Svetlana Gromenkova is a poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,000 Ladies - No Limit Hold'em.
[1] As of 2008, her total WSOP tournament winnings exceed $240,830.
[2] Gromenkova was born in and raised in Moscow, but during her education in The Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages she moved to New York City.
[3] In Russia, she played bridge professionally, but after she learned poker in the US, she started to play online poker.
[4] Winning at 2008 World Series of Poker was her first major title.