On Monday, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier final tabled World Championship Of Online Poker Event #24, a $700 buy-in NLHE tournament that saw 3,491 entries. After several hours of play on the final table and "chosewinner" had been eliminated in 5th place, Mercier and the other three players paused the clock to look at a potential deal. The chip counts were:
Seat 3: Pimmss (11,313,802 in chips)
Seat 6: romanooo64 (6,747,940 in chips)
Seat 7: JasonMercier (7,117,900 in chips)
Seat 8: vovanmillion (9,730,358 in chips)
It took about 30 minutes of negotiations before Mercier, who, by far, was the most experienced player amongst the quartet, agreed to a deal that got him 9k more than Independent Chip Model (ICA -a way of representing your equity in a tournament based on the remaining stack sizes and the payout structure) and $30,000 was left to play for.
Mercier eventually finished in third place for $229k and "vovanmillion" defeated "Pimmss" heads-up for the title and received $271k! Below are the final table resuls:
1st vovanmillion (Russia) - $271,889.75*
2nd Pimmss (Netherlands) - $247,457.00*
3rd JasonMercier (Canada) - $229,965.47*
4th romanooo64 (Malta) - $212,957.88*
5th chosenwinner (Germany) - $99,384.05
6th javdani (United Kingdom) - $75,449.23
7th DEX888 (Germany) - $52,234.08
8th Skämmes (Sweden) - $29,018.93
9th glupakat (Bulgaria) - $18,572.12
* denotes four-handed deal
