There were 28 players who came back for Day 3, which means just one player had to bust before they redrew for seats at the final three tables. Here is a look at the chip counts and seat assignments for Tuesday’s Day 4 action: He is still alive, but near the bottom of the pack with 525,000 in chips. As play continued on though, the other stacks started to eat into Tran’s lead.
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At one point, he had over 20 percent of the chips in play, thanks to a series of big pots and memorable table talk.
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Given how things are going for Zajmovic, it is likely her opponents will probably be cursing her position on them come tomorrow.Īnything could still happen though, as there are 10 players remaining and a ways to go before the tournament is over.įor the early goings of the day, it seemed as though Henry Tran could run away with the season XV WPT Playground Main Event. “I’m lucky he is gone because he is a really good player and he was on my left all day,” Zajmovic says of Lefrancois.
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She picked up a pocket pair against his ace in a blind-versus-blind confrontation and eliminated him in 11th place. One person she did manage to dispose of before players combined at the unofficial final table of 10 and bagged and tagged was Pascal Lefrancois. “I think this table is tougher than the last one,” she says. She also thinks, while her position may be great, the competition is a problem. Zajmovic is in great shape, but she acknowledges she has a ways to go before this event has a winner. Her next closest competitor, Jean-Pascal Savard, bagged up 2,095,000. The French-Canadian Zajmovic went on to finish the day on top of the pack with 10 remaining with 2,985,000 in chips. Latz went on to exit shortly thereafter in 20th place. Zajmovic did have her lucky moments, most notably when she got it all in preflop holding ace-queen against start-of-day chip leader Hendrick Latz’s ace-king and turned a queen to stay alive.
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We’ll see what happens and if I can keep getting lucky.” I think the key is to have the momentum all the time and play the best you can with what you have. I hope it will continues tomorrow because at the last final table it was so bad because I ran so bad. “It is a mix too because I have spots where I have the momentum. “Honestly, I have been running really good today,”Zajmovic says with a smile. Last time, Zajmovic finished fifth at WPT Montreal after dominating the late stages of the tournament only to run poorly once the television crew started filming. It is not quite the same as a repeat, but qualifier Zajmovic can certainly brag given that she has back-to-back WPT top-10 finishes at Playground Poker Club this season. Ema Zajmovic, chip leader with 10 left in the Season XV WPT Playground Main Event, can become the first female champion of a WPT Main Tour open event if she’s able to seal the deal at a venue she knows all too well.