Hometown: Brooklyn
Country of Origin: United States
Svetlana Gromenkova was born in Moscow, Russia, but currently resides in New York City. She traveled to Las Vegas for the 2008 World Series of Poker and competed in the ladies event. Out of the 1,190 entrants that started, Gromenkova was the last woman standing to claim the nearly $225,000 first-place prize and gold bracelet.