Bicknell spent many more years earning her stripes, both live and online. Ema was still in grade school, knew nothing of poker, while Kristen was busy crushing her foes, playing more than 2.5 million hands online in 2006. Yet, in just two short years, Ema’s pocketed well over half a million dollars in live events all over the world. That’s saying a lot, since young Ema has much less hands-on experience. Ema Zajmovic Shoots for the StarsĮma shows as much promise as fellow Canadian Kristen Bicknell. She is a world traveler, professional rounder, and fierce grinder of the felt. She is one of the few Canadians-and even fewer women-to make it to Day 5 of the 2018 WSOP Championship. She is the first woman to ever claim an open-entry WPT Main Event title. One who experienced more trials and tribulations in her youth than most experience in a lifetime, and at just 28 years of age, has earned more money playing major live poker events than some of us see in a decade. ![]() Who is this beautiful brunette with the steely-eyed gaze and deceptively cunning smile? She’s one of Canada’s most recently beloved poker players. Zajmovic paired her king on the flop and sealed the win with a queen on the turn, leaving Bouchard drawing dead, and sending all the chips, trophies, belts and money toward the newest WPT Champion and first female WPT open event Champion, Ema Zajmovic.“ Aggressive …not afraid to play pots,” a winner whose success has been “ no fluke.” Those were the descriptive words from the mouth of WSOP bracelet winner, WPT titlist and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton when referring to one of today’s biggest and brightest rising stars of the poker world. After getting the ruling, Zajmovic completed the small blind, making Bouchard’s action binding and made the call putting Bouchard at risk.Īlmost 90 percent of the chips in play were now in the middle with Zajmovic holding king-queen of spades, slightly behind Bouchard’s ace-nine of spades. With Zajmovic on the button, Bouchard moved out of turn announcing all in before Zajmovic had a chance to act. Bouchard had been chipping away at the lead until Zajmovic was able to deal the final blow. Jean-Francois Bouchardīouchard began heads-up play with a slight chip advantage but over the next two levels, Zajmovic flipped the table and was back in control. Bouchard scored the double up and Afriat was left crippled, losing the rest to Zajmovic on the next hand. Not long after, Afriat check-raised all in on a bet from Bouchard on the turn after pairing his ace only to see Bouchard snap-call, turning over a better ace, leaving Afriat drawing dead. Stacks were pretty even between the final three with Afriat gaining the advantage after a few hands. Zajmovic kept up the aggression and busted Ho with a flopped nut flush to set up three-handed play. Zajmovic then took over the chip lead with the elimination of Mekhail Mekhail in fifth place, only to lose it again when Bouchard doubled through Afriat a few hands later. ![]() As luck would have it, the flop delivered a ten and Zajmovic survived. Zajmovic had moved all in with pocket tens, running straight into Afriat’s pocket aces. Savard got his chips in good with an over-pair on the flop against Bouchard who called with a nut-flush draw and got there on the turn to eliminate Savard in sixth.Īfriat went on a run and chipped up into the lead until Zajmovic stung the former WPT Champion hard. With the official final table of six set, play resumed with Tam Ho in the lead. Li soon joined him on the rail, falling in seventh. ![]() Swidler picked up pocket tens and got his stack in the middle but ran into Bouchard’s pocket kings. ![]() Popular Twitch streamer Carter Swidler saw his deep run end in eighth place when he also fell victim to a cooler. Yu four-bet shoved preflop with pocket queens only to be called and crushed by Tam Ho’s pocket kings. A huge cooler spelled the end for Ryan Yu who ended in ninth place. Losing the majority of his chips after doubling up Danny Li, Henry Tran was left crippled and would soon depart as the first casualty of the day.
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