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Player Profile: Cyndy Violette

Published by admin on February 11, 2009

The moment people will start speaking about who is the best female poker player there are many big names out there to say. Starting from those poker players that already managed to become a legend like Barbara Enright and Wendeen Eolis and going to those female players that are currently shining like Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman, people are wondering who is going to be the next shining star of poker. One of the candidates for this position is Cyndy Violette, thanks to the recent success that she proved at the poker tables during her career.

Cyndy Violette is a professional poker girl born in Queens, NYC. She spent most of her childhood in Las Vegas, where her family managed to teach her a lot of things about poker and gambling. She played a lot of card games with her family but it took a little bit of time in order for her to be attracted by the game of poker.

Cyndy Violette’s career as a poker player began in 1984 when she started to play poker tournaments for low stakes. Cyndy’s favorite poker game is Seven Card Stud. Thanks to the great performances of Cyndy Violette she managed to leave the dealer’s box and start a poker player career full time. In 1986 Cyndy Violette managed to win at that time the largest prize won by a female at a poker tournament: $74,000.

This prize not only that made her famous, but also helped her become more confident in her poker player skills.

Cyndy Violette is currently a proud owner of a World Series of Poker bracelet. She managed to get that in the $2k 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo event from 2004. She managed to win during her entire career an impressive amount of money at online poker tournaments that so far exceed $1.2 million.

Cyndy Violette is also part of the top 10 female poker players in the world when it comes to the total amount of money won at poker tournaments.

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