Isabelle Mercier

Who is Isabelle Mercier?

Isabelle Mercier is a professional poker player.

Mercier originally learned to play poker as a child, 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.

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 Ladies' Night tournament and the $25,000 first prize, where Mike Sexton nicknamed her "No Mercy."

In 2005 she finished tenth in the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €23,090. 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 featuring Ram Vaswani and Kirill Gerasimov.