PL: After your WPT win you said there was a lot of ‘competition between the girls.' What does that mean? PL: The trick is to check what language the room service is speaking. PL: Do you sometimes wonder where you are when you wake up?ĮZ: “Sometimes, honestly, with the jetlag, I wake up and think ‘ok, that’s not my room, that’s a hotel, where am I?'” “Sometimes I don’t know where I’m going to be tomorrow. I’m jetlagged and tired all the time I don’t even know where I’m going to be next week. “It’s only a question of time until I settle down more again. Maybe it’s because I don’t really feel at home in Montreal and I’m lying to myself that I want to keep travelling. PL: You don’t have a huge number of cashes but they are from all over the world.ĮZ: “I have enjoyed travelling but I’m getting a little tired of it now. It’s not what I want to become as a woman, it’s not what I want to do with my life. I don’t feel fulfilled just playing poker, that’s for sure.” “You create nothing as a player and you only think about yourself. Just playing poker is also very selfish and I have difficulties with that. “I need to do other things as well and I can’t go on playing as much as I do now. But do I want to be a professional player? No. “A lot of friends of mine didn’t have the same passion but I always will. I don’t want to say I’m amazing now but I evolved. PL: So what’s going to be your main profession in the future?ĮZ: “Poker will always be important for me as I really love the game.

But after I won one I got the rush and I started playing tournament after tournament.”

It’s physically and mentally exhausting but you have to be in a balanced state to play tournaments. I have to read, I have to do this and that, and it just goes on and on. “I sleep four hours then I wake up and have to go to the gym. 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. I don’t think I can say I only play 20 hours of poker. (Photo: WPT)Įma Zajmovic: “I work 20 hours a week but I’m not very reasonable with poker. With a degree in PR and political communication she still works for a PR company but is lucky enough to “have a boss who understands and lets me work from home or places like a terrace in Monaco Bay.' Three months after that big win we caught up with Zajmovic during a break on Day 1 of the 888Live main event in Barcelona.ĭespite her recent success she doesn't play poker full-time. After her win Sexton proclaimed himself Ema's 'biggest fan' and that we'd 'be hearing a lot more from her in the future.' Zajmovic: You Can't Just Compete with the Girls That was just three months after making the final table at WPT Montreal where Mike Sexton won his first WPT title after 10 years of trying. This past February Zajmovic won the partypoker WPT Playground main event to much fanfare as she became the first female player to win an open WPT Title. Over the course of just under six years of live poker tournaments, Ema Zajmovic has “just” nine cashes.

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