Vanessa Rousso
| Vanessa Rousso | |
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Vanessa Rousso in the World Poker Tour Championship event (2007).
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| Nickname(s) | Pokerness Lady Maverick |
| Residence | Hobe Sound, Florida/Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Born |
February 5, 1983 White Plains, New York |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 17 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish |
511, 2011 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 2 |
| Money finish(es) | 8 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 1 |
Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player. Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and France. Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005, and has become one of the game's sex symbols.
As of 2015[update], Rousso has finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated over $3,500,000 in career earnings. She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker. In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. She ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.
Rousso has been a pro-gambling campaigner and activist. She has appeared on several reality television shows including Big Brother where she finished third.
Her parents are Marc Rousso and Cynthia Bradley of Hobe Sound, Florida. Rousso began talking and reading at early ages says her mother, Cynthia Ferrara. Born in New York, she moved with her family to France at the age of three. She lived in Paris, in her father's homeland until she was 10, when she moved briefly to Upstate New York. After her parents divorced in 1992, her mother moved Vanessa to Florida to be near her maternal grandparents. Rousso attended Wellington Landings Middle School. The oldest of three athletic girls, Rousso was active on the high school swimming, lacrosse and debating teams. She also played softball and basketball for fun. In debating, Rousso excelled in national debating tournaments in policy debating. Her mother is a guidance counselor at Jupiter Community High School. In 2001, Rousso graduated as valedictorian of her high school in Wellington, Florida. She maintained a 4.0 GPA at Wellington High School while participating in the National Honor Society, and French Honor Society. She founded the Environmental Club and served as its president. She was also active as a violinist, varsity swimmer, and volunteer for Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. Rousso has two younger sisters: Tiffany, a high school teacher and contestant on the eighteenth season of Big Brother and Leticia, an optometrist.
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