Svetlana Gromenkova is a poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker

2008 World Series of Poker

The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker . Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series began on May 30, 2008, and featured 55 poker championships in several variants. All events but the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Texas hold...

 $1,000 Ladies - No-Limit Hold'em. As of 2008, her total WSOP tournament winnings exceed $240,830.

Gromenkova was born in and raised in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, but during her education in The Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages she moved to New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. In Russia she played bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 professionally, but after she learned poker in the US, she started to play online poker

Online poker

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide...

. Winning at 2008 World Series of Poker was her first major title.

World Series of Poker bracelets

Year	Tournament	Prize (US$)
2008 2008 World Series of Poker The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker . Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series began on May 30, 2008, and featured 55 poker championships in several variants. All events but the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Texas hold...	$1,000 Ladies - No-Limit Hold'em	$240,830