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Born: White Plains, NY
Residence: Las Vegas, NV Favorite Poker Game: Texas Hold'em Nickname: Lady Maverick Website: www.vanessarousso.com Highlights:
French-American beauty Vanessa Rousso doesn't need luck to win at poker. She's got Game Theory, an interest she discovered while studying economics at Duke University. After finishing her four-year undergraduate degree in only 2 ½ years, setting a record at Duke, she lost no time in making a name for herself on the pro poker circuit. And what a name she's made. Vanessa earned more money playing poker in 2007 than any other pro female on the U.S. poker circuit. To date, the 27-year-old has earned more than $3.4 million in live and online tournament play, taking first runner-up in NBC's 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. And most of that was accomplished during law school at the University of Miami. It was after her first year of law school in 2005 that Vanessa entered a WSOP-Circuit Event in New Orleans, finishing seventh. That same summer, she took 45th place in the ladies event of the World Series of Poker. After winning $17,550 in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold' em Event at Atlantic City's WSOP-Circuit in early 2006, Vanessa set her sights on the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championships. With the financial backing of friends, she took seventh place. Vanessa walked away from the Bellagio with $263,625 in winnings and a sponsorship deal. Vanessa won her first major event in September 2006, cashing the $5,000 No-Limit Hold 'em Event at the Borgata Poker Open for $285,540. Over the next two years, Vanessa added several WPT, WSOP and WSOP-Circuit cashes to her list of wins. Vanessa has won huge sums online and live. Her biggest online win came when she finished second in the online WCOOP Main Event, winning over $700,000. Her biggest live tournament victory came in the EPT High Roller Championship at Monte Carlo, where she finished in First place for $962,958. Vanessa has appeared several times on NBC's "Poker After Dark" and travelled to Latin American and European Poker Tours, where she finished 10th at the 2008 LAPT-Punta del Este and 39th at the 2008 EPT London. Vanessa also finished seventh at the 2009 Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi. Vanessa also just missed out on the NAPT Mohegan Sun final table, coming in tenth for $47,000. Vanessa, who holds dual citizenship in France and the U.S., speaks English, French and Spanish. Vanessa now lives in Las Vegas with her fiancé, Chad Brown, also a professional poker player. $9.99*/yr
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