to Akkerx. When Koby295 said he wasn't willing to budge, Akkerx tried a different tactic... one aficionados of American reality television might refer to as "blowing up his spot."

<i>Akkerx: man your avg byin is 2$</i>

Chagrined, Koby295 immediately agreed to give up $2,000. Ktm2502t relinquished $1,000, and with his share nearing $117,600, Akkerx agreed to close the deal. With $20,000 and the title still on the table, action resumed.

Shortly after cards went back in the air, Koby295 opened for a min-raise to 1.2 million and Akkerx called from the small blind. The flop fell [8c][7c][4s] and Akkerx led out for 1.8 million. Koby295 raised to 3.6 million and Akkerx called. The turn came the [5d] and Akkerx slowed down and checked. Koby295 bet 3.6 million. Akkerx came back with an all-in raise for 14.5 million. Koby295 called and rolled over [Ad][6d] for an eight-high straight. Akkerx was on a stone bluff with [Qc][Th] and he departed in fourth place, albeit with the second-largest share of the prize pool thanks to the deal.

When three-handed play commenced, Koby295 was the runaway chip leader with 49.5 million, ktm2502t held 8.47 million and mariusghet12 was the short stack with 4.72 million.

In short order, ktm2502t doubled through Koby295, his [As][Kc] holding up against [Ac][9h]. Now armed with 18 million, ktm2502t open-shoved from the small blind with [Jh][Th] when Koby295 folded his button, but mariusghet12 called from the big blind with [Kc][7h]. Mariusghet12 hit a king on the flop and doubled to 8.66 million, leaving ktm2502t on 13.95 million. Ktm2502t held steady until the 350,000/700,000 level, when he picked up [Ts][Td] and opened for 1.75 million. Mariusghet12 shoved for 11 million from the small blind and ktm2502t called, delighted to watch him roll over [6c][6d]. The flop fell [Qc][Jc][9h], making ktm2502t an open-ended straight draw to go with his pair of tens, but delight turned to horror on the turn as the [6h] landed, making mariusghet12 a set. The river was another dagger, the [6s] to top off mariusghet12's hand with quad sixes, and ktm2502t was left with only 1.07 million in chips. Ktm2502t was eliminated in third place on the next hand when his [2c][7s] fell to mariusghet12's [Ks][8c].

<b>Heads-up chip counts</b>

Seat 6: mariusghet12 (24,526,000 in chips)

Seat 7: Koby295 (38,164,000 in chips)

Koby295 whittled mariusghet12 down to 13.9 million before the money went in on a [Kh][Jd][Ts] flop. Koby295 turned over [Th][7h] for bottom pair while mariusghet12 flopped top pair with [Kc][Qd]. Mariusghet12 improved to kings and queens when the [Qs] turned and filled up with the [Ks] on the river, doubling his stack to 27.7 million.

Then, on the next hand, Koby295 opened for 1.4 million on the button and mariusghet12 raised to 3.15 million. Koby295 called and they saw a [Qd][9d][4s] flop. Mariusghet12 bet 2,576,000, Koby295 moved all-in and mariusghet12 called.

Koby295 [Ad][6d]

mariusghet12 [Ks][Kd]

Koby295 needed an ace or a diamond to snap off mariusghet12's king and had his wish granted when the [2d] turned, making him the nut flush. The river was the [Qs] and Koby295, could at last lift his arms in celebration, his first major online title in hand.

Congratulations to Koby295 on joining the ranks of Sunday Million champions. He banked $188,928.82 for the win, while runner-up mariusghet12 earned $94,505.49.

<b><u>PokerStars Sunday Million results for 6/19/2016</b></u>

<b>Players:</b> 6,269 (4,930 players, 1,339 re-entires)

<b>Prize pool:</b> $1,253,800.00

<b>Places paid:</b> 900

1. Koby295 (Germany) $188,928.82*

2. mariusghet12 (Romania) $94,505.49*

3. ktm2502t (Israel) $100,000.00*

4. Akkerx (Hungary) $117,587.41*

5. kurt23x (Costa Rica) $52,659.60

6. marcasa (Netherlands) $40,121.60

7. DogK8 (Brazil) $27,583.60

8. 0Human0 (Romania) $15,045.60

9. SoCloseCall (Malta) $9,716.95

*= denotes a four-way deal

At the start of the festival we wondered if the UK and Ireland could find an equaliser. This is the fourth collaboration of the UKIPT and Estrellas poker tours in Marbella and coming into this event Spain were leading 2-1. 

