- Isabelle Mercier
infobox poker player
firstname = Isabelle
lastname = Mercier
nickname = No Mercy
caption = Isabelle Mercier at the2005 WSOP
hometown= Victoriaville, Quebec
wsop bracelet count = "None"
wsop money finishes = 6
wsop main event best finish rank = "None"
wsop main event best finish year =
multi-year wsop winner =
wpt titles = 0(+1)
wpt final tables = 0(+2)
wpt money finishes = 5 (+1)
ept titles = "None"
ept final tables = 1
ept money finishes = 3Isabelle Mercier (born
August 5 ,1975 inVictoriaville, Quebec ) is a professionalpoker player.Mercier originally learned to player poker as a child, [ [http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/profiles/isabellemercier.htm Pokerpages.com profile] ] but prior to turning to a poker career, she earned an undergraduate
law degree from theUniversité de Montréal and practicedcommercial law for six months. [ [http://www.poker-babes.com/bio/isabelle-mercier/ Poker-Babes.com profile] ] She then moved toParis ,France and earned aMasters Degree while working as the poker room manager at theAviation Club de France , before turning to poker full-time. During her time working at the Aviation Club she was nominated for Staff Person of the Year twice at theEuropean Poker Awards . [ [http://www.isabellemercier.com/ Isabellemercier.com biography] ]She first made a name for herself by finishing in second place in the €800 No Limit hold 'em tournament at the Masters Classic of Poker 2002 in
Amsterdam , where she earned $53,499.In 2004 Mercier won the
World Poker Tour (WPT) Ladies' Night tournament to win the $25,000 first prize, whereMike Sexton nicknamed her "No Mercy." [ [http://www.worldpokertour.com/players/?x=profile&id=3756 World Poker Tour: Isabelle Mercier] ]In 2005 she finished tenth in the
European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final inMonte Carlo , earning €23,090, and outlasting players such asWorld Series of Poker (WSOP) runner-up Julian Gardner, WPT multi-tournament winnerGus Hansen , WPT season 2 championMartin De Knijff andBarny Boatman . Also in 2005, she had three money finishes at the WSOP.Mercier made her first EPT final table in February 2006 in
Deauville , finishing seventh at a final table also featuringRam Vaswani andKirill Gerasimov .Mercier has her own instructional
DVD and appeared in the documentary "That's Poker". In January 2008, she released her own biography: "Profession : bluffeuse" (Profession: Bluffer), inMontreal and printed in France by Flammarion.A member of the
PokerStars online poker cardroom's "Team PokerStars" group of sponsored players [ [http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/isabelle-mercier/ Team PokerStars profile: Isabelle Mercier] ] , Mercier's total live tournament winnings exceed $695,000 as of 2008. [ [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=431 Hendon Mob tournament results: Isabelle Mercier] ]Notes
External links
* [http://isabellemercier.com/ Official site]
* [http://poker.sportinglife.com/News/story_66882.shtml Sporting Life interview]
* [http://www.texasholdemforums.com/interviews/isabelle-mercier.php TexasHoldemForums.com interview]
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