Ema Zajmović

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Ema Zajmović
Ema Zajmović (2018)
Ema Zajmović (2018)
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1990
place of residence CanadaCanada Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 424,511
Total prize money $ 1,103,481
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 3
Best main event 215th ( 2018 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 5
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 1
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 5
Last updated: January 7, 2020

Ema Zajmović (* 1990 ) is a Bosnian - Canadian poker player . In 2017, she became the first and so far only woman to win an open main event on the World Poker Tour .

Personal

Zajmović fled Yugoslavia to Canada with her family at the age of six . There she grew up bilingual and taught as a teacher , the subjects French and English .

Poker career

Zajmović has been participating in renowned live tournaments since 2011 .

In July 2016 , Zajmović was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and finished in 929th place in the main event for $ 15,000 in prize money. In mid-November 2016, she reached the final table at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Kahnawake . There she landed in fifth place and received more than 100,000 Canadian dollars . In the same place, Zajmović won the WPT Playground Main Event in February 2017 . For this she prevailed against 379 other players and received a prize of 241,500 Canadian dollars. This made her the first woman to win an open WPT Main Event and for this achievement she received the Moment of the Year 2017 award at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles in late February 2018 . In mid-April 2018, Zajmović reached the final table of the WPT Main Event again and took second place in Amsterdam for more than 100,000 euros in prize money. She achieved the same placement at the WPT Main Event in Kahnawake in early November 2018 and after losing heads-up to her compatriot Patrick Serda, she received her highest prize money of 556,000 Canadian dollars.

In total, Zajmović has earned more than one million dollars with poker in live tournaments and is therefore in second place behind Almedin Imširović in the ranking of the most successful Bosnian poker players .

Web links

Commons : Ema Zajmović  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ema Zajmović on pokertube.com, accessed on April 4, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Bosanci u svijetu zgrću milione na pokeru on avaz.ba from September 16, 2018, accessed on December 20, 2018 (Bosnian).
  3. ↑ a b Ema Zajmović in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ partypoker.net WPT Montreal (C $ 3,500 + 350 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Montreal Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ WPT Playground (C $ 3,200 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 4, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Poker Awards: Polk gets nothing , Neeme wins double on pokerfirma.com February 23, 2018, accessed April 4, 2018.
  8. ↑ WPT Amsterdam (€ 3,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Amsterdam) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 21, 2018 (English).
  9. ↑ partypoker WPT Montreal 2018 (C $ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event # 2) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 6, 2018.
  10. ↑ Bosnia & Herzegovina All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Zajmović, Ema
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Canadian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1990