Career

Mercier has been ranked number one in the world by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and the Global poker index. Holds the record for most weeks spent at number 1 on the GPI index, 84. In 2008 Mercier made two final tables at the (EPT).

The following season he made his second EPT final table coming in 6th in the 2008 EPT Barcelona event in season 5, earning €227,800 ($324,946).

Sebastian Ruthenberg. Better known as the "2008 £1 Million Showdown", this non-title event earned Mercier an additional £516,000 ($944,847).

Other notable contestants at the final table were online pros Mike "SirWatts" Watson and Isaac Haxton as well as professionals Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine and Isabelle Mercier. Mercier has made the final table twice at the Europe Main Event.

In 2009, he finished 4th for £267,267 and in 2012, he finished 8th for €84,672.

He beat a final table which included Sam Stein, who finished runner-up in the NAPT Venetian Main Event, and Faraz Jaka, who finished 5th at the NAPT Venetian Bounty Shootout event. Through the first half of 2012, Mercier"s total live tournament winnings exceed $7,800,000. His 28 cashes at the WSOP account for over $1,850,000 of those winnings.

Achievements

• He has won 3 bracelets and 1 title. Mercier is a member of Team PokerStars Pro and was named the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year for 2009. His first was at the EPT San Remo in season 4 where he won the event earning €869,000 ($1,372,893) with a final table that included online professional poker players, and Team PokerStars Pro"s Dario Minieri (3rd) and William Thorson (6th). Won the tournament. In October 2008, he won the EPT London £20,000 High Roller Event. The final table included runner-up John Juanda who had recently won the 2008 Europe Main Event. Mercier has won 3 gold bracelets and made 11 final tables at the WSOP. At the 2009 WSOP, he won the 1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Event for $237,415. At the 2011 WSOP, Mercier won his second bracelet in the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Handed event, earning $619,575. Mercier won the 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun $25,000 Bounty Shootout tournament earning a total of $475,000. In 2011, he repeated as the NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout champion, not only winning the event, but also collecting the most bounties for a total of $246,600. On September 21, 2010, Mercier won his first WCOOP bracelet in Event 42, besting a field of 3122 runners.