Vanessa Rousso Poker
Vanessa Rousso, known to the online world as Lady Maverick, has been impressing people at the poker tables for nearly a decade now.
Vanessa Rousso: Poker 'Was The Best Preparation' For Deep Run On 'Big Brother' Sep 24, 2015. Poker Pro Leaves Empty-Handed On 'Big Brother' Sep 23, 2015. Vanessa Rousso is, by far, one of the most diverse players in the poker industry. She has shattered the typical association between poker and the lack of physicality. Not too many players today have managed to make their names in such a short time.
Over the course of her career, she has won over $3.5 million dollars and has been sponsored by one of the best online poker rooms in the business: PokerStars.
Her game of choice seems to be No Limit Hold’em, but she has won tournaments while playing other variations of poker as well.
Vanessa Rousso holds a dual citizenship in both France and the United States. Vanessa was born on February 5th, 1983 in White Plains, New York to Marc Rousso and Cynthia Bradley.
When she was only three years old, her family moved back to Paris, to the city where her father grew up. Vanessa has two younger sisters: Tiffany and Leticia.
As a product of a divorce, the girls would move several times during their childhood until they would finally settle in Florida with their mother in 1993. One way Vanessa chose to deal with her parents’ divorce was to play poker for fun; rumor has it she learned how to play when she was only five years old.
Vanessa has always been very ambitious, even from a young age. Over the course of her entire high school career, she was a motivated student. She was very athletic in high school, participating on both her school’s lacrosse and swimming team.
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She also was involved in other after-school activities including National Honor’s Society, the Debate Club, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Thanks to all of her hard work and her 4.0 GPA, Vanessa became her school’s Valedictorian. She was easily accepted into Duke University, and was actually able to graduate from there in just five semesters.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and a minor in Political Science. The following year she enrolled at the University of Miami’s School of Law and was ready to pursue a career as a lawyer.
During the summer after her first year of law school, Vanessa began competing in nearby poker tournaments.
She also hadn’t realized how easy it was to make money through winning these big tournaments. Even though she was still at the top 5% of her class, Vanessa chose to drop out of Law School and focus on a career as a professional poker player instead.
By 2005, Vanessa had completely packed up everything she owned and moved to Las Vegas. She was ready to start competing against more serious players, so she started entering in any tournament she could qualify for.
She took home first place at Palms No Limit Hold’em Summer Poker Series, and that really became the competition that launched her career.
Vanessa would eventually start entering bigger tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. She has still yet to place first at an event from either of those competitions, but she did manage to cash out dozens of times and has earned thousands of dollars in the process.
One time she came close to winning the No Limit Hold’em Championship event of the World Poker Tour, falling right behind Antonio Esfandiari and Andrew Robl. She managed to take home over $350,000, which is pretty good for a third-place finish.
Vanessa has competed on NBC’s Poker After Dark almost every season.
She again would soar to the top on season five of the series, beating Clowie Gowen by a long shot for another $120,000 reward.
Although that might seem like a decent amount of money, it’s hardly comparable to her $700,000 win at the European High Roller Championship in Monte Carlo. This is the most Vanessa has ever been able to win at an event. It was partially due to the fact that they were playing her specialty: no limit hold’em.
PokerStars recognized Vanessa’s talents early on and started sponsoring her in 2007. PokerStars is one of the leading online poker sites in the industry, so being a part of their team is something to be proud of.
Throughout this sponsorship, she has been able to meet several very talented poker players including Chris Moneymaker and Daniel Negreanu. Her sponsorship lasted for nearly a decade, ending just recently in 2015 when PokerStars chose not to renew it.
Since then, Vanessa has spent her time competing in Heartland Poker Tour’s No Limit Hold’em main event, where she managed to place eighth and walk away with $16,000. This may be the last event Vanessa has won, but her career is far from over.
With all of the hard work and practice she pours into her poker career, we are so excited to see what her future beholds! Possibly a World Series of Poker bracelet or a World Poker Tour title? Who knows!
The United States passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act in 2006, making it illegal for online gambling sites to process any transaction for players within the United States. Vanessa felt passionate about poker and did not believe it was within the government’s authority to pass this law.
Vanessa and the leaders of the Poker Players Alliance made the long journey to Washington in order to persuade Congress into seeing things their way. Although they didn’t succeed in having the law overthrown, many poker players out there appreciate her efforts.
