When Jason Mercier won the $10,000 no-limit deuce-to-seven lowball earlier this week he was one third of ways to taking $1.8 million from fellow poker pro Vanessa Selbst.

Selbst agreed to a gamble against Mercier, a four-time bracelet winner after his victory this week, winning three bracelets this summer. Just a handful of players have ever done that before. Selbst made nearly the similar bet against Polish poker pro Dzmitry Urbanovich.

In nearly 47 years of the WSOP, someone having a three-bracelet summer has only happened five times. Jeff Lisandro last did it in 2009.

In both wagers, which happened in January, Selbst’s opponents risked $10,000 in their own money. Unlike the bet with Urbanovich, the bet with Mercier wasn’t publicized.

Until now.

Unlike the 21-year-old Polish pro, Mercier isn't any WSOP rookie. He was the large chip leader with seven remaining within the $10,000 razz event on Wednesday, which gave Selbst quite the sweat. She has already began looking to dump action as a kind of insurance against losing the seven-figure wager, but it’s unclear if with the intention to help her.

Urbanovich hasn’t yet cashed on the Series, so she isn’t worrying about that one.

According to Selbst, she made the Mercier bet when drinking and tried to shop for out of it for $1,000 when sober, presumably day after today. However, Mercier refused. He also refused a $100,000 buyout this week after he won his first bracelet of the summer.

Selbst explained her predicament in a few Tweets:

Mercier in fact chimed in on Twitter, saying that the $100,000 offer is just too low at this point. He also disagreed with Selbst’s comment that she was highly intoxicated when it was made.

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