Well now we have the answer and it's a resounding yes as 47 year-old property developer Jonathan Schuman has won the UKIPT6 Marbella main event and €96,159. Perhaps though the score is more 2.5-1.5. Marbella is Schuman's home from home, and this casino as familiar to him as the Vic in his native London. This is his biggest tourney win, but Schuman has been playing live two or three times a week for 30 years, which is usually all the time he can fit around his property development business.    

For so long this final table was about Rodrigo Strong. The Brazilian came in as the chip leader and only lost the lead for a short time. Indeed by the time play was three-handed the LAPT9 Chile champion was back in charge. Play paused to discuss a deal and a chip chop deal, which left €10,000 to play for, was quickly agreed and Strong had secured the largest slice of the pie, €110,653 to be exact.

The deal was to be his downfall though as on the first hand after it'd been struck he'd lose a tournament defining pot to Janssens. You suspect he wouldn't have four-bet jammed [Jc][7c] without the safety net of the deal and Janssens may not have been as quick as he was to call with [Ac][Kd]. By the river Janssens' full-house had seen Rodrigo's tournament come crashing down. "If we hadn't done a deal he'd have won it!" said Schuman after the tournament was over.

He was left with just 12 big blinds and got them in soon afterwards with pocket kings. Schuman called with [As][5d] and flopped an ace to send him to the rail. The Brazilian was still smiling though and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the tournament

That left us heads-up and the two players had taken very different paths to reach this stage. In the red corner was Janssens, he'd eliminated the first three players at the final table and been the only player to hold the chip lead apart from Strong. He actually began with a chip deficit with Schuman starting with a two million chip lead (12 big blinds). 

The Englishman had entered the final table fourth in chips and seemed intent on preserving his stack rather than increasing it. But you sense he didn't care one bit. He was intent on being around for any deal negotiations (and he was). "I just didn't want to go out in 8th, so anything from 7th upwards, I was happy.  So now, it's an incredible feeling," he told the PokerStars Blog.

When Schuman did play a big pot, he had a big hand. We didn't really see him move a chip until play was four handed. At this point his jacks held to double up against Strong's ace-queen and for the first time he had chips and you sensed he wasn't going to part with them easily.

Whilst that hand with jacks got him back in the game, another hand with jacks was his tournament defining pot. He shoved with the hooks and Janssens snap called with aces. A jack on the flop gave Schuman a huge pot. If the bullets had held Janssens would've had 90% of the chips in play and Schuman would've been on the rail.

As is was Schuman would be the one who'd send Janssens to the rail. The Englishman had stretched out to a 2:1 chip lead by the time of the final hand. Janssens three-bet all-in for 38 big blinds with [Ad][Jd] but Schuman had him dominated with [Ah][Kh] and the board ran clean to give him the win.

As alluded to above Janssens played a major part in this final table, particularly in the opening stages as he eliminated three players in a row.

First to go was Nikola Ristivojevic, the Serbian shoved his final 13 big blinds with [Ac][Ts] and lost a race to the Dutchman's pocket nines. The physical therapist is used to helping cure aliments but he was only bringing the pain at this final table and Armin Zoike can attest to that. He had his pocket kings cracked by Janssens' [Qd][Jd] one queen on the flop and another on the turn doing the damage.

Thirty minutes later Janssens had his third scalp and he didn't need any help from the poker gods this time around. Michal Ozimek three-bet jammed for 12 big blinds with [Ad][9d] and Janssens snap called with [Ac][Qh]. Two diamonds on the flop gave the Pole a big sweat but he bricked the turn and river.

When play was five handed a deal was discussed but negotiations broke down when Milos Skrbic rejected the terms. Not 15 minutes later he was out. A limp jam from the small blind with [As][7s] went wrong as he ran into Strong's pocket aces to bust in fifth.

Strong's ascension back to the chip lead was complete when he took out Alexander Voytko in fourth. It was (almost) a classic race as Voytko's pocket nines got run down by Strong's [Kh][Qh] when a king flopped.