The name of her summer camp was Big Slick Boot Camp and it costs about $400 to attend.
She shared some of her secret strategies with those who joined by comparing playing poker to the novel, Art of War, by Sun Tzu.
In her spare time, Vanessa will occasionally do some modeling in order to make some extra money and because trying new things has always excited her. She once went to a photoshoot in the Bahamas for Sports Illustrated to represent Team PokerStars.
After the issue of that magazine was released, her status skyrocketed and she landed on the Top 20 list of Maxim’s Sexiest Poker Players in the World.
For those of you who have never watched or heard of the show Big Brother, let me first provide a background on what the show is all about. Basically, there are a number of house guests that live in a mansion together and are completely cut off from the outside world: yes, this means no television, no cell phones, ect.
They are asked to do certain household tasks throughout the show that reveal their true character, and test their ability to work together. The show starts with about ten contestants and each week one person is voted off the show, based on how the viewers perceive them.
The most appealing part of this show is that the winner of it will receive $500,000. Vanessa Rousso was asked to participate in season 17 of Big Brother, and she had a fun time going through the competition, even though she didn’t win first place.
In an interview after getting evicted from the show, Vanessa shared why she believed she didn’t win,
Vanessa fell for professional poker player, Chad Brown, after they met at a World Poker Tour event. They were both being sponsored by PokerStars at the time, and they became the couple that everyone looked forward to being with.
Everything was seemingly great for them at first and they eventually would get married in 2009. Less than three years later, the lovely couple would file for divorce and be on their separate ways.
Some people speculate that the twenty-year difference between them is what lead to their divorce, while others believe the split may have been a bi-product of the stress that Chad’s cancer had on the relationship.
Despite the divorce, the two remained friends and are determined to still stay in contact with each other. Today, Vanessa is currently engaged to her girlfriend Melissa Ouellet, who proposed to her in September, 2015.
We are unaware if there has been a date set for their wedding or not, but people expect it will be an event worth attending.
Big Brother mastermind Vanessa Rousso and her wife Melissa Ouellet announced the arrival of their twins yesterday. Both Melissa and her wife Big Brother‘s Vanessa Rousso were pregnant at the same time. Vanessa’s twins were born back in March, only a couple weeks after Melissa had their firstborn son. But Vanessa had an emergency C-section due to pregnancy complications, so the twins were born two months premature. Keep reading for the full story.
Big Brother: Vanessa Rousso & Melissa Ouellet Both Get Pregnant
In August, Vanessa Rousso and her partner Melissa Ouellet revealed they were expecting a little boy. Mel was carrying the child via In-Vitro Fertilization after several unsuccessful tries. Then only two months later in October, the Big Brother alum announced that she was pregnant, too. Not only that, but Vanessa was pregnant with identical twin boys. That’s a lot of diapers to change.
Melissa gave birth to their son, Lucas Valentino Rousso, on February 15. Both first-time parents were overflowing with “love and gratitude,” according to Vanessa. The Big Brother 17 alum’s wife deemed themselves “the happiest parents”.
Vanessa Suffers Health Decline – Gives Birth Early
Yesterday, Vanessa Rousso announced that she had the twins eight weeks ago on March 4. That’s only two-and-a-half weeks after Melissa Ouellet had Lucas. But the birth didn’t happen anytime near the former Big Brother player’s due date. Vanessa says she was “diagnosed with severe preeclampsia and rushed into an emergency c-section”.
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication that’s characterized by high blood pressure. But it can also result in severe complications for the mother and child. So, the Big Brother star had no choice but to undergo the ceasarian section. As a result, Vanessa and Mel got to meet Lorenzo Mark Rousso and London James Rousso a little earlier than expected.
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Big Brother 17 Update: Twins Born Premature & Stay in NICU
Vanessa Rousso told followers that the twins weighed three-and-a-half and four pounds, respectively. The premature babies needed to stay in the Neonatal ICU for some time before the BB 17 player and Melissa Ouellet would be able to take them home.
But now that twins are “doing so well” says Vanessa, so they were able to go home with their parents. She says they are “so blessed”. She referred to their three new babies as their “three little miracles”. The new parents have had to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic just like everyone else. But the two are grateful for their children, saying everything was “worth it”.
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