Melissa Hayden (poker player)

Melissa Hayden

Melissa Hayden at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
Residence Brooklyn, New York
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s) None
Money finish(es) 11
Highest ITM
Main Event finish
476th, 2006
World Poker Tour
Title(s) None
Final table(s) 1
Money finish(es) 4

Melissa Hayden is a professional poker player.

As of 2016, Hayden's live tournament winnings exceed $850,000.[1] Her biggest return to date was at the 2000 World Series of Poker limit Texas hold 'em event, where she finished in second place, winning $142,000. She placed fifth in the WPT Ladies' Night V Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, on September 1, 2007. Hayden once beat world champion Stu Ungar in a $5,000 heads-up match in what is believed to have been his final poker game before dying days later.[2] [3]

Hayden resides in Las Vegas with her boyfriend, Allen Cunningham.

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