That's when the deal happened and when the tournament really began for Schuman. Having blended into the background for much of the final table he suddenly came to the fore and tonight he's the player who can proudly say he's the latest UKIPT main event champion.

Here are the official results:

UKIPT6 Marbella main event 
Players: 844
Buy-in: €1,000 + €100 
Places paid: 127 
Total prize pool: € 810,240

You can catch up on all the final table action here and see each and everyone of the 127 in the money finishers here.

The next UKIPT event is the £500+£50 Super Series and it takes place at PokerStars LIVE! at The Hippodrome Casino August 31st-September 4th. Satellites will begin in early July, keep an eye on the @UKIPT twitter account for an announcement about those satellites.

But from all the team in Marbella we hope you've had a wonderful time at the UKIPT's annual summer holiday. But for now buenas noches from Marbella.

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 Marbella: Marc Convey and Nick Wright. Photos by Mickey May and Rene Velli. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog

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11:50am: Final day about to begin
Level 27 - Blinds 30,000/60,000 (10,000 ante)

Can you feel the tension in the air? Probably not where you are but there's a little bit here in Marbella where just eight players remain in the biggest Main Event in the four year history of the PokerStars Marbella Festival.

The finalists are here and are having their photos taken before cards will fly into the air around midday. Everyone is now guaranteed €14,180 but the big bucks are up top where the winner will win €151,350 to take home a minimum of Here's a reminder of how'll they'll line up:

1. Bob Janssens, Netherlands - 2,810,000
2. Armin Zoike, Germany - 1,655,000
3. Milos Skrbic, Serbia - 2,090,000
4. Rodrigo Strong, Brazil - 7,235,000
5. Mikal Ozimek, Poland - 2,610,000
6. Alexander Voytko, Israel - 1,370,000
7. Nikola Ristivojevic, Serbia - 850,000
8. Jonathan Schuman, United Kingdom - 2,325,000
--MC

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 Marbella: Marc Convey and Nick Wright. Photos by Mickey May and Rene Velli. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog

Fifty-five players returned today and while we could only guess at which eight would make the final table, from a long way out it seemed a near certainty that Rodrigo Strong would be amongst them.

The overnight chip leader went from strength to strength today and never lost top spot on the leaderboard as he powered his way to the final table. A cooler of a hand against Janina Burger, in which they both flopped trips, meant he had almost a quarter of the chips in play with 22 players left and he further increased his stack to end the day on 7,2350,000. Good for 34% of the chips in play. The LAPT9 Chile champion is having a fantastic year and just as in March, when he won his LAPT title, he'll start the final day as chip leader.

Final table chip counts:

The following is about Strong from our LAPT blog in March: "he scored knockout after knockout, winning nearly every all-in encounter he found himself involved in en route to ending the night with the eight-handed chip lead." 

That quote is equally apt today as Strong barely put a chip wrong and to highlight just one hand, he made quads to eliminate Alejandro Vazquez in 12th place. He almost always had double the chips of whichever player occupied second place. In short, he crushed it. 

It's a cosmopolitan final table with no less than seven nationalities represented and unlike Strong, who knows what it's like to win a major poker tournament, the vast majority of those who line up behind him are still waiting for their breakout result. 

While Strong's path to the final table was serene and untroubled the same can't be said of Bob Janssens. Over nine hours of play he scrapped his way to the final table. What's more his day should've been done on the first hand of play. He got his 20 big blind stack in with [Ac][Jc] and rivered a jack to beat Nick De Groot's pocket nines.

He never looked back and a crucial hold with jacks against ace-king with 14 players left means the Dutchman goes into tomorrow's final table as Strong's nearest challenger.

The Dutchman secured that spot by scoring the final knockout of the day when he eliminated Romain Feriolo in ninth. He's so old school he final tabled the first ever EPT Grand Final. He finished fourth in that event earning €139,000. That's not his only EPT final table though as he six months later he finished eighth at EPT2 Barcelona. The Spaniard was second in chips for large swathes of today but a mistimed bluff and an ace-king v kings cooler meant he started the unofficial final table of nine as the shortstack. He took his final stand with [Ad][Jd] but couldn't beat the [Ac][Ks] of Janssens.

