- 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
- Andre Akkari
- Dario Minieri
- Hevad Khan
- Raymond Rahme
- Tuan Lam
- Gavin Griffin
- Chad Brown
- Victoria Coren
Team PokerStars Pro - Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso, nicknamed "Lady Maverick", is a picture of poker playing skill, beauty and intelligence. She graduated with honors from Duke University and studies Law at the University of Miami between poker tournaments.
Rousso started playing the game of poker when she was just five years old. As she grew, she continued to improve her skills and abilities and now is a feared player. Her first success that gained recognition came when she became the youngest woman to achieve a final table at a World Series of Poker circuit event. She also started having success in World Poker Tour events.
Her largest exposure to many poker players and fans alike was during the 2006 World Poker Tour Championship. Rousso had played a stellar tournament and just missed the final table when she suffered a bad beat, knocking her out of the tournament in seventh place. It still wasn't a bad payday for her, coming in at over $260,000. Vanessa earned the biggest cash of her career so far when she came second in the main event at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker in October 2007. The result was worth $700,782, helping to take Vanessa’s total tournament earnings to well over $1,500,000.
Vanessa, who has dual citizenship in the United States and France, is originally from White Plains New York. She is fluent in three languages, enjoys aviation and sky diving and studies game theory in her spare time.
Tournament Achievements
- Seventh place - World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship
- Fifth place - 2006 WSOP circuit event in Atlantic City
- Seventh place - 2005 WSOP event 1 at the New Orleans circuit event
- Fourteenth place - 2005 WSOP New Orleans circuit ladies event
- Fifth place - 2006 World Poker Challenge
Rousso travels to compete in the world's largest land-based poker tournaments as a member of Team PokerStars, representing the world's biggest online poker room.
To find out more, visit the official Vanessa Rousso site.
