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Ema Zajmovic has had considerable success in tournament poker over the last few years, with her fair share of final tables on the World Poker Tour. Still, despite playing in over 10 EPT Main. The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has completely thrown the live poker world, not to mention the tournament poker world, into total chaos. Ema Zajmovic and runner up Benny Chen.

The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has completely thrown the live poker world, not to mention the tournament poker world, into total chaos. That was somewhat soothed by the World Series of Poker taking some of their events online. Now, the World Poker Tour is looking to pull off the same trick, taking their popular stop that would normally be in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and putting it online with a longtime friend of the organization and the WPT Montreal Online.

WPT Montreal Online to Have $2 Million Guarantee

It was announced on Thursday that the WPT and partypoker will present the WPT Montreal Online. The tournament is expected to start on January 10, when two Day Ones will look to compile the player pool and will conclude with the crowning of a champion on January 17. The tournament will be a $3200 buy-in tournament that offers a $2 million guaranteed prize pool for its combatants.

“The World Poker Tour and partypoker continue their thriving partnership into 2021 as we look forward to crowning another WPT champion online,” said Adam Pliska, the Chief Executive Officer of the World Poker Tour. “Players around the globe have shown their support of WPT Online and the continued prestige on display at our final tables.”

Hermance Blum, who handles the tour outside of the U. S. as the WPT Vice President of European operations, also sounded off. “Another exceptional event for players comes to partypoker this January,” said Blum. “The proven success of limited re-entries and real names carries over to WPT Montreal Online and we are excited to be partnering once more with partypoker.”

“I can’t tell you how excited I am about WPT Montreal being played out on partypoker! Playground is one of my favorite places to play on the globe and the players there are just such a great community,” said John Duthie, partypoker LIVE president. “As the scene of his famous WPT victory it was also one of Mike’s favorite stops on the tour; he’ll be with us all in spirit I’m sure!”

WPT Montreal Holds Significant Place in WPT History

The history of the live WPT Montreal is a storied one. The venue itself, the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, has provided first class treatment of the players and the WPT staff since the inception of the tournament in 2012. The first tournament was a huge success, with Canada’s Jonathan Roy taking down the championship over a 1173 entry field.

Perhaps one of the most endearing championships awarded at the Playground was in 2016. In the WPT Montreal, former WPT commentator and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton reached an all-time goal of his – to win a WPT championship – when he vanquished a field that included Jake Schwartz, Ema Zajmovic and runner up Benny Chen. It would serve as the cap to the late Sexton’s Hall of Fame career, not to mention the $425,980 (CAN) that he won at the time.

Zajmovic proved she had game at the 2016 WPT Montreal and she took it the rest of the way in early 2017. At the WPT Playground, Zajmovic became the first woman to win an open event (with a buy-in) in February 2017 when she defeated Jean-Francois Bouchard to win the title and etch her name on the (now known as) Mike Sexton WPT Champions’ Cup. Other champions on the WPT at the Playground include Seth Davies, Jonathan Jaffe and Patrick Serda.
There is not a firm slate of events scheduled at this time, but it is to be announced later. If it holds to prior WPT online ventures, there will be some preliminary events that lead up to the start of the WPT Montreal Online Main Event. Satellites have already started on partypoker, some as low as $.01, and should provide a significant pipeline of players who will vie for the (minimum) $2 million guaranteed prize pool.

At her second straight World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event final table at Playground Poker Club, Canadian Ema Zajmovic has become the first woman to win an open WPT Championship event.

Zajmovic, who qualified online via partypoker.net, defeated the likes of WPT Champions Club member Eric Afriat and her friend Jean-Pascal Savard at the final table before delivering the final blow to heads-up opponent Jean-Francois Bouchard.

After creating a buzz last November at the WPT Montreal final table, Zajmovic fell short of etching her name in history, and the WPT Champions Cup, falling in fifth place. Just a few months later, Zajmovic came back to claim what was hers, besting a field of 380 players, and walking away with the WPT Playground Championship belt, $241,500 and a seat at the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions.

Final Table Results:

Day 4 began with 10 players and a restart of the unofficial final table. Normally, Day 4 ends when the field is down to six and an official final table but the players were eager to battle for the title and did not want to delay.

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. A huge cooler spelled the end for Ryan Yu who ended in ninth place. Yu four-bet shoved preflop with pocket queens only to be called and crushed by Tam Ho’s pocket kings.

Popular Twitch streamer Carter Swidler saw his deep run end in eighth place when he also fell victim to a cooler. Swidler picked up pocket tens and got his stack in the middle but ran into Bouchard’s pocket kings. Li soon joined him on the rail, falling in seventh.

With the official final table of six set, play resumed with Tam Ho in the lead. 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.

Afriat went on a run and chipped up into the lead until Zajmovic stung the former WPT Champion hard. Zajmovic had moved all in with pocket tens, running straight into Afriat’s pocket aces. As luck would have it, the flop delivered a ten and Zajmovic survived.

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. Zajmovic kept up the aggression and busted Ho with a flopped nut flush to set up three-handed play.

Stacks were pretty even between the final three with Afriat gaining the advantage after a few hands. 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. Bouchard scored the double up and Afriat was left crippled, losing the rest to Zajmovic on the next hand.

Bouchard 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 had been chipping away at the lead until Zajmovic was able to deal the final blow.

With Zajmovic on the button, Bouchard moved out of turn announcing all in before Zajmovic had a chance to act. After getting the ruling, Zajmovic completed the small blind, making Bouchard’s action binding and made the call putting Bouchard at risk.

Almost 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. 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.

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