A bit later on we talked to Mercier briefly while the game was still going on and he gave us his thoughts on the experience.
“This game is so sick,” he said. “I lost $100k in the first hour and now I’m up over $200k.”
When the game finally broke it was actually Sam Trickett who was the big winner. “Tricky” bought in for $200k and left with an astounding $648k.
Mercier left with about $160,000 in profit and Negreanu ended up approximately $160k.
Negreanu later Tweeted he now plans on playing the $250k later this week.
The rest of the players? Well let’s just say they can try and make it all back tomorrow.
Here’s a few photos we snapped:
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