Cyndy
Violette's Poker History
Cyndy
Violette was born in Queens, New York. When Cyndy
was 12 years old her family moved to Las Vegas,
Nevada. Cyndy enjoyed playing cards with her Uncle
as a child, and that seemed to have instilled
her love of poker. Amusingly, her first time playing
poker in a casino was when she was 22 and pregnant
with her daughter Shannon. But it wasn't her last
time playing poker. Cyndy had been dealing blackjack
and poker until she entered a poker tournament
in Lake Tahoe in 1984 and decided to become a
professional poker player. After a few years Cyndy
got married and stopped playing poker for a few
years. Cyndy had later won the Golden Nugget poker
tournament ($74,000 most money ever won by a woman
at the time), and the Caesars Palace poker tournament
($62,000) reviving her love of poker.
Cyndy Violette spent the
summer at the Taj Majal once poker was legalized
in Atlantic City and finally moved there in 1994.
She enjoyed living in Atlantic City and wrote
a few poker related books and poker articles there.
But most people would recognize Violette from
the women's show on the World Poker Tour. In 2004,
Cyndy finally achieved her dream of winning the
7 card stud high-low tournament of the World Series
of Poker. She now can enjoy her World Series bracelet,
the $135,900 in prize money, and the title as
poker champion.
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Name:
Cyndy Violette
Age:
Date of Birth:
Birthplace: Queen's, New York
Current Residence: Absecon, NJ
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: One daughter
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Major
Poker Accomplishments:
- 2008
39th Annual World Series of Poker Event 33
World Championship Seven Card Stud High-Low
Split 8 or Better (9th)
- 2007
38th Annual World Series of Poker Event 5
Omaha/Seven Card Stud High/Low 8/OB (16th)
- 2006
Five Diamond World Poker Classic (WPT) Event 12
Doyle Brunson North American Poker Classic
$15,000 No-Limit Hold'em (14th)
- 2006
37th Annual World Series of Poker $5,000 Seven
Card Stud (3rd)
- 2005
Legends of Poker (WPT) $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Championship (22nd)
- 2005
Ultimate Poker Challenge $10,000 No Limit Texas
Hold'em Main Event (9th)
- 2005
World Series of Poker Event 36, $3,000 Limit
Hold'em (7th)
- 2005
World Series of Poker Event 20, $5,000 Pot Limit
Hold'em (7th)
- 2005
World Series of Poker Event 9, $2,000 No Limit
Hold'em (2nd)
- 2005
World Series of Poker Event 6, $2,500 Short
Handed No Limit Hold'em (20th)
- 2005
LA Poker Classic / WPT Event 19, $1,500 Limit
Hold'em (24th)
- 2005
LA Poker Classic / WPT Event 13, $1,000 Seven
Card Stud Hi-Lo (10th)
- 2004
World Poker Tour Ladies Night Out II No Limit
Texas Hold'em Event (5th)
- 2004
World Series of Poker Event 12, $2,000 H.O.R.S.E.
(12th)
- 2004
World Series of Poker Event 10, $1,500 Seven
Card Stud Hi-Lo Champion
- 2004
World Series of Poker Event 3, $1,500 Seven
Card Stud (16th)
- 2003
World Series of Poker, $1,000 Women's Championship
(5th)
- 2002
U.S. Poker Championship, $4,000 Seven Card Stud
(8th)
- 2002
World Series of Poker, $5,000 Seven Card Stud
(8th)
- 2001
World Series of Poker, $2,000 S.H.O.E. (6th)
- 1999
World Series of Poker, $1,000 Women's Seven
Card Stud (6th)
- 1998
World Series of Poker, $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
(18th)
- 1996
World Series of Poker, $5,000 Seven Card Stud
(3rd)
- 1995
World Series of Poker, $1,000 Women's Seven
Card Stud (7th)
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