First Woman to Win a WPT Playground Championship


First woman to win an open buy-in event and second female WPT champion. Ema Zajmovic made World Poker Tour (WPT) history as the first woman ever to win an open buy-in event this week. Zajmovic won the Season XV partypoker WPT Playground Championship earlier this week.

Besting a field of 380, in the C$3,500 buy-in event, Zajmovic beat Jean-Francois Bouchard in heads up play, pocketed the C$261,000 first prize and a seat in the season ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

Final table results were:

  1. Ema Zajmovic, C$261,000
  2. Jean-Francois Bouchard, C$169,270
  3. Eric Afriat, C$108,690
  4. Tam Ho, C$71,670
  5. Mekhail Mekhail, C$55,200
  6. Jean-Pascal Savard, C$45,690
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