Sexy and ruthless the Queen of Bluff
Posted on April 18, 2010 by angela
In his luggage designer Louis Vuitton never misses a sexy dress has a real weakness for shoes with heels, and shopping for Italian men. Doing yoga and relaxing when not working loves to cook. Indeed, take cooking lessons. Works as a bleffeuse, recalls how his biography published in 2008, and in the coming days we will see the table at the Casino Sanremo dell’Europen Poker Tour where he will be one of the ambassadors of interactive demonstration. Thirty-five years, Canadian lawyer and former crupier Aviation Club de France, Isabelle Mercier, a professional poker player and Texas Hold’em. Makes its official debut in 2004 winning the Ladies’ Night at the World Poker Tour: cos earns a prize of 25 thousand dollars and a tag-coined nickname for her by celebrity Mike Sexton. From then on the table will be Isabelle Isabelle “No Mercy” or the “ruthless,” Mercier. Today one of the strongest players of poker and women over the past 5 years has reached more than forty “money finishes” winning a million dollars in tournaments online and offline. Just do not call the queen of hearts or player in a skirt, “No Mercy” just one of the first women for years, landed in a world that is rapidly changing masculine skin. A world that will be populated by 2011 one third of women players. She asked to tell the secrets of the “pink poker.
Poker and women a combination of more and more used in recent years, which in his opinion the condition of female poker today?
The last ten years have been for poker a revolution thanks to the Internet because the game has lost its masculine matrix opening the doors of the virtual desktops also a whole army of women players. Online gaming has allowed so to straddle the boundaries and prejudices related to gender of the player while keeping in the hands of men more power. In the area there ’still much to do but also the mentality that must change for years have been men to devote themselves to sports activities, the ones who wore sneakers. We do is to just play with dolls. But poker is not based on force and physicality: the green table men and women are equal.
She started playing before the advent of the rooms online and for years he attended casinos and tournaments, often compared with men’s reality. It never felt discriminated against?
The beginnings were difficult but I have bad memories and I can not speak of discrimination. I am proud of being a woman, especially when I play poker. Compared to men, we have an extra card: it is called the sixth sense and allows us to perceive the psychological aspects of the game and our opponent than men escape. They may also have a more aggressive game but the aggressiveness is learned through experience, not the sixth sense.