Regarding Poker

Isabelle Mercier is on Team PokerStars (NoMercy) and besides her gorgeous looks; she is also a fiercely competitive professional poker player.

Although she is a relatively new pro poker player on the scene, she has been around poker for a very long time in some fashion or another.

Isabelle Mercier went from being a lawyer, to being a Blackjack dealer, poker dealer, and then she moved to Paris to become the poker room manager for the Aviation Club de France. She then set her sights on becoming a successful professional poker player.

Isabelle Mercier:

Born in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada, August 5, 1975
Now Resides: In my suitcase
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Started playing poker: When I was very young with my family.
Favorite poker game: Hold’em in all its variations
Ambition: To win as many major titles as possible.

Nominated twice at the Aviation Club for the “European Poker Awards” in the Staff Person of the Year category.

Since turning pro three years ago, she has been the TV commentator for the last three World Poker Tour (WPT) episodes in Paris, and written professionally on the topic of poker.

In her short time as a pro, Isabelle Mercier has won more than $582,000 in tournaments to date.

She won the World Poker Tour’s “Ladies Night Out” poker tournament which is where she earned her nickname, “No Mercy” from World Poker Tour host, Mike Sexton.

She is now ranked 9th in all time tournament winnings for ladies in poker.

Since the World Poker Tour “Ladies Night Out” poker tournament (which was her first), she has made eleven final tables in one year including two first place finishes. Her second took place at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo in a No Limit Texas Hold’em Event.

Other finishes are:

$5,000 Main Event Euro Finals of Poker 2005, No Limit Texas Hold’em - 7th place
$10,000 European Poker Tour Grand Final, No Limit Texas Hold’em - 10th place
$25,000 5-Star World Poker Classic, No Limit Texas Hold’em - 28th place
$4,000 European Poker Tour Deauville, No Limit Texas Hold’em - 7th place

Video - Isabelle Mercier wins in the first round of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship and beats Internet qualifier Eric Larrivee:

Isabelle Mercier, she’s intelligent, beautiful, and one heck of a poker player!

You can find Isabelle Mercier playing online poker at PokerStars as “NoMercy”.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 11:26 pm and is filed under PokerStars, Poker Pros, Woman in Poker, Poker Babes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.