Isabelle Mercier: A Famous Online Poker Woman Player
Despite the old knowledge that poker is for men only, many women gamblers are making names in the field. Some of the famous women players of poker started to gain their popularity when they excel and win in several online poker tournaments. After making a living out of online poker, they explore the different aspects of poker like live poker and television poker tournaments.
Isabelle Mercier is known to many poker professionals as the No Mercy player. She does not earn any bracelet from participating in some poker tournaments but she was able to make a good living by having nice rankings in the events. Mercier is one of the few woman poker professionals from Quebec who was able to stay at the final rounds of several poker tournaments such as the World Poker Tour.
If you think that it is easy for her to establish a career in online poker, you are mistaken for she has a good job and profession before she pursued her dreams of being a successful woman poker player someday. For a year, she was able to work and practice a profession in line with commercial law before she migrated to Paris, France, to try a new twist in her life. In Paris she worked as Aviation Club de France's poker room manager. Even if she is not yet a poker player, she already gained the attention of poker analysts for she became one of the nominees for the European Poker Award's Staff Person of the Year title.
As soon as she decided to create a name in poker, she joined the €800 No Limit Holdem event at the 2002 Masters Classic of Poker. Mercier did not win in the event but she ranked second so she still able to take home $53,499. The first tournament where she won first place is the Ladies Night event which is also hosted by the organizers of the World Poker Tour in 2004. Her other achievements included ranking 10th at the European Poker Tour Grand Final.
Even if she was already popular in live poker tournaments, she remains prominent in online poker because she is one of the famous members of Team PokerStars. From the life of Isabelle Mercier, we can clearly see that sometimes we have to risk to succeed. If Mercier did not give up her previous profession she will not be one of the online poker professionals who were able to make more money from participating in tournaments. Risking is part of the lives of gamblers. What is important is to be prepared for the trials that are usually encountered by poker professionals before they succeed.