That exit means there are actually no Spaniard's at the final table. Not only that, but there are more Serbians than Brits at the final table, with Milos Skrbic and Nikola Ristivojevic both among the final eight. They both started Day 3 among the top five stacks so it's not a massive shock that both are still in contention. They are room mates here in Marbella and travel the circuit together.

Ristivojevic doubled up Alexander Voytko during nine handed play so will start the day as the shortest stack while Skrbic enters the final table in fifth place.

Germany's representative at the final table is Armin Zoike. He had an eventful day, some of which occurred before he'd even played a hand. He was conspicuous by his absence when play got underway. On his way to the tournament he cut his head and it needed a little patching up before he could play. He turned his start of day 752,000 into 1,655,000 by play's end. 

Despite cashes in the Aussie Millions main event and at EPT Campione regardless of where Zoike finishes tomorrow it'll be his largest live tournament cash to date

I think we can all agree you need a healthy slice of luck (as well as skill) to capture a poker tournament and if Alexander Voytko is victorious tomorrow he'll likely look back on a hand against Nikola Ristivojevic as a big momentum swinger. With nine players left the 2012 Israeli poker champion was all-in and at risk with [Qh][9c] and needed help against Ristivojevic's [As][8h]. A queen on the flop kept his interest in this tournament alive and he'll start tomorrow in seventh place. 

Voytko might argue he's due some luck as if you cast your mind back to Day 1A he lost a 120,000 chip pot at the death when a dealer erroneously mucked his cards.

Tomorrow will be a big day in the poker lives of Mikhal Ozimek and Jonathan Schuman. The Pole will score his biggest ever live cash should he manage seventh of better. And if Schuman follows suit he'll, at the very least, double his lifetime live poker earnings. The pair will start third and fourth respectively.

To make the final table of eight we needed to lose 47 players today and it was with some sadness that the final table won't be enlivened by the presence of Albert Sapiano. He exited in 15th place and his final hand was a microcosm of his personality. He'd complained of being card dead and finally found a hand with which to raise - the mighty [3s][2c] as it happened - on a [Ks][3d][6d] flop he open shoved and ran into Armin Zoike's slowplayed aces. A few f-bombs followed as he made his exit stage left. He'll be missed but not forgotten.

Other players who had to hop into side events today if they wanted to play more poker were: June Jenkins (53rd), Yannis Liperis (48th), Gareth De Groot (44th), Kevin Monroe (29th), Janina Burger (23rd) and Kjell Lindqvist (16th). 

You can see the comprehensive list of in the money finishers by clicking here, while you catch up on all today's action if you click right here. We'll be back at noon to bring you final table coverage. There's the small matter of € 151,350 and the trophy to play for. 

PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT6 Marbella: Marc Convey and Nick Wright. Photos by Mickey May and Rene Velli. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog

Yesterday Brad Willis reflected that Jason Mercier was in the middle of a dream summer. In the early hours of this morning Mercier proved he's in no mood to wake, winning not only his fifth career WSOP bracelet, but his second inside a week.

Jason Mercier wins his fifth WSOP bracelet

It came in the $10,000 HORSE event. It's one thing to win bracelets, but to win them in such prestigious and hotly contested events speaks just as much for the enormity of Mercier's achievement. To be the best you have to beat the best, and in winning this latest bracelet had to get passed James Obst in a tough heads-up battle. He managed it and in the process made himself look unstoppable.

As Phil Hellmuth commented on Twitter, Mercier seemed to appear at the top of the chip count list in every $10,000 event. 
It's worth re-capping on an amazing week.

* Mercier first won the 2-7 Lowball Championship, picking up a first prize of $272,335. 

* He was soon back in action and going deep in the $10,000 Razz Championship. When he reached the final table of the poker world was convinced he was about to do it again, only for him to finish second to Ray Dehkharghani.

* Mercier then capped the week off last night with a $422,874 first prize in the H.O.R.S.E. Championship. 

Poker is prone to having such moments of general shock and awe, where the poker community stands back, it's collective mouth hanging open, marveling at what they'd just witnessed. But it's hard to think of another player having quite the week that Mercier just had.

It makes you wonder what else he has in store for us. 

WSOP Photos by PokerPhotoArchive.com