Jason Mercier VLog: Up to Speed at the WSOP

Jason Mercier Video clip Rating: 5 / 5

DIAZ WINS ON POKER TOUR

The first stage of the 5th season of LAPT (Latin American Poker Tour) finished with the win of local player Aliro Diaz. The Chilean player was the best and most popular face to register field of 651 poker participants as well as the got a sum of $ 76,560 as a prize. He expressed a brand mew feat to the poker room public at the Enjoy Casino & Resort throughout the final table.

It only took 5 hours for him to grab the trophy. At the start of the gathering, he got out Brazilian Halysson Sal who ended seventh while his fellow countryman Felipe Velasquez set up an attack against Nicholas Batt, the Colombian player, who was given the 8th spot. It has to be told that Chileans fully dominated the game.

After the settlement of six, the super action was back. Javier Venegas and Sergio Escobar then took the exit door. If Velasquez helped to the Colombian Sergio Escobar’s elimination, he had the badluck of clashing into a huge opponent. Diaz has expressed his talent as well as finally got him out at the fourth spot. Just after his exit, Brazilian Joao Lopes also connected the terraces of removed to let Leonardo Olivares and Diaz fight for the last and final head’s up.

Diaz dominated the gathering and snatched the win with superb brilliance. REmember that the next fall of the Latin American Poker Tour will be arranged at Mantra Resort, Spa & Casino (Punta del Este, Uruguay) from 24th May to 27th May, 2012. Then, the event will visit Peru and Colombia before the final.

Calling the Clock: Jason Mercier

Jason Mercier Video Score: five / five

WOMEN REACHING FOR THE TOP

There was a time, when women were used as eye candy during poker events, but of late many women poker players are highlighting their skills at poker tables instead of just being in the background. Let us take the example of Melanie Weisner.

She has recently signed up a contract with Jason Young, Jared Hubbard, Kevin Vandersmissen, Chris Moorman etch and was chip leader after the second day at EPT Copenhagen. Even though the American fell short in 28th place she seemed quite promising. Leo Margets , her fellow Lock team member from Spain finished 27th at WSOP Main Event in 2009.

In the current poker scenario, many consider Vanessa Selbst as one of the best player. She grabbed the attention with 1st place score for 1.3 Million Euros at Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. Apart from it she won a bracelet in 2008 and has a couple of NAPT championship titles under her belt. In the recently held Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic she finished 3rd.

Erika Moutinho already acts as a consultant and life coach for poker players and in WOSP Main Event 2011, she bolstered her own play. Xuan Liu is another female player on the live poker circuit. As of now, Kathy Liebert is still the number one in Women’s All Time Money List, but Vanessa Selbst is giving her close competition. Very soon, women will be a force in the poker arena and one should underestimate them at their own peril.

2011 NBC Heads Up Championship: Jason Mercier

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GLOBAL POKER LIST TAKING SHAPE

Despite few minor pinches to the method used to bring forth the rankings; Mercier remained securely at the top of the rankings list of the Global Poker Index at the close of the year 2011. This American poker pro has more than 3000 points in the ranking arrangement, more than 160 plus than his closest challengers.

The Global Poker Index that was made by Federated Sports and Gaming, the similar team which prepares the Epic Poker League now, has been rating the world’s leading championship poker pros for 6 months. As it was primarily plotted, the first follow-up of the transcription took place this very week to see at how the transcription might be vamped in place to better rank elite group of poker players.

On the whole, the transcription will appear about going ahead as it did throughout the first 6 months. There has been, However, a switch in the ‘event cap’, the restrict on the number of consequences a poker player could consider for their GPI ranking.

Beneath the initial regulations of the transcription, players were only accredited for their 3 best answers over a single 6 month time prior to each modify of the list. 6 such times are applied in the rankings, stating that solutions returning back as far as 3 years ago can lead to a player’s Global Poker Index assessing standing.

After evaluating the outcomes so far, However, Global Poker Index organizers have determined to allow a 4th outcome from each of the 3 current scoring periods of time. Previous times will hold their 3 result cap and this will, however, grant more stress on late results and permit hot poker players a much better scope to quickly go up on the rankings chart.