Canadian Poker Pros Archive

If ever there were such a thing as a perfect poker player, Fedor Holz would win that title, too… In the realm of professional poker, there’s a basic order of steps in which most excel at the game. They start young. They have early luck, then overplay their hand and learn the hard way...

The Evolving Story of Canada’s Favorite Female Poker Pro, Kristen Foxen “She’s precocious, and she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush. She’s got Kristen Bicknell eyes!” Well, it’s Kristen Foxen now. Sorry guys, she’s officially tied the knot with fellow poker pro and long-time side-piece, Alex Foxen. But she hasn’t...

How the women of Canadian poker are molding the future of gender-liberation in a male-dominated sport. For countless millennia, generation after generation grew up in a male dominated world. It was only in the last few decades that women began to rise up to the status of equals. The same will soon be said...

Let’s face it—Canadian poker players are among the best pros in the world. They may not make up the majority of the world’s professionals, but they sure do have a great ROI. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the statistics. Who spent the last several years atop the totem pole of the all time money list?...

“Aggressive…not afraid to play pots,” a winner whose success has been “no fluke.” Those were the descriptive words from the mouth of WSOP bracelet winner, WPT titlist and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton when referring to one of today’s biggest and brightest rising stars of the poker world. He was talking about Ema Zajmovic.  Who is this beautiful brunette with the...

Sam Greenwood of Toronto, Ontario does not consider himself a professional poker player. But by any knowledgeable definition of the term, he most certainly is. When he collected his first WSOP bracelet in 2015, he called himself a “poker enthusiast”, and “an entrepreneur”. Yet by then, he already had more than US-$1.7 million in...