"Jason Mericer Loses First Pot Of Day"

As this reporter was walking back to his desk to continue bringing you up to the minute action from Event #49: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), we were stopped by Jared Bleznick who said, "Hey PokerNews... look at that." Bleznick was pointing to the all too familiar sight of Jason Mercier building castles with his chip stack for what seems like the 1000th time at this years WSOP. Bleznick said, "You need to write up a post titled Jason Mercier Loses First Pot Of The Day After Doubling A Guy With Only 3 Big Bets Left." While we did condense the title a bit, we used the idea and Mercier is up to 105,000 even after doubling up Galen Hall last hand.

Hall was all in and stood pat after his first draw and once Mercier pushed a third player out of the pot after the second draw he showed {8-} {4-} {3-} {2-} with one to go against the pat {8-} {7-} {6-} {4-} {2-} of Hall. Mercier drew a {9-} and told Hall he was good. Hall is up to 25,000 after the double-up and Mercier's monster stack is still up over 100,000 and he is our new chip leader at the moment