Jason Mercier came within one spot of winning back-to-back $10,000 championship events, hundreds of thousands of dollars in bracelet bets, and a legitimate shot at $1.8 million more, at the 2016 World Series of Poker Wednesday.
Two days after winning the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, Mercier got all the way to heads-up play in the $10,000 Razz Championship before ultimately finishing runner-up to Ray Dehkharghani.
In denying Mercier his fifth career WSOP bracelet, Dehkharghani won hist first and the $273,338 first-place prize it came with.
When Mercier took down the Lowball title earlier this week, he admitted the win was worth much more than the $273,335 first-place prize it came with, because of hundreds of thousands in bracelet bets he had on the side.