If I've learned one thing as a journalist for the past 20 years, it's that there's at least two sides to every story, and very often, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
I've spoken with both Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst at length about the circumstances surrounding their much publicized wager, where Mercier bet $10,000 at 180-1 odds that he could win three bracelets at the 2016 World Series of Poker, and there are definitely two sides here.
1. A Balmy Night in the Bahamas
Selbst' story is that she got drunk with Dzmitry Urbanovich at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure this year, and wound up laying him 200-1 on $10,000 to do win three WSOP bracelets this summer.