- Team PokerStars Pro
- Chris Moneymaker
- Greg Raymer
- Joe Hachem
- Barry Greenstein
- Isabelle Mercier
- Daniel Negreanu
- John Duthie
- Tom McEvoy
- Steve Paul Ambrose
- Vanessa Rousso
- Luca Pagano
- Victor Ramdin
- Lee Nelson
- Bertrand Grospellier
- Humberto Brenes
- Bill Chen
- Katja Thater
- Noah Boeken
- André Akkari
- Dario Minieri
- Hevad Khan
- Raymond Rahme
- Tuan Lam
- Gavin Griffin
- Chad Brown
- Victoria Coren
Team PokerStars Pro - Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa "Lady Maverick" Rousso is a picture of intelligence, beauty, and poker skill. An honors graduate of Duke University, Rousso has spent the past year splitting her time between studying law at the University of Miami and tearing up the poker tournament circuit.
Rousso has been playing poker since she was five years old. Most people started to take notice of the young phenomenon when she started final tabling tournaments on the *World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour circuits. At age 22, she became the youngest woman to ever make a final table in a World Series event.
While her name was becoming familiar to many people, the entire poker world stood up and took notice when Rousso made a storybook run at the 2006 World Poker Tour Championship. Rousso was well on her way to making the televised final table when she suffered a bad beat and went out in seventh place, earning more than $260,000. Vanessa’s biggest tournament cash so far came in October 2007, when she finished 2nd in the PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker, walking away with $700,782 in prize money. Her total tournament earnings currently stand at well over $1,500,000.
Rousso was born in White Plains, New York and has dual citizenship in the U.S.A. and France. She speaks three languages and spends what little free time she has studying game theory and enjoying skydiving and aviation.
Tournament Achievements
- World Poker Tour (WPT)
- 7th Place World Poker Tour World Championship Bellagio Las Vegas $263,265 - World Series
- 45th Place/601 2005 *WSOP Ladies World Championship - World Series Circuit
- 5th Place 2006 World Series Atlantic City Harrah's $1500 Buy in: $17,550
- 7th Place/833 2005 World Series New Orleans Event #1
- 14th Place/286 2005 World Series New Orleans Ladies Event - World Poker Challenge
- 5th Place 2006 World Poker Challenge Reno Hilton $300 Buy In: $2,193
You will find Rousso playing for Team PokerStars Pro in the world's biggest live poker tournaments and online at PokerStars.
For more information, visit the official Vanessa Rousso website.
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