Cyndy Violette (not Cyndi or Cindy) is one of the most famous female poker players. She lives in Atlantic City now and plays poker for living. But it was not always like that. Her relationships with the game could be called unstable. Cindy was born in New York City. But when she was 12 years old her parents moved to Las Vegas. Of course the child couldn’t help feeling the atmosphere of gambling. She used to play cards with her relatives. No wonder she became a dealer at a casino soon. She proceeded working even when she was pregnant.
She won several major tournaments and a 7-Card Stud at the Golden Nugget casino among them. She took home $74,000 which was a record for those times. No woman had managed to win such an amount of money before that. Everybody thought of Cyndy as of a young poker star. She appeared in popular issues and TV shows for several times but… got married and broke up with poker. After The Divorce For about two years she didn’t play the game at all trying to be a good wife. However, she missed the game awfully and in 1990 she entered the tournament at Caesar’s Palace and won it. She understood that she just couldn’t live without the game and decided to play regularly. Her divorce in 1993 helped her to devote all energies to poker. She heard that poker had been legalized in Atlantic City. So she bought a house there and began playing poker for living. Still she traveled to attend WSOP and some other major tournaments each year. A Dream Cindy’s favorite poker game is not Hold’em but 7-Card Stud. Her dream was to win the 7-Card Stud event at the WSOP. That’s why every year she stubbornly kept returning to Vegas. Though she has finished in the money for many times, she wasn’t able to come first. “I’ve been a professional poker player for 18 years and having a bracelet is something that’s very important to me,” Cyndy said once. “Every time I call my daughter, I have to tell her I went out and didn’t make it. She keeps asking me, ‘Mom, when are you going to win, already?’” In 2004 she achieved her dream an at last finished first at 7-Stud High-Low tournament of the World Series of Poker. “This was a personal breakthrough. I’ve felt like there’s been a block against me winning tournaments,” she said right after winning. So the daughter was glad, I suppose.
