Maxime Villemure, who at present resides in Quebeck, Canada, took up poker in 2007 after watching the World Series of Poker on television. Maxime Villemure had quite a humble beginning to his poker career in the form of home games with his friends. These home games slowly gave way to online poker games, and soon afterwards, he started playing in live tournaments.
The first ever money finish for Maxime Villemure was in the No-Limit Hold'em event at the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final Tournament held on April 17, 2008. This event took place at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, and had a total of 842 entries. Maxime Villemure had $1,206,000 chips when he entered the final table, and in chip ranking, he stood after Glen Chorny, Isaac Baron, Valeriy Ilikyan, and Michael Martin. Maxime Villemure finished in third-place, after holding his own for five days, in his very first live tournament and went home with a whopping sum of $1,093,950.
As of 2008, he has earned $1,093,950 in prize money through tournament winnings, and in ProRank, he holds 162nd position.