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That time around, she lost the heads-up match against local player Patrick Serda who took home C$668,388 for his victory. In October 2018, Zajmovic recorded her biggest live cash to date, taking home C$556,000 for a second-place finish at the WPT Montreal Main Event #2. In April 2018, Ema came second in the WPT Amsterdam, winning €100,260 after losing the heads-up battle against Florens Feenstra from the Netherlands.

This made Zajmovic the first-ever female WPT Main Event champion, with others coming close but failing for many years.Įma didn't exactly turn her focus entirely to tournaments after this success, but she did start playing a few more and kept on recording good results.įurther results came in England, the USA, Canada, and Spain, before she just nearly missed out on yet another WPT title. Just a few months later, in February 2017, Ema was finally the champion, as she took down the C$3,500 WPT Playground, Kahwanake, for C$241,500. She followed that up with a deep run at the C$3,850 WPT Montreal Main Event in her native Canada, where she finished 5 th for C$102,000. In 2016, Ema went to Las Vegas for the WSOP and cashed in the $10,000 Main Event, getting busted in 929 th place. Over those years, Zajmovic improved her poker skills at the cash game tables, becoming a fierce competitor and getting ready for what was to come. She continues to keep down a steady job at a PR company while playing poker in her spare time and managing to make the two work together.Įma’s first official poker result was recorded back in 2011 when she cashed in the €430 EPT Barcelona side event for just over €1,000.īack in those days, Ema was only playing an occasional tournament and recording further cashes in Italy in 2012, Malta in 2015, and the Caribbean in 2016.

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Ema Zajmovic Professional Poker CareerĮven today, many years into her poker career and over a million dollars in cash game winnings later, Ema Zajmovic still doesn’t consider herself a professional poker player. Zajmovic has other interests, including fitness and reading, both of which she claims are crucial parts of her daily routine that she could not eliminate from her schedule.Įma has also been traveling the world to play poker over the years, but it is clear that poker is not the only reason for all the travels as there are few parts of the world she hasn’t visited thus far. We don’t know exactly when Ema started playing poker, but her first recorded tournament results date back to 2011, which means she has at least a decade of experience with the game. She pursued a career in PR and still works in it, doing 20 hours a week at work and spending much of her remaining time playing the game she fell in love with at a young age. Zajmovic's parents and her sister came to Quebec City, Canada, and had an uphill struggle to learn the language and get accepted in the new country.Ī bright and strong child, Ema managed to defeat adversity and get accepted by her peers, learning the language and obtaining higher education with degrees in PR and political communication. Appeared on Live at the Bike and Poker After DarkĮma Zajmovic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990, just in time to witness the carnage and destruction of the Yugoslav wars that raged on for much of the last decade of the 20 th century.Įma’s family remained in Bosnia for the duration of the war but managed to get out in 1996 when she was six years old.Came second at the WPT Montreal in 2018 for C$556,000.Won a WPT title for C$241,500 at the WPT Playground in 2017.Won over $1.14 million playing tournaments.Has a degree in PR and political communication.

Born in Bosnia in 1990, moved to Canada in 1996.

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