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For the second straight World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event at Playground Poker Club, Ema Zajmovic is knocking on the doors of history.

In fact, there have been many throughout the poker community over the years who not only don't think a woman winning a major poker tournament (and in this case, the first to ever win an open WPT event) is a big deal, but get offended that women get special attention for it.

Many readers may wonder why this is a big deal. Now it has evolved so much and it is nice to see I had support from older women, younger women. It was hard to be good and be supportive of each other. When I started playing poker, there was so much competition between girls. The funniest and nicest part of this experience was all the women who came and were so supportive of me. Honestly, I am really happy that I proved women can do it. In an interview with the WPT after her win, Ema Zajmovic reflected upon her place in history: While they are bracelet events and anyone who wins should be proud of themselves (the fields at these events are enormous), they aren't exactly in the same category as an open event. The WSOP has a few closed events each year, as well: the Ladies Championship, the Seniors Championship, and recently, the Super Seniors Championship. Invitationals – tournaments in which the players involved were hand selected by tournament organizers (or 'invited' as the name implies) – clearly aren't 'open' events. As long as someone could put up the buy-in, they could play. Zajmovic won an 'open' event, that is, a tournament which had no restrictions on who was allowed to enter (legal gambling age aside). That was an invitational, though, not an open event, so while it was without a doubt a wonderful success for Nguyen, it does not count in regards to the accomplishment we're celebrating right now. Prior to Zajmovic's victory, the only woman to have won a WPT title was Van Nguyen, who triumphed over the field at the 2008 WPT Celebrity Invitational. In winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Playground Main Event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Zajmovic became the first woman to win an open Main Event in World Poker Tour history. What Ema Zajmovic did this week, though, was truly historic.

Ema zajmovic series#

People win major tournaments all the time, have great performances at the World Series of Poker, things like that, but aside from the importance of the accomplishment to the player him or herself, most of these events are still just run-of-the-mill happenings on the poker calendar. It is not often that something historic happens in the world of poker. W/$150 Bounty Sun 12 Feb: C$ 150 + 15 No Limit Hold'em - Seniors (Event #12) Canada Claude Dufresne: C$15,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool.

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