Isabelle Mercier
Isabelle Mercier | |
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Nickname(s) | No Mercy |
Residence | Monaco |
Born | Victoriaville, Quebec | August 5, 1975
World Series of Poker | |
Bracelet(s) | None |
Money finish(es) | 7 |
Highest ITM Main Event finish | None |
World Poker Tour | |
Title(s) | None |
Final table(s) | None |
Money finish(es) | 4 |
European Poker Tour | |
Title(s) | None |
Final table(s) | 1 |
Money finish(es) | 5 |
Isabelle Mercier (born August 5, 1975, in Victoriaville, Quebec) is a professional poker player.
Mercier originally learned to play poker as a child,[1] but prior to turning to a poker career, she earned an undergraduate law degree from the Université de Montréal and practiced commercial law for six months. She then moved to Paris, France and earned a master's degree while working as the poker room manager at the Aviation 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 the European Poker Awards.[2]
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.[3]
In 2004 Mercier won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ladies' Night tournament and the $25,000 first prize, where Mike Sexton nicknamed her "No Mercy."[4]
In 2005, she finished tenth in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €23,090.[5] Also in 2005, she had three money finishes at the WSOP.[6][7][8] Mercier made her first EPT final table in February 2006 in Deauville, finishing seventh at a final table also featuring fellow professionals Ram Vaswani and Kirill Gerasimov.[9]
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), in Montreal and printed in France by Flammarion.
On April 27, 2009, Mercier won the
On July 12, 2009, Mercier finished 3rd in the PokerStars Sunday Millions, cashing for $115,000.[11]
Until 2009, she was a member of the PokerStars online poker cardroom's "Team PokerStars" group of sponsored players.[12] By the end of 2009, Mercier left the PokerStars pro team and on December 2, 2009, joined gambling giant BetClic as a consultant for their online poker site.[13]
Mercier won the very first World Championship of Open Face Chinese Poker in Prague in 2015.[14]
Since 2017, Isabelle Mercier is an ambassador for cryptocurrency poker site CoinPoker.[15] She regularly plays tournaments and OFC on the platform, and has a dedicated weekly tournament with a bounty to win.
Mercier's total live tournament winnings exceeded $1,200,000 as of 2015.[16]
References
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- ^ "Welcome to Fantasyland !". Welcome to Fantasyland !.
- ^ "Master Classics of Poker (MCOP) 2002, No Limit Holdem". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "Isabelle Mercier". World Poker Tour. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ "European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final, European Poker Tour Grand Final - No Limit Hold'em". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "36th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2005, Pot Limit Hold'em". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "36th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2005, No Limit Hold'em". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "36th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2005, No Limit Hold'em". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "European Poker Tour - EPT Deauville, No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final, Charity Event". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "Isabelle Mercier New Poker Ambassador For Betclick". OnlinePoker.net. September 15, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "Team PokerStars profile: Isabelle Mercier".
- ^ "Poker News - Poker News & Features from Around the World!". Pokerlistings. December 10, 2019.
- ^ "Prague Poker Festival, TonyBet Open Face Chinese Progressive Pineapple". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "Isabelle Mercier". Coin Poker. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ^ "Isabelle Mercier's profile on The Hendon Mob". The Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved March 24, 2024.