Cyndy Violette is a professional poker player and a member of Doyle's Room, the online poker room associated with Doyle Brunson. Cyndy Violette has won 1 World Series of Poker bracelet and has finished in the money at 27 different WSOP events.
Cyndy Violette Poker Background
Cyndy Violette was born in Queens, New York. When Cyndy was twelve, the Violette family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. By the time Cyndy Violette was of legal age to gamble, she had taken advantage of the location and was playing casino poker regularly. Around the same time, she worked for a period as both a blackjack dealer and a poker dealer.
The total career winnings in tournament poker for Cyndy Violette is just under a million dollars. She has one daughter and has been married and divorced two times. Until 1993, Cindy Violette did not devote herself entirely to poker. Violette did not play poker for two years during her first marriage in the 1980's. During her second marriage, from 1990 until 1993, Cyndy Violette lived in the state of Washington, so she split her time between playing poker tournaments mainly in Las Vegas and domestic life back in the Northwest.
Seven-Card Stud Poker - Cyndy Violette
Unlike many of today's players, Cyndy Violette's favorite game is 7-Card Stud. Many of her top finishes have come in stud events, though Cyndy has begun to have greater success at Texas Holdem in recent years. Cyndy had been around the poker scene for years and was known as a good stud player, but Cyndy Violette's poker skills began to gain widespread notice after she won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the 2000 WSOP tournament. As stated before, Cyndy Violette has a highly respectable 27 money finishes all-time at the World Series of Poker.
Here's a breakdown of some of the highlights of in the poker career of Cyndy Violette.
Cyndy Violette Poker Resume
- 1984 - 1st Place - Limit Seven-Card Stud - Grand Prix of Poker - Golden Nugget ($74,000 prize)
- 1986 - 1st Place - Limit Seven-Card Stud - Grand Prix of Poker - ($74,400 prize)
- 1990 - 1st Place - Caesars Palace Event ($62,000 prize)
- 1996 - 3rd Place - World Series of POker $5,000 Seven-Card Stud ($39,000 prize)
- 1998 - 1st Place - Seven-Card Stud Event at U.S. Poker Championship
- 2001 - 6th Place - World Series of Poker $2,000 S.H.O.E. Event
- 2004 - 1st Place - World Series of Poker Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split
- 2005 - 2nd Place - World Series of Poker $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Event ($295,970 prize)
- 2007 - 3rd Place - World Series of Poker $5,000 7 Card Stud Event ($102,648 prize)
- 2007 - 400th Place - $10,000 WSOP Main Event - ($30,512 prize)
- 2007 - 14th Place - $15,000 WPT Doyle Brunsen North American Poker Classic ($84,570 prize)
Note that the 400th place finish in the World Series of Poker Main Event is an impressive feat, given the fact that Cyndy Violette outlasted approximately 5,950 opponents in the event.
Cyndy Violette Nude - Cyndy Violette Playboy
An article interviewing Cyndy Violette was featured in a September, 1980 issue of Playboy Magazine. While the Playboy article also featured pictures of Cyndy Violette they were non nude. She also has non nude pictures available at her website cyndyviolette.com.
Cyndy Violette Personal Information
Cyndy Violette's favorite movies are Pretty Woman, Contact and What The Bleep Do We Know!?, a movie about quantum mysticism. She enjoys listening to performers like Elton John and Kenny Loggins, while her favorite celebrity is Oprah Winfrey (lord help us).
Cyndy Violette enjoys healthy, macrobiotic foods, instead of the processed foods that many people eat. She studies Kabbalah as a hobby, and enjoys exercising, shopping, decorating and going to spa. Cyndy Violette's poker nickname is Ultra.
