Vanessa Rousso

Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso in the World Poker Tour Championship event (2007).
Nickname(s)Pokerness
Lady Maverick
ResidenceHobe Sound, Florida/Las Vegas, Nevada
Born (1983-02-05) February 5, 1983 (age 41)
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)1
Money finish(es)7
European Poker Tour
Title(s)None
Final table(s)None
Money finish(es)1
Information accurate as of 2017-10-26.

Vanessa Ashley Rousso[1] (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player, attorney,[2] DJ,[3] and television personality. Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick, and was a spokesman for GoDaddy.com from 2009 to 2013. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005.[4][5][6]

Between 2005 and 2011, Rousso finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated nearly $3.5 million, but has been less active since, earning just $83,000 in live tournaments between 2012 and 2017.[7] She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker.[8] In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. As of September 2021, having not cashed at a tournament since 2017, Rousso still ranks among the top ten women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.[9]

Rousso has been a pro-gambling campaigner and activist.[10] She has appeared on television in several cash or charity poker competitions, and finished in third place as a contestant on the 2015 season of Big Brother.[11]

  1. ^ "F.E.C. Image". Federal Election Commission. December 31, 2007. Archived from the original on August 24, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
  2. ^ "Student Spotlights 2005". University of Miami School of Law. Archived from the original on January 4, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  3. ^ "Poker Pro Turned Singer, DJ Vanessa Rousso to Release First Single 'Kiss Face'". Costigan Media. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  4. ^ "Vanessa Rousso". PokerPages.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
  5. ^ Elfman, Doug (June 2, 2008). "World Series of Poker shows Vegas at its best". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
  6. ^ Sortal, Nick (February 11, 2009). "Former Wellington Valedictorian, Now Poker Player, In SI Swimsuit Edition". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
  7. ^ "Vanessa Rousso's profile on The Hendon Mob". The Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
  8. ^ "Vanessa Rousso". WSOP.com. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
  9. ^ "Women's All Time Money List - Top 13,752". The Hendon Mob. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  10. ^ "Vanessa Rousso – Poker Player Profile". Poker News Daily. August 11, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference WwBB1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).