

The turn and river changed nothing and Zajmovic completed her incredible run. Bouchard was all in for 20 big blinds with against the but fell behind on the flop. On the 256th hand of the final table, Zajmovic took out Bouchard and claimed the title.

It took 33 hands for Zajmovic to claim the chip lead and she closed out the title shortly after. Zajmovic started the match with Bouchard with 30 big blinds to Bouchard’s 46. Afriat check-raised all in for effectively 2,250,000 and Bouchard called with which had the of Afriat drawing dead.Īfriat was eliminated on the next hand by Zajmovic and heads up play began shortly after. On the turn, Afriat slowed down with a check and Bouchard bet 900,000. Afriat continued for 450,000 on the flop and Bouchard called.

Bouchard opened for 300,000 from the button and called the three-bet of 700,000 from Afriat. Bouchard doubled through Afriat, leaving the latter with less than one big blind. Only 19 hands later, the event was down to heads up play. The flop gave Zajmovic the nut flush and she eliminated her second opponent of the final table. Ho shoved all in for 11 big blinds with and was called by Zajmovic from the big blind who had. The next to go was Tam Ho, who took his leave 65 hands later. A jack hit the flop but that was all the help Mekhail would get as Zajmovic moved into the chip lead with the elimination. Mekhail called for a few hundred thousand more with and was an underdog to the of Zajmovic. Mekhail raised to 225,000 from the cutoff and Zajmovic went all in from the button. It took 74 more hands for the next bust out and Mekhail Mekhail was the victim. They tell you when to play and when you have a break and I feel guilty if I can’t get my other work done, so the only thing I can cut is sleep. If you play tournaments they control your schedule. The on the turn ended the hand and Savard hit the rail in sixth place. Ema Zajmovic: I work 20 hours a week but I’m not very reasonable with poker.I don’t think I can say I only play 20 hours of poker. With 750,000 behind, Savard called with and needed to hold against Bouchard’s two draws with. Savard bet 130,000 on the flop and Bouchard moved all in. In his final hand of the final table, Savard raised to 100,000 from the hijack and Jean-Francois Bouchard called on the button. That unlucky competitor was Jean-Pascal Savard, who started the final table in the middle of the pack but quickly slid down the leaderboard. It was an arduous final table that took over 250 hands to complete and 36 hands to eliminate the first player. In her only two WPT cashes, Zajmovic now has two final tables and one championship to her name in one of the greatest back-to-back accomplishments in the history of the WPT. In a long battle among the final tablists, Zajmovic outlasted them all to win the WPT title and $200,769. Former WPT champion Eric Afriat was gunning for a second WPT title while Ema Zajmovic, who made the final table of the previous WPT held at the Playground, was playing to be the first woman to win an open WPT event. There was plenty of intrigue heading into the final table of the World Poker Tour Montreal event at the Playground Poker Club. Ema Zajmovic overcame a field of 380 to win the WPT Montreal event.
