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With a variety of women poker players now in our midst, it's quite obvious that female players have slowly picked up the game and are now entering the professional tournaments, which used to be a male dominated game. From among these femme fatales emerged one of professional poker's most distinguished and recognizable personalities, and considered as one of the most feared players in the poker table Cindy Violette.
Cindy Violette was a wife and a mother before entering the competitive world of poker. Learning the basics of strategies and techniques that need to be employed in a game of poker, Cindy Violette played with other proteges at a time when poker was slowly gaining worldwide recognition. Cindy tried her hand from table to table, whittling bets across various states from California and even in Las Vegas until she finally settled in Atlantic City to pursue a lifestyle change with a focus on playing poker. While pregnant with her daughter, Cindy Violette came and played her hand against other players in the poker table and won the pot. Cindy Violette was one of those beginner players at that time with an astounding game and a lucky hand, plus a thirst for playing more and more games. In less than a year's time after her first try at sitting on a poker table to play against others, Cindy Violette got hooked on the game and never looked back since.
Ask anyone who is the most good looking among the female professional poker players today, and Cindy Violette's name is sure to come up in their lists. But what makes Cindy Violette an even charming and admirable lady is her modesty when her professional achievements combined with keeping her personal commitments has already made her a renowned figure in the world of professional poker.
In 2004, Cindy Violette bagged a second place finish at the World Series of Poker championships in the Texas No Limit Hold'Em Ladies Event, taking home around $2,000 in winnings, and gave her the edge among the other competitors. Cindy Violette stunned everyone when the following year, she undoubtedly took home the WSOP bracelet after winning the World Series of Poker Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Event.
Among the female star poker players, Cindy Violette is considered as one of the best ever in poker history, having a total of more near a million dollars in total winnings and with a first place finish at that with that much coveted WSOP bracelet. Originating from Queens, Cindy now stays at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and has emerged as a highly competitive active professional poker player.
Cindy started learning poker and playing for fun in 1981, and then built her reputation for fancying the Texas No Limit Hold 'Em events as among her list of favorites when playing poker. As a professional poker player, Cindy was never the braggart type, as opposed to majority of the proud poker personalities whose abilities in the poker table has made them synonymous to stereotyped celebrities having airs about their careers. After beginning to play poker, Cindy went on to become a blackjack dealer the next year in Las Vegas until she eventually became much more familiar with the game that enabled her to become one of the winningest players ever. She spent some time in the mid eighties moving from Las Vegas to California practicing and playing poker, and was considered to become the most promising among the younger poker players of her era. Cindy became first know as the female player taking home the biggest winnings ever in a lone tournament at that time in the history of poker. Before venturing full time into playing professional poker, Cindy quit for some time to concentrate on her marriage and taking care of her only daughter, Sharon.
At a fateful turn of events, Cindy got a divorce and went on to start playing professionally anew last 1993, when the game of poker became legally institutionalized, focusing on the seven card stud game where winnings ranged from less than a hundred dollar bet to up to nearly five thousand dollars.
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