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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...

“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...