page_title: Melissa Hayden (poker player)
hierarchical_section_title: Melissa Hayden (poker player)
caption_attribution_description: Melissa Hayden at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
context_page_description: Melissa Hayden is a professional poker player.
  As of 2016, Hayden's live tournament winnings exceed $850,000. 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.
  Hayden resides in Las Vegas with her boyfriend, Allen Cunningham.
context_section_description: Melissa Hayden is a professional poker player.
  As of 2016, Hayden's live tournament winnings exceed $850,000.  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.
  Hayden resides in Las Vegas with her boyfriend, Allen Cunningham.
caption: Melissa Hayden at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
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