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With 100 EPT events now in the can, or nearly anyway, Sarah Grant has been looking back on the EPTs that some players remember to be their best.

Among those is Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier, who when asked which was his favourite EPT will always insta-call with EPT Sanremo in 2008, where he played his first EPT and then won it.

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Happier days: Jason Mercier (right) with Igor Kurganov yesterday

It was indeed a great tournament, the first in Sanremo, with an equally memorable finale. But while it was Mercier’s favourite EPT, in a bitter twist it soon turned out to be the worst day of his life, as he explained to Sarah at the first break in play